#Scientist

I was a product manager on Samsung #ecommerce and we were testing a hypothesis that users were ready to adopt purchase of products via chat i.e. conversational commerce. I got
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climate change is not a lost cause. the world is not doomed. it is not too late to take action. humans are not a virus. we CAN change.such doomist, fatalist
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The ten points of the Nuremberg Code1) The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. 1/nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code 2) The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for
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There's this common misperception that Black people have no invented anything so I'm about to dispel that with a thread of Black inventors.The son of a slave, with only an
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As we wrap up 2020, it's time for my semi-annual PAID science communications internship thread!There are A LOT of unique opportunities open right now in areas from science writing to
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1/Just went through affidavit for search warrant in Rebekah Jones case. Special agent says DOH has a "custom-made communications application for Emergency Management."https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665 2/He
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Karl Popper's Falsification Principle: how to divide science from non-science. Science: For a theory to be considered scientific it must be able to be tested (for medicine this means with
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I think a Cyborg movie... could work.(A thread) In the recent books, Cyborg ‘s became this local hero of Detroit which can definitely serve as his Gotham or Metropolis. This
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Mathematician Irene Stegun was born #OTD in 1919. A major contributor to the Works Progress Administration’s Mathematical Tables Project, she’s probably best known as co-author of the classic “A Handbook
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Recently, I attended the YC Startup School's Future Founders program. The 6 weeks of the program have been full of learnings, I would recommend everyone to attend in the future.In
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Great Q&A with Peter Ben Embarek on the COVID-19 emergence @WHO mission.He explains why they conclude it was "extremely unlikely" SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab - the same conclusion we
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Schools have closed across the UK so here are some excellent educational resources to learn from. 13 episodes of Homeschool History https://bbc.in/357PZJu  Loads of episodes of You're Dead
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Scientist, noting plot point in every disaster movie and also, realityhttps://twitter.com/xamm0x/status/1360785237328945154 Addendum: The world listened to scientists in the 1980s, when the concentration of CFCs in the atmosphere threatened
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Today we continue our "getting back to the basics."Yesterday was round 1 Today is round 2 -A thread- Do not fall into the classic twitter traps -Chasing money -Chasing followers
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1. I have a new essay on what @michaelemann climate war is really about. Reader's digest version: it's not about either science or climate action but reinforcing affective environmental identity.https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/
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NEW PAPER ALERT We describe a neurobiological link between cognitive flexibility and pathological weight loss (in rats ), now *In Press* @SOBP @BiologicalPsyc1! Have a scroll through my clumsily
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