#SCIENTISTS

Liam Bright

lastpositivist

Interesting blog post to me in terms of being very squarely centered on my interests - relating ideas about truth to support for pre-publication peer review - and containing stuff

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—South Africa halted use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford #COVID19 vaccine on Sunday after evidence emerged that it did not protect participants from mild or moderate illness caused by the #B1351

Lydia Jennings, PhD

1NativeSoilNerd

Tuning in now!https://twitter.com/aaberhe/status/1334732844971638784 Thank you @aaberhe for acknowledging the ancestral homelands you study and work with! Over 80% of soil science professionals are white, if we speak for the soil,

Ruth Chambers

ruthmchambers

The #EnvironmentBill committee is meeting again today. It's about half way through its detailed line by line scrutiny of the bill. Tune in via the link below.https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/5c7a462a-147f-480e-bf2c-c282e4e6f878

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Science asked me to -briefly- reflect on what happened in 2020. So, a thread on this year in science, the breakthroughs and breakdowns and where my head is at at

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

I‘m struck that it still hasn’t sunk in how much #b117 may change the course of this pandemic.The initial shock about it being more transmissible seems to have worn off.

Iris van Rooij 💭

IrisVanRooij

"Scientific Peer Review Is Broken Because the Peers Are All the Same" -- new blogpost by Tabea Cornel https://hpsns.hypotheses.org/1122 Some quotes from the piece below. 1/n "Why does peer review

Dee

MuppetPowerrrrr

How LOW can US government GO? Would be so typically #EvilUS & #CIA!#coronavirus #COVID19 https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1326360688374157313 #coronavirus #COVID19 #vaccine #China https://mobile.twitter.com/shVdbQgvraRQfFg/status/1327

Rose Rustowicz

roserustowicz

My favorite comments from @sherwang, on a recent call as we walked through what's needed to deploy a model on the @DescartesLabs (DL) platform (see thread ...) - "This is

Residing with yo daddy’s money

FeministaJones

Relevant to the US as well and the hard push for STEM education, particularly among the low-income & BIPoC they know they’ll never hire for anything, has been startling. They’re

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

Is the coronavirus airborne? YES, according to 239 experts from 32 countries. But if so, why does @WHO still maintain that transmission by aerosols only happens after certain medical procedures?

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

A NEW HOPE: 27x more effective than Remdesivir against #COVID19 in lab study –Aplidin is a drug derived from a marine sea squirt found only in waters off island

Joe Pompliano

JoePompliano

With more than $7 billion in annual sales, Gatorade has become an iconic part of sports history — earning the University of Florida about $300M in royalties.The craziest part?They should

Jack Stilgoe

Jackstilgoe

I've been really enjoying this piece by @STS_News. But I have THOUGHTShttps://link.medium.com/Wi6Fdie1wdb I'm not arrogant enough to regard this piece as subtweeting me and colleagues, but I work on a

Ruminda H. Gunaratne

Rumindahg

#Immunity & #VaccinesWill try to explain with #GIF'sWhat is Immunity?Your Immune system will attack anything unfamiliar. This could be bacteria, virus, fungus or anything it identifies as foreignWhen #coronavirus AKA

Adriano Aguzzi

AdrianoAguzzi

Today's rant is about academic "self-plagiarism". As the Editor-in-Chief of a medical journal, I thought long and hard about this issue. I have concluded that self-plagiarism is a non-existing crime.

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