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Jan 13, 2021
@engexplain @nntaleb 1/10 Science is assumed to be “evidence-based” but that term alone doesn’t mean much. What constitutes good evidence? How is evidence being used? Is it supporting or refuting a hypothesis? Was the hypothesis and experimental desi
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Sean McClure
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Apr 7, 2023
1/ Grant-writing tips. This #tweetorial mainly applies to @NIH grants (particularly R01s) but some stuff may be applicable to other types of grants and funding agencies. Based on my experience writing grants for 20 yrs +lots of cringe-worthy missteps
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Sanjiv J. Shah, MD
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Mar 17, 2023
Working in a converted shed with no ventilation, Marie Curie's research paved the way for modern science. Here's the story of how one woman saved ~1 million of soldiers during WWI and won 2 Nobel Prizes doing it🧵 twitter.com/TGorny/status/1636741861
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Tomas Gorny
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Mar 3, 2023
Scientists can get gaslit too. If you want to see an example, read the below from a PNAS essay trying to convince us that a lab researcher picking up SARSCoV2 while collecting bat samples isn't a lab leak scenario. twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/1631
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Michael Lin, PhD-MD 🧬
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Feb 18, 2023
Ok I guess it's time to do this. Lets goooooo "China is not PC, they're busy doing STEM" This is, unmitigated bullshit and I say this as someone who has been through the entire Chinese education system- not just a few years as a child and the rest
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Naomi Wu
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Oct 20, 2022
Some preliminary comments from me, as a science journalist. First: This is serious business. These authors are claiming to have found fingerprints left in SARS-CoV-2 left by stitching together the parts that allegedly went to making it. If true... tw
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@mbalter — investigations and commentary
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Aug 27, 2022
You know what I don't want to ever hear again? A single complaint from anyone about how efforts to fix science publishing are going to affect their society or society journal. Because far more than anyone else it is scientific societies who are respo
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Michael Eisen #912238
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Jun 23, 2022
📢New paper on decision-making in #CITES (www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.946283/full). A 🧵. In 2021, we published a paper (www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.631556/full) highlighting that listing decisions in #CITES are ba
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Dan Challender
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May 28, 2022
@michael_nielsen Thanks for writing up these notes, Michael! Speculating a bit further, I think it's sometimes the case that vision papers are playing a defensive role in some sense.
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Chris Olah
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Jul 26, 2021
1/n: A few thoughts on AlphaFold making 350,000+ protein structures available: It's a significant advance, one whose real benefits are intangible, but some caveats are in order. Firstly, the structures are all *predicted*, and only experiments can tr
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Ash Jogalekar
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Jan 5, 2022
gm, fun life update! Super excited to start a new role today. I’ll be joining @chapterone as head of experiments & research 🎉 Thrilled to be working with @jmj, @menemazarakis & the incredible team. My job is to be the crazy scientist at C
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Yash Bora
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