#Scientists

Stephen Pettigrew

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Holy crap, I'm floored by how bad this article is. These political scientists should probably have talked to their political science colleagues who work on network decision desks before writing

Javier Panzar 🦅

jpanzar

.@RosannaXia has nailed down the details of an environmental abuse that had been whispered about for decades among scientists.“Holy crap. This is real,” one said. “This stuff really is down

Flynn Driver #JunkTerrorLaw

s0rbetero

FILIPINO SCIENTISTS / RESEARCH THREADEver since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a scientist . Let's inspire other teens to get into S&T programs! Drop ur entries

Eric Topol

EricTopol

December 2020UK—Hey US, we've got a variant that has >50% higher infectiousness, >30% increased lethality, and you'll need to vaccinate like no tomorrow to prevent a major surgeMay 2021US—We got

Eclecticity

twistopherrobin

Speaking of other divides and hardening of the categories: As some of you know (because of my pinned thread and the strange story), I've been spending quite a bit of

manu #BLM 🖖

trekonomics

The discovery of the existence of aliens is too often presented as some kind of potential moment of radical decentering of humanity, when in fact it's the exact opposite, a

Kyle McCafferty, MLS(ASCP)CM

AlwaysKyle1

This may make sense for your H&H, BMP testing, but requires manual centrifugation, aliquoting, or “front-loading” by the laboratory scientist. There is simply not enough scientists to do this on

Vicky Xu / 许秀中

xu_xiuzhong

The Xu Dezhong book (not a secret doc) is no smoking gun. It shows Chinese military scientists *thought* about coronavirus as a weapon (by the US). From there to the

Peter Gao

PlanetaryGao

Something to consider as you read about the big Venus news today: there is an unfortunate disconnect between what we do as scientists and how "science" is communicated to everyone.

Hannah Rivkin

hannah_rivkin

I've never tweeted about something I found unpalatable, but I've sat on this for a week and today is the day. The subject in question, this article: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/heroes-of-the-pandemic-a-canadian-professor-has-a-peanut

Dr. Booodine - (Black live matter!)

rburdine1

This has been bugging me for awhile and I've been reluctant to share, but after this weekend it seems relevant. It's about assumptions and sci-comm so you've been warned. And

Monica Dix

monica_dix

A mini-thread of resources for promoting (and understanding systemic issues behind) equity in the Geosciences: Why the geosciences are the least diverse of all STEM fields: "No progress on diversity

Ryan Grim

ryangrim

In a world where Bernie had locked up the nomination by now, I wonder if that hoarse whisperer guy and the rest of donut twitter would be getting a 24

Alexis Verger

Alexis_Verger

Women scientists maybe you thought were men Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation)Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus)Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence)Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji)Helen Quinn (Peccei–Quinn theory) W

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

First, this news headline is wrongThey read our excellent review, and took a quote from a single article (joint WHO/China commission) out of our entire review for the headlineChildren almost

Railmaps

railmaps

It’s tempting to define two sides of any issue along traditional party political lines. But it’s not always that clear cut, and the recent divisions around the Covid Pandemic seem