#Scientific

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Today brings a bizarre news story from the @WSJ about how everyone is being mean to poor John Ioannidis because of his coronavirus contrarianism. It's behind a paywall, but I'll

Alex Green

AlexEGreen

Ahead of the Federal Budget next week, I thought I would contribute to the online discussion about the Canadian research environment. For example, from 2000-2019 Canada was only the G7

Zach Roberts

keepthebeat929

A thread on #Civilization3 / #Civ3 from a novice player:I've gotten back into Civ 3 after som

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

If you're wondering how you remove the scientific evidence base from a policy discussion, and turn it into narrative, here's a nice template in just four sentences from today's Economist

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

I'm going to tell you something good this morning. I spent most of my adult life (~30 years)outside of academia, working with non-governmental organizations from New York to South Africa.

justdad7

justdad7

Getting needed changes to #BillC6 on conversion therapy is going to require an unlikely alliance. The only elected officials who are willing to criticize the bill are members of the

Tanentzapf Lab

TanentzapfLab

As a bright bright eyed batch of graduate students are set to start, here are the top 11 pieces of advice NO ONE gave me when i started grad school

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.htmlDoes this ring any bells?It’s a now-classic ‘PCR false positive pseudo epidemic’.Different infectious organism (a gram-negative bacterium) & disease (whooping cough) but all th

Simon Burall

sburall

This is doing the rounds on my Twitter feed this morning. I can see why it’s an in-depth dissection of the U.K.’s approach to the coronavirus. 1/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-path-speci-idUSKBN21P1VF It’s going to

Clive Peedell

cpeedell

THREAD: Summary of UK’s #COVID19 Crisis1. Viral pandemics are top of Government’s risk register2. Despite this, Cygnus report showed we were unprepared3. We had advanced warning in January4. PM put

UK Research and Innovation

UKRI_News

Since April, UKRI with help from @IpsosMORI has monitored public sentiment toward science and scientists. Today we’re releasing the findings, as we mark 20 years since the seminal House of

Catherine Nicholson

ACatInParis

mini thread: 1/Very limited lifting of England's lockdown as per UK PM Boris Johnson's statement just broadcast - some key points- at unspecified date, there will be a quarantine on

Abel Wajnerman Paz, guest curator

neuroethicsinfo

Hello everyone! Today’s thread is a teaser for tomorrow’s Webinar. Samir Das, Stephen Rainey (@krummemholze), Fruszina Molnár-Gábor and Philipp Kellmeyer (@neuroastics) will discuss different aspects of #braindata governance and #neur

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

VIRUS IS AIRBORNE. Repeat, the #SARSCoV2 coronavirus is airborne. Epidemiologists & aerosol Scientists have been saying it for months. Now 239 scientists have penned a letter to @WHO, coming out

Peter Ward

Peter___Ward

Let’s talk about whether the government has made serious mistakes or not. First, I want it on the record that no government has got this 100% right, no government could

Elemental

elemental

How long do Coronavirus symptoms really last? Some of these patients say they’ve been ill for as long as 8 weeks. That's 4x longer than what official guidelines have advised.http://read.medium.com/fZPaHf3