Tweets for Progress!

Our mission is to give the people a voice who are working on making the world better using evidence. With the twitter rocur account @SfPRocur we simply hand over the mic:

January 29 - February 03: Linda Amarante and Samantha White for @OpenBehavior
February 05 - 10: Maxie Gottschling and Helene Brinken for @FIT4RRIEU
February 12 - 17: Jenny Molloy - @jenny_molloy
February 19 - 24: Chinmaya Sadangi - @AddictiveBrain
February 26 - March 3: Simona Falanga - @CrazyBoneLady
March 5 - 10: Olivia Guest - @O_Guest
March 12-17: - open -
March 19-24: - open -

Interested in curating SfPRocur?

Email us who you are and what you want to tweet about to socialadmin@scienceforprogress.eu! We will check if it's a good fit!

Curator Archive

Monthly Newsletter!

I am happy to announce our new monthly newsletter! I will share what’s new, what happened in the previous month, and what’s going to happen in future! The post Monthly Newsletter! appeared first on Science for Progress.
18 B&D Animal Use and Statistics of Equivalence

In the light of the latest animal use numbers in Germany (2017), Bart and I are having a conversation about animal use in fundamental research. We then move on to talk about a new statistical method that might help researchers get some of their data out of their drawers and into an article! Animal Use […] The post 18 B&D Animal...
17 From PhD to SciComm via BookTube – with Deboki Chakravarti

Science Communication is one way academics can apply themselves outside of academia. But how does one transition between careers? I talked with Dr. Deboki Chakravarti, a biomedical engineer who worked on cancer treatments. She graduated in 2018 and then did an internship with Scientific American, a leading brand in
Science Communication in the USA. First […] The post 17 From PhD...
16 B&D: CRISPR Babies

At the end of November 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced that he had genetically modified human embryos which were then brought to term. The resulting twin sisters appear to be healthy. But this experiment was not greeted with enthusiasm by the scientific community. The critique attacks every aspect of the experiment: the treatment’s medical […] The post 16 B&D: CRISPR...
SfProcur Curator December 19 – December 23: Lauriane Nallet – @lnk1618

Lauriane Nallet-Khosrofian is a PhD candidate in Neuroscience in Zürich, Switzerland. As we talked about in a previous podcast episode, she is concerned about mental health of PhDs and Postdocs. She is further interested in the place of gender equality in academia, and science communication. Lauriane tries to participate in different projects regarding these topics: […] The post SfProcur Curator December...
Where to Subscribe to our Podcast.

It has been a while since I made the first video on how to subscribe to our podcast, and since then some things has changed. In particular, Spotify is now listing Science for Societal Progress. Also, Google launched a new podcast app, that is included in Android – and they found us, too, already! So, the […] The post Where to Subscribe...

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Describe an occasion when you opened a crate and its contents was better than a pile of platypuses.
#NeverHappened #taxidermy #platypus

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Susan Leemburg @SusanLeemburg·

@SciForProgress @atomicarman And for women there's this idea that rejecting modern medical knowledge is empowering somehow.
That power doesn't lie in having accurate knowledge about our bodies and access to proper case, but instead in some mystical link to a fictional past.
It's infuriating.

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