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Hey #SciTwitter/#StatsTwitter. My brain is quarantine-mushed, help me out. I'm tryna get reliable trendlines through data w/ measurement errors. See sample plot: Big outliers skew a linear regression, but a
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It’s #FollowFriday for #medtwitter #AcademicChatter #phdchat #scitwitter #SoMeDocs. The theme is #Festivus since it’s on Monday.1. Tell us about yourself2. Tell us your grievances!4. Tag a few friends so they
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Confession Time: 1/ never felt comfortable in a lab - I didn’t identify as a researcher - and felt like I was a fake neuroscientist This was my perception of
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OK #medtwitter #scitwitter #doubledocs #radonc and #newpi tweeps: I have been charged with discussing "Recruitment and Retention of Physician Scientists" in #radonc at a panel for @ASTRO_org #ASTRO20. What are
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On why it isn't acceptable to ask disabled trainees in wet labs if they'd considered switching labs to do computational work, and why it REALLY isn't ok to ask us
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Hey women on SciTwitter, I wanna warn u 2 stay away from @/wickrotate @/leadingorder. He’s predatory & uses his clout & following 2 take advantage of women by dming them
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@SaskiaPopescu @aetiology @angievassallo @angie_rasmussen, as we do #scicomm on transmission of respiratory infections, I came across "opportunistic aerosol transmission" - I can't remember who described the overdispersion of
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Last weekend, my 1 year old @StirlingULTra -80*C freezer failed in the worst way: the firmware crashed and the mechanics stopped cooling. The screen was stuck on -80*C, and there
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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
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PLZ RT. On paths through grad school and employment in STEM, a thread: #DisabledInSTEM #DisabilityTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #Academia #Science #STEM #DisabledInSTEM #DisabledInHigherEd #Science #Biology #physiology #Help #Me
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On expecting things to get "better" for students with disabilities elsewhere and handing them off, a thread (PLZ RT-and please read. Listen. Learn.):This one is important. This is actually one
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Ok. There are a ton of great articles on WHY scholars should join Twitter, but most don’t offer an in-depth HOW-to.This leads to hesitation and timidness.So, I present a thread
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Today I want to talk about the severe impacts that pandemic parenting while working have had on far too many of us. 1/ This is being framed as a women’s
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1/ Did you know that #neuralimplants have been used to treat severe brain disorders for 50+ years now?! Maybe not new but definitely exciting! [1]A (timely) #firstthread on where we
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I'm often asked by academics how to use Twitter. Rather than repeat the same stuff on different occasions, I decided to create a thread.This is just my own personal experience
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I'd like to address disability erasure in academia (a thread) I'd like to do this without animosity, because it's a profoundly important teaching moment that highlights the obstacles disabled folks
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