#Species

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

"One week following the implementation of universal masking on March 31, 2020, we observed a significant decrease in the cumulative incidence rate of healthcare-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections among HCWs." Red line=hospital

Centre for Palaeogenetics

CpgSthlm

Follow this thread for an almost unbelievable story, hiding in the SI of this paper:https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31071-XTen years ago, a roughly 14,000 year old frozen #dog or #wolf #puppy was found in

Your Animal Welfare Science

YAWScience

It’s Sunday so let’s talk about patterns. Patterns in behaviour performed at the same time, over time,or between individuals, give us more information to help infer animal welfare. We need

Mike Benard

BenardMF

Thread: my favorite videos of 2020. First: rough night for spring peepers (April 2020), as they are caught by painted turtle, then predaceous diving beetle, and finally bullfrog. I was

Neil Gemmell

ProfGemmell

Tuatara genome published today. Hitting the keyboard briefly between interviews to update on the key findings of this project. This could end up being a long thread. Lovely summary here

Mark Butler

NovaMarkButler

Concern or opposition to genetic engineering (GE) is often labeled as anti-scientific and ill-informed. Sure but there is also plenty of science to suggest we should be concerned about risk

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

How can someone know what they are really made of if they never face any adversity?This world of all-pervasive amenities softens us beyond recognition! We come to expect things to

Joy Henderson

Joyhenderson78

I started thinking about who I knew that was the most intelligent. Which of course, my mind went straight to all the amazing scholars I know, but then I asked

Jack Butcher

jackbutcher

Hindsight in 2020: (10 thoughts) Relationships > everything:My relationship with @celiapreihs is the foundation of all the good things in my life, and has amplified the quality of hundreds of

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

Where did SARS-CoV2 come from? (a THREAD)The answer is... We don't know! (you should get used to it). But we can hypothesize. Let's tackle the first thing: laboratory escape is

Christian Nawroth

GoatsThatStare

1 #AnimBehav2021Research on the understanding of relationships between objects focused mainly on a few model species, while other taxa received less attention. Goats, e.g., often find creative solutions when faced

Mohamed Ateia

moha_ateia

[Thread] Let's update the #syllabus of #watertreatment courses? This thread summarizes recent studies (some personal studies) that challenged conventional perspectives and approaches which will help educating future #engineers & #sc

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Straight up confession: every time I read a biography of the Bloomsbury scene—Virginia Woolf, Keynes, Wittgenstein—I cry when it gets to the First World War. We were so close. We

🇬🇧 IM 🇬🇧

TellYourSonThis

The truth is not for those who want a fair world, because the truth will teach you just how unfair it is & will thus frustrate you.However, it will also

cj battey

cj_battey

A thread of how I funded publications as a grad student and postdochttps://twitter.com/rsidd120/status/1336153828672983040 first two papers were in MPE, subscription only, lab paid ~$300 for color figures each (https://www.sciencedirect.com

Hans Fiene

HansFiene

If you are opposed to school choice programs because you think that it's a backdoor way to fund religious schools, it's important to remember that ALL schools are religious schools.

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