#Science

United Farm Workers

UFWupdates

Like many of you, we are stretched thin by the strain of working to confront one crisis after another. This year has been particularly brutal to farm workers. There are,

Joshua Skewes

JCSkewesDK

Cognitive modeling rarely involves hypothetico-deductive reasoningIt involves formalising and updating beliefs about cognitive processesIt can require intuition, and may rely on exploiting patterns in data to build theoryThis is still

Darinstrauss

Darinstrauss

THREAD: This guy is a Trumpist, explaining why he won't wear a mask. What's surprising -- although, maybe not, if you go all-in on hating science -- is that mask-wearing

Walter Chen

smalter

duke's not known as a startup factory like stanford.but duke '08-'12 has produced 4 unicorns—coinbase, airtable, cameo and plaid—along with a bunch of up and comers.here's the path their founders

Matt Malkus

malkusm

Meet Steven Manzo, a tragic casualty of lockdown. A recovering addict who overcame so much, and had so much life ahead of him.#RIPStevenManzoNext time you advocate for the closure of

J. Sebastian Tello

jstello_geoecol

Recently, journals like @ASNAmNat and @Ecology_Letters have made changes to their data sharing policies to "give them teeth". This will force authors to make their data openly available if they

LASTrafzer - register and vote!

LeeAnnSmT

1/10 I didn't write this, but it's what I want to say, so:Just a note for my right leaning family and friends from my left leaning self as we near

Stonekettle

Stonekettle

A message from a member of the Pro-Life OMG WE GOTTA SAVE THE CHILDREN party : Missouri Republican Governor Mike Parson: “These kids have got to get back to school.

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DantonSix

Have you heard of "slipstream" literature? Loosely, it's a cheap way to say "it's genre but also literature!" which it's depressing that we need to say that but here we

Moshfegh Hamedani

moshhamedani

1/7 Mosh: did you say HTML is not a programming language? How dare you? It discourages newbies from becoming programmers. Some say it so they feel superior to others! No!

Dr. Stacey D. Smith

iochromaland

Well today was a first. I got choked up and barely kept it together during an academic talk. What the heck happened you say? I am an easy crier but

Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud

Damkyan_Omega

Bon, Monsieur Jean-Dominique Michel "MSc anthropologie médicale et expert en santé publique" vous êtes un cuiste. Je viens de me farcir vos différents articles où vous prenez longuement en bouche

Dr Natasha Dowey

DrNatashaDowey

Today our paper on the shocking lack of racial diversity in UK Geosciences is out @NatureGeosci: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00737-w@VolcanoJenni @BenFernando2 @GilesPalaeoLab Jacqui Houghton @seis_matters @jurassicg1rl Anya

Scott W. Atlas

SWAtlasHoover

1/6 Proud to be friend & colleague of Sunetra Gupta, one of world's top epidemiologists, who exposes the outrageous personal attack, shameful false criticisms on expertise, & censorship from biased

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

25/ One dose is good enough against the original strains of the virus (B VIC01).But you really need two doses of vaccine against the B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants. 26/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421002981See

Simon D. A. Clark

Sunkensie

Interesting new preprint on diagnostic uncertainty - a higher quantity of COVID19 tests will probably do more harm with poor test targeting (eg. contact tracing) i.e more "no test is