#Science

How would I improve American scientific output for $100B? A thread. 1/n First, we already have a lot of processes that seem to work incredibly well, and processes really matter!
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In this ancient dog DNA study by Anders Bergström et al., we show that already 11,000 years ago there were ≥5 different dog groups across the world. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/557We then trace
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I am seeking a postdoctoral scientist who is passionate about investigating human consciousness. This is an NIH supported, multi-year (2-3y) position, and includes the potential for subsequent promotion to a
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1) Two biases have really warped our Covid response - the action bias and the illusion of control. The action bias is our tendency to prefer doing something to doing
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So this article, while interesting, seems like it could have used the expertise of a greater number of historians of the slave trade and slavery to clarfify and more importantly,
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AHEM: "Dr who led fed agency involved in developing coronavirus vaccine said he was removed after he pressed for rigorous vetting of coronavirus treatment embraced by Trump. The dr said
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If you're following me you may have guessed I'm reading a lot of classic #Batman lately, and it's brought me to wonder-- what's your instinctive mental image of Batman? I
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Thread - assembling and discussing the idea of runaway #ClimateChange if we hit a tipping point - going for a non alarmist assembly of evidence that I can return to
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Haaaaalp, my professor is sounding pretty nutty and such.Anyone with a physics degree knows more about this???Crazy stuff about magnets repelling/giving energy forever/taking in energy from a 4th dimension??? Or
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Earth is overpopulated; there are too many rich peopleTo solve the climate crisis; the rich must be abolished Here is the story:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-56723560 Climate change: The rich are to b
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In middle school, I had my mind blown by this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Gotl9vRGsand devoted the next ~4 years of my life to (badly) studying theoretical physics. I read primary sources (Einstein,
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The UK was full of many academics like myself, screaming from the roof tops about how off couse we were and still are. Back in March I got dragged by
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THREAD@JayInslee's lie fest, lies counted:1. Pretends we ALL had to make concessions: bull droppings, @GovInslee has fired NO gov't workers2. Pretends his diktats on religious faith have been "flexible."3. Pretends
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As a practitioner of science I am all in on wearing a mask to do my part. As a Black man in America I am genuinely concerned about how covering
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Today is the 100th birthday of the amazing physicist Richard Feynman. A @NobelPrize laureate in Physics, he made learning science fun and easy.Complete Feynman Lectures: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/  'Physics is fun' -
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It seems every round there's more people needing their spirits lifted & more hanging up their lab coats. Thinking of all those with bad news today (made worse by the
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