#SCIENCE

Simon Burall

sburall

Sitting in on the "Science and Society, 20 years on: legacy and lessons for a post-Covid world" conference. I'll try to tweet key points that strike me, but not live

Jon Agar

jon_agar

There is nothing new about politicians and their advisors mixing with the UK science advice system. Here's the table plan for the Advisory Council on Science and Technology, 14 March

Yoni Appelbaum

YAppelbaum

1. What did the Pilgrims see when they landed in Massachusetts, 400 years ago? A “hidious and desolate wilderness.” But they quickly learned to harvest its "great store of wild

Rose DF

_Astro_Nerd_

Since I love science in general regardless of my passion for the cosmos, have time, and absolutely love learning things:Can you share an interesting fact about your field? Actually it

The Hoarse Whisperer

TheRealHoarse

If nothing else, this stay-at-home period is demonstrating what studies on happiness have shown over and over.When people talk about what they are missing most, it isn’t things. It is

Emily Robinson

robinson_es

Data scientists/analysts, how do you prioritize work, esp. if you work with multiple teams? Some issues I’ve seen are needing to do work to estimate work needed, maintaining trust if

Tom Chivers

TomChivers

BY THE WAY, I'm reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin, sequel to Children of Time, on the advice of @psmith, and it is the best science fiction I have read

Karthik Patanjali

kartpat

1/ We used augmented reality to show what social distancing guidelines look like in real life: at the grocery store, on a sidewalk, anywhere you might go. You can try

Dean Burnett

garwboy

Going to go out on a very small limb and assert that these claims by the government that they were "following the science" are 100% cowardice-motivated arse covering with a

Maclean's Magazine

macleans

When Barbara Sherwood Lollar sent water samples to a colleague for testing, she knew this was no ordinary water. Tests pegged the mean age of the samples, from a mine

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

Absolute knock-out paper by @SunKaiyuan and colleagues on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. A few highlights: 1. Kids less susceptible than adults, but just as infectious2. Presymptomatic spread ~50%3. Quarantine/isolation not enough in

Joyce Park

troutgirl

I've been trying to help several talented peeps get jobs in data science or ML, and have learned it's a lot harder than people think... largely because I think they're

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

I understand that emotions are high, but the three part essays by@JonathanJFuller @mlipsitch and nowJohn Ioannidis in @BostonReview Are truly worth your time [Thread]What is science in the time of

Gabriel Balasquide ❼

Whoagaby

I never went to science camp & I still don’t know why haha Story time, I always heard of kids going to science camp but thought it was like a

The Global Science Show

GlobalSciShow

Time for a wee reintroductionWe are #GlobalScienceShow, a monthly virtual Science Show right here on TwitterWe encourage people of all ages & background to be #scicomm presentersOur next show is

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) There’s an under-appreciated point in this essay about one of those things the left and right fight over but actually agree on and are both wrong about: that reason