🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈
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How the coronavirus is gutting diversity in science
Nature.com 7d 10 tweets
The pandemic is sabotaging the careers of researchers from under-represented groups, but institutions can help to staunch the outflow.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 The coronavirus is gutting diversity in science, but institutions could help to staunch the outflow. Pictured: Iris Wagstaff #ScienceCareers #ScienceInstitutions #DiversityinScience #DiversityinSTEM #ScienceFunding 6h
Do Your Own Research? | NeuroLogica Blog
NeuroLogica Blog 3d 2 tweets
A recent commentary on Forbes advises: You Must Not 'Do Your Own Research' When It Comes To Science. I agree with everything the author, Ethan Siegel, says in the piece. It was a good start
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 . discusses what it means to not "do your own research" when it comes to science. #ConfirmationBias #InformationBias #ScientificResearch #ResearchBias 8h
How to Design (or at Least Model) Mixed Dog Breeds
Quanta Magazine 10h 1 tweets
Readers simulated the genetics of dog breeding to solve a puzzle about mixed breed percentages and sexual reproduction.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 How to design (or at least model) mixed dog breeds... #DogBreeds #DogModels #Puzzles #MixedBreeds #Doggos #Dogs 10h
How Many People in the U.S. Are Hospitalized With COVID-19? Who Knows?
ProPublica 8d 12 tweets
The Trump administration told hospitals to stop reporting data to the CDC, and report it to HHS instead. Vice President Mike Pence said the information would continue to be released publicly. It hasn’t worked out as promised.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 How many people in the U.S. are hospitalized with COVID-19? Who knows? #COVID19 #WHO #COVIDcases #Pandemic #DataScience 12h
Bright Lights and Dark Nights: The Challenge Facing Sea Turtles in the City | Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine - Hakai Magazine 29h 1 tweets
And how advocates are making a difference in Florida.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Bright lights and dark nights: The challenge facing sea turtles in the city. #BabyTurtles #LightPollution #SeaTurtles #ArtificialLight #Wildlife 29h
When a Contagion Comes, Women Bear a Heavy Burden
Undark Magazine 4d 3 tweets
While contagions like Covid-19 might kill more men, the impact of a pandemic on women's lives is vast and understudied.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 When a contagion like COVID-19 comes, women all over the world bear a heavy burden. #Pandemic #GenderInequality #COVID19affects #IndianWomen 33h
Why language remains the most flexible brain-to-brain interface – Mark Dingemanse | Aeon Essays
Aeon 5d 11 tweets
Brain-to-brain interfaces promise to bypass language. But do we really want access to one another’s unmediated thoughts?
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Brain-to-brain interfaces promise to bypass language. But do we really want access to one another’s unmediated thoughts? #BrainInterfaces #Language #Linguistics #HumanCognition #Neuroscience #BioTechnology 37h
Juno Captures Pictures of Ganymede for the First Time - Universe Today
Matt Williams - Universe Today 49h 1 tweets
On July 5, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived around Jupiter, becoming the second mission in history to study the gas giant from orbit – the last being the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Since then, the spacecraft has...
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Juno captures pictures of Ganymede for the first time. 👏 #JunoMission #Jupiter #Ganymede #JovianMoons #ESA #Juno 49h
The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down
Helen Macdonald - Nytimes.com 10d 10 tweets
Swifts spend all their time in the sky. What can their journeys tell us about the future?
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Swift birds spend all their time in the sky. What can their journeys tell us about the future? Illustration by Daniel Barreto #VesperFlights #Swifts #Birds #Nature #AnimalFlight 51h
Can a Cartoon Raccoon Keep Schoolkids Safe from COVID-19?
Scientific American 53h 2 tweets
Well, why not? It worked for Smokey the Bear and forest fires
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Can a cartoon raccoon keep schoolkids safe from COVID-19? It worked for Smokey the Bear! Illustration: Katie McBride #KalotheRaccoon #KidSafety #COVID19 #Precautions #Marketing #SocialMovement 53h
Two Canadian ice caps have completely vanished from the Arctic, NASA imagery shows
livescience.com 4d 2 tweets
Scientists gave the caps 5 years to live in a 2017 study. Climate change killed them in record time.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Two Canadian ice caps have completely vanished from the Arctic. 😧 Image: / The Cryosphere #GlobalWarming #IceCaps #ClimateChangeisReal #EllesmereIsland 55h
American healthcare’s racist history helped fuel a fear of vaccines
Olivia Goldhill - Quartz 3d 1 tweets
“I don’t use the word mistrust or distrust. I talk about trust-worthiness... That flips it from, ‘these distrustful African Americans’ to ‘what have you done to get their trust?’”
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 How American healthcare’s racist history helped fuel a fear of vaccines... #HealthCare #SystemicRacism #Coronavirus #Vaccine #AmericanHealth 3d
The Pandemic’s Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 4d 67 tweets
Which is too bad because the immune system is very complicated.
NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home
The Conversation 3d 1 tweets
This summer, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is taking the next giant leap in our search for signs of life beyond Earth.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 .'s big move to search for life on Mars...and bring rocks home! #MarsMission #NASA #Mars2020 #MarsRocks #MarsPerseverance 3d
Researchers Discover How Human Sperm Really Swim
Smithsonian Magazine 8d 3 tweets
A new 3-D microscopy study overturns hundreds of years of reproductive science
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 3D microscopy study shows how human sperm really swim. 🏊‍♂️ #NewResearch #Sperm #Swimmers #3DTechnology #ReproductionScience 3d
Scientists Publish First Study of Mysterious Fast Radio Burst-Like Event in Milky Way
ScienceAlert 3d 1 tweets
A dead star 14,350 light-years away has just become the most important clue in solving the mystery of fast radio bursts. Earlier this year, it spat out a colossal, milliseconds-long radio flare - and now the first published analysis of the event note
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Scientists publish first study of mysterious fast radio burst-like event in Milky Way. 💥 #MilkyWay #FRB #Astrophysics #RadioBursts #SGR1935+2154 3d
'Murder hornet' mania highlights dangers of fearing insects and spiders
Animals 5d 2 tweets
In the U.S., a culturally rooted animosity and ignorance toward bugs can be harmful to both them and us.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 'Murder hornet' mania reveals the dangers of fearing insects and bugs. 🐝🕷 #Insects #Entomophobia #Fear #MurderHornets #Hornets #Bees 3d
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria
Podhero 4d 1 tweets
Cara Santa Maria is a science communicator, television host, producer, and journalist. She is excited to present "Talk Nerdy," a …
How scientists can stop fooling themselves over statistics
Nature.com 6d 34 tweets
Sampling simulated data can reveal common ways in which our cognitive biases mislead us.
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Here's how scientists can stop fooling themselves over statistics. #ScientificResearch #Statistics #Pvalue #ScientificData #DataManagment 3d
Retraction Watch turns 10: A look back, and a look forward
Ivan Oransky - Retraction Watch 6d 9 tweets
Adam and Ivan, circa 2012 Ten years. On Aug. 3, 2010, we published our first post on Retraction Watch. Titled, “Why write a blog about retractions?”, the welcome letter to readers outlined our hope…
🏳️‍🌈 Cara Santa Maria 🏳️‍🌈 Happy belated birthday, Retraction Watch! 🥳🎉 #RetractionWatch10 4d