#Biology

Dr. John Barentine FRAS

JohnBarentine

As the days get shorter in the northern hemisphere over the coming weeks, lack of sufficient daytime light exposure due in part to Covid-related isolation is going to cause the

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) Not in the mood to do it, but this is a thread on the assumptions baked into three claims: (a) universities subsidize the humanities; (b) higher-income students pursue English

Meme Arcana

MemeArcana

One meme per book I’ve finished in 2020: “Buddhism as Philosophy” by Mark Siderits. “Seeing Like A State” by James C Scott. “The Internationalists” by @oonahathaway & @scottjshapiro “Why We’re

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

It is so perpetually exhausting to have to correct these medically and scientifically illiterate pub bores that somehow have national voices gifted to them not by talent or knowledge, but

Social Justice Warlock

charllandsberg

Fuck JK Rowling, Bari Weiss, Chomsky, Rushdie and their entire pack of rabid fucking bigots pretending that they're victims because they feel "I can't be a fucking sack of shit

Jeff Seldin

jseldin

NEW: "As we start to emerge from this pandemic, we're going to have to rethink what US national security is all about" per In-Q-Tel Exec VP Dr Tara O'Toole at

Louis Maddox

permutans

Thinking about ways to finish the phrase "data scientists should ___ rather than becoming dilettante epidemiological model/curve fitters on case/mortality figures"－ write visualisations for emerging CoV-2 structural biology resultsー make

Zach Elliott

zaelefty

'Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia' is another Scientific American article using the complexities of sex determination and the diversity of sex differences to argue that sex is not

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Obviously it's too early to speculate on how coronavirus will change our society in the long term. But I have a thought about how it might subtly change gender roles...

Robert Dickson

robertpdickson

The *alveolar poncho* (copyright @jopo899) theory of hyaline membrane deposition reminds me of a broader idea: maybe the more "pathognomonic" a finding is in a disease, the more likely it

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shxunk

Why pedophilia should be normalised - A thread Most people want to eliminate Pedophiles from society, but that doesn’t make sense because we’re talking about biology, we’re talking about sexual

Abhinav Khare

iabhinavKhare

India has one of the largest working population,yet we face a talent crunch. As per a Quartz India article, less than 5% of Indian engineers can write a functionally &

PhD Diaries is on Discord 💬

thoughtsofaphd

The only ethics training I got in grad school was effectively "don't photoshop your data" the end.It's not just photoshop. A thread. (1/n)@AcademicChatter #AcademicChatter We rarely talk about all the

Out of context Divij

indiansnowden

The extent to which science was made boring and exhaustive by the state board (maharashtra) and cbse is scary, it went from a subject that I (and I'm sure many

Clover FujoQueen (She/Her) 🏳️‍⚧️🔞

cloversoasis

Here's the quiet part out loud:Why do so many queer exclusionists rely on radfem rhetoric and eventually slide down into TERF ideology?Because they HAVE to kill trans people. In order

Jake Tapper

jaketapper

For those trying to understand the disinfectant story, here's what happened. At the WH briefing Thursday, Bill Bryan, who leads the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland