#Sciences

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD

cfiesler

Let's talk about the #MedBikini study (paper now retracted) and research ethics. Problematic analysis/findings aside (bikinis, really?!), the paper also highlighted data sources and ethics review processes that make people

Kalie Knecht | BLM | 🏳️‍🌈

KalieKnecht

Janelle Monáe as fundamental nuclear science & engineering textbooks (a thread): "Nuclear Reactor Analysis" by Duderstadt & Hamilton "Introductory Nuclear Physics" by Krane "The Nuclear Fuel Cycle" by

Chris Nicholas

CatalysisChris

We should remember that "journals are, in their core functions, researcher‐driven enterprises" 1/nhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dech.12635 One aspect I've never seen addressed in the context of open access /

Nicolas Marquis

MARniQUIcolaS

C'est quoi, au fond, évoquer un complot ?(petit thread à dérouler, à critiquer ou à compléter).https://twitter.com/XtopheMincke/status/1327566783503544321 c'est une façon de se donner une chimérique marge de manœuvre face

Mark Spencer 😀 #MasksOptional

TheDataCage

I'm in the data business in sports. I began using data in the late 90's, now co-founded a data sciences software biz.Data needs context. W/out context, data=useless;worse it can be

words are weapons ⚡

vimoh

The government's decision to allow Ayurveda practitioners to perform surgery is actually only the latest in a long line of subversions. And the thing that has been subverted over and

Pat Savage

PatrickESavage

Why are sea shanties going viral on TikTok? A thread from the perspective of musicology / psychology / cultural evolution.TL;DR: it's a perfect example of music's power to create social

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

Wyatt, Austere

CEOofGenZ

Everyone clap for Tim. Tim is genius. Pray for Tim, Tim is stuck behind the western wall of propaganda. The way Masonry works is to use the lower level members

Shrey Srivastava

BlogShrey

#DDDD $DDDD $LBPS $LOAChttp://thepharmaletter.com/article/platforms-versus-products-in-the-life-sciences-sector'One common such weakness is often the failure of management teams to differentiate between the value of technology-derived m

Leah Douglas

leahjdouglas

Since June, I’ve been working on a story about racism and inequity at FFA (Future Farmers of America), the country’s largest student farm organization, and the Black alumni who are

Dr. Jessica Sowa

sowa75

Little thread on publishing. What I have learned being an editor....#AcademicTwitter Reviewers are people and are not always right. I have had reviewers all suggest a manuscript should be accepted

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

It took me years in academia to realise that many “average Universities” are often actually better than elite Unis.Elite unis business model is, in many subjects, effectively a “CV branding”

Chris Warshaw

cwarshaw

Some quick high-level thoughts on the election: 1) WTF happened with the polls. This is a serious issue for our democracy that scholars across social sciences should work on addressing.

IAmSciComm | @Annelinda_c

iamscicomm

Scientists believed that humans evolved to have unrealistically optimistic beliefs about much we influence the world around us. But now research is revealing how culture shapes beliefs about action, agency

Sinduja Raja

SindujaRaja18

Over the day, I kept going back to this and had a few thoughts. Coming into the social sciences, especially in grad school, I've often heard that we have to

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