#Scientists

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

Rushed science and bad politics turned COVID-weather correlations into policy disasters. My latest, in Nature Comms w @anacrgomez @bansallab & @SadieRyan: the basic science, how ecologists derailed Indonesia's lockdown, and

David Papineau

davidpapineau

I can’t help feeling, @TheBJPS @StathisPsillos @WayneMyrvold, that we’re losing the wood for the trees in all these details about which positivist said what and when about unobservables. In truth,

Matthew Kupfer

Matthew_Kupfer

I am 100% against prematurely ending lockdown. But I think the people providing the most self-righteous, doom-and-gloom, "life will never return to normal" takes on #COVID19 must recognize that they

Dr. Claire Simeone

Claire_Simeone

Some very brave scientists spoke out about unpaid positions as a barrier to diversity and inclusion in the field of marine mammal science. I'm here for improving the health of

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

"We are now almost six months into this pandemic, which began in November in Wuhan, with 50,000 Americans dead and 200,000 more around the world. And yet we still don't

Craig Rodriguez-Seijas (he/him/his)

CraigAnthonyRS

During the new faculty orientation for @UMich I legitimately cried watching an amazing video put together by @UMich_CRLT to highlight the many ways that marginalization can impact faculty & students.

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

WHAT CAN ARMCHAIR EPIDEMIOLOGY teach us about scientific expertise? Should scientists stay in their lane? Let's discuss ... During the early days of the pandemic, we saw a dramatic

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OpportunityDesk

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DNLee

DNLee5

A Dear Colleague Letter to White Women Scientists/Academics, from a Black Woman Scientist/Academicaka. Come in and sit down, I have something I’ve been meaning to tell you So.....(long pause, deep

Dr William Dunn

astro__will

Searching for secondary schools to partner scientists with for #ORBYTS space research projects so thought I'd do a thread on all the things #ORBYTS students have discovered in the last

Michael Nielsen

michael_nielsen

For people interested in open science, Paul David's paper is, I think, the best piece ever written about how science came to be as open as it is: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2209188> Odd,

Shobita Parthasarathy

ShobitaP

Ananda Chakrabarty, biotech pioneer, died July 10. Working for General Electric, he developed a micro-organism genetically engineered to eat oil. This led to a landmark 1980 Supreme Court decision, Diamond

Dónde LaToya?!?!

EDIBLU

People will not listen to whole ass scientists that science every day, but will listen to a Random Woman on the Street like she's Marie Curie.https://twitter.com/TorriNichelle/status/1264458402681417728 People long to believe

Furries For Politics

FurPawlitics

Should a pack of goofy art hippies care about politics?Well, Furries are:1) majority-queer2) socially liberal3) sex- & kink-positiveSo yes, we should! Furry isn't an island — there's

DawsonSField

DawsonSField

I have to thank @RevDrDickMove for providing this fabulous example of why liberals are so prone to fall for propaganda, as long as it blames Trump!He really should not have

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

This is just crazy. Mainstream experts have been trying to get through with almost no success. But take an out-there position and you get access. Of course take extra precautions