Cheering Women On It's been wonderful to have so many women to cheer on lately, with sunshine and exuberance pouring out from the Kamala Harris campaign and the Olympics. All that accomplishment could even rise above the head-spinning levels of racism, misogyny, sexism, and transphobia it triggered. Most of the backlash is what you would expect, but something about transphobia used to perplex me.
Cheering Women On – Living With Evidence
Checking in on the pandemic's impact on women in science....with real relief at what I found! Science's diversity problem could have gotten a whole lot worse. It was a heavy, heavy lift : We should applaud people's progress accordingly! My latest post @PLOS :verified:
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Checking in on Pandemic Impact on Women in Science - Absolutely Maybe
Before the pandemic, less than 30% of the world’s STEM researchers were women. When the lockdowns started, it didn’t take long for…
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Latest nextgen Covid vax update: - Encouraging preclinical results for an intranasal pancoronavirus vaccine from the Uni of Houston; - And then there were 30 ... mucosal vaxes reaching clinical trial - with some new clinical results; - Preclinical results for an intranasal vax that held a high immune response for at least 15 months; - News from Project NextGen, including 1st of their trials beginning recruitment; & more at @PLOS :verified:
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More Signs of Broad Protection From Next Generation Covid Vaccines (Update 19) - Absolutely Maybe
This month, there are some clinical results for a mucosal next generation Covid vaccine – the 30th mucosal vaccine on my list…
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