#SCIENTISTS

Dake Kang

dakekang

NEW: After Beijing announced the virus was spreading in Jan, Chinese scientists rushed to publish papers. Then, the tide slowed to a trickle.Now, documents obtained by @AP show this happened

Jason Sheltzer

JSheltzer

An amazing *randomized trial* on Twitter+academia:112 papers were randomly chosen to be shared on twitter by a group with ~58k followers or to not be shared. Papers that were tweeted

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. Unless there's a vaccine very soon, I fear that Joe Biden will not handle the pandemic much better than Trump did. I really hope I'm wrong. It just seems

Denver Ncube⚪

denvern3

1. So there are questions surrounding the vaccines that have been developed particularly around the speed of development and whether this has an impact on their safety and efficacy. I

Ryan McNamara 🧬

Ryan_Mac_Phd

Twitter is clearly not a place for nuanced talks on science. Rather, absolutism is favored. I stated today that if everyone wore procedure masks, then COVID-19 prevalence would plummet. That

John Kerr

SciComGuy

Interesting results when we ask people if they would accept a (hypothetical) COVID-19 vaccine... All across the world, men, people who trust science & people who worry about COVID more

Andrew Dunn

AndrewE_Dunn

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says they have a "strict policy" that they will not announce data — good or bad — on their COVID vaccine until it's published in a

Sarah Deech ☕️

londonette

1/ Mini vaccine thread. Anti-vaxxers are anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists are going to conspiracy theorise. We know that. But there are an awful lot of "normal" people who are simply

Steve Baker MP

SteveBakerHW

Government scientists briefing MPs were clear this week that the effects of lockdown would not be visible in the data until this weekend @MrHarryCole That is, cases may have flattened

Gabriel Milland

gabrielmilland

Been looking a bit more closely at the poll which Ipsos did to support the Mirrorr/Labour/NEU to move teachers up the vaccinaton queue. And, well, I think the question was

The Sheila G 2020🇺🇸🇺🇸Text Trump 88022

TheSheilaG2020

Does this surprise you? @HHSGov @CDCgov @NIH @US_FDA puts antibody rich plasma on hold because there isn’t enough clinical trials. I say BS! HHS and it’s agencies are nothing more

keziyah

KeziyahL

So I’m glad that anti-diet education is catching on. But “just eat intuitively” is not helpful either. Not when people’s intuitions about food are broken. After 28 years of just

The Crick

TheCrick

Scientists at the Crick and around the UK rely on @ERC_Research funding, and an agreement on UK participation in #HorizonEurope is the best way to protect international science for future

Nathan Clark

NathanClark111

I just turned in my 100th manuscript review!!!To celebrate, here are a few guiding thoughts about reviewing that I use:1. Hide the authors' names for the first read-through to prevent

Dr. Willa Hammitt Brown

hammitt

A brief thought on what happened here, and on how it relates to the larger "crisis in the humanities" (scare quotes because it deserves them" 1/manyhttps://twitter.com/piney_the/status/1278164646726447104 I suspect what her

Ian Birrell

ianbirrell

The @WHO investigation into Sars-CoV-2 claims to have conducted systematic & comprehensive research in its Wuhan probe into the pandemic origins. Note how it is a joint study to appease

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