#Behavioral

Artyom Korenevsky

SciencePharmer

1/ So here's the thing, when we're talking about #SciComm (or any public comm), some nuance is necessarily lost because we're trying to remove the irrationality of human behaviour and

(((Ilya)))

paleselan

I want to provide some context for MSU's decision to require second-year students to live on campus. This has been in the works for a while and was not because

DTwyman (Suburban Nasty Woman)

dtwyman

Are you familiar with the story of the 100th monkey?Back in the 50’s scientists conducted a behavioral study on a troupe of Macaca fuscata (Japanese monkeys) on Kōjima island. Scientists

Kate Davidson

KateDavidson

The vast majority of reader feedback on this story falls in one of two camps: Employers who say economists are wrong, because they can’t get their employees to come back

Irulan, Princess Royal, Bene Gesserit-trained

Nicole_Cliffe

Autism is not a superpower but the frequently associated hyperlexia sure is!https://twitter.com/natepyle79/status/1355992684989739008 Unfortunately it also made me so good at masking (while doing nothing for the anxiety and sensory issues)

Joe Vogel

JoeVogel_

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Ferera Swan

FereraSwan

ASSUMPTION: My adopted child is well-adjusted and happy, not showing any signs of trauma. What matters most is that they know they are loved and in a safe home. If

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: The British dampened some vaccine joy yesterday with news of a possibly hyper-transmissible variant. How scary is this new variant? Bottomline: Scientists should watch and worry, yes, but the

Jawad Mian

jsmian

1) Of all the early warning signs that can help prevent investment disasters, one stands out: COMFORT. 2) It’s our natural tendency to seek comfort; but in investing, when we

Maestro ☈ayo

maestro_rayo

1/n. Everything you wanted to know about Herd Immunity, but were afraid to ask.What is HIT exactly? What’s the relationship with R_t? Will the virus vanish? A thread by @maestro_rayo,

free to fic (foff)

freetofic

FWIW: my personal stance on fictional adult/minor ships is ‘i might find your taste questionable, but who am I to judge?’IDGAF what you ship or what you fantasize about.I care

Asian American NPC

Mont_Jiang

I know a lot of Asian Americans are pushing back on the notion that Asian culture accounts for much of the difference in coronavirus response, because they're pushing against the

Ben Kentish

BenKentish

NEW: Extraordinary document just published by SAGE sub-committee SPI-B (which focuses on behavioral science) on what it calls the risks of "widespread urban disorder" this summer. 1/ Government scientific advisers

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Thread: Despite being a bull, why I never ridicule the permabears I was born and brought up in a middle-class family in a sub-urban district in Bangladesh. When I

Aliza Luft

alizaluft

The key here, as I’ve argued elsewhere, is that violent (& dehumanizing) rhetoric doesn’t cause *just anybody* to act violently. It causes people who are already inclined towards violence to

Travis (not a Cylon) Kimmel

coloradotravis

Covid: brief commentary on the Federal Government’s failure to lead in a time of crisis, what “leadership” means (hint: it’s not socialism, you nitwits), and a logistics-centric proposal for how

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