#Scientific

Dru Draper

SenatorDraper

I'll turn this into quite a thread - something I rarely do. You see, when you believe you're politics are based in science, you believe your own delusion - that

Prof Colin Talbot (Shielding: Month 10)

colinrtalbot

Its hard to know where to start with the nonsense Matt Hancock is spouting on @BBCRadio4 Lets start with Dido Harding. Her 'expertise' (?) is 'operational' as MH himself says.

Gretchen Goldman, PhD

GretchenTG

Ok fine. I'll take the bait. Allow me to translate. (1/7)https://twitter.com/EPAAWheeler/status/1346508279409684480 By this, @EPAAWheeler means the rule forces EPA to give "less consideration" to studies using any dose-respons

Danielle Navarro

djnavarro

I love this slide from @jburnmurdoch's #rstudioglobal keynote: when people read a chart they aren't reverse engineering the visualisation to extract the data, they're expecting to be told a story.

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

In 1227 Michael Scot, orginally from Melrose in the Borders, “the leading intellectual in Western Europe during the first third of 13thC” joined Frederick II’s court from Toledo, where he

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goodtimegh0ul

The absolute masterstroke of making women terrified of being associated with ‘terfs’ and then labelling basic scientific facts & material feminist analysis ‘terf rhetoric’ - thus ensuring that women must

Tanentzapf Lab

TanentzapfLab

1. One of the most delightful surprising things I learned as I progressed through my scientific training was realising that storytelling was a major & essential part of being a

Andrew Bostom, MD, MS

andrewbostom

1/ Top German Covid expert pours scorn on Boris Johnson's ‘mutant strain’ claims, saying ‘politicians simply called it 70% more infectious’https://mol.im/a/9075233 2/ "Suddenly there's a figure out there, 70%, &am

Debbie Decker

Bunnysdts

1/ I heard from a colleague the other day about a repetitive motion injury she has sustained, working in a glove box for extended periods of time – 9-10 hours

Emily Atkin

emorwee

This. How do you expect scientists to effectively communicate climate change when half the American political system and the multi-trillion dollar industry supporting it are hell-bent on pushing denial? If

Grey

fabhorrendo

Since someone has decided to try and remove the local statue of H.G. Wells - based entirely on a single awful, early quote from a Guardian article which listed him

Adjacent Possible

Sage_Opinion

If you think that there has been censorship or 'information management' on issues such as Brexit or the Chinese coronavirus, then perhaps you should keep your mind open to the

曹毅 CAO Yi (أبو وسيم)

CaoYi_MFA

Thread:Interesting Q&A between @SpokespersonCHN and @BBC journalist at the Regular Press Conference of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Jan 18, 2021 @BBC: There's more coverage today in Chinese state

Cyril Ritter

CyrilRitter

Claiming to take decisions based on science can be just as wrong as not trusting science. Politicians need to combine science advice & political choices & take responsibility for it.

DeepMind

DeepMind

Yesterday we shared the news that #AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ by #CASP14, the biennial Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction. But what

Gretchen Goldman, PhD

GretchenTG

The administration's rule to restrict EPA science--which was unilaterally opposed by the scientific community in nearly a million comments--will be finalized. Some thoughts in a THREAD...https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environmen

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