#Scientists

Bruce Tate

redrapids

After some time away after writing Seven More Languages, I spent some time with @JeffBezanson, a co-creator of @JuliaLanguage and could immediately see some of the reasons the language was

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

Most everything they say about plastic waste is wrong:- ocean biodegrades 99.9% of it- bioplastics worse than fossil-plastics- landfill & incineration better than recycling Nobody likes waste but it's

Michael Otsuka

MikeOtsuka

1 in 5 ages 18-34 with no underlying health conditions had not returned to usual health 2-3 weeks after testing positive for Covid-19. CDC random sample of mainly young adults

i bless the rains down in castamere

Chinchillazllla

vampire bats can starve to death after only two days. if a bat fails to find food, it will lick the face of one of its friends and that friend

Mary Murphy

mcmpsych

New paper out today @PNASNews. We explored the network structure, cultural frames, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science—specifically in Open Science and Reproducibility across all sciences from

Andrius Pašukonis

frog_tracker

Poison frogs get a lot of press for their parenting skills, but parenting is much more widespread in tropical frogs. Here is a Leptodactylus petersi mom with her tadpoles doing

Adam Marblestone

AdamMarblestone

What's cooler than (an awesome! wireless demo plus) promising *hypothetical* automated through-skull surgery to implant a BCI? Actual minimally-invasive surgery in humans to implant a BCI:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/202008270

John Carlos Baez

johncarlosbaez

Not just people, but also mathematical objects, can be oppressed! Pushed into the background, silenced, not taught in courses at the appropriate moment. As a result, the development of

James Wilsdon

jameswilsdon

No.10’s response to the Guardian’s SAGE scoop - trying to downplay political advisers’ participation as routine - fails to address the fundamental point, as raised by @Sir_David_King, that this is

PatMac, RN

NursePatMacRN

1/ We need to have a talk.. I’m seeing a lot of y’all coming dangerously close to shaming folks, even other nurses... for not deciding to get vaccinated as quickly

Danny Boy

Care2much18

This is a serious and fundamental misunderstanding of how anything works and should be completely ignored.The map, which is to July 12, puts Ireland and Spain mostly in the same

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KryptonsArchive

#AprEl Day 8: Krypton, Doomed Planet [Thread]It's curious how we always know what is going to happen to kryptonians and their

Geoffrey Supran

GeoffreySupran

TODAY, in our peer-reviewed follow-up analysis putting to bed ExxonMobil's attacks on our work, I & @NaomiOreskes delineate "three distinct ways in which the data demonstrate [they] misled the public"

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

I disagree on many issues w/ the Governor, but I am chilled by these actions. There is no limiting principle.In this case, the dispute is about kids wearing masks. But

The New York Times

nytimes

Cascading climate disasters are no longer features of some dystopian future. They are the here and now, worsening for the next generation and perhaps longer, depending on humanity’s willingness to

University of Leeds

UniversityLeeds

Our engineers and @LeedsHospitals have developed a fix to turn sleep apnoea machines into ventilators.Estimates indicate thousands of similar devices across the #NHS and rapid modification could significantly increase respiratory support availability