#SCIENCE

It’s expected that today @POTUS will sign several executive orders related to healthcare, including abortion.For @PostOpinions, @Guttmacher’s @HerminiaPalacio and I wrote about why those are good, but the Biden-Harris administration
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Noticed how the majority of Dutch virologists and modellers responsible for the Dutch COVID-19 strategy have a veterinary (animal medicine) background? A short thread 1/x ‘One Health’ is the scientific
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A quick briefer/refresher on influenza season in the UK.We're currently in week 40 of the year. At this point, overall deaths in the UK are steadily on the rise as
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The vaccine is absolutely brilliant science. It’s a real opportunity to end this pandemic. I’ll definitely be having it, and soon i hope. The reason MHRA have moved so quickly
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Short thread on the scientific manuscript (what we nerds call a "paper" before it's called a paper) peer-review process in terms of turnaround time.(and far more expert & frequent reviewers
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As the pandemic grinds on, I'm noticing a tendency for (otherwise rational) folks to use moral shorthand in their thinking about the spread of COVID. This goes two ways: (1)
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And now we start day 2 of @LegalAidNYC DNA Unit's 2021 Questioning Forensic Conference. First up, my colleague (and LAS Homicide Unit DNA Attorney) Allison Lewis and Duke Law Professor
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why be so bothered about unintended consequences? it sounds good, it sounds like it might work. People have good intentions, care deeply, want to do something useful. and yet: when
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These are dark days for science. Reason, the scientific method, and objectivity are our preferred weapons. We believe thoughtful engagement should drive public policy. But what happens when the powerful
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After the rains, flowers.We took a walk in Harare’s National Botanic Garden.These were flowers on the aptly-named Fried-egg bush, also known as mushwawo. Their dried fruits make excellent rattles. The
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2020 Sucked. I took some steps to make it suck less for me. I am *really* happy with how these changes affected my mental health.1/ After watching the @Netflix Documentary
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Edward Bernays, 1936 speech on propaganda:democracy, as a system of government & way of life, requires propaganda to sustain itself. People have to be reminded of what democracy matters, or
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a baby book collection i’m going to post a bunch of baby books you should buy. collect collect collect and pass down in your family. here’s a mind body
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I am responding to this with care after initial frustration. I fully agree with HGF fellows and friends that today is a day to celebrate the accomplishments of the new
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Do you care about protecting survivors of trauma?You may want to reconsider your use of trigger warnings. Our new paper, just appearing in Clinical Psychological Science, suggests they may do
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1/8 When a professional writer - and by that I mean someone who earns a living from writing - hears someone successful in another field announce that they're going to
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