#SCIENTISTS

Seth Bushinsky

SethBushinsky

Instead of our seminar this week, UH Mānoa Oceanography screened @PictureaSciFilm, a new film highlighting the discrimination and abuse that women have faced & still face in science today. This

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

THE SICKNESS OF ACADEMIA & MEDIA0/ There are already fairly obvious reasons why it’s a sign of sickness that academia is around 97% politically left. ...and the same for journalists.

Kate Marvel

DrKateMarvel

NEW SCIENCE ALERT! We have a huge new assessment of equilibrium climate sensitivity out today: https://bit.ly/2BiDFKI The main question: how hot is it going to get? Scientists don’t know! (YOU

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

There’s a lot of concern and confusion right now about the new #sarscov2 variant identified in UK. I’ve spent today and yesterday talking to a dozen people working on this.

Betty Jane

bjconk01

Unfortunately, true scientific method, like true Christianity, true democratic representative government and true capitalism, has gone into hiding, being practiced only by a few true believers. The “science” practiced now

Sanjit

sanjit_oberai

Hi, So am glad to be enrolled in a really cool course on #climatechange with @terradotdo where we are learning basics of climate science, modelling, etc. As part of our

Marion Holman

holmanm

1/10 The statin drug Baycol made by Bayer was recalled in 2001 after a series of statin deaths from kidney failure following rhabdomyolysis (death of muscle fibres, debris from which

David K Smith

professor_dave

This Pride month, as anti-trans rhetoric in the UK pushes to ever higher intensity, I want to talk about three trans scientists. I want to highlight their ground-breaking science, but

DeliciousKashmiri

DKashmiri_

Yes, humans caused global warming. Here is how we know (rolling thread). #climatechange #ClimateAction @CarbonBrief https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-scientists-think-100-of-global-warming-is-due-to-humans > It is extremely likely

Neil Stone

DrNeilStone

My first reaction to the UK delaying 2nd dose of Pfizer vaccine was to be completely against it.But after hearing carefully reasoned arguments, I'm coming round to the idea.Listen. Learn.It's

Omnipotent Moral Busybody

OBusybody

1/5 Reflecting on the start of the Cv19 panic, the censoring of @aginnt & @AJKayWriter was an indication something was terribly wrong.Though not perfect, both articles were clearly reasoned &

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

Great Q&A with Peter Ben Embarek on the COVID-19 emergence @WHO mission.He explains why they conclude it was "extremely unlikely" SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab - the same conclusion we

Bartley Kives

bkives

Scientist, noting plot point in every disaster movie and also, realityhttps://twitter.com/xamm0x/status/1360785237328945154 Addendum: The world listened to scientists in the 1980s, when the concentration of CFCs in the atmosphere threatened

Mental Floss

mental_floss

Attention, defecators!It is National Poop Day. For us, that means digging into our archives and finding some of our favorite poop-related stories and throwing them into a thread for all

Milka Kostić, PhD

MilkaKostic

Ten Simple Rules for Editors of Scholarly Publications - (maybe I should write this for @PLOSCompBiol, but I feel a bit lazy): 1. Know your own mind, but be open-minded2.

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

It is very irresponsible for news agencies to post articles about vaccines and pandemic research before this research is published. It happens all the time since this pandemic started and

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