#Scientists

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Everyone needs to read this 40-year saga of Dr Katalin Karikó, inventor of the mRNA therapy behind Pfizer/BioNTech & Moderna #COVID19 vaccines. Rejected many times, nevertheless she persisted. She will

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Put to one side for a moment whether or not you believe the current lockdown to be justified. It is simply unconscionable for scientists & politicians to be appearing in

BBC News (World)

BBCWorld

Scientists say the loss of ice in Greenland last year was “unprecedented”, breaking the previous record by 15%Experts say ongoing emissions of carbon are pushing Greenland into an era of

Caitlin

LacyMartini

If you see me tweeting about COVID and vaccines and you feel the need to tweet me a long anti vax/vaccine hesitant/“big pharma lies” thread, I’ll save you the time.

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

It is fine to disagree with my op-ed, https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/90764and in fact David Aronoff does so eloquently in the counterpointBut this tweet by @dgurdasani1 is deeply problematic and highlights many of

Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore

JoyofPhysics

Something that always strikes me is how surprised my students are when I take an interest in their interests, research, & careers in general. Y’all, it goes a long way

Thomas Juneau

thomasjuneau

There is a reason for this. In the Cdn public service, you are promoted if you have broad experience; most experts have highly specialized skills. As a manager, you work

Kevin J.S. Zollman

KevinZollman

While this statement will strike many as obviously true, it's worth interrogating.Here's the question: does science do best when it's practitioners take a neutral position regarding the truth of a

Janelle Shane

JanelleCShane

I gave a set of 2020 headlines to the neural net GPT-3, whose training data cut off in October 2019.Having never seen 2020, it tried to predict what headlines are

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

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

Under ⁦@JustinTrudeau⁩ the Liberals dismantled Canada’s pandemic warning system just months before COVID hit, and forced government scientists to water down their risk warnings.I’ll be blunt: the Liberals killed Canadians

Sargon Maradkel

TheRealMaradkel

This is a weekly reminder it's been: 103 DAYS since Dr. Ioannidis @METRICStanfordconducted a study that concluded people

Danielle Navarro

djnavarro

I love this slide from @jburnmurdoch's #rstudioglobal keynote: when people read a chart they aren't reverse engineering the visualisation to extract the data, they're expecting to be told a story.

Gretchen Goldman, PhD

GretchenTG

Great new story on the huge gaps in federal science capacity that the Biden Team inherits, and what that means for the nation's ability to protect people from environmental threats.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Japan knew it was airborne and changed policies early. “in rooms with dry, stale air—people coughing, sneezing, & even talking & singing, emit tiny particles that defy gravity—able to hang

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Contradicting an earlier consensus, a team of astronomers predict that the Sun will be *very* active over the next few years, and maybe even have one of its strongest magentic

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