#Scientists

Andrew Forbes

Lord_Forbington

I tweeted a lot earlier out of fear for a student’s well being, but I’d like to now return to one point i made. Specifically, I’d like to ask: why

Dr. Tanisha M. Williams - #BlackBotanistsWeek

T_Marie_Wms

I got my start in #botany and owe my #BlackBotanicalLegacy to my great-grandmother, Grace Alice (who learned her love from her grandmother). For all who know me, know she was

schrödinger's cat.

nehathemartian

hello guys, it's #scicomm time! today we'll be talking about Wormholes, their origin, the mechanics behind them and their use in popular culture in this fun, gif laden thread! let's

Kassandra Ford

kassthefish

Oh hell I'm drinking so let's do this.So evolutionary biologists sometimes use terms without clear definitions. For instance, "convergent evolution". While organisms may be *similar*, at what point are they

Josh Rogin

joshrogin

Rand Paul and Fauci are arguing over whether the bat coronavirus research in Wuhan was "gain of function" according to the NIH definition. That's somewhat besides the point of whether

🧬🔬Dr Pam Cameron 🤯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Dr_PamC

Science doesn’t have all the answers but that doesn’t always mean that answers are being kept from you and that all experts are in on some great conspiracy that only

Ismael K.G.

IsmaelKherGar

"How are collaboration and productivity correlated at various career stages of scientists?"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-014-1323-6 In one of their referenced papers: "Our findings suggest that collaborations formed to capit

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

I think I've spent too long attacking other people's wrong numbers lately and I'm not sure that's helping. So here's a fairly brief non-technical thread to tell people who aren't

Jeff (BPredict)

BPredict

Why are we seeing so many dramatic media headlines talking about 70%, 75%, or 80% reductions in COVID-19 spread if we wear masks at the same time that leading scientific

Keira

wildkeyzo

December 31st China alerts WHO to new virus.January 23rd Study reveals a third of China’s patients require intensive care.January 24th Boris Johnson misses first Cobra meeting.January 29th Boris Johnson misses

Roger Pielke Jr.

RogerPielkeJr

InterestingFormer NOAA official admits tabulation of “billion dollar” disasters was/is a shadow campaign to get people to “connect the dots” on climate change and severe weatherWhy not instead rely on

Rafael H.M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics

UrbanDemog

Quick shoutout for transport researchers & spatial data scientists in general. We are building a new #rstats package for rapid realistic routing on multimodal transport networks based on R5. You

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

I spent 6 hours this week advising Black students. None of them from UNH. Don’t want the students to feel bad about this but ppl need to know how much

Dr. John Njenga Karugia PhD. aka Lemayian

johnnjenga

HOW TO END COVID19 IN KENYANo doctor or citizen of Kenya should die of covid19 or any of its mutants. Covid19 mutations are ravaging poor India. China has surprisingly very

Simone Butera

butera_simone

EPISTEMOLOGY IRL (maybe some $BTC stuff)Epistemology to me is a quite practical field. It's about what we can know and to which degree of certainty.Diff methods to obtain knowledge have

Daniel Yokomizo

dyokomizo

"Why people that are not oppressed by structures of power keep trying to excuse people that are part of structures of power?", a thread.It's a sad but know fact that