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And… here’s the next batch of #sci140 entries, since 10.40 today. If you think yours should be on the list, then please let me know (with the twitter URL if possible).

Keep ’em coming…

1. 
   djryan What do you mean ‘ethics committee’? Just deliver the shock please.” – Stanley Milgram
   21 minutes ago
2. 
   lifeaquatic Pterosaurs couldn’t fly with their bills in the water.
   about 1 hour ago
3. 
   hufbauer Q: do introduced species evolve to be larger, more competitive? A: yes; bigger, better and faster. So easy! Why ever write more?
   about 2 hours ago
4. 
   scimomof2 Predictive model built by MLR-genetic algor. from correlation b/n XPS & electrochem. activity 4 non-Pt electrocatalyst 4 fuel cells
   about 9 hours ago
5. 
   dange82 shaky shaky parahydrogen + catalyst makes NMR signals 1000 times bigger
   about 12 hours ago
6. 
   doctornige Rev Stone: I have an uncanny feeling that I will feel a lot better if I eat that willow tree over there.
   about 14 hours ago
7. 
   boris_gorelik E=mc^2 (Einstein)
   about 14 hours ago
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   boris_gorelik DNA, AC-GT 2 helices (Watson, Crick, forget the girl) https://bit.ly/aX9eaQ
   about 14 hours ago
9. 
   enniscath Rang bell, fed dogs. Rang bell again, dogs drooled. NO FOOD FOR YOU! BAD DOG! (heh heh. Stoopid dogs). – Pavlov. https://tr.im/NEqq
   about 14 hours ago
10. 
    microecos There are lots of little animals swimming around in this stuff! p.s. I didn’t defile myself, just so you know (Leeuwenhoek 1677)
    about 16 hours ago
11. 
    microecos Those “tongues” are teeth (Steno 1667)
    about 17 hours ago
12. 
    microecos The bees go to the blue card, even when the sugar’s gone ∴ flowers are colorful (Frisch 1914/1915)
    about 17 hours ago
13. 
    tomroudS Lorentz transfo. implies kinetic energy of a body diminishes after emission of a radiation, therefore mass is energy (Einstein1905b)
    about 17 hours ago
14. 
    tomroudS c is independent from referential, therefore Lorentz beats Galileo (Einstein 1905a)
    about 17 hours ago
15. 
    tomroudS Phil Anderson did much better than 140 characters with his famous paper self contained in the title : “More is different”
    about 17 hours ago
16. 
    tomroudS Selected for bacterial resistance. Got non poissonian distrib. of mutants with huge variance, ergo mutations preexisted selection.
    about 17 hours ago
17. 
    moreno web altera comunicação científica clássica. sugiro novas metodologias de validação qualitativa do conhecimento https://bit.ly/d6gV0p
    about 19 hours ago

    (Translation: Web changes traditional scientific communication. Suggest new methods of qualitative validation of knowledge)

18. 
    delahar Carrying variant P11S increases risk for autism, when it’s from mom. Oh no! Refrigerator mothers again! https://bit.ly/ddGxJJ
    about 20 hours ago
19. 
    erikacule WTCCC GWAS of 7 common diseases in 14K cases + 3K shared controls. Prior SNPs confirmed + new ones found. Yay for large data sets!
    about 21 hours ago
20. 
    aemonten Say, Bernard, you messy kid, why did you leave your plates in the sterilizing oven?Wait, the spores germinated! https://bit.ly/cKo3n2
    about 21 hours ago
21. 
    pssalgado Stan, stop prying around mad cow brains!” “Did you say prion? That’s it, that’s what causes it!!!”
    about 21 hours ago
22. 
    razZ0r If you fumigate maize kernels, they will feel stressed, and grow faster and larger.
    about 22 hours ago
23. 
    cientounero PCR de sangre entera para diagnostico de bacteriemia por neumococo carece de sensibilidad y especificidadhttps://bit.ly/9tSmKG
    about 22 hours ago

    (Translation: Whole blood PCR for diagnosing pneumococcal bacteremia lacks sensitivity and specificity)

24. 
    newprof1 I am sure it’s just the regular flu. Now get ready for an awesome 1918 new years party!
    about 22 hours ago
25. 
    DizzyD242 , man, fire, farming, tools, buildings, books, from then on it was downhill for the planet
    about 23 hours ago
26. 
    pssalgado Archi, stop messing about with the earth!” “if I can just find the right lever, I’ll move it!”
    about 23 hours ago
27. 
    suthers Galileo makes a telescope and is astonished to see what his neighbours are getting up to.
    about 23 hours ago
28. 
    pssalgado Where are you, Heis? “Don’t know exactly, but I can tell you how fast I’m going!”
    about 23 hours ago
29. 
    silentypewriter Zapped pencil with laser. Saw 60-atom carbon clusters. Reckon they look like footballs. We dub this new substance soccerene! Maybe.
    about 23 hours ago
30. 
    suthers Isaac Newton observes a falling apple and discovers a great new recipe for pie.
    about 23 hours ago
31. 
    Research_BI Feelings are necessary to make good decisions. However, the temperature must not become too high https://bit.ly/cA6V1V
    about 23 hours ago
32. 
    choklitfiend Good grief Walter, *how* many eyes???
    about 24 hours ago
33. 
    pssalgado Anna, just put your hand there in that cardboard plate, dear. “Oh, my god, Roet, I have seen my death!”
    about 24 hours ago
34. 
    beautyscientist Hooke’s law. Ut tensio, sic vis, meaning, “As the extension, so the force” I think Hooke would have loved Twitter..
    about 24 hours ago
35. 
    ely_peddler Hey Benoît that’s a pretty picture
    about 24 hours ago
36. 
    beautyscientist Darwin – the more you use it, the bigger it gets.
    about 24 hours ago
37. 
    pssalgado Hey, Schrodinger, is your cat dead or alive? “- Both.” – Lets open the box and see, then
    about 24 hours ago
38. 
    pssalgado I put light through 2 parallel slits and see light-dark & discret pattern Having two minds about this
    about 24 hours ago
39. 
    LouiseJJohnson The earth goes round the sun. But the stars must go round the earth or they’d have to be MILLIONS of miles away & that’s ridiculous
    about 24 hours ago
40. 
    LouiseJJohnson This tree weighs more than the soil I grew it in. Trees must be made of water: they could hardly be made of air!
    1 day ago
41. 
    choklitfiend Robert, if you keep playing with all that uranium, you’ll have someone’s eye out!
    1 day ago
42. 
    sciencebase Archi, you’ve just had a bath, get some clothes on before you catch your death of cold, are you dense, or what?
    1 day ago
43. 
    sciencebase Professor, these X-ray patterns are incredibly symmetrical, best not mention them to Jim and Francis
    1 day ago
44. 
    wittyremarkhere My grandparents weigh 14/15 what I do, and my parents 29/30. So I must be semi-conservatively replicated.
    1 day ago
45. 
    sciencebase Stanley, is this circuit really 450 Volts, those people look like they’re in real pain? Shut up and just push the lever
    1 day ago
46. 
    NTNUmedicine Resting heart rate positively asocciated with risk of death from ischhaemic heart disease among women, physical activity reduce risk
    1 day ago
47. 
    sciencebase Fido, get down, you’re slobbering all over my good lab coat…it’s only the doorbell
    1 day ago
48. 
    sciencebase I’m sorry Alex, I forgot to put your Petri dishes away and now they’ve got all mouldy…hang on…
    1 day ago
49. 
    wittyremarkhere Measure and enhance protein stability in cells by linking folding to antibiotic resistance. Evolution of function limits stability.
    1 day ago