#Science

Thread -Dolores CahillI've been seeing this person used a lot as an argument for validity of the far right view that the pandemic is fake, overstated, and is a ploy
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Yes, it is Friday. Repping my favourite planet in t-shirt form this morning. Today's chat - the future of earth sciences in the UK! In the UK, the number of
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to anybody worried about the #bubonicplague nowadays it's treated with antibiotics, lowering the death rate to around 11% (compared to a 60% death rate without any treatment), also basic hygene
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Anecdotally, it is believed that homeschooling teachers are turning to wine and vodka to get through the day. We have no hard data to back this up. While you're tipsy
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There are a few things in this thread from Tzeporah that should be challenged, explained in context, or are easily refuted, in particular as they relate to offsets, LNG, and
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I will never understand why is it hard to accept that Kroos isn't a good defender. He has never been and that's completely okay.There are aspects of games that probably
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*Atheist HAVE a Burden of Proof. Don't let them tell you otherwise.*Don't allow atheists in debates to say they do not have a BoP. It is epistemologically unsound and untenable
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F/F books I’ve loved/am looking forward to: GIRLS OF PAPER AND FIRE by @girlinthelens —Young Adult—Fantasy CRIER’S WAR by @ninavarelas—Young Adult—Fantasy THE HENNA WARS by @adiba_j—Young Adult—Contemporary GIRL, SERPENT, THORN
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It's live! After years of work and more than 16 months in peer review, the gnomAD package is now up at Nature. We have seven papers in total, exploring different
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Education people: if we really care about doing the best for our students, why do we seem so unconcerned about the proliferation of shitty resources, both free and paid for?
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Some relevant knowledge is not being communicated widely because science journals refuse to publish it. Our most recent preprint estimating relatively low herd immunity thresholds has just been rejected. The
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Thanks to @WVGovernor and the Monongalia County Commission, Morgantown and the surrounding county is now "orange". No, our COVID numbers haven't decreased. Our elected officials decided to count all the
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2014 April 14, I launched Mr Macaroni, my first major business. It was a restaurant to sell pasta to students at my university. In my head I wanted it
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Where do we even start with this? Humanities have been saying this for a long time. Historians encounter imagined pasts at every step of our work and have offered multiple
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“Jim, thank you for volunteering. Welcome to Intelligo Time Travel, Research Division.”“Hell yeah! Where’s the dinosaurs at?” Jim grins broadly.The researcher’s smile is faint. “You’re not one for small print,
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Last nite my OH asked me how I was. I gave him the long answer. I said I was struggling. No time on my own, unable to go out whenever
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