Marc RobinsonRechavi #WearADamnMask
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Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 spread in Switzerland based on genomic sequencing data
medRxiv 86d 2 tweets
Pathogen genomes provide insights into their evolution and epidemic spread. We sequenced 1,439 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Switzerland, representing 3-7% of all confirmed cases per week. Using these data, we demonstrate that no one lineage became...
Editorial Expression of Concern: Transgenic Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population
Scientific Reports 86d 1 tweets
New directives as of 26 October
Epfl.ch 88d 1 tweets
<p>You will find on this page the elements specifically related to the reopening.</p>
Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid Misinformation
Nytimes.com 91d 10 tweets
The health agency will license much of its material to the online encyclopedia, allowing the information to be reposted widely into almost 200 languages.
Make sure stammered voices are heard - British Antarctic Survey
British Antarctic Survey 91d 1 tweets
Dr Kaitlin Naughten is an ocean modeller with the British Antarctic Survey, specialising in ice shelf, ocean, and sea ice interactions around Antarctica. This International Stammering Awareness Day 2020, Kaitlin …
Executive Director (20-40% based anywhere worldwide)
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 92d 2 tweets
An outstanding individual is sought to be the inaugural Executive Director of the Global Biodata Coalition, reporting directly to a Board of international funders. This pivotal role will involve leading all aspects of the development of this unique...
WikiCite/2020 Virtual conference - Meta
Meta.wikimedia.org 96d 23 tweets
Inside the Fall of the CDC
ProPublica 98d 97 tweets
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
Pseudoscience Manifesto – Manifesto
Pseudoscience-manifesto.apetp.com 443d 2 tweets
Marc RobinsonRechavi #WearADamnMask A noter que ce manifeste est disponible pour la signature depuis un moment (j'ai signé en juin 2019) à 94d
Manifeste contre les pseudosciences en santé
Le Figaro - Le Figaro.fr 94d 3 tweets
TRIBUNE - Ce n’est plus à prouver: les pseudosciences tuent. Pourtant, leur pratique se fait en toute impunité grâce aux lois européennes qui les protègent.
Taking charge by seeking ways to achieve gender balance | EMBL
EMBL 97d 1 tweets
A three-day virtual conference, ‘Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia’, explored how biology, social structures, and unconscious bias shape gender roles, and discussed ways to achieve equal opportunities for men and women in academia.
Policy Briefs
Ncs-tf.ch 238d 4 tweets
The Science Task Force makes use of an initiative recently set up in the ETH Domain, and combines initiatives and expertise from the SNSF, swissuniversities and the Academies.
Statistics and Machine Learning for Life Sciences
Sib.swiss 97d 1 tweets
Overview Statistics are an integral aspect of scientific research, and in particular of life sciences that heavily rely on quantitative methodologies.
Dense and pleiotropic regulatory information in a developmental enhancer
Nature 99d 3 tweets
A robotic pipeline is used to survey a library of mutations in a Drosphila gene enhancer, showing that most mutations altered gene expression and had widespread pleiotropic effects that are likely to constrain regulatory evolution.
Marc RobinsonRechavi #WearADamnMask Looks like very nice evidence for genetic constraints on phenotypic evolution #evodevo! 97d
Opportunités de carrière : Informaticien·ne (80-100%) Département Ecologie et Evolution (16602)
Career5.successfactors.eu 98d 1 tweets
Marc RobinsonRechavi #WearADamnMask Our department is looking for an IT specialist. Notre département cherche un·e informaticien·ne. 98d
VIDS: Video Interventions for Diversity in STEM
Academics.skidmore.edu 98d 1 tweets
Marc RobinsonRechavi #WearADamnMask Jo Handelsman "Video Interventions for Diversity in STEM" #GenderAcademia2020 98d
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1088d 8 tweets
Despite efforts to recruit and retain more women, a stark gender disparity persists within academic science. Abundant research has demonstrated gender bias in many demographic groups, but has yet to experimentally investigate whether science faculty...
Marc RobinsonRechavi #WearADamnMask Shocking result from 2012 study by Jo Handelsman: large gap in willingness to mentor according to gender of name (right hand columns in graph). #GenderAcademia2020 98d
John Snow Memorandum
JOHN SNOW MEMORANDUM 99d 63 tweets
John Snow Memorandum
Marc RobinsonRechavi #WearADamnMask I have signed the John Snow Memorandum: "Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now" 98d
Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now
The Lancet 99d 34 tweets
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected more than 35 million people globally, with more than 1 million deaths recorded by WHO as of Oct 12, 2020. As a second wave of COVID-19 affects Europe, and with winter...
Marc RobinsonRechavi #WearADamnMask I have signed the John Snow Memorandum: "Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now" 98d
Lancet
Thelancet.com 99d 10 tweets