#Science

Anwesh Satpathy

anwesh_satpathy

Anand Ranganathan claims Darwin's theory is not a theory but an axiom. Its irrefutable, he says, after proclaiming it to be scientific. He's wrong. This might be a technical issue

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

I love London, and my family, and chatting to my wife, running along the Parkland walk, walking across Hampsted Heath, chatting to my parents over zoom ...but... I'd like to

abigail woods

abiwoods3

A thread on policy responses to epidemics – from someone who’s spent 20 years researching and teaching their histories. These are observations not answers, that aim to contextualise not condone

Tanentzapf Lab

TanentzapfLab

1. One of the most frustrating things about being a scientist right now is that on the one hand we spend our entire careers learning how to be rational &

Dr. Jessie Christiansen

aussiastronomer

I’m an immigrant. I moved here 12 years ago from Australia, to work at *awed whisper* Harvard University. In BOSTON. Which was suddenly a real place, not a movie set!

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

I think I was wrong. I thought that people in the government understood some of the science and just took a different, somewhat more maverick view. But now I am

zbohannan

zbohannan

Career and even research field transition strategy is huge in science, and there is little, if any, formal education/knowledge on best practices. I've made a lot of major transitions in

100 Scientists of Malaysia

_100SoM

Thread #3- science communication and engagementG'morning, everyone. Today, I will be talking about my journey in science communication! It will be the last topic from me.p/s: I am working on

Markus Luczak-Roesch

MLuczak

We'll see lots of efforts for #covid19 digital contact tracing soon, as it is understood to substantially improve time delay and overall capacity in contact tracing. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/30/science.abb6936 https://

Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D.

eredmil1

The point at which academia has become about getting N papers in Y conferences for the sake of...counting...is the day that science has truly died.This is not just the architecture

Connor Gallimore

neuroConnG

My first two scientific advisors ever when I was an undergrad were women. The first of those two is a PoC. I'll always be grateful for their mentorship. They were

🎮 Dr. Gwednesday Addams #BLM PLEASE VOTE!!!!!!

gweezlouise

I know faculty mean well when they let gut decisions dictate research choices, likely drawing from years of experience and expertise. But it puts students in a really bad position

🍞🥖AXXEPT is a breadstie

BLUDONMYTEETH

Forgive me, I’m gonna science vent here with my limited science knowledge, bare with me:A thread to explain the disaster that is 2020(?)[Inspired by Austin from Game Theory] So. There’s

PoliMath

politicalmath

Mask mandates work** In Ontario Canada to decrease new COVID cases by 25% which also corresponds to voluntary mask usage which is seen as cases increase in a regionhttps://twitter.com/aaronyelowitz/status/1313085491663835136 Breaking:

Alex John London

AlexJohnLondon

1. My new paper with @kimmelmanJ is out at @ScienceMagazine. “Pandemic Research Exceptionalism” is the idea that the urgency of a crisis warrants lowering #research standards. We argue against this

Sandeep Pai

Sandeeppaii

.@antonioguterres proposes 6 criteria to shape a global recovery. The first 2 calls for a focus on new green jobs as the way forward! It seems like green jobs are