#Science

The Royal Society

royalsociety

This afternoon, we’ll announce the winner of the 2019 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. It aims to inspire young people to read about science and promotes the writing of

Kevin Hearne

KevinHearne

Ready for part two of BACON BOURBON SCIENCE? It began yesterday with the mini-thread quote tweeted here, where I infused a bottle of bourbon with bacon fat.1/https://twitter.com/kevinhearne/status/1249316103504961537 Now we gotta

Matthew Garrett

mjg59

People think that biological sex is this straightforward thing where if you have two X chromosomes you're female and if you have an X chromosome and a Y chromosome you're

froot loop

Iesbianfish

my sister is stupid as hell she put cold milk in a hot glass cup and it broke cuz idk science and now theres glass and milf everywhere she literally

Najma Sharif

overdramatique

Who here has dated a heterosexual man with the same politics as them? I love reading science fiction. So the guys that did align with y’all politically were trash or

⚫David Gadd

ProfDavidGadd

What if we were to follow social science as we ‘follow the science’? A thread. In criminology, we know that when governments start casting around for folkdevils, it is to

Eliza Grames

ElizaGrames

More than 100 long-term studies of insect populations have been neglected in current conversations surrounding #insectdecline. Yes, you read that right - more than a HUNDRED studies. What does this

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD

cfiesler

Like technical debt, #EthicalDebt is the unpaid cost of future "bugs" that aren't fixed during technology design--but those bugs are harms to individuals or society. @LifeofNoods and I wrote about

Pwn All The Things

pwnallthethings

This is a really bad take. Medical studies are obnoxiously hard to interpret for lay people, even lay people with a really strong stats or science background.https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1247134729666789377 *Most* medical papers

Kalie Knecht | BLM | 🏳️‍🌈

KalieKnecht

Janelle Monáe as fundamental nuclear science & engineering textbooks (a thread): "Nuclear Reactor Analysis" by Duderstadt & Hamilton "Introductory Nuclear Physics" by Krane "The Nuclear Fuel Cycle" by

Red Collie

RedCollie1

#lockdownMelbourne I did PCR for 10 years, and got a medal for it in 2019. Covid PCR is fake science.Typically we call a sample "positive" if a virus can be

Steve Campbell

Historian_Steve

I'm wondering to what extent the religious right is responsible for sowing distrust of scientific expertise to the point that wearing a mask--common sense based on science--has now become a

Jack Turban MD 🏳️‍🌈 🧠

jack_turban

Republicans cite “science” as why they oppose the #EqualityAct - a bill that would extend federal civil rights protections to all #LGBTQ Americans.As a physician and researcher, I can tell

Monise L. Seward

MoniseLSeward

Because we do not have true equity in K12, we have RTI & SST.Teachers try strategy after strategy, tier after tier, w/o success.If we were all properly trained, no child

Dr. Jennifer Provencher, wears a mask

jenni_pro

Actual question for academics - what do you think the role of government scientists is? I get asked to do a lot of things by academics and I am interested

Ian Fraser

Ian_Fraser

Q: Why has Germany had 38 deaths per million from #covidー19 when the UK has had 118? A: Starting on 20th January 2020, Germany traced, tested and isolated infected people.https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/germany-coronavirus-success-how-deat