#SCIENCE

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Welcome to the first UoM MRC Science Show!!!Today we'll feature awesome science from @The_MRC students across the UK. Follow along via #UoMMRCScienceShow and if you're an MRC student introduce yourself,

Jussi Jylkkä

JylkkaJussi

I sincerely think that the "mind-body problem" boils down to the distinctness between a representation and the represented. Do you think this is naïve? Let me explain. 1/8 There are

Drebonacci

BaneSchultz

The 12 biggest science lies you've been told by corporations, government and the corrupt media.

Francis Lynn

nictitate

A personal and unshared story about science funding in Canada: In 2010, my Dad took early “retirement” from his academic position at the University of Guelph, in part to make

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

On the question of how mink outbreaks can impact vaccines, antibody therapeutics, or diagnostics. How realistic is this concern?The idea is that SARS2 spreading and adapting in large populations of

Yoram Hazony

yhazony

The polling “crisis” is not a crisis. It’s the usual human nonsense. People always believe “experts,” science, and reason *much* more than they should.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/polling-catastrophe/616986/ T

The Leakey Foundation

TheLeakeyFndtn

Wow! For the first time, the preserved body of an extinct cave bear has been found in the permafrost in Russia. Scientist Lena Grigorieva says, "It is completely preserved, with

Michael Ezra

MichaelEzra

Yes, transwomen are women. A ThreadThe law can have its own definition of a woman and it does not need to tie in with the gender critical feminist view. All

Jorge Llopis

Jorge_Geopis

So happy to share a piece of super collaborative land system science research on north-eastern Madagascar, involving BSc, MSc and PhD students and senior researchers ! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041621000073?dgci

Amy Dentata

AmyDentata

A brief history of transphobia:- “There’s two genders because God!”- “There’s two genders because chromosomes!”- “There’s two genders because gametes!”Spoiler alert: They just keep substituting new words for “God” whil

Dr Mary McMillan

accidental_sci

Today is International Day of people with disabilities. I want to write a thread about something that’s been on my mind. I teach science, with mandatory practical components. For students

Jane Lytvynenko

JaneLytv

After the election, I sat down to look at how disinformation undermined US institutions & turned Americans against one another.It's a long, winding read and a culmination of the work

The Dread Pirate Jussim

PsychRabble

As promised, the slides and video for my talk, given to the inaugural Merton Series in Physics (yup, the physicists wanted to hear about it):Implicit Bias: Racial Gaps and Scientific

Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋

SquigglyVolcano

NEW: Japan’s ‘Dawn’ - the sole, lonely spacecraft orbiting Venus - has seen a mysterious flash in the planet’s exotic sky. What was it?This signal *wasn’t* sent by aliens. But

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ Recently, major media outlets in the US and France have mischaracterized our COVID-19 T cell findings. We have now published a summary of current knowledge to correct this.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-0389-z 2/

Maria Van Kerkhove

mvankerkhove

Want to know how @WHO guidance is developed? Here’s a brief explainer and:https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1255917989356019713?s=211/ @WHO is an evidence-based organization. The prevention, detection & control strategies &

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