#Science

Kumail Nanjiani

kumailn

I’m sorry. I’m generally a very optimistic person & have fought to keep positive these last few months. But today is hard. We are heading into a massive Covid spike

Brendon Samuels

eyeonthefly

Myself and some colleagues in bird conservation wrote an open letter urging @WBU_Inc to address misinformation about collisions in their marketing and offerings of deterrent products. Please read and sign

Paul Lewis

PaulLew16394851

Really interesting blog by @AtheneDonald on various aspects of education. Lots of important points raised. I'll discuss two: technician's contributions to innovation; and the status of technical work. (Thread.) @GatsbyEd

Jean Hatchet

JeanHatchet

Here’s a series of snarky subtweets. Aimed at no one identifiable. At all. Feel free to add your own below. 1. If you leave a towel on the bath it

Survive the Spooks ⚰️ 👻 🕸️

SurvivetheJive

In Possession (1981) and The Brood (1979) demonic creatures, representing malicious and deranged psychological tendencies, grow as physical entities with the madness. Although these horror films use the creatures as

Amir A Zadpoor

amir_zadpoor

A thread about scientific computing languages.1) In the short term, use whatever language gets your work done the fastest. 2) In the long run, learn whatever makes sense to learn

Bradley Gibbs

bradleycgibbs

https://twitter.com/logicnerd/status/1249822800790966273 @logicnerd citation for any of your anti-science claims?- Fetal placentas interact with the maternal placenta, not the uterus.- It's not invasive.- The fetus is the same species as its

Eric Jonas

stochastician

When I was in grad school both of my parents developed cancer (!) and thus, doing mostly stats at the time and with all my bio training, I dug into

Moverick

moverick

Random observation: I see where armed officers are conciliatory with mobs, the mobs tend to calm down. These young people seem to be bent on proving that they can't be

Shira Rose

theshirarose

When I talk about eating all foods freely being important for eating disorder recovery and the sugarphobes come out of the woodworks to tell me that sugar is poisonous, destroys

Onur Özgöde

ummodern

I hope this pandemic settles the “the two parties are the same” bs for good. Marxian frameworks that reduce the state to an instrument of capitalist rule fail to see

Matt Nurse - if you’re not sure, don’t share

matt_nurse

This unfortunate interview is a classic example of false balance in science communication and the dangers it can cause. And I'm going to get mad about it. A thread.https://twitter.com/BRRshow/status/1308964368646770688 If

Ben CatchYourCough Goldacre

bengoldacre

BING BONG NEW PAPERWe pulled together a huge team to look at how we can bring NHS data analysis into the 21st century. THREAD!https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0141076820930666 Academics love to run regression analyses

Sandeep Gautam

sandygautam

Career choice and heuristic:Many of us rely on intuitive gut feeling when making big decisions like choosing a life partner or choosing a career. Sometimes that may be problematic.1. Intuitive

Working Group on New TB Vaccines

newtbvaccines

Live: Prof Frank Cobelens introduces the purpose of the new Global TB vaccine roadmap @EDCTP @GlobForumTBVax https://twitter.com/GlobForumTBVax/status/1384538892020375553 The key barriers to #Tuberculosis vaccine R&D are summarised in t

Cheri Jacobus

CheriJacobus

I'm sick and tired of MAGAs acting like abusers and the rest of us have to tiptoe around them and pretend they're not lying, pretend they are informed, pretend they