#Researchers

Sudha Guttikonda

sudhavallii

The eGFR correction factor was introduced in the 90s on the basis that Black people have higher levels of creatinine than whites, though their kidney function seemed similar. 1/5#healthequity #raceinmedicine

SSI @ Cal Academy

calacademy_ssi

How do we avoid being "parachute scientists"? A quick recap of SSI's journal club meeting today [thread]:scientists––most often from wealthy nations––adventure in countries to collect data & publish research withou

Smithsonian's NMNH

NMNH

A new paper in Ecology and Evolution challenges what researchers know about eels’ supposed loner behavior. C. David de Santana, a fish research associate @nmnh, and colleagues discovered a group

Matthew Green

matthew_d_green

Stories like this remind me that people in the Infosec community routinely make and sell exploits to these nations.https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hacked-with-suspected-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit/ I’m h

Greg Newkirk 🔦

nuekerk

Seeing a lot of “why do only celebrity ghost/ufo/cryptid researchers get invited to conferences”, and in my experience, that’s either an oversimplification of the issue or just plain not true.

Annie Murphy Paul

anniemurphypaul

A thread about how exposure to nature can improve children’s ability to self-regulate, winding around to an interesting question about its different effects on boys and girls. 1/10 We know

hardmaru

hardmaru

I respect Pedro's work, and I also really enjoyed his book. But man, I don't know where I should start with this one…https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1336187141366317056 Maybe can start with “Facial feature discovery

hannah young

hmlyoungphysio

A few things sprang to mind when reading this. Could the csp not use its research funding stream and put a call out which seeks to address the literature gap

Michael Eisen

mbeisen

if there's any good to come from $10K APCs at Nature and Cell, it's that they are finally opening peoples' eyes to the absurd economics of journals, which they conveniently

Andre M. Perry

andreperryedu

I had a great conversation with a reporter about research and communication. I said that generating good research is hard; having that research materialize into policy is harder. When @jtrothwell,

Ezra Levant 🍁

ezralevant

1. In Canada, COVID-19 is not a health problem. It's a euthanasia problem. Quebec has Canada's most aggressive pro-euthanasia laws. Quebec has 24% of the population, but 63% of the

Edmond Sanganyado

ESanganyado

Oversimplification of nuanced phenomena in scientific literature by tourist scientists does a great disservice on science policy in Africa. @GlobalYAcademy #scicomm #scienceandtechnology #AcademicTwitter A thread 1/n African governments oft

Hannah Furfaro

HannahFurfaro

A thread for your Sat. afternoon, for the #education + data nerds out there trying to keep track of new evidence/studies for reopening school buildings. @dahliabazzaz and I teamed up

Rosanna Xia

RosannaXia

The nerd in me went !!!!! writing this story: Scientists discovered that a toxin related to a preservative in our CAR TIRES has been the mystery mass killer of coho

Dr Nilufar Ahmed

ahmed_nilufar

Key points from my Keynote on Racism in Gerontology: A thread @britgerontology @BristolUni Research:1. Don't repeat old research that positions minorities as inferior2. Western concepts don't map onto other groups3.

Anders Åslund

anders_aslund

Contradictory reflections on Brexit:1. Good that the process is completed but that free trade remains.2. Sad to see the UK leave the EU.3. Brexit is a reflection of obsolete British

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