In under two years Dr Jess Wade liked it here once took a massive chunk out of English Wikipedia’s gender gap, contributing nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies about women scientists and scientists of color. nytimes.com/2019/07/19/sci…

“Despite progress in closing the equality gap, 91% of men and 86% of women hold at least one bias against women in relation to politics, economics, education, violence or reproductive rights.” theguardian.com/global-develop…

There is a great need for accelerated publication of papers on #COVID19 studies. But if a preprint is available, peer review should not be done within 1 day, esp. if author is Editor in Chief of journal. This is not proper science. pubpeer.com/publications/E…

75 µs simulation of a chimeric SARS-CoV-2 spike Receptor-Binding Domain in stable complex with ACE2 (PDB 6VW1) and another 30 µs of Accelerated Weighted Ensemble sampling simulation with hundreds of binding and thousands of unbinding events. deshawresearch.com/resources_sars…

But is she likable? A January study suggests women have to 'act nice' to get ahead but in many instances, men don't. Story: werepstem.com/2020/01/31/stu…

Despite lockdown, there hasn't been a lot of time for Dr Siouxsie Wiles to enjoy one of her favourite hobbies. But she squeezed in the time for a Q and A with UniNews about growing up, studying, research. mentors and her name. #SiouxsieWiles #science #covid19nz bit.ly/2xRjz8Q

“The resulting increased exposure to healthcare settings and invasive procedures, along with expanded antibiotic use, amplifies the opportunity for resistant pathogens to emerge and spread.” covid-19 is accelerating the threat of antimicrobial resistance bmj.com/content/369/bm…