#Journals

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

WHY MASKS DON'T WORK:Coughing is NOT the issue.Large droplets are NOT the issue. Breathing exhales MUCH MORE virus in fine aerosols than coughing. Finer aerosols bypass masks/nose & reach the

Suzanne Zeedyk

suzannezeedyk

THREAD on conspiracy theories & attachment. I keep seeing frustrated social media posts asking why people believe conspiracy theories. Answer: It gives a sense of control - includng belonging, predictability

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

Vitamin D is in the news today because: 1) England is giving it out for free and 2) This article minimizes its role in the pandemic. But there are some

Jan-Claas Dajka

JCDajka

Third PhD-chapter on sea urchins and their macroalgal control abilities in Seychelles is out! Dream team with Victoria Beasley, Gilberte Gendron and @naj_graham. Thanks for the great editing @PoluninNick from

michelleminton

michelleminton

Real story: e-cig use among adults in China remains super low (1.6% in 2018-2019) + mostly by those trying to stop smoking or reduce harms. TC version: rate was 1.3%

Monica | Fatty, MPH

fattyMPH

(CW: anti-fatness, ED) I was a not-that-fat kid. I became "that fat" after developing a restrictive eating disorder that destroyed my metabolism. I recovered IN SPITE OF the medical system,

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

Scott MacDougall-Shackleton

ScottMacShack

my thought of the week: Author-pays Open Access publication model is worse for science and society than the traditional subscription model with for-profit publishers. Why? . 1/6 Institutional libraries have

Dr Ciarán McDonnell

DrCiaranMcDonn

Have a look at these great articles by @latelordchatham, featuring diary of Lt-Col Thomas Walsh, AAG to Eyre Coote in the Walcheren expedition. Walsh is a perfect example of the

Tim Nicholson

Tim_R_Nicholson

Great that @guardian & others focusing on important emerging disorder that is #LongCovid This piece highlights great new pre-print from @AthenaAkrami @ahandvanish & team describing in detail clinical features of

Tom Stafford

tomstafford

Who reads preprints? Academics and...er... white nationalists?? https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000860 "a framework for segmenting a scholarly article’s audience on Twitter...into granular, info

Alan MacLeod

AlanRMacLeod

There's only $600 for you in the Coronavirus Relief Bill, but there's $33 million for the overthrow of the Venezuelan government. There is also over $3.2 billion set aside

Michael L. Barnett

ml_barnett

Brief primary care rant. It's 2021. We have developed an effective vaccine for a novel virus in months and we can land a probe on a comet.There is major cognitive

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

This is nonsense - you can't outrun the virus (which grows exponentially) with a vaccine programme (which doesn't). /1 Here's a graphic via @SimpleCovid to explain. The Wolf is the

Matt Hodler

MHodler

I co-authored two papers I'm proud of during this 1st TT calendar year and, at the risk of being self-promotional & self-important, I wanted to re-up them here AND share

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

There is a lot of confusion about the efficacy of AstraZeneca/ChAdOx1 vaccine against COVID19 due to B.1.351 / 501Y.V2 - summarising the results of phase 1b/2a double-blind randomized trial conducted

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