#Sciences

RedApeirogon

AnibasNimsay

While I agree with the general sentiment expressed in this thread, I think the review here is a very detailed and helpful one. A lot of Indian reviewers of reputed

Ask An Entomologist

BugQuestions

Although we disagree with this tweet...it gives us an opportunity to explore a really interesting topic.What we now call 'queen' bees-the main female reproductive honeybees-were erroneously called 'kings' for nearly

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

you're told that what goes on in other countries is none of your concern & you should only care about what's happening inside your borders. ppl still tend to equate

Stephen Mullens

srmullens

For our second Communicating Science class discussion, we looked into the quantitative methodology we so often use in science! The class discusseed Francis Bacon’s “Novum Organum: True Directions Concerning the

Kay L Kirkpatrick 🥄🖋

kay314159

I'm disappointed that the following needs to be said, because professors ought to educate themselves on basic facts, instead of accepting myths uncritically and behaving harmfully towards minoritized women in

Julie Rehmeyer

julierehmeyer

THREAD: I wrote a piece for @Open_Notebook offering advice to science journalists covering contested illnesses, coming out of 15 years of being both a journalist and a patient. Here are

Ankith Harathi

ankithharathi

In 1959, a Swedish engineer at Volvo patented what would become one of the greatest inventions of all timeVolvo stood to make billionsBut after a meeting with Volvo's President, he

Lance Gravlee

lancegravlee

Glad to be part of a stellar team that came together #onhere to respond to a recent example of racist ideas in science. Our letter in the current issue of

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

realchrisrufo

I've obtained explosive new documents in my investigation of Sandia National Lab's "white male reeducation camp." New whistleblowers have revealed a culture of racial hostility, intimidation, and division that has

Bart Penders

b_penders

Loving every bit of this: Metascience as a scientific social movement, by David Peterson and @AaronPanofsky https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4dsqa/ "[R]egardless of whether one believes there is a legitimate crisis of reproducibility

Steven Shorrock

StevenShorrock

Good conversation this. A few thoughts in this thread.https://twitter.com/bentipney/status/1281336072442720257 Human Factors/Ergonomics is only one of several disciplines concerned with human performance. It has a particular twin purpose an

Robert McNees

mcnees

The physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus, for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics.Image:

Chris Heaney

chrheaney

Fascinating historical science, twice over—how Native peoples over millennia engaged in sciences of agricultural experimentation and exchange on a hemispheric scale. Corn didn't just radiate out from Mexico; it returned

Abhi Kumar

_abhi_kumar_

Thread: In the early 1960s, R&D made up 10% of the US federal government budget. Programs like Apollo and ARPANET then spawned the rise of the integrated circuit and the

Patrick🕸

STILLTish

Here’s a new paraphilia for you all. The more I read up on these the more I’m tempted to come out as a normophiliac and claim my own place under

The ICR

ICR_London

ICYMI: We brought the sector together to create a nine-point plan looking at practical recommendations to improve access to new cancer treatments. Here is a summary of our plan, developed

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