#SCIAM

Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D.

eredmil1

Thus far this year I've had the privledge of publishing 6 popular press pieces (w/ @sciam @WIRED @NatureCareers @statnews) + more underway. It has been a relief to write short,

Ubadah Sabbagh

neubadah

Unprecedented statements from scientists & scientific institutions on the Trump administration's handling of the Covid19 pandemic and the 2020 election, a :Starting with the most recent editorial from @NEJM 1/n

Colin Wright

SwipeWright

Psychiatrist Jack Turban recently had his paper claiming that anything short of affirming a child's gender identity is harmful thoroughly debunked. Now he's published this @sciam article claiming research into

Info

info_husband

Horses are fucking terrifying.(A thread) Listen,I know everyone is going to ratio me for this, but hear me out. Horses are the most terrifying creatures on the planet and it’s

Michael K. Laidlaw, MD

MLaidlawMD

Don’t you dare question the science behind transing children. Don’t you know the science is unassailable? There’s a fellow in training from @Stanford who says it is so.So there.(Sarcasm alert)https://www.scientificamerican.com/article

Michael Shermer

michaelshermer

THREAD ON THE SOCIAL DILEMMAInteresting push back against my critique of the self-important Netflix dochttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304796478892843010.htmlI stand by my conclusion that these self-flagellating programmers are delusion

Dr. Steven W. Thrasher

thrasherxy

An ableist culture that glorifies "beating" and "getting over" sickness has ushered in the grotesque carnival we are going to be subjected to in the coming days. The conflation of

Chloe Dykstra

skydart

Hey people who are hesitant to believe women, okay. That sucks but I’m sure you have your reasons. How about this: instead of looking at the allegations, let’s look at

Pakinam Amer

pakinamamer

It’s the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s incredible earth orbit, the first spaceflight with a human on board. In this episode, I talk to filmmaker and writer Stephen Walker about

Adriana, PhD

fungi_lover

"Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the world shut down. I saw researchers and conservationists panicking that they could not get to their field sites across the world; that their

Jeff DelViscio

Jeffdelviscio

Happy #MoonLanding day. What do #DeepFakes, Richard Nixon, and a mostly forgotten #MoonDisaster speech that was thankfully never given have in common? A thread: 1/10 I made a short film

Dr. Steven W. Thrasher

thrasherxy

Under-examined in vaccine hesitancy discourse is how decades of a “you’re on your own” approach to health makes it hard to get ppl to buy into collective health campaigns. If

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Today we learned ~1/3 Big Ten athletes who were #COVID19 + had abnormal heart MRIs, consistent w/ myocarditis, even those without symptoms. If anyone still is questioning whether this virus

euan ashley

euanashley

There has been so much written in the press about COVID and the heart. Many of the articles are balanced. Unfortunately, few of the headlines are and people are scared.

Kelsey D. Atherton

AthertonKD

For @sciam I took a look at less-lethal weapons. As is probably unsurprising, weapons designed for narrow use in edge cases are easily & commonly misused against crowds. People suffer

Audra J. Wolfe, PhD

ColdWarScience

In today’s Never Just Science, I look at one of the more surprising consensus statements of 2020: Science is Political.https://neverjustscience.substack.com/p/all-together-now-science-is-political The sentiment itself isn’t surprising,