#SCIENCE

Caspar Henderson

casparhenderson

"...all clear cases of awe have the following two components: an experience of vastness, and a need for cognitive accommodation of this vastness... "...The need for cognitive accommodation makes you

Elisabeth Bik

MicrobiomDigest

Science (the field, not the journal) needs to redefine its integrity and quality. Using a sports analogy, do we accept that doping (science misconduct) is fine, or do we take

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

I REJECT THE IDEA that there's only one way to build a scientific community. I reject that the fate of science rests on empowering certain scientists regardless of their bad

Ross Moy

ross_moy

A wee #FOAMEd thought for today: Hb is utterly useless in acute bleeding. Follow me for a thought experiement. I'm not going to actually do this, it would be difficult

George Roff

JezRoff

Hey @mattjcan I think you've misunderstood this, so i'll break it down for you here with links to published papers (1/n)https://twitter.com/mattjcan/status/1287549878327898112 Herbicides are exported from all agricultural catchments

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Heard about the new variant? That it appears to be much more transmissible but not more lethal? That's true but no relief. Transmissibility is an *exponential* risk and thus a

Dr. Ashwini Kumar 🇮🇳

aktilaiyan

Let's talk about Novelty !! My recent fellowship grant was rejected stating it is not "novel" !! What is novelty for you ?? Should a scientific hypothesis be as novel

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

This is a very important site. We know from tracing studies that around 80% of all infected people infect ZERO others. The small number of super spreaders are infecting millions.And

Priya

Prigoose

there was a long period of time -- 300 million years -- when trees fell over but didn't rot. microbes that could ingest wood hadn't evolved yet. so the earth

Alex Leaf

AlexJLeaf

Friendly reminder: if you are focused more on the results of scientific research rather than the processes that led to those findings, you are treating science like a belief system

Australian Academy of Science

Science_Academy

Australians should get vaccinated.We can be confident that vaccines approved for use by the @TGAgovAU will be safe and effective at reducing the risk of developing severe COVID-19.https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-re

Tanentzapf Lab

TanentzapfLab

1)Today is grant result day in Canada & my feed is full of tweets from brilliant, successful, accomplished colleagues who were not funded. We need to talk about how when

Thomas Zimmer

tzimmer_history

If you approach an international health crisis with a “public health vs. real science” framing, you are simply not doing it right. All you’re demonstrating is that you don’t have

Andrew McGuire

agronomistag

Science is not about what we want, but how things actually are. With cover crop mixtures, the cumulative research results from 27 studies show that, at best, finding a mixture

Invest in Open Infrastructure

InvestInOpen

Big news yesterday of @wileyinresearch acquiring @hindawi. Reflecting on Paul Peters’ 2017 developing #openinfra + the role of commercial publishers, a number of questions arise about the terms of the

Brian Resnick

B_resnick

Some cool things about the new Mars rover, named Perseverance. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/7/29/21340464/nasa-perseverance-ingenuity-launch-live-stream-how-to-watch-science-life-on-mars1. It's got a drone helicopter aboa

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