#Scientists

I do not argue with people about "should I have access to birth control". Birth control and access to it is about policing healthcare, and yes, whether or not a
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1/20 It has been a profound mistake to see climate change in terms of large physical effects like sea level rise, extreme heat etc. Rather than the ecological and biodiversity
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Make sure to understand that the disastrous leadership failure on COVID has actually consisted of a series of equally disastrous terrible decisions from Trump and the GOP-to ignore disease warnings,
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So I've decided to follow up a little on this thread and give an example, of how free-market, Brexit supporting think tanks and funders, amplify the messages of people like
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Yesterday, I had a great opportunity to present the basics of climate science to a lunchtime learning club at a Big Company. I had 10 minutes! They were hearteningly engaged.Here
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So, what's happening in the Arctic now is kinda crazy, but also really important to extreme weather throughout the northern hemisphere. Read my piece today on the topic, but here's
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It's Thursday so that means I'll be talking about the challenges of misinformation to #scicomm! I'll share some articles I've found interesting (and one I wrote) on the theme and
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A conspiracy thread: Tesla and Time Travel Nikola Tesla was a Serbian inventor most famous for giving us alternating current technologies, something the modern world could not exist without. He’s
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Pleased to share my contribution to @BostonReview's "Thinking in a Pandemic" series. My focus was applying solution-based thinking to move us towards our goal of living safely. I would love
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1/ I asked this question -- how do lockdowns stop? -- almost 3 weeks ago and I don't think anyone has a really good answer. Today I want to leave
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An op ed is basically an extended argument and philosophers examine arguments, so here is a rapid review of this perspective piece by @mlipsitch, @gregggonsalves, @CarlosdelRio7, @RWalensky from a philosopher
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So who did we want to hear from? We wanted to hear from the people who are there for us every day. The ones who relate to our lives. Those
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Al Franken: “Well, it finally isn’t funny anymore – the grandiosity, the ignorance, the cruelty, the bullying, the racism, the petty insults and incessant stupidity. But especially the non-stop lying.
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At Asia House @asiahouseuk webinar, I had a good Q&A discussion with online audience.Q: UK is fighting Covid-19.What can China do to assist? A: China reciprocates UK’s medical support. 750
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From a speech allegedly by then Defense Minister of China, Chi Haotian, about eliminating the populations of America, Australia and/or Canada with biowarfare.“Would the United States allow us to go
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In 2008, I traveled to the world's largest scientific data-centers for a @Nature story. No matter whether the labs were devoted to internet archiving, the human genome, or the Higgs
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