Rebecca Tan

Thanks, ants! (Thants!) Bonus if you get the reference 🤣

Horace Zeng @horacezhl

Another remarkable example of tool use in ants: fire ants “paving” sticky surfaces. I’ve seen signs of this behavior, but I didn’t expect it to be so robust until my friend told me about it (Wang et al., 2021 Insect Science). https://t.co/BaHBmlgtXM

Some staggering differences here, all down to vaccines. Read the whole thread for more context.

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

Comparing Hong Kong to its peers, all of whom kept Covid largely at bay for the best part of two years, it’s extraordinary the extent to which it is an outlier in terms of the lethality of this wave. So what’s driving this? https://t.co/p6IZubHITE

Also me after getting my nose sunburnt after a weekend of sailing. I put lots of sunscreen on at shore but wearing a mask on the brief walk to the boat must have rubbed it off. Oh and my lips got sunburnt too.

Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken

The dermatologist goes to the beach https://t.co/16C8MfF8N7

Two things are true (well, four): amazed & grateful AND frustrated & ashamed.

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape

So overall my feelings have been the mixed bag I tried to describe in my look back at the end of 2021: Amazed and grateful that we have these powerful tools available to us, but frustrated and somewhat ashamed at how we have used them globally. https://t.co/txo636FxHd

RT @brandoncwu: Already seeing articles blaming India for #COP26 "phase down" instead of "out" coal language. REALLY important to see full…

Yes, survivors guilt is real. Experienced it twice, first leaving academia then leaving a toxic startup. You’d think I’d have known better.

RT @DrTomFrieden: Herd immunity to Covid? Maybe an impossible dream. We need to reframe our approach to the pandemic and learn more, and li…

RT @EngEongOoi: Saddened to read that SG is considering booster shots for young adults. More than half the world has no access to vaccines.…

Just moderated an excellent panel at the Materials for Humanity conference #MH21 with @YingShirleyMen1 and @tossgas, both of whom are excellent speakers with such valuable perspectives. Will post the video when it becomes available, stay tuned! #sciencecommunication

Fantastic thread! Lots of resonances with Thinking, Fast and Slow that I'm only getting round to reading now.

Julie Zhuo @joulee

My co-founder Chandra Narayanan's quote has become something of a product-builder's mantra for us: Diagnose with data and treat with design. There is so much packed into those sentences! Thread going deeper 👇 (1/15) https://t.co/wurIXSrwkJ

RT @mariofusco: Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted i…

RT @kakape: My plan for beating #covid19 after watching this pandemic for one year? Easy: Test like a Korean, track and trace like a Singap…

RT @JeremyFarrar: Finland detects UK & SA variants. As immune pressure on virus grows, evolution will speed up & any variants that escape t…

Best version of the meme I've seen!

TOP500 @top500supercomp

How it started: How its going: https://t.co/51WkEKDaaM

RT @munkeatlooi: Today marks one year since the first covid-19 case in China. What a year.

RT @AvatarDomy: Every ball is moving in straight line https://t.co/QLZsKQYY01