#Scientists

In the mid-18thC, one of the major worrying diseases was typhus. Nowadays, we know it's spread by lice or fleas. But at the time, like so many other diseases, it
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87/ So what the 5 micron error really reveals is a key sociological aspect. Despite droplet infection being a hypothesis without much evidence, it was SO dominant that the experts
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: An unfortunately terrible example of COVID reporting in The New York Times, in which they give practically unhindered voice to a preprint paper by a controversial scientist who's being
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This comes back to my point about how impoverished K-12 and university education is about the *social* epistemology of science. We teach students it's about the labs, but the strength
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#TodayinHistory Operation Shakti, when the India Govt under AB Vajpayee, conducts 5 nuclear explosions in 1998 at Pokhran over two days, the second such, after Operation Smiling Buddha in 1974.
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Modi's 21 member scientific task force did not weigh in on the lockdown extension. Or on making testing chargeable, as Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General wrongly claimed in the Supreme Court
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In the sea of bad news today, I thought it would be a good idea to highlight some of the unsung heroes that are helping me me get through this.Friday
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Number of coronavirus cases in the US just crossed 500,000 and the fatality rate is up to 3.6%. That’s because many of these people were diagnosed 2-3 weeks ago and
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The astronomer Heber Curtis was born #OTD in 1872. In his “Great Debate” with Harlow Shapley, he famously argued that each of the countless spiral nebulae observed by his colleagues
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My paper with @Jordan_Mallon and Darren Tanke on early dinosaur hunting in western Canada was published this morning! This is the culmination of half a decade of volunteering at the
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We have a vaccine for the world- Andrew Pollar at the AZ-Oxford vaccine results read out presentation. Even though the headlines says the vaccine efficacy is 70%, there is a
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Just wanted to share this new paper on the protoplanets around PDS 70 based on new Keck data that I've been working on with a great team of early career
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.@GovAbbott we wrote a letter to you requesting to see my mom who is in assisted living with advanced dementia. I just received a call yesterday from her facility and
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A ‘brave new world’.What could this possibly mean? Surely it’s more than just exposing evil & corruption...?Have you taken the time to consider what is meant by BRAVE & NEW?Have
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CHINA HAS BEEN THE CENTER OFVIRUSES SINCE MERS, SARS, EBOLAAND CORONA VIRUS...WHEN EBOLA OUTBREAK IN CONGOI WAS monitoring this. WonderedWhy it took World Health Organization.So long to make it an
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Anyways, axolotls already ARE salamanders, they don't "turn into" salamanders they already are. They're just fully aquatic paedomorphic mole salamanders. They're in the exact same family as the tiger salamander,
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