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If you’re a scientist doing any form of public communication, outreach, myth-busting, fact-checking… this is really important
First suggested by @GeorgeLakoff, the three-beat, "truth sandwich" method is a way of reporting on dubious claims, strategic deception and public lying WITHOUT giving undue publicity to a false or dubious claim, which can help it spread. This short thread explains... 1/
There's good news and bad re developing a coronavirus vaccine.
Clinical "trials determine if a vaccine is safe, what its dosages should be, how effective it is, and what its side effects are. In the US, 90% of drugs fail to make it past these trials."
theguardian.com/world/2020/m…
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Keep calm and.. take a nap?⠀
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Researchers have found echidnas deal with bushfires by nestling themselves into the soil & entering a sleep-like state until the fire dies out. 😴
This echidna appears to have melted spines as a result of fire.
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📷: @echidna_csi ⠀
SoT 347: Carbonite - Humans in suspended animation, oxygen on Mars, water on Europa, alien gases, and snakes with legs! scienceontop.com/347
ALT Artist's illustration of a snake nearly 100 million years ago, from the extinct group Najash, with hind legs.
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WOW! Would you check out the state of preservation on this crab fossil! 🦀 It lived in the Eocene, between 56 to 33.9 million years ago. It was found at the Monte Bolga lagerstätte, a site of fossils so incredible that even the organs are sometimes preserved!
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Hi Mark! I saw that one and thought of another Zebra stripes confusing flies story we covered on a past episode. Wacky! - Lucas
@scienceontop If the shoo fits: cows painted with zebra stripes keep flies in line
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@scienceontop If the shoo fits: cows painted with zebra stripes keep flies in line
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The #IgNobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from the benefits of pizza to the temperature of French postal packages! scienceontop.com/341
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Right now, in the center of the Sun, there's a nuclear reaction converting hydrogen to helium, producing neutrinos, photons, & positrons. A neutrino from this reaction will pass through you just over eight minutes from now. The photons won't arrive for at least 100,000 years.
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Spiders are threatened by climate change – and even the biggest arachnophobes should be worried.
@SS_Henriques bit.ly/32gQMUK
SoT 329: Not The Father Of Lies - The ancient historian that got it right, possible very early humans in Australia, and can some people detect magnetic fields? scienceontop.com/329
Episode 324 was originally published with an audio glitch that saw the bloopers show stacked over the top, which would have been very annoying. That's been fixed now - thanks to @BellaFeMedia for pointing it out!
SoT 324: Kinetic Penetrator - Japan's asteroid sample return mission has a big success, tracking smuggled echidnas, Mars One file bankruptcy and a potential universal flu vaccine. scienceontop.com/324
ALT The asteroid Ryugu, photographed from the Hyabusa2 spacecraft.
SoT 323: Very Small Frogs - @Mozziebites joins us to talk insects, especially mosquitoes, sleeping when sick and gut bacteria that affects depression. scienceontop.com/323
SoT 322: Captain’s Log - Why was lapis lazuli found in a medieval tooth? Can plants be trained? How does body position affect spiders? And why has the Earth's magnetic field sped up? All this and even some more! scienceontop.com/322
Thanks Dr. Cameron!!!
I had a blast recording an episode of the @ScienceOnTop podcast this week with Penny, @reallyedbrown and @codenix! Keep an ear out, subscribe now scienceontop.com/ and contribute to their @Patreon patreon.com/scienceontop/ (I just did!) #scicomm
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11th February is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. There are events all around the world, participate! => ow.ly/hQUb30nq2qX #WomeninScience4SDGs #February11 #GirlsinScience4SDGs @Girls4SDGs @WomenScienceDay
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the deep irony here is that the coalition is literally falling apart before our eyes due to a lack of the “soft skills” of teamwork and critical thinking.
Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan wants to revamp the national curriculum, saying Australian schools need to go "back to basics" reading, writing and maths before worrying about "soft skills" like teamwork and critical thinking ab.co/2SEzpbl
