#Scientific

Dr. Mansa Keita

rasmansa

Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr. was the first Black PhD in Evolutionary Biology (1988). He's a great example of how being upset at harmful opinions and ideologies can lead one

Michael Eisen

mbeisen

why do people treat current peer review system as if it was optimized to help authors and advance science when its primary features - pre-publication review by 2-3 people, binary

RapperPandit ↗️ ഇന്ത്യ4കശ്മീർ

RapperPandit

Question for My Hindu SistersWhat's YOUR SCORE out of 10Bear Kajal -1Have a Bindi -1 Wear Bangles-1Wear EarRings -1Pierced Nose Ring -1 Wear Ring on Finger -1Wear Payal Or Toe

Dr. Ashwini Kumar 🇮🇳

aktilaiyan

Let's talk about Novelty !! My recent fellowship grant was rejected stating it is not "novel" !! What is novelty for you ?? Should a scientific hypothesis be as novel

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

I am sorry to be a broken record, but it is completely indefensible that ACIP presents data like this showing that age is a FAR bigger risk factor for dying

Amy 🦓

skepticalzebra

THREAD: Scientific Evidence & CovidSo, a paper has been submitted (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160762v1) stating that Herd Immunity thresholds may be considerably lower than thought, due to variations of suscept

Nathanael Lapidus

n_lapidus

Thanks to @LeonardLeibovi1 for sharing his concerns and to @CMIJournal for publishing this editorial. I do sympathize with these"difficult editorial decisions" and appreciate to be given this information.https://twitter.com/CMIJou

David White 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺

davidwhitephd

Huge thanks to speakers and organisers (@DrAliceTowler , @dunnhappy) for making @ufigAustralia 2021. 300 registrations, virtual head count of 180 -- so the biggest @unsw UFIG in our 8 year

Jennifer Gunter

DrJenGunter

I may be in the minority here, but if someone interprets me as bitchy that is their fault. I will no longer change who I am to be palatable to

Kurt Gray

kurtjgray

Some advice for job talks. You can't simply stitch together 3 15-min talks. You need to tell a single story that you explicitly reiterate as you go through your data.

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

A lot has been made of the costs of large-scale testing, and the tens of billions required is often actually stated as the main reason to not do it.However, this

Cllr Rosemary Sexton #ROSI4LEADER

DrSextonGreen

1/ "Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang. The same can be said of "evidence". 2/ As Greens,

AlbanyMuskrat

albanymuskrat

1/1853 cover Scientific American featured design for electric railway by William Deitz, a Black man fr. #Albany. He was son of people enslaved in Hill Towns. Deitz started out as

Thomas House | 托马斯豪斯 | توماس هاوس

TAH_Sci

Sensible and silly criticisms of modelling. (1/7) Sensible: The model misses out some important feature of reality, or is needlessly complex. This is hard to get right, so usually has

Qiao Wang

QwQiao

Reversing aging is the single most important problem for humanity. Sound money is only the second most important problem. Saw some BS argument against scientific efforts to reverse aging, that

Sanjukta Paul

sanjuktampaul

A barrier "to critical engagement with welfare economics as a framework is that it is frequently presented as rising above the very idea of a framework ... its models are

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