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Philliteracy

On this day in 1912: the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic.A prompt for me to check if there are any philanthropy links & discover (once again)

Christopher Barrie

cbarrie

Would encourage all editors to read this reflection from @danielskatz and @arfon on experiences with @JOSS_TheOJ follows with own experience submitting to @JOSS_TheOJ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/05/06/guest-post-starting-a-nov

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

California's on fire. Again.It doesn't have to be.There's overwhelming, longstanding scientific consensus that California fires are due to a century-long aversion to controlled burns, and yet the state is vapor-locked

Zip Toad

Legerdemaen

Just received my copy of Cynical Theories by @ConceptualJames and @HPluckrose. I’m gonna dedicate a thread to simply quoting things I find interesting, and I’m gonna try to ignore the

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

All over the world, the authorities are closing down parks and trails—but that's unsustainable, counterproductive and probably even harmful. Instead, we should adapt to the pandemic and retool them for

Gwalia Media

GwaliaMedia

THREADThe UK Government's Plan to Bulldoze the Gwent Level...The Gwent Levels are a vast expanse of wetlands situated on the banks of the Hafren between Caerdydd and Casnewydd. It’s an

Jin Russell

DrJinRussell

A new @TheLancetPH paper describes how New Zealanders crushed COVID-19. It highlights how *excellent communication* to the public has been critical to achieving this. But what does that actually look

Tyler Alterman

TylerAlterman

1/ 2020 will see the dawn of the metatribe. Here is an ethnography. 2/ I first heard the term "metatribe" on the Intellectual Explorer's Club podcast in a conversation between

Daniel Mucida 🌹💉

danmucida

(Sept2010- Sept2020): a decade of Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology (LMI) @RockefellerUniv:variable weather, activism, sports, funa lot of friendship, sharing and sciencea long visual with few stats 2010-2012Three of us

Russ Poldrack

russpoldrack

The #NARPS paper is now out @Nature: Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2314-9 thanks to @rotembot @ten_photos @tschonberg and almost 200 others! Commentary

Koen

KoenSwinkels

38 Suggestions for Reopening the Economy While Continuing to Fight the Pandemichttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1tKvCnH0gvJstCbpfiUH6rvqpmlorvZJYPbFUrSDYu8c/edit?usp=sharingReopen public life1. Everybody should wear masks when outdoors & with o

Aude Bernheim

AudeBer

Stoked to report in @nature the discovery of prokaryotic viperins, which naturally produce diverse anti-viral molecules ! After providing us with antibiotics, bacteria might become sources of novel anti-viral drugs.

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

India has 1.3 billion people. 4 times that of the US. What’s going on is just amazing and needs in depth immunologic studies. These are raw numbers! When I adjust

🌿🦎 Margaret 🐍🌿

TeraTigerStudio

How a random woman on a plane predicted my job a decade in advance and also kinda changed my life(AKA be nice to young artists: a thread) I’ve been “seriously”

Dr Dominic Pimenta

DrDomPimenta

Wow this is crazy ignorant from @richardm56 Let’s take it apart. /threadhttps://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/richard-and-judy/1323175/coronavirus-lockdown-figures-covid-19-death-toll So in the opening sentence @richardm56 finds a

Plant Pathologist

Oom_Bakkies

Carnivorous plants. A thread. In the evolution process, identifying a habitat with the least competition is one of the most important factors which significantly contributes towards the survival of a