Is loneliness is bad for your health? a @nature news feature synthesizes the scientific literature and comes to the conclusion that yes, loneliness is bad for your health and explains why nature.com/articles/d4158…

My treat of the day: reading Flora Graham's summary of W. Quattrociocchi Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli et al's @nature paper showing that online discussions show similar patterns across platforms: longer ones tend to be more toxic, but this doesn't stop engagement nature.com/articles/s4158…

Things I learned today from @nature's table of contents: stars can eat planets (and at least 1/12 stars shows evidence of having eaten planets). Craziness! nature.com/articles/s4158…

A great paper out in Communications Psychology showing how e-contact facilitated by conversational AI reduced prejudice and anxiety between historically segregated groups

Did you know that online conversations show similar patterns across topics, platforms and time? W. Quattrociocchi Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli et al's @nature paper shows longer conversations are more toxic, but that this toxicity doesn't discourage participation nature.com/articles/s4158…

Correcting this post: How can we increase the number of people vaccinated in remote rural areas of low-income countries such as Sierra Leone? Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Niccolò Meriggi et al show that bringing vaccines to communities increased immunizations by ~ 26 pp nature.com/articles/s4158…

This is such an important point

Do you have cool pictures of yourself or colleagues doing your research? Enter nature’s Working Scientist photo competition to be published in Nature and win £500. nature.com/articles/d4158…

I love science fiction, and so had a lot of fun reading this @nature news Q&A about the actual worms that #DuneMovie 's sandworms are based on. They may be smaller (but they grow up to meters!) than in the actual movie, but they look pretty fierce! nature.com/articles/d4158…