#Scientists

It is not lost on me that Holy Week of 2020 is the week the scientists and experts say may be our hardest week of this Pandemic, perhaps the darkest
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1/ "It's just another vaccine. It's just a passport. Didn't we had them for decades already ?" I keep hearing these phrases and i keep shaking my head in disbelief
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1/ Pollution from particulate matter kills people. But the EPA is refusing to reduce the amount of particulate matter emitted into the air. So let me tell you exactly what
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Hey scientist friends! Let’s fill folks’ feeds with neat science facts! What’s your go-to fact from your discipline to get people to say “wow” and want to learn more? My
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I am reviewing a bunch of fellowship applications this weekend. Many young candidates have listed papers as "submitted". I find that obsolete and potentially damaging. In 99% of cases, everything
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@LeahButlerSmithOpen tweet to @BorisJohnson and@MattHancock Dear Boris and Matt,Stop lying to the UK Public. We know you are lying, and you know we know that. So just stop.Stop saying you
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21/ I know well over 10 professors who have explicitly told me that they self-censor. I am sure there are many many more. Scientists are terrified to posit certain causal
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I thought I'd post the inspiration for my exam questions in my intro genetics class since there are a few fun ones! Thanks to @hljordt for indulging my love of
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One more day of COVID-19 cases firmly on the plateau. Pennsylvania is flattening this curve, because YOU are. Our medical capacity continues to hold firm against overwhelm.There are those who
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a flight simulator where you're a golden eagle hunting anywhere you want and have to raise a family a fishing game where you are an orca. you also have to
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Thread: Academics have a different obligation to the public than journalists do. When we speak on record, we are assumed to speak with authority based on research. Speaking unprepared is
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As a trained scientist and a self-taught artist, the strongest commonalities I see between science and art are the ways they teach and enable us to understand the world around
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One worry I have about a side-effect of the #COVID19 pandemic is that some our societies might turn into de facto 'technocracies'. I find the current obsession with statistics, diagnostics,
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Just reminder that the Megalodon mockumentary is like the worst. It’s essentially a clipbait YouTube video but with a budget and just straight up falsifies evidence and spread a bunch
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The US Inspector General whose job is to investigate and uncover the truth says the President is not telling the truth about the severe shortages hospitals face. States are trying
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1/ Getting some flack for this tweet, so let me clarify. Male and female, as a natural phenomenon, has been known long before the discovery of sex chromosomes. This is
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