#Science

1/ Important #COVID19 vaxxine data thread. I have avoided tweeting about the vax issue as it’s become an immensely toxic topic. But there are some extremely worrying trends emerging between
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Ever wondered how huge and exciting scientific ideas get bottled down into your favourite science programmes? Well answering the #FridayFive is Helen Thomas of the @bbcstudios Science Unit! 1. Tell
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the most successful grad students have tons of experience *before* starting their PhDs. Essentially, they don't need to be trained, and they flourish in a system that explicitly avoids directly
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[Thread]Let's take a look at the evidence underpinning the @fmwales decision to ban travel from Covid hotspots other parts of the UK.Mark Drakeford has pointed to three pieces of evidence
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Over the past year I have skimmed through more than 2500 social science papers. I wrote a giant post about everything that's wrong with them and how to fix the
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"we need to wear masks in public to stop the spread of covid" seems to be a popular opinion.but, like so much other covid lore, it is revealed to be
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When I was a postdoc @NIH, one of my hobbies was trying to answer this question.Grant administrators didn't know, and DIDN'T CARE, what fraction of time their grantees spent pursuing
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What can you read for free from @latimes with no paywall? You have a few options:This coronavirus news digest, updated twice daily on weekdays. Bookmark this link and come back
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When I finished my undergraduate degree I was faced with a choice: go to graduate school and pursue a PhD or go to law school and pursue a JD. I
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Astrology isn’t a slave to ex’s like a lot of people are so no, mercury rx and venus rx actually don’t have to have anything to do with past people
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So this is a rebuttal of Washington Post/Yale School of Health data published yesterday: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/investigations/coronavirus-excess-deaths-may/Not sure how how Yale is projecting their expected deaths...i
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Some interesting (to me) details about the retracted Clark et al. article. One thread per detail.This is thread #1: The preregistration.(There may only be one thread, depending on my motivation
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Has anyone read any good running books lately, either informative/science based or autobiographical? Just browsing online for some new reads. #ukrunchat In my basket currently:Eat and Run: Scott JurekFeet in
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Really good explainer on the complexity of corona:https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-hard-to-make-a-good-covid-19-model/ More here:https://medium.com/data-for-science/epidemic-modeling-101-or-why-your-covid19-exponential-fits-ar
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If they can't believe a ton of government HR infrastructure still runs on COBOL, wait till the cool Data Science kids find out just how much of their ML, AI,
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Credit of Atomic theory has been taken by Western world, Acharya Kanad (600 BC) was the founder of Atomic theory, law of causation & the atomic theory. Acharya Kanad had
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