On my workout this morning, I heard my instructor talk about yawning 🥱 and saying it was because "brain 🧠 needs oxygen".
My understanding is that best current hypothesis is that yawning cools 🥶 the brain. E.g., frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… 1/4
Nuance alert! Yawning 🥱 could be multifunctional, and have physiological and social roles that influence its frequency. 2/4
This reminded me that Wiki has a list of common misconceptions (though yawning isn't on it): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c… I think every time I go through it I learn at least one 1️⃣ new thing! 3/4
What was the last common misconception you heard? 🤔And in what context? 4/4
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I want to try to articulate ideas that have been running around in my head this week about
how often we treat good #SciComm as an individual problem
instead of a systemic problem. 🧵 1/15
I just released a book that mostly focuses on helping scientists - particularly early career researchers - be better communicators using the poster medium.
I think that's a pretty classic #SciComm concern. "Here's help with your skills!" 2/15
In retrospect, I'm glad I wrote a section for conference organizers.
Earlier this week, I live tweeted a webinar that reminded us how many design (and communication) decisions are made by a few people with power.
If you believe the circular bar chart is good, why put the same data in a table, too?
Why not just have the "second dose" 💉💉 data in the table?
Or make another circular bar chart ⚪📊 for the second dose data? 2/5
The colour scheme seems completely arbitrary. Different colours represent anywhere from a 1% difference in "first dose" 💉 percentages (people in their 70s vs. people 80 and older) to a 16% difference (people 18-29 vs. younger teens). 3/5