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The Tibetan Plateau is one of the great unexplored mysteries
- smoyer 5y agoI'm sure this is just bias but this sounds like something that should be written in the application for a research grant. Seeing it on Twitter makes me discount the idea and wonder about the author's credentials.
- lern_too_spel 5y agoYou can see her credentials in their profile. Presumably, her followers are mainly geologists.
- JoeyBananas 5y agoseems like a typical Twitter PhD
- ZenThereWere0 5y agoI've been rereading the 1996 bestseller NEANDERTHAL, by John Darnton. Without giving away too many spoilers, paleoarchaeologists trek to the Pamir mountains in search of ancient hominids. I've looked at the location of the Pamir range in relation to the Tibetan plateau. Also, I found this article on the genetic makeup of modern Tibetans: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011065/ .
- lmilcin 5y agoSuper interesting but why the hell do this over Twitter?
- d13 5y agoThat’s where the readers are.
- lmilcin 5y agoTwitter was a conscious decision to limit length of the message (to something like 140 characters). Now people are trying to push longer content into it -- seems completely illogical to me.
- yucky 5y agoDoes anybody take content on Twitter seriously though? I assume if it's published on Twitter, it's garbage. Maybe an internal bias, but it holds true more often than not. If you're a PhD pushing content on Twitter why would you expect to be taken seriously?