#Scientist

Michael Collins was my favorite astronaut when I was a kid. I realize this may not make sense without the self-mythologizing of a long, discursive thread, so here we go.
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Hey #SharkWeek friends! I'm watching "Great White Serial Killer Extinction" (and... I've not got high hopes for this episode to be honest). I'm a shark scientist who studies shark habitat
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since the innocent newton is being thrown into this mess, let's put in spotlight and x-phenomenon for further chaos. #FIND_YOU hyungwon in blue lighting giving the illusion that he is
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Today is the birth anniversary of iconic scientist Richard Feynman, if there was some one I would call a maverick, it is him. defied the stereotype of a scientist, being
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Who caused Hard Brexit? Some thoughts from the perspective of a social scientist. In the last few days we have seen an interminable debate on whether Remainers, Soft Brexiters, or
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Time for great white serial killer. Wait are they talking about white sharks killing sea otters? I wrote about this for @sciam https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-one-protected-species-kills-another-what-are-conservationists-to-
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Let me quickly catch you up on how this Wisconsin gal ended up working as a scientist in Berlin... (any other cheeseheads out there?!) My path was perhaps more roundabout
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My brother is a teacher right here in Jamaica. I want to tell you guys a little about him in the hopes that it inspires some thought about where the
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12/19 MIT engineers developed a way to store medical information under the skin, using a quantum dot dye that is delivered, along with a vaccine, by a microneedle patch. Dye,
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My least popular movie take: Walter Peck, for all his fussiness and lack of charm, was the closest thing in Ghostbusters to a hero.https://twitter.com/jmt5050/status/1317502857487163393 The Ghostbusters discover irrefutable proof of
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(1n) I’m blessed to work at NIH, which places many of the best biomedical researchers at my fingertips. But, this thread is for another resource that we at NIH are
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Barrett casts the fifth vote to lift COVID restrictions on houses of worship in NY. Roberts dissents. The new five-justice ultraconservative majority takes shape for the first time.https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/133194379404082380
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New from me. And it's important. Conspiracies like Plandemic endanger healthcare workers. Here's how.https://medium.com/@melissaryan/how-plandemic-endangers-healthcare-workers-982dce6676f7 By now you've probably seen the Plandemic video o
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Another truly terrible, poorly researched puff piece, this time out of @TelegraphUKnews, painting the letter as a cancelation attempt rather than the academic spring cleaning it is; the first line
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Let's talk about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). tl;dr:1. There's a difference between biologic plausibility & early sign of clinical benefit.2. A standard must be met to show benefit-this hasn't.3. It can cause
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Most modern historians present a milder view of yazid, and consider him a capable ruler, albeit less successful than his father. But yeah you can go trumpeting the validity of
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