#Scientific

Dr David Turner

TurnipRail

1/ In 1923 the Board of Scientific & Industrial Research set up a "Bridge Stress Committee" to assess whether ageing bridges could withstand the increasing train weights. Particularly, there were

Dr Jake Suett

jakesuett

*URGENT* A plea from an ITU doctor. Write to your MP to raise awareness of #LongCovid #covid1in20 #covid1in10 cases and call for research and support... a thread. I am an

YoooDatElefent

DatElefent

1.) The oldest and biggest slave trade in history was the Arab slave trade, which still continues to this day all throughout the middle east where Arabs are castrating and

Josh Dehaas

JoshDehaas

Science journalist @mattwridley just shared some fascinating ideas about Covid-19 with @Liberal_Studies. Here are just a few of them:1. Russian flu that killed 1M in 1889 may have been a

Ryan Lawrence

RyanOfKalamazoo

(Thread)For those of you noticing that likes and notifications are being turned off for tweets with "wrong think" here's the science behind what Twitter is doing.They want to reduce how

Rima-Maria Rahal

rimamrahal

New blog post at @IJOERandBeyond, where I argue that Open Educational Resources (#oer) are needed in #HigherEd to keep up with the latest developments in science. Here's the gist (with

Derek Walker

dereklwalker

If we want people to stop calling a certain segment of our society racists, tell said segment to stop supporting a racist. There. It is that simple. This "try to

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

As a pre-modern specialist, I think it's important to add that "population" has never been a neutral or indeed even a purely quantitative concept. (Not that quantification entails neutrality or

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Why didn't we lockdown earlier? (Thread)This is a subject about which theories are put forward endlesslyI wanted to explore it in more detail and teamed up with @BBCPM to do

Nicky P

cravecreative

Illusion: Thread1/ Have you ever asked yourself"Who advises WHO to make decisions on our behalf?"Have any of you ever asked"Who decided wearing masks & lock down is beneficial for our

Frances Leader

2013Boodicca

What does #totalitarianism really look like?Most people will think of the USSR, Nazi Germany or North Korea. The kind of brutal regimes that inspired George Orwell's ‘1984’. But another novel,

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

In recent days, I've been in touch with some Trump supporters I know in the US. Not anyone you would have heard of, just regular middle class whites, mostly in

dasPost-CV

dasvee

1/ By adopting Surkov's ideas of non-linear war: government lies producing cynicism and distrust (undermining or scapegoating of experts for political gain), the government risks structural damage to the fabric

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

A month ago, I reported on @CDCgov's overestimate of true infections in the US.It appears that last week, the CDC significantly lowered their estimates. It now closely matches http://covid19-projections.com 's latest

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) A Quebec public health advisor suggested Friday installing portable air purifiers in schools might produce the opposite effect, inadvertently causing the #coronavirus to spread in the air among students.

Jim Grace

mac_puck

Q's for the public inquiry:1. Had you already decided before your 3rd Feb Greenwich speech, to let Covid run its course?2. Did president Xi advise you on 18th February that

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