#Science

Laura Bicker

BBCLBicker

As the Bloomberg report predicted yesterday, South Korea’s economy has reported modest growth this quarter.Having controlled the pandemic without a full lockdown, the economy - although sluggish - is bouncing

Jen Schneider

JenDSchneider

A quick story about teaching about social justice. I used to be a professor at an engineering university. I taught and researched in a number of areas, but one area

Corey Quinn

QuinnyPig

Dear LazyWeb / Editing Twitter:If I want to have Google Docs style collaborative commenting / editing on Markdown text, what's the best answer?Google Docs munges the markdown with "smart formatting,"

Yuen Yuen Ang

yuenyuenang

I'm incredibly honored & stunned to be awarded the Theda Skocpol Prize from the American Political Science Association @APSAtweets I am TRULY stunned A thread about my solid track record

Marta Victoria

martavictoria_p

We have just published a perspective in @Joule_CP. Main message: Although underestimated by many models, solar PV has a large potential for mitigating climate change in the next decade which

Ed Yong

edyong209

Hello! More of you have started following me in the last weeks since I last did this, so let me introduce you to YET MORE people I respect, who've created

Dr Paula Michaels

HistMedMichaels

Historian here. Just read document from 1983 about importance of ed to prep young people to participate in democracy. What does that? HASS--precisely the target of @DanTehanWannon 'job ready' plan.

Krish Ashok

krishashok

Starting this thread for kitchen/food science hacks for inexperienced/beginner cooks to document verified, tacit wisdom from experienced folks. Will update it once or twice a week. When using a blender/mixie

Scott Adams

ScottAdamsSays

Today Is the end of my one-week challenge to provide examples of systemic racism. Here's a thread on what I learned. People are very, very confident they know exactly what

Gwen Nelson

gwennelsonuk

Been teaching my son x86 realmode assembly - by which I mean I give him ideas of what to code, he gets annoyed as I explain some approaches because by

Ben See

ClimateBen

Remember:1. The oceans are being killed.2. Forests will soon be gone.3. Fertile soil is disappearing.4. Megafauna risk extermination.5. Insects are vanishing.6. Climate chaos is inevitable.7. Extinction is now.8. Plastic is

Neil Parekh #NYTReadalong (he/him/his)

neilparekh

1/x @ClaudiaDreifus will be @Sree's guest on the #NYTReadalong this week. We'll focus on her long career in journalism and several special #covid19 reports in the @nytimes..The Twitter Feed will

James Wilson

jamewils

Indiscipline, antigen tests & possible mutation behind Delhi Covid surge — Expert Panel ChiefAntigen tests create a false security in the people as both PCR & antigen takes swabs but

xiq, druid of loom

ExGenesis

I realise that most people probably aren't very rigorous in everyday life when using words for concepts that are well defined scientifically. I wonder to what what extent. Answer with

Jeremy Howard

jeremyphoward

Western doctors didn't believe the young Malaysian-Chinese doctor, Wu Lien-teh, who realized that the 1910 Manchurian Plague was transmitted through the air, and that a simple cotton mask could reduce

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

To continue in a little more detail...I read Ruha Benjamin's Race after Technology first and foremost as an early modernist concerned with technological "projects" and "improvements" in the seventeenth century,