#Biology

If you're looking at this and thinking [Citation Needed] on that stat, let me save you a click: the linked article does not cite a source on it, because it
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People who’ve given birth! Let’s tell some secrets and/or underreported details of our experiences, shall we? Sometimes, when you push, you poop! If you’re nursing but are away from your
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I just thought of a good analogy for what's bothering me about some of the #COVID19 analysis. A while back we ran a blog post about how modern house fires
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Stunning misinterpretation by @Clarivate/@WebOfScience in their decision to suppress citation counts for all papers in @Zootaxa. This damages the entire field of zoological taxonomy, and in particular researchers from developing
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A friend of mine stocked up on the 'quine while it was available. His father-in-law was stricken with Sars-cov2. Friend urged admin of the 'quine. Because his wife and her
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What If a Woman doesn't bleed, on the first night of her wedding, while having sex? [Thread] First of all, this thread is not vulgar but informative because there is
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Thread. It's #WorldCancerDay . Many #Bloomberg Distinguished Professors are involved in multidisciplinary research efforts here at @JohnsHopkins. Here are a few examples. Alex Szalay, a leader in big data,
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Talking with you lot for extended periods, I end up sympathising with the fear and trembling over what nefarious influence Nietzsche and Foucault may have over our timid little worlds
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Looking to get an MS or PhD in an Engineering/CS Discipline? Having spent 12 years in academics here’s what I would do! Time for a thread The #1 thing
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Have been bingeing @moreofcomment this weekend, specifically on social psych’s myopia wrt. the is–ought gap, and I’m struck again by the fact that the discipline broadly seems to have forgotten
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COVID in Europe - my perspective this bright, sunny day in London. As ever, the main group I feel I am talking to here are journalists, who have to write
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Say you have a completly harmless virus (IFR=0) that can spread at R0=3.3 and you can find via PCR for 19 days. How many deaths per million would you find
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If we want to talk about increasing diversity and inclusion in surgery, (a triggering ) we have to normalize female surgical residents having children and lose the antiquated patriarchal idea
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Currently, the rules for passive skills is fairly vague. When they apply and how is relatively open. Guidance on Dragon Talk from Crawford suggests using it “always on” as a
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Allow me to present some work I have been *very* excited about for some time: how to detect signaling dynamics WITHOUT live-cell imaging!https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.06.425615v1 Since I started my biology career I
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New review from my lab in @NatureRevCancer on the role of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-020-00321-1?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureRevCancer A few key points to highlight:- Certain chromosomal trisomies are found in
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