#Researchers

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transdprk

In social psychology, a theory called psychological egoism is largely accepted. It states that people only act in self interest. If you are helping someone, it is because you are

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

Foreign intelligence agents often make approaches to people in power (remember Russian spy, Maria Butina?). The question is, when they learn from the FBI that they are unwittingly being targeted,

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

Part of the ecosystem we need to contend with is that the federal grants from which many research assistants and postdocs in science are paid set the pay for RAs

Jessica Logan

jarlogan

A 10 tweet thread about the argument and solutions in this paper (thread emoji). As with most twitter threads, this lacks the subtlety in the argument in the paper. It

Know Your Enemy

ItsWhatsername

Due to some odd symptoms, my doc Rx'd a bunch of tests since I was covid + at the spike of NYC pandemic 3/10.I assumed it was routine. Turns out,

Dr Addy Adelaine

AddyAdelaine

1/15) @UKRI_News published a detailed ethnicity report today. It highlights that less than 1% of fellows are from the Black ethnic group; and that Black Principal Investigators (PI) account for

Shäron Moalem MD, PhD

sharonmoalem

Viruses love to mutate. And some viruses mutate more than others. The biggest challenge for our immune system and any vaccination strategy that uses it, are viral mutations.So why did

Today is International Romani Language Day. Here are some quick facts about our language: The Romani language (Romani chib/Romanes) was what first kick started the investigation into our origin as

Steve Magness

stevemagness

THREAD The world is littered with hacks and quick fixes.Magic routines, butter in our coffee, special supplements, exotic foods. All promising to transform our lives.Nearly all of it is BS.

Kathryn Anne Edwards

keds_economist

Just read through the AEA letter to the new administration about federal statistical integrity. Here's a thread that itemizes the eight points they make (with some comments from me):Their letterhttps://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=135

🛡️ Gavin Ashton

gvnshtn

1/Link via Stuart Aston @Microsoft: https://threatpost.com/microsoft-365-admins-mfa/160592/This is absolutely nuts. I knew there was a problem with end users adopting MFA, but there's simply no excuse for administrators, who know about

James Bartlett

JamesEBartlett

It was great to talk about reproducible workflows for @riotscienceclub @riotscience_wlv. You can watch the recording below, but if you don't want to listen to me talk for 40 minutes,

Techni-Calli

Iwillleavenow

Alright, because the documentary REALLY did not get into what the Facebook emotional contagion experiment was, I'm going to do a quick rundown of it and some broader issues with

Jimmy Heidt

JimmyHeidt9

#CLST6 In this #CYO4 #Ethics thread, I chose to listen to Episode 23, “Unintentional Looting”, from the Archaeology Podcast Network. In this episode, Sara and Ken discuss the worries of

PandemicPGRs

PandemicPGRs

Today we are releasing our comprehensive report on pandemic support for PGRsFalling Short is an authoritative account of the precarious position of PGRs within the HE sector and the failings

Ben Moll

ben_moll

When a small minority of loud economists attacks researchers from other disciplines, it makes us all look bad.And allows the media to pit economists against epidemiologists in this unhelpful way

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