One of the biggest contributors to scientific scepticism among laypeople, IME, is these idiotic nutritional epi studies that come out with conflicting results every year and are uncritically picked up by credulous journos looking for clickbait. Get in the 🗑️.
#episky #statsky
Government of Paris > All elected US Democrats
Ok people!!!
I believe we may be taking March 7th NATIONAL!
This will require financial support. Last year, nationwide, the protests cost $75,000. We need all the help we can get!
Help us fuel the fight here: www.standupforscience.net/donate
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New preprint🚨
Imagine (re)designing a protein via inverse folding. AF2 predicts the designed sequence to a structure with pLDDT 94 & you get 1.8 Ă… RMSD to the input. Perfect design?
What if I told u that the structure has 4 solvent-exposed Trp and 3 Pro where a Gly should be?
Why to be wary🧵👇
inaccurately-named birds, a helpful guide:
tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Transphobia hurts everyone by enforcing binaries that aren't rooted in biology
Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
If avoiding a painful and disfiguring rash - and potentially permanent nerve pain and nerve damage - isn’t enough for you, multiple studies have also shown that shingles vaccination can lower dementia risk, possibly up to 20%
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
Tapping the sign so hard my finger goes through it
when you agree enthusiastically with the headline is exactly when you should be most careful to stop and read the article, or even several articles, with a critical eye.
things that seem to wildly affirm your most precious priors are the easiest way to lie to you, or to yourself.
The event organizers say 7m people showed up. That would mean ~1 out of every 50 Americans came out to protest the president
This is such a revealing statement. For the first time in my career, we are literally scanning grant applications for forbidden words and taking words like "female" out of abstracts at the request of program officers. But Mike's intern can say the "r" word in public without getting dirty looks so 🤷‍♀️
That wasn't very data driven of you, bro
Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
There's been a lot of evidence put out there recently that scientists and tech folks should have to take more humanities courses in their education.
I wonder if we could leverage ORCID to create Bluesky verification records for researchers. It would allow for scientists to become validated by their own body of work and is something already used in the community.
Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear
George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective…
You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.
Even when she saw terrible, horrible things, she kept hoping and working and fighting for a better future. May we all carry some of her spirit into the work ahead.
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
You didn't get your autism from your mom who treated her headache while pregnant. You got it from your dad who can name every model of airplane made since the 1900s.
I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
