Rebecca Tan

Chief word nerd

[Acrylic Afternoons @AcrylcAftrnoons]

Jarvis Cocker dressed in the style of British Rail tickets. A thread🧵…

1. Northampton (Rail Day Rover)

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

@munkeatlooi 🤣

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

I’m on episode 2 and it’s gripping. So many familiar behaviours…
“Many narcissists are clever, capable and, because their damaged personalities leave them uneasy if they have time to reflect, they often work prodigiously hard — and demand those around them do the same.”

[Financial Times @FinancialTimes]

Opinion: How to handle a narcissist in the workplace https://t.co/kjtj1o5sNv

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

Long but very enlightening read.

Rewards for those who persevere include an interesting nugget about Valdemarr. https://t.co/8hjWIPGlpY

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

Thanks, ants! (Thants!)
Bonus if you get the reference 🤣

[Horace Zeng @horacezhl]

Another remarkable example of tool use in ants: fire ants “paving” sticky surfaces. I’ve seen signs of this behavior, but I didn’t expect it to be so robust until my friend told me about it (Wang et al., 2021 Insect Science).

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

Some staggering differences here, all down to vaccines. Read the whole thread for more context.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Comparing Hong Kong to its peers, all of whom kept Covid largely at bay for the best part of two years, it’s extraordinary the extent to which it is an outlier in terms of the lethality of this wave.

So what’s driving this?

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

Also me after getting my nose sunburnt after a weekend of sailing. I put lots of sunscreen on at shore but wearing a mask on the brief walk to the boat must have rubbed it off. Oh and my lips got sunburnt too.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

The dermatologist goes to the beach

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

Two things are true (well, four): amazed & grateful AND frustrated & ashamed.

[Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape]

So overall my feelings have been the mixed bag I tried to describe in my look back at the end of 2021: Amazed and grateful that we have these powerful tools available to us, but frustrated and somewhat ashamed at how we have used them globally.

https://t.co/txo636FxHd

[Brandon Wu @brandoncwu]

Already seeing articles blaming India for #COP26 "phase down" instead of "out" coal language. REALLY important to see full context here. The problem is not India; the problem is the US & rich countries refusing to couch fossil fuel phaseout in the context of global equity. 🧵

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

Yes, survivors guilt is real. Experienced it twice, first leaving academia then leaving a toxic startup. You’d think I’d have known better.

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

Herd immunity to Covid? Maybe an impossible dream. We need to reframe our approach to the pandemic and learn more, and limit the death and disruption. Here’s how. 1/thread

[Eng Eong Ooi @EngEongOoi]

Saddened to read that SG is considering booster shots for young adults. More than half the world has no access to vaccines. This is not science. https://t.co/L3DKs8XjLp

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

@sammy_kate_ @YingShirleyMen1 @tossgas Thank you @sammy_kate_ 💕

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

Just moderated an excellent panel at the Materials for Humanity conference #MH21 with @YingShirleyMen1 and @tossgas, both of whom are excellent speakers with such valuable perspectives. Will post the video when it becomes available, stay tuned! #sciencecommunication

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

@YingShirleyMen1 @tossgas My pleasure! May our paths cross again soon :) Do let me know if you are ever back in Singapore!

[Rebecca Tan @RebeccaTanST]

Fantastic thread! Lots of resonances with Thinking, Fast and Slow that I'm only getting round to reading now.

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

My co-founder Chandra Narayanan's quote has become something of a product-builder's mantra for us: Diagnose with data and treat with design.

There is so much packed into those sentences! Thread going deeper 👇 (1/15)

[Mario Fusco @mariofusco]

Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted in the covid vaccine.

In reality it is the electric circuit of a guitar pedal and I believe that putting it in the covid vaccine has been an excellent idea💡

[Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape]

My plan for beating #covid19 after watching this pandemic for one year? Easy: Test like a Korean, track and trace like a Singaporean, sequence like a Brit, crush the curve like a New Zealander, vaccinate like an Israeli - and behave like a human being...

[Jeremy Farrar @JeremyFarrar]

Finland detects UK & SA variants. As immune pressure on virus grows, evolution will speed up & any variants that escape that immunity will have selective advantage. Both variants huge worry, variant described SA, may already evade mAbs, variant UK more transmissible