#Scientists

[1/5] Attended the "The Field of Science Communication Research" webinar on Jan 18th. Found the Q&A insightful particularly because topics alluded to those we discussed in @CU_BIOG3500. #CUSciStory [2/5] Resonated
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Alright time to shove food in my mouth and then hop into "What We Don’t Know, and We Don’t Know that We Don’t Know" #PSACON2020 Pooya Razavi opens by outlining
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We could live with virus 'like we do flu' by end of year, says Hancock. Clearest indication yet on what govt is aiming at. Why? Eradication is simply not possible.
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Having predicted that the PM was about to announce the authorization of one or more Covid vaccines yesterday, I was actually a little relieved when the substance of the announcement
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Hard agree. And if this is useful, let me share something that often gets omitted (not by @kakape).Variants always emerge, & are not good or bad, but expected. The challenge
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Political Scientists began to develop tests to identify election fraud which is based on Benford’s Law (human attempts to manipulate results leave traces behind). Benford’s law “describes a pattern for
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Thread re: How the early church responded to a plague.A few days ago I started reading *The Patient Ferment of the Early Church* by Alan Kreider. It's an interesting read
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An all-time classic: According to biologists, the function of zebras' stripes is to ward off insects. Based on that idea, a team of scientists painted zebra stripes on cows. This
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today's niche horror: going from produce food safety regulations (FDA) to meat (USDA)it's awful & not even for the reasons you'd think FDA regulations: written by scientists in the 2000's.
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Thread: 1/n Those who feel that Hinduism is like any other religion associated with many superstitions and myths and has no substance for today's modern medical technology, they should go
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Absolutely hilarious to watch Obama's Chief of Assassinations try to explain why the targeted assassination he wants to condemn today because he thinks it involves Trump was radically different than
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1/ A thread on this thoughtful, bold and thought-provoking piece by ⁦@MartinSandbu⁩ about the meaning of pro-Europeanism and the essence of European identity. For me, the former came without thinking
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It’s very interesting to compare mainstream reactions to the respective crises of science vs the humanities in the US. Faced with widespread public distrust of science, the spread of anti-vaxxer
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I hate lockdowns and I hate schools being closed. Which is why I don't want a fourth lockdown later this year. How do we avoid that? 1/ First let's counter
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9/ Data cannot help you select between hypotheses, it can only help you eliminate. The idea that theories can never be proved true, but only be shown to be wrong
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What are y'all doing out there? Well, I know. Y'all are carrying on like we are not in the middle of a global pandemic and hammering on anyone who believes
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