#Science

el gato malo

boriquagato

several months back, the danes undertook a large, randomized, controlled mask studyit has been completed for some timethe lead investigator says they will publish it "as soon as a journal

Dr. Jessica B. Hernandez

doctora_nature

I am Dr. Jessica Hernandez, an Indigenous scientist (Zapotec & Maya Ch'orti). I advocate for environmental, climate, & food justice through my scientific & community work. Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay &

el gato malo

boriquagato

when the dust has settled and the data is in, those that locked down schools and kept kids at home are going to have some very difficult questions to answer.it

Keerthik Sasidharan

KS1729

Deadly coronavirus comes in three variants, researchers find. 'Types A, B and C are all derived from the pathogen first found in bats but have evolved in different ways, according

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

At the risk of alienating yet another economic sector, I've just read a paper which suggests that keeping honeybees is even more harmful than I thought: massive suppression of wild

Black Hole Comics and Entertainment

BHCEnt

Comics are nothing without artists. And with 4 Days until A COLD, DARK UNIVERSE is on Kickstarter we want to do a thread to highlight the artists contributing to our

Jean Twenge

jean_twenge

Just out: Depression among U.S. teen girls doubled from 2009 to 2019 and was up 74% among teen boys, according to just-released data from the gov't administered National Survey of

David Williams. No longer striking,still kinda mad

ZoologyDave

Time for some #conservation #pessimism! And shameless self promotion. Reviewing the last 20 years of biodiversity and conservation research (https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12720), we found that scientists simply aren'

David #CancelAncientAliens Anderson

DSAArchaeology

When I critique #AncientAliens or #Atlantis, people often tell me that archaeologists don’t really know what happened in the past, it’s all just interpretations, and I shouldn’t “gatekeep” interesting ideas

SNOLAB

SNOLABscience

Happy National Science Reading Day! We're celebrating Science Literacy Week (@scilitweek) by sharing some of our favourite science reads from our community. #SciLit #NationalScienceReadingDay 1. Matthew Cox reading "2001: A

Dr Martin Character Matters

MartinRemains

Why, in the middle of a pandemic, are people getting on a plane and travelling overseas for holiday? These are not normal times. These are dangerous times. You may be

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Pleasure to join #GrandChallengesAnnualMeeting2020 thank you @drpennyheaton for the introduction. Quick summary. People will be writing,discussing,considering COVID19 in 100yrs as we discuss pandemic 1918 now. We are living through history

c o e u s ♆

CoeusTheBastard

debunking demigenders and genderfluidity, a educational thread.(+ sources, links) first off, what does demigender even mean? by its definition demigender means that someone is half a binary gender (either girl

Emilio M. Pérez

emiliomperezlab

After the #COVID19 pandemic, I fear politicians (@AgEInves , @astro_duque) will be tempted to fund applied biomed research only, and forget about basic science again. Science does not work like

SFS Students

sfs_src

Happy Monday! There are so many great opportunities coming your way from the SRC this week for the #SummerofScienceSFS!First, check out the freshwater research published in the last week in

ErsatzCulture

ErsatzCulture

Just doing some analysis of SF&F books published in 2020, and a thought/question occurs:Last year, the stranglehold (for want of a better word) http://tor.com had over novellas was broken, with