#Science

Monise L. Seward

MoniseLSeward

Illiteracy got the upper hand when we stopped teaching phonics.We have a lot of work to do, folks.Lots. We have generational illiteracy in families. The kids come to school w/

Ruchita

roocheetah

Can motivational speakers PLEASE stop co-opting conversations about mental health & stop talking about how a ‘positive mentality’ is the solution to everything?You don’t talk science,you don’t have a public

Neil Before Zod™

WaytowichNeil

I have finally realized the main differences between my ideology and that of Canadian conservatives. Conservatives see poverty as a personal failure, I see it as a societal failure. They

Timothée Parrique

timparrique

Here is a new thread on #Degrowth and #Marxism, responding to this lecture by Olivia Rickson. Again, degrowth is gravely misrepresented, if understood at all. This is not a critique,

HEFFALUMP

skinnyheffalump

I’ve come to understand people who are pro-life but I wish people like Kanye and Trump that are so anti-abortion would champion for a system that would BETTER support young

Drew Armstrong

ArmstrongDrew

With politics swirling around a vaccine approval, the FDA and drugmakers have been putting in (some) safeguards to make sure a potential vaccine gets reviewed based on solid safety and

Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the Baffled Immigrant

mariliacout

1. Ressurgence, curves and why loosening social distancing can be disastrousI've been asked about this too many times so I'll post a quick answer. I should be uploading these to

Sanjoy Bhattacharya

JoyAgnost

Cannot stop thinking about a document emanating from a @WHO group that I was asked to comment on yesterday. On the issue of face coverings, as a form of #Covid_19

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/A quick thread about the medium-term future of our coronavirus response (i.e. between lockdown and treatment/vaccine).Some have suggested we use variolation (i.e. try to intentionally infect each person with a

Alex Feinberg (Sustain Gluttony)

alexfeinberg1

Why banning the mentally ill from gun ownership is actually dangerous (THREAD)Let me start by saying I am not an NRA member or gun nut. I purchased my first firearm

Dr. Adam Naylor

ahnaylor

One thing tha continues to disappoint is the sporting world’s failure to different mental health from mental performance reasonably. They can be related... cousins, maybe even siblings, but seeing them

Elisabeth Bik 💉 💉

MicrobiomDigest

Dear Tweeps, I present to you the Mysterious Case of the Two Papers With Identical Results.In this thread, we will learn how identical results can obtained in both Gastric Cancer

Krystina Arielle 🦖

KrystinaArielle

I’m thinking about the times I’ve trusted friends enough to confide in them about racism. Then I thought of how many of those experiences were met with things like ,”maybe

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

Mentioned this yesterday, but the conversation around the effect that temperature has on COVID-19 is strange. There's a lot of stuff where the headlines say be "nope, no effect" but

dylan

DylanGiaccio

My actual vaccine stance: I will take it 2022/23 when clinical trials are fully finished. As a young healthy person who has a level of immunity from having the virus

Emily Grubert

emilygrubert

Alright, beautiful people: have been waiting for this for a minute. I’m really excited to share some new research, just posted (open access) at ERL (@iopenvironment): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9335Let’s talk