#Researchers

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

I’m a virologist & #1 question I got today was whether to gargle & with what. If SARS2 seems to infect throat before spreading to lungs, might gargling protect people

Jake Tapper

jaketapper

NY state has lost more than 32,000 lives to COVID-19. So while it's great that the numbers have gone down, it's perplexing to see crowing, Cuomo going on Fallon, etc.

The History of Handmade Book Covers

BerinoJulia

A fun! interesting! informative! thread on the history and evolution of handmade book covers But first! A brief background and history of how exactly books came to be in the

Dr. Theresa Tam

CPHO_Canada

1/9 To stay healthy & prevent spread of #COVID19 we MUST use multiple prevention measures TOGETHER like keeping 2 metres away from others, frequent #handwashing , covering coughs… – we

Holly Figueroa O'Reilly

AynRandPaulRyan

RANT:1/ Trump says it's up to the governors to do testing.That means no federal financial support.He also says we are at war, and he's a wartime president.If he's a wartime

Mark Robinson

MarkRobinson_Oz

The poorest Australians are twice as likely to die before age 75 as the richest, and the gap is widening https://theconversation.com/the-poorest-australians-are-twice-as-likely-to-die-before-age-75-as-the-richest-and-the-gap-is-widening-139

JLR #LipidTakeover / Dr. Sarah Hancock

jlipidres

So back to OAHFA #LipidTakeover. From 2015-2017 I worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Stephen Blanksby (then at @QUT) and Todd Mitchell at @UOW (both twitterless unfortunately), both

AEA Data Editor

AeaData

An example of reproducibility checking when data is restricted-access (or "reproducibility checking is hard, but never impossible"). I want to highlight a recent article in the @AEAjournals Economic Policy:Leung, Pauline,

John Marble

JHMarble

The first @CDCgov study of autism in adults has just been released, with the CDC finding that at least 1-in-45 adults in the United States is autistic.That’s 4.7 million people.

Boris Barbour

BorisBarbour

I think this is an important article. Please read it all. Many aspects are of interest. Thread.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/does-ocean-acidification-alter-fish-behavior-fraud-allegations-create-sea-doubt A huge debt is owed to th

Paul 🌹📚 Cooper

PaulMMCooper

One thing I love about history is how small & insignificant things at the time can end up telling us so much.A good example is how 1,800 years ago a

Michael Foran

michaelpforan

A few people have reached out to me to offer words of support on the state of the academic job market - also to share some true horror stories faced

BlackInPhysics

BlackinPhysics

Here's a list of all of our sweet sweet #BlackInPhysics week events! First up our summary professional and social events calendars! On our first day be sure to check out

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

1/ Q: I hear there has been a confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 re-infection in Hong Kong?! How worried should I be?A: Not very.In the words of immunologist Dr. Akiko Iwasaki,

Royal Astronomical Society

RoyalAstroSoc

Everything you need to know about the exciting announcement that phosphine has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus. Let's start off with the 60 second overview.. #Venus #VenusNews Here's

Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti

ChelseaParlett

Here are things that come up a LOT for me as a stats consultant/collaborator: use explicit equivalence tests, not p > 0.05 (or use ROPE if ya Bayesian)https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245918770963 @lakens @annemscheel