cancer biologist, sciencemonger, wolf without a foot // the one who cackles on @factsmachinepod (she/her) opinions are mine, all mine!
Manhattan, NY
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Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
TONIGHT 7pm @caveatnyc:
a science comedy show & science trivia showdown inspired by ~the music of science~! How can music be used to communicate science? We’ll be accompanied by Lina Zikas (CRISPR: The Musical!) & @RalphWhiteIII (Scientifically Sound) as we find out! 🎟🔗 in bio! – at Manhattan, NY
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Helpful review of all the things RFK Jr is (dangerously) wrong, wrong, wrong about.
What to know about RFK Jr.’s views on food, vaccines, abortion, and the FDA statnews.com/2024/11/16/rfk-…
Important point: he doesn't modify his position based on evidence. It's all ideology.
by @owermohle @ushamcfarling @AnilOza16 via @statnews
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
With an anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist leading Health and Human Services, independent science communicators, who work hard (often unpaid) to provide life-saving information to our communities, will become even more important. Follow them, amplify them, and support them.
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Vaccines work. Vaccine denial kills. It’s that simple.
ALT Table from the CDC. Title: Comparison of 20th Century Annual Morbidity and Current Morbidity: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Disease | 20th Century Annual Cases | 2023 Cases | Percent Decrease Smallpox | 29,005 | 0 | 100% Diphtheria | 21,053 | 2 | > 99% Measles | 530,217 | 47 | > 99% Mumps | 162,344 | 429 | > 99% Pertussis | 200,752 | 5,611 | 97% Polio (paralytic) | 16,316 | 0 | 100% Rubella | 47,745 | 3 | > 99% Congenital Rubella Syndrome | 152 | 0 | 100% Tetanus | 580 | 15 | 97% Haemophilus influenzae. | 20,000 | 27 | > 99%
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
🔥"Postdoc Night Science NYC" will have its first meeting November 1st at 1:30-3:00pm at Rockefeller University. Join us postdocs for a session on importing/exporting ideas across research fields! I'll lead this with our host @StearnsLab 🙏 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1yBL…
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Announcing a special issue on challenges & opportunities of #scicomm in basic science - jcom.sissa.it/news/20/ - @RickBorchelt @msvandyke @sarakyeo @CONSULTKPC @cplberry @FuturaConjetura @hannahmidd8 @JanetTippi @JohnBesley @thoyibas @tpn1818 @XinnanDu
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
This is a smart, passionate, raw, honest thread from @_waleedshahid, one of the antiwar organizers behind @uncommittedmvmt and former spokesperson for @justice dems.
Worth an open-minded read:
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Let’s break this down because yes *and* there’s more. First and foremost, if Trump wins it’s going to be because white voters continue to vote for him. The other side of the coin is if there is a softening in our coalition we lose. What does that mean? 🧵1/
i think @Ruwa4Georgia has either said that georgia or michigan is the biggest root of a harris loss - because of the (righteous) anti-genocide vote. forgive me if i'm wrong, ruwa.
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13.
statnews.com/2024/01/25/hpv-…
"A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin...after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells...extracted from her own body." go scientists! 🤓 nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
An extra bit of background that you won't get from the article--interviewing a pigeon is harder than it looks 😅
After studying lung cancer as a Ph.D. student, @Northeastern graduate Emily Costa launched a comedy podcast that changed her science career. “Facts Machine,” combining trivia with a live show, aims to make science accessible to broad audiences.
Read more: bit.ly/3XvXnKc
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
This line from Harris got one of her biggest rounds of applause of the night.
Ordinary Dems clearly want to support Palestinian freedom & self determination.
If only the leaders in this country stopped acting like powerless bystanders & ensured freedom for the Palestinians.
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Yesterday I shared this piece by me & 40 colleagues on the harms of the “lab leak” hypothesis inflicts on science & scientists.
I’m not finished talking about it. The origins “debate” has consumed my life for >4 years & I want to talk personally about the damage it has caused.
“What is now happening to virology is a stark demonstration of what is happening to all of science. It will come to affect every aspect of science in a negative and possibly a dangerous way, as has already happened with climate science.”
-colleagues & me
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Keeping up with your Covid vaccinations (and boosters) = an important way to maintain your heart health, prevent heart attacks and strokes
On the reduction of heart attacks, strokes and other clotting events with Covid vaccination among ~46 million people
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
@NatureComms @venexia
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
“Circumstances Affecting the Heat of Sun’s Rays” (1856), by Eunice Foote, the first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming. Read about her seminal paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: buff.ly/2nhNlyf
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
If you’re protesting in D.C. this week, know your rights. Here are some things to do before and during a protest to exercise your 1A rights. If you believe your rights have been violated or have experienced free speech suppression, contact us at acludc.org/help.
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Democracy in crisis is more important than poll numbers. We seem unable, even now, to shift news coverage consistently towards the unprecedented unrolling of democratic and constitutional norms and the impending cataclysm. We should be listening not to pundits but to scholars of authoritarianism, historians, journalists from other countries that have seen democracy erode. We must shed the hubris that tells us we know how to cover this because we’ve covered politics before, and the belief that we must maintain old norms even in the face of an unparalleled moment in US history. Otherwise, we are not journalists but accomplices. The winners and losers here are not Democrats or Republicans, but democracy itself.
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
THURS 6/20 7pm @caveatnyc!
OUR WETTER NATURE – a science comedy show & science trivia showdown about MARINE BIO! We'll be joined by @Joshbarbershop & @dianateuthis for deep dives on the deep sea, the laugh aquatic, and trivia that'll show you the error of your waves! 🎟️🔗in bio!
ALT Image background is an image of schooling tropical fish. Foreground is the Facts Machine logo along with the text: “OUR WETTER NATURE, comedy, storytelling & trivia inspired by MARINE BIOLOGY, Thursday, June 20th, 7pm at Caveat”
ALT Image background is an image of schooling tropical fish. Foreground is the text: “Meet our guests: Joshua Barber, Diana Li, PhD”, along with a headshot of Joshua and a headshot of Diana.
Emily Costa, PhD retweeted
Since October, I have been struck by how many experts and observers reach for superlatives to describe what's happening in Gaza. I compiled a list of such statements, and an alarming narrative emerged. In @nplusonemag
nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
