#Science

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

I haven't even thought about writing papers for publication since mid-January. To address the threat posed by #COVID19, it's all about making progress as fast as possible, and sharing what

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Ok kiddos let's do this. Time to talk about my pretty-minimal-but-still-REALLY-WEIRD brushes with the MIT Media Lab.https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1170733320365379584?s=20 Two things happened.One, I applied for a job there ab

Shelley Sullivan

sullivanwrites

To teach, or not to teach. That is the question. A small thread on a big dilemma. Covid-19 presents us

Commodorable

ussamnesty

#TrekPositive Wednesday is almost over here in the UK, and I don't have a photo share. I wish I had the courage or the confidence to own, let alone wear,

Ask An Entomologist

BugQuestions

In 1875, a series of locust swarms the size of California ripped through the Western frontierBlotting out the sun and causing the modern equivalent of $4 billion in damages, major

Nadya Khoja

NadyaKhoja

This debate is an absolute trainwreck. Trump's strategy:1. Speak loudly about nothing to make Biden look dumb2. Yell3. Say nothing coherent and continue to yell loudly about how "It's bad

John Cook

johnfocook

1/12 Just deconstructed & debunked myth “Models downgraded COVID-19 deaths from 100,000+ to 60,000 so we can relax social distancing,” with Phil Newell at @climatenexus. Here’s a graphic explaining the

CiCi

cariboueatgrass

I see some clownery on my TL today about Black identity, so let me make something clear: race is a lot like astrology. Both systems are not based on science.

Mel Conway

conways_law

On the importance of systems thinking in education (and a lot of other things)This is an open letter to my granddaughter Sarah’s sixth-grade science teacher, continuing our conversation about systems

katrinastuartsantiago

radikalchick

What a terrible terrible video from the Department of Tourism, using With A Smile as theme, showing images of our healthcare workers, in a supposedly heartwarming montage of Filipino resilience.

Jeff McFadden

homemadeguitars

Humanity stands on an edge. Look past today: the next pandemic is already known to be inevitable as long as we continue the economy as it was in 2019. Inevitable.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

Friends, there is a mob of "COVID is not serious" (even hoax) politicized attack dogs w/no notion of science nor interest in it who tag to the very few play-the-system

JacobWhelan

whelan_jacob

So theory. 1. @CJSenate2020 hired Kara Eastmans new “Consulting Company” to help his campaign 2. Kara Eastman fired from @OHKA1 3. Fred Conley, Brenda Council guy and Brenda’s on @OHKA1

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 37It’s Thursday, so Grand Rounds day: @YouTube https://bit.ly/352S9bW , w/ @Rutherford_UCSF on epidemiology, Charles Chiu on viral genomics/testing, & system leaders on challenges @UCSFHospitals. 90 min

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

40 years ago, a fabulist named Robert Bork dreamed up an imaginary history of US antitrust law in order to justify dismantling it. 1/ This Nixon co-conspirator - beloved of

Charlotte

bycharlotteann_

Spending the day with my gran today & so far the topics of discussion have included:• the murder of a local drug dealer & where the body was dumped• where