#Nature

M.P.

OmanReagan

Why are we opening restaurant dining?All the science says: Do not do this. Consider 2 facts about COVID-19 that don't get enough attention:1. SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted predominantly through the air.2.

Jason Sheltzer

JSheltzer

Cool new paper from @AndriyMarusyk and colleagues: Cancer cells can have sex, and it makes them stronger. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01367-y Cancer cells are generally thought of as “asexual” - they spread by

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

When we say that "an algorithm is biased" we usually mean, "biased people made an algorithm." This explains why so much machine learning prediction turns into phrenology.1/ Researchers with phrenological

Rust Never Sleeps / George Morrison 🇨🇦

rustneversleepz

*Another* great @Peters_Glen thread.A specific tweet↓prompts a small tangent from me re: a simple detail most ongoing discussions of "1.5°C!" seem to casually skip over:"remaining carbon budget... from SR1.5 𝙖𝙛𝙩

Georg Hochberg

KaHochberg

Our paper on a hydrophobic ratchet that preserves useless molecular complexity is out in Nature today. I am excited and nervous in equal parts. A not so short thread on

Ali Mehdi

AliMehdiMD

1/ Paraproteinemic kidney disease: Cast nephropathy, myeloma kidney, MGUS, MGRS, LCCN, AL, AH, MIDD, LCPT…)Lost in the alphabet soup!!!Time for an #MGRS #tweetorial #NephTwitter #Hemetwitter #MedTwitter #Onconephrology #NSMC 2/ Let’s

🌿 ꪜ𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌 🌿

vegix

Consumers are sold the idea that animals on UK farms have good lives, and yet most live inside factory farms where their natural behaviours are thwarted, and they suffer, and

Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥

drcampbellsmith

So why is this behavioral ecologist so excited about the coyote and badger video, other than it being pure and adorable? (a thread) Coyotes and badgers have been observed working

Robert McNees

mcnees

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie, the 7e duc de Broglie, was born #OTD in 1892. He postulated that matter must have wave-like properties, one of the defining features of

Urban Chanakya

Urban_Chanakya

For those wondering about the timing of Indus Valley civilization and the reasons for its decline.(Our text books and articles and historians still attribute the arrival of "Aryans" who conquered

Kate Mackenzie

kmac

This fine and nuanced report by @catrineinhorn and @cflav is not a story of innovative finance triumphing in saving nature. It’ll be characterised that way, regardless.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/climate/Mexico-reef-climate-change.

prof. sian sullivan

SianSullivanUK

1/ The #DasguptaReview on the #Economics of #Biodiversity, commissioned by #UKTreasury, is being launched today. It urges the world’s governments to use a different form of national accounting from #GDP

Guy Shrubsole

guyshrubsole

Like @GeorgeMonbiot & others, I'm wary of economists trying to 'put a price on nature'.But I was surprised to see the #DasguptaReview make a strong case for actually *putting large

Conversation Of Our Generation

ConOfOurGen

Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me." This is a hard thing to understand. How can

Paul Czege 🗡️ Conjurer of the Diceless OSR✴️

PaulCzege

#critique in #ttrpgs?Here's a thing. It's not true of board games. And it's not true of video games. But it's true of ttrpgs. They are fragile social constructs. They're dependent

Tristan D Rutland

TristanRutland7

Distal limb, young adult.**Last case for 2020**#dermpath #surgpath #pathtwitter Question:Based on the limited history and images, what is your favoured Dx? ImmunohistochemistryPositiveCD34NegativeINI-1 (loss of staining) Diagnosis:Epitheli

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