#Scientific

act4chemistry

act4chemistry

A number of exposes and news articles about plastics and recycling are garnering attention. @AmerChemSociety remains committed to responsible management of plastics waste, which ensures problematic waste isn’t merely exported

babar

BabarBaAishKosh

Thread: There's never a single reason for the downfall of a civilization, it is always a plethora of factors that bring its eventual demise.But if I have to choose the

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Blair is urging world govts to massively increase testing both in scale & frequency everyone & often. This is preposterous. Those with a good knowledge of immunology know with a

Bob From Brockley 🥤

bobfrombrockley

With Peter Hitchens trending for his, um, controversial claim that the science on which self-isolation is based is just “speculation” and that we should all go to the pub, I

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

The WHO just updated its page on how COVID-19 transmits. Those few sentences on aerosols represent one of the most crucial scientific advances of the pandemic. My NYT piece on

nic carter

nic__carter

The paper behind these breathless articles leaves a LOT to be desired. Brief threadhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-06/bitcoin-blockchain-operations-in-china-threaten-climate-goals This is the article in question. It doesn

Harriet Carroll 🚨STAYING ALERT🚨 (for a job)

angryhacademic

why i am no longer publishing (my own) #research in #academic journals - a (long) thread 1/38#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #academicpublishing #academicjournals #peerreview #ecrchat #OpenScience #publicationbias (some references at the

FreisinnigeZeitung

FreisinnigeZtg

The study (or rather a short preliminary summary) about the German town that was initially hardest-hit by COVID-19 was greeted with enthusiasm yesterday, today there is a backlash. Here is

Matthew Brignall, ND

drbrignall

There appears to be a Greek chorus of people piling on this lady this morning. I'll encourage folks to consider that she is a victim of a misguided movement. Saturday

Highlander Tajik

TimppaKarjala

For a long time, I wanted to create a thread on Iakinf (Bichurin), but too much info and I'm lazy LOL. He's one of the most important China scholars in

axelerator.exe | حسن

axel_hexed

Some quick thoughts re: games, politics, persuasiveness, and labels/genres--"non-fiction" in particular.First, I highly suggest reading Ian's thread. He's tapping into something crucial. At the same time, I think the idea

Dr Elizabeth Bruton 🏳️‍🌈

lizbruton

.@guardian has a *beautiful* gallery of home computers, showing at rapidly changing face + lack of design conventions of home PCs between birth in 1970s + 1990sBUT we also

Maisie Rose Reads 🏳️‍🌈 BLM

MaisieRoseReads

Freshwater is one of my favourite books but I'm always scared to read reviews of it because so many of them (even 5 star reviews) contain inaccurate and even harmful

Truth

1foreverseeking

Georgia knew about software "glitch"!Kemp paid $100 million for Dominion Voting Systems last year. Lawsuit was filed that voters can't be confident votes are accurately counted. Dominion hired Pro V&V

Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.

shengokai

Some thoughts from Harold Finch regarding following the rules:"I was talking about my rules. I have lived by those rules for so long, believed in them for so long, believed

Radio Clyde News

RadioClydeNews

Nicola Sturgeon will shortly update the Scottish parliament on the next steps out of lockdown.The First Minister is expected to confirm we are moving into "Phase 2".We'll be posting all