#Scientists

Reuters

Reuters

A new variant of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Britain and prompting high levels of concern among its European neighbors. The strain is said to be up

Carly Weeks

carlyweeks

Is #COVID19 airborne? A contentious debate that flared up this week after 239 scientists (inc. 10 Cdns) signed a letter asking health bodies to recognize the potential. I wrote about

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

Redi Tlhabi

RediTlhabi

Hi Western media. This "Dark Africa" tone in your reportage is NOT cool. Viruses mutate. The reason you know about "South African" variant is because our scientists have the tools

todd

todd_j_cooper

Readings lots of tweets re: covid vaccine in a world where we don’t have a “cure for cancer” or “cure for AIDS”. I actually think that’s great critical thinking but

Ray

SirEviscerate

As a lab scientist, I'm begging politicians to stop putting on PPE and holding up vials for photo shoots. You don't see me staging pics pretending to be a huge

NOAA Research

NOAAResearch

Do you ever wonder how NOAA Research gets our research done? Our office is made up of 10 labs and 7 programs, all full of people who are conducting and

Dr. Lisa Iannattone

lisa_iannattone

Is Denmark the first Western country to go for #COVIDzero after a huge wave? Maybe. Unlike Canada, they know that loosening restrictions now is ill-advised. Despite the numbers being “low”,

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A meta-thread on my take of how to "read" science as a scientist. This is to arm non-scientists about how to navigate a world where one sees the "leading edge"

Caspar Henderson

casparhenderson

"...all clear cases of awe have the following two components: an experience of vastness, and a need for cognitive accommodation of this vastness... "...The need for cognitive accommodation makes you

Kevin M. King

KMKing_Psych

1. We know a fair amount about how effective brief workshops are for teaching psychotherapy. They aren't.2. We know nothing about how effective brief workshops are for quant methods. But

Shashank Joshi

shashj

A very good piece on the new variant. "Scientists, meanwhile, are hard at work trying to figure out whether B.1.1.7 is really more adept at human-to-human transmission—not everyone is convinced

Kim TallBear

KimTallBear

In 2016 I tweeted the DNC from an Indigenous sovereignty standpoint after a lifetime of growing up in that party. only to get trolled by Dems of all colors (but

Amelia Wenger

AmeliaWenger

I try not to rock the boat too much on Twitter but today I've had enough. No one is arguing that the work by senior coral reef scientists has been

Kev O'Boyle

kevoboyle

Let's try this a little more optimistically. What could a Medical Scientist be? Please note, it can be this way. @HSELive and @roinnslainte have the power to change.https://twitter.com/kevoboyle/status/1271069561387958272 Medical Scient

Mia Cathell

MiaCathell

Self-proclaimed Harvard epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding waged an anti-science disinformation campaign—disguised as medical advice—against American scientists working on the COVID-19 vaccine to advance his own career.https://thepostmillen

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