#SCIENCE

Shahab Bakhtiari

ShahabBakht

"The unsolved mystery of vision"By Richard Masland and Paul Martin (2007)https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982207014194"Vision" is achieved in different species despite significant neuronal diversiti

May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)

maidensblade

Sometime soon I’d like to write an essay breaking down why I disagree with the belief that magic is just mystified science. More specifically, the whole “science is just magic

Katy Barnett

DrKatyBarnett

I just finished reading ‘Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science’ by @StuartJRitchie, an exploration of problems in scientific research. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/science-fictions-9781473564251 It s

Jacqui Castle 🏰

JCastleWrites

As someone who lives in Asheville, I don't think we talk enough about the portion of the natural health/anti-vax "liberal" crowd that voted red because of their fear of losing

KizzyPhD

KizzyPhD

Because clinical quality mRNA can be manufactured quickly enough to beat a pandemic (case in point: the two leading candidates). &, we’d worked with Moderna for years to understand how

Philip Watson

PhilipWatson_

I sat down this morning with a few colleagues from Belfast. We exchanged views on CV19. I presented this graph with context that nobody could dispute. Wearing a mask re

Professor Lizzo

LizWaynePhD

I've been thinking about how the work of science communication is hampered by the lack of science education in the general populous. What I mean is, when we say we

Berna Devezer

zerdeve

Great thread. Interesting how I find philosophical approaches on these issues more compelling than scientists’ “purist” stance that assumes some magical neutrality or rationality. We’re always partial. It’s ok. Science

Heidi Soulsby

HeidiSoulsby

It’s been a long day and some very difficult decisions made. I’d hoped I wouldn’t have to go through it again. But all the evidence showed we had to act

Daniel Nettle

danielnettle

For various reasons, I have been reviewing many dozens of applications for jobs and fellowships over the last weeks (thread). First, I am amazed by all the cool people out

Stephen McGann

StephenMcGann

Flesh, blood, and the kindness of brilliant strangers. A thread.Peeps who follow me might know that I’ve written a book on the history of my family, told through the medical

BloodSpite

BloodSpite

The lockdowns were all political theatre and you fell for it. Sciencehttps://twitter.com/wtop/status/1352590199356841988 Sciencehttps://twitter.com/abc7ny/status/1352210701830467584 Sciencehttps://twitter.com/gvwire/status/13520534917039431

DivyaET

rdivia

My oxygen is science, I get energy from science says Krishna Ella, CEO Bharat Biotech in today's press conference on Covaxin. We supply vaccines to 123 countries, and we have

David Peetz

PeetzDavid

As the fee policy applies at the course, and not the program, level, it will very strongly discourage engineering, IT or other science students form taking courses in business, sociology

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

The reasoning given for justifying lockdowns by public health officials (& people) is based on the assumption that lockdowns drive down spread/transmission of a virus by reducing people’s mobility, which

Sean T at RCP

SeanTrende

I've been thinking about this really good @zeynep piece and . . . philosophy of science. 1/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/ There's an argument in philo

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