I will miss science Twitter. It’s hard to overstate the influence of the social network on science during the COVID-19 pandemic — and the pandemic’s influence on science Twitter. A rich community of ...

An anthropology professor, @Sciencing_Bi, posted on Twitter that she was Hopi, bisexual, and taught at Arizona State University. She said she grew up in Alabama and left “because of their oppression ...

A bizarre saga of events played out on social media over the weekend, embroiling much of the close-knit world of scientists, academics, and researchers on Twitter. It started with accusations that ...

It’s been a heck of a year, and for anyone who uses Twitter regularly, it’s all played out in a never-ending stream of nightmares, summed up in 180 (or sometimes 280) characters or less. The Trump ...

COVID-19 has thrown science and scientists into the spotlight. Some have accepted the challenge, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and using the ongoing pandemic as a “teachable moment.” As ...

JERUSALEM — Elon Musk, in a tweet, wrote: “New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science.” Finally. Real science — not the Anthony Fauci ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Twitter campaign was born out of frustration. It started when Melissa Marquez, a marine biologist, tweeted ...

University of Washington computer science professor emeritus Pedro Domingos. (UW Photo) The University of Washington computer science department denounced comments made online by a retired professor ...

Two weeks after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, many people who’ve used the platform to participate in conversations around science and academia have publicly contemplated setting off for new social ...

Current Twitter CEO Elon Musk declared Wednesday that Twitter will promote "reasoned" skepticism of scientific data. "New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned ...

Question: What does slime mold have in common with hip-hop superstar MC Hammer? Answer: University of California, Berkeley, biologist Michael Eisen is a big fan of both. Which is why Eisen thought it ...