#Scientists

Here's something you should know about yourself. When choosing between two options, your decision is heavily influenced by whether you are asking yourself: "which is better" or "which is worse."
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As annus horribilis 2020 ends I would like to reflect on what lessons I hope the world has come to understand about the need for greater resources for research, diversity
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Today is International Women and Girls in Science Day #WomenInScience. Obviously, every day is #WomenInScienceDay, but today we would like to introduce you to a few of our female researchers.
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Friends & relatives are messaging me about the "new SARS-CoV-2 strain in the UK" and freaking out. Understandably bc they are consuming every bit of news about #COVID19 and aren't
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"Algorithm" is a dirty word in the UK at the moment. The Ofqual grading algorithm sucked. Even the BBC had a go at algorithms. But let me tell you about
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COVID Update June 15: I did a quick roundup of a number of experts on what they see/whats next. I have overlaid my own read too. I learned a ton/here’s
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1/6 Is #Conservation ultimately effective? Is our research and practice sufficient, in an emergency?Building from work with @clairefrwordley in @NatureEcoEvo, I think the answers are a clear Noand No #DICECON20
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All of us support research. No country can progress without research especially in basic sciences. The question is what kind of research a country can afford and can support. We
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Last week @RobinToal met @IndependentSAGE Chair and Founder, @Sir_David_King King to discuss the UK government response coronavirus pandemic and trust in science. With #PubsReopening in England, furthering the possibility of
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Been thinking more about this piece from @kakape this morning and have some thoughts to share. So thought I'd do a Xmas eve thread about SARS-CoV-2/COVID19 and immunocompromised hosts. (1/x)https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/uk-var
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It is difficult to overstate how badly the Discovery Channel in general and Shark Week specifically are failing to meet The Moment we are in right now (AKA why their
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The London Economics #BMJ lashes out at #UK ‘state corruption’ and ‘suppression of science’The highly-respected medical journal hit out at the "politicisation of science" in an article lashing out at
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NEW statement from chief medical officer Chris Whitty: “no current evidence” to suggest new variant causes greater mortality but “urgent work” is underway to confirm this Whitty statement in full
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The algorithm scandal in the UK categorising students based on their social classes is a "great" example of how algorithms reproduce the social system.This is not a mistake. Most algorithms
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During the months that Joe Biden and Donald Trump were campaigning against each other, the following happened: 1.Vast sections of the American West caught on fire. More than five million
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Can we talk about this article (published today, simultaneously in a number of journals)?Because I don't think it's doing the work its (many, many) authors hope it will.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-020-0529-x Overall, this
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