Autopipette tips. Wet lab work will consume a lot of 'em.

Comrade Trump is fighting climate change by reducing demand for fossil fuels?

Do you have a couple hours to hear about my lord and savior ggplot2?

I don’t have the tweet so here’s my guess for 🧵 2/10.

They’re all Wilder type phenotypes, though.

It just doesn’t push electrons the way that sweet sweet red light does.

His language is uncharacteristic of a politician governing on behalf of all Americans irrespective of race, ethnicity, or citizenship status

How would you know in the absence of the counterfactual?

Haha, yeah I just say “I dunno the small one? What’s the small one called?” It really annoys my wife.

She’s a Starbucks Grande

Unfortunately the crater is under a glacier at the moment so it wouldn’t be so simple as walking your chosen offering to the caldera rim and giving it a hip check.

“Here’s your medal but I have to admit I am a little disappointed that you didn’t do your Julia Child impression.”

Whoops, fixed!

People’s Temple (the Jonestown folks) moved to Guatemala Guyana. There’s also Colonia Dignidad in Chile and Joao de Dios in Brazil, although he’s homegrown. Then there’s all the Mennonites currently setting up farming communes in the Amazon.

There was, to put it mildly, a big brouhaha when this paper was published.

I think it might be nice as a guideline, but I don’t think it’s necessary to make it mandatory. I just thought it’d be funny to highlight the scholarly bathroom germ debate.

Teach the controversy via whiteboard marker on the bathroom mirrors!

Wilcox et al were working in a hospital setting and just found that the air bacterial counts were higher around hand dryers than around paper towel dispensers, which doesn’t establish whether the hand dryers are actually a source of bacteria. A more recent meta-analysis found mixed outcomes. So both the sign and the graffito need to revise and resubmit, ideally with a more comprehensive survey of the published literature.

Inquiring minds want to know how the science wing of the center for science and international affairs recruits control groups and conducts experiments.

Given that Psilocybe mushrooms are coprophiles (typically found growing in manure or pastures where manure is abundant), it’s unlikely that they mind being eaten.

As someone who’s had a paper sitting with a journal since August I can understand the motivation.