#Biology

Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex sex seem really simple. Well,
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OK, some thoughts about noses and #SARSCoV2 infection. There is increasing epidemiological evidence that people who improperly wear masks -- not covering their noses -- or use face shields instead
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@CNN @nypost @dcexaminer The @WashPost is gaslighting us again. A recent article claims Biden hesitates to nominate Merrick Garland for Attorney General because people fear he is too moderate on
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Some push back on the notion that NIH spent hundreds of billions of dollars on basic research and therefore owns mRNA vaccine technology and has “march in” rights to dictate
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Teaching Professional DevelopmentHow: a thread 1. Read: articles, guides@kimberlydtanner 2013. Structure matters: twenty-one teaching strategies to promote student engagement and cultivate classroom equity.Miller & Tanner 2015. A portal
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Freedom of speech ≠ freedom from consequences. If I stood in the quad at UCL with a megaphone shouting that vaccines cause autism, would it be unjust if I was
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An interesting paper on lessons from Foot and Mouth outbreak in UK, and mathematical modelling:https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/use-and-abuse-of-mathematical-models-an-illustration-from-the-2001-foot-and-mouth-disease-ep
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Why man can never rest.There was this guy on Reddit who said he cries almost every other day, because life is hard, and he hates how society doesn't accept a
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I'm not sorry. War. The Faustian Spirit. White folks' cultures. Traditional Irish Singing. Tiktok kid says White's do in fact have culture. God Bless Poland! "Dear White Men..." Biology makes
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"the one-point jump is never a bad move" https://senseis.xmp.net/?IkkenTobiIsNeverWrong There's a Master version of several go AI's in which their training includes a bit of human games as well as
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Would you want to screen a population of asymptomatic people with qPCR primers that have 6base pair 3 primer dimers?The WHO recommends these primers.@MichaelYeadon3 @ClareCraigPath I’m not going to say
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Some of you may have seen the bizarre scenario last night (@GGreengage thanks for your support) where I was told it was told it was deeply offensive so refer to
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Updated bio thread! I am a high school physics teacher who just happens to be trans. I also enjoy writing. Most of it is political, but not all. I've shared
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On Nov 20th, Trans Day of Remembrance, an Open Letter was published which provoked quite the reaction. Amnesty Ireland, a signatory, later posted that criticism of the Letter used “decontextualising
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Everyone's freaking out about how seastars are born, but if you think that's weird, let me tell you about HUMANS (hint: we're more similar than you think) [a thread]...https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1356610600743354371
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Donald wants to know how the GOP gets people to vote against their own self-interests. Answer: The GOP propaganda machine is designed to play on their fears.Do you all know
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