#SCIENCE

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#Covid19SA A thread I hear some people are very upset that rokeout of AZ is postponed until enough data is available!Decisions made by of our scientist is correct& responsible.Welcome to

Swaine Chen

swaine_chen

Been knocked off twitter for weeks by a COVID project - so I'm super happy to tweet about science and why I love my (non-pandemic) job! This is a story

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gggg2120

1/5 Is it clear yet? On Monday with talk of vaccine news many missed this.....Mega PCR labs in the UK - "building a world class mass diagnostic capacitary in the

Matthew Grainger

Ed_pheasant

I used to think that the academic funding process was a case of survivor bias - we see the successful grants & can't learn from those that go down in

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

1/ There were countless theories put forward in 2020 on how we should deal with the #COVID19 pandemic. The most unscientific of them all was #Covidzero. To appreciate why, we

Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

OtherSociology

An article commenting on the science/ policy divide that interviews only scientists is a good illustration of why this divide exists in the first placeThis doesn't explain how policy is

Hannah Shepherd

hannahjshepherd

I don't really know where to start with this. A Mitsubishi endowed Professor of Law at Harvard is arguing that comfort women were all prostitutes.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144818820301848# He published a versio

Ali Rıza Taşkale

alirizataskale

This is a great interview with Kim Stanley Robinson in which he discusses the necessity to imagine the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world.https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/kim-stanley-robinson-ministry-future-science-fiction/ A

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

The @uk_biobank is ... amazing and is basically, in my view, rebooting the science of human physiology. Why? First it is just a really well phenotyped cohort at scale. Back

BTO Garden BirdWatch

BTO_GBW

We received many comments back in August and September about an apparent lack of Blackbirds in gardens. This occurred alongside the expected drop, as birds begin to moult they become

Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.

NikolovScience

The CDC Director Robert Redfield is stepping up the #COVID19 propaganda on masks & social distancing ignoring the science published on this topic prior to the COVID hype (see: https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/ ).Note

Eugene Gu, MD

eugenegu

I’ve warned about this many times, but it always fell on deaf ears as everyone likes rushing things through clinical trials and doing emergency authorizations at warp speed. Convalescent plasma

Rebecca Davis

rebeccaludavis

Once a black sheep genre no one would touch, sci-fi is now one of the most appealing to Beijing. China has issued new guidelines on developing sci-fi films that highlight

Marina Costa Lobo

MarinaCostaLobo

In our @ElectoralStdies article, entitled "“Do perceptions of EMU alter clarity of responsibility? A comparison of German and Greek electorates” @robbpann and I consider the way in which perceptions of

Alvaro de Menard

AlvaroDeMenard

Over the past year I have skimmed through more than 2500 social science papers. I wrote a giant post about everything that's wrong with them and how to fix the

Justin Ling

Justin_Ling

Let's break down this tweet:First, Soh throws out anyone who disagrees with her by limiting the conversation to "non-ideological scientists" (i.e only scientists who haven't disagreed with her yet.)Then says,

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