#Scientists

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Ireland reached a milestone in the pandemic response today completing 1 million Covid19 tests. An ungodly amount of work went into it all over 6 months, so I'll shine a

Edouard Harris

neutronsNeurons

Our company mentors data scientists for free until they're hired. Here's what we've been seeing in the data science job market in the past month. 1/ There's been a general

Liz Hare PhD STILL at home

DogGeneticsLLC

This is a great thread about adapting to remote seminars.I’d like to add that with these new formats we can step up inclusion of disabled scientists.https://twitter.com/caroline_bartma/status/1261650284624990212 The issue for Deaf/HoH

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/A quick thread about the medium-term future of our coronavirus response (i.e. between lockdown and treatment/vaccine).Some have suggested we use variolation (i.e. try to intentionally infect each person with a

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

Mentioned this yesterday, but the conversation around the effect that temperature has on COVID-19 is strange. There's a lot of stuff where the headlines say be "nope, no effect" but

Brainiac

Th3Brainiac

Here it is folks.~Consciousness~//THREADED//(1/15) Highly Controversial Topic May cause some symptoms of existentialism. This thread is not meant to convenience you of anything.Just thought it was fun to put

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

My god—over 25,000 drums of@toxic waste found dumped on the ocean floor off coast of California. The number of drums laced with the pesticide DDT far exceeded expectations. “It was

Tom Newton Dunn

tnewtondunn

Quite spectacular circular blame game erupting this morning on why contact tracing was stopped. Science Committee blames PHE, but PHE says Matt Hancock took the decisions, while Cabinet colleague Therese

WA Emergency Management

waEMD

40 years ago today, people pushed the state to reopen areas around Mt. St. Helens citing tourism & the economy against advice of scientists. Five days later, the volcano erupted.

Schoolyard Films

SchoolYardFilms

This #polarbear has been tranquilized so #scientists can gather biological data to monitor the health of this #bear & the species in general. Only about 26,000 polar bears remain in

Emma Hilton

FondOfBeetles

Unpopular opinion incoming.A matter of months ago, the NHS were advising that puberty blockers were reversible. It is not unreasonable for the average person to take this on authority and

Disclosure Backpack (Parler: DisclosureBP)

DisclosureBP

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an ionophore. It allows zinc to get through cell membranes where it can block viruses (including SARS-CoV) from replicating. The non-peer reviewed study getting pushed by enemedia

🔬Samantha Yammine, PhD (aka Science Sam)

heysciencesam

“The “expert view” vs “the misinformation” is a false dichotomy.It can be tempting to offer only certainty in times of crisis — but part of being an expert is knowing

Gregor Kalinkat

gkalinkat

Here it is, finallyThe role of species charisma in biological invasionsby @IvanJaric et al in @ESAFrontiersVery happy that I was able to contribute to this exciting project with an awesome

Ben See

ClimateBen

Scientists:1. Great Barrier Reef 'dead' by 20352. Amazon Rainforest 'dead' by 20483. E. Himilayan glaciers gone: 20354. Caribbean corals dead by 20345. no Arctic summer sea ice by 20286. simultaneous

Jameson Voss MD MPH

JamesonVoss

Many are sharing an article claiming that US "lockdowns" cause 10x more deaths than the coronavirus due to deaths of despair, etc. Definitions are key & the estimate is likely