Cecilia Grimaldi

👩🏼‍💻 Science writer & life scientist | words @BitesizeBio @isciencemedia | alum @imperialcollege @MPI_Muenster | she/her

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

THIS https://t.co/JyWiRJVUst

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

Some food (soup?) for thoughts.

Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here's the evidence https://t.co/JJUrtd8fAN via @ConversationUK

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

So I ask myself, if #vangogh was right in saying “it is […] the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves,” then stopping a crisis of nature could also stop a crisis of feelings (for art, too)?
@ConversationUK
https://t.co/wPUXrxUzkX

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

Who let the #preprints out?
Who, who, who, who, who?
Here comes the future of scientific publishing?
@eLife

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Accepting and rejecting papers is an archaic practice that is terrible for science. It strips peer review of its value & institutionalizes the practice of judging scientists based on where, rather than what, they publish. It's time for this system to go.
https://t.co/tD1BovOzLd

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

😂

[Sam Westwood @westwoodsam1]

When you have no data to present at the lab meeting
@AcademicChatter @AcademicsSay

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

Only know you love her when you let her go...

Brexit sparked greater attachment to the European Union in #UK and #EU citizens living abroad, survey suggests https://t.co/hLyR8HF1rF via @ConversationUK

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

When life gives you rain,
science makes rainbows 🌈
@TheCrick
Brilliant #ukcsj22 conference and amazing speakers!
Thanks @absw for organising it

[Andy Extance @andyextance]

Sobering to hear @JeremyFarrar talk about his frustration about how we were too slow to learn lessons on COVID-19 and that cost many lives. #ukcsj22

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

To all institutions out there: colour and gender don’t matter if you make people leave their backgrounds at the door. #diversity and #inclusion aren’t synonymous! Thank you @josephharker for stressing such a key point. #ukcsj22

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

In science reporting, there is space for nuances and diverse perspectives but not in a falsely balanced way.
Well said @Kit_Yates_Maths #ukcsj22

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

@LindaGeddes is right - preprints aren’t and shouldn’t be treated as scientific facts. Yet, if properly used, could open the peer reviewing process to the whole scientific community and improve transparency #UKCSJ22

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

Very relevant point from @LindaGeddes about some good the #COVID19 pandemic has done - giving @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint the scientific dignity they deserve #ukcsj22 @TheCrick

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

Sirin Kale @thedalstonyears brilliant on how difficult it is to stop myths once they’ve been put out there and pre publication care of your interviewees. Worth checking out the Lost to the Virus series https://t.co/RsKlL05u38 #ukcsj22

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

“It cannot be coincidental the only animals in which gangs of males expand their territory by exterminating neighbours [] happen to be humans and chimpanzees. What is the chance of such tendencies evolving independently in two closely related mammals?” de Waal #TimeToEvolve #War

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Why we trust experts – even when they admit they don't know the answer https://t.co/c8uguEph92 via @ConversationUK

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

“Many people have not had the privilege of learning how to critically evaluate this plethora of conflicting information. Rather than blaming the victim for being lured away by a siren’s song, we should learn to sing a more appealing tune.” #storytelling https://t.co/zkt2nVxZQE

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

Naples celebrates a new marine science museum https://t.co/PjTuYgdTJP

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

Ma infatti

[Genio78 @Zziagenio78]

Mah, uno non può nemmeno più violare la quarantena, fare interviste e andare a eventi da positivo, manomettere tamponi, presentare un visto contraffatto e rilasciare false dichiarazioni che subito la gente ce l'ha con lui ma in che mondo viviamo

#Djokovic

[Cecilia Grimaldi @BackToBios]

Both technically and ethically interesting food for thought.

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Researchers have harnessed the gene editor #CRISPR to produce litters of mice all of one sex. https://t.co/WZgMC4Fmd4