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by Fomite 3y ago
While you should never treat anything in the literature as having "a guarantee of correct results", it should be a careful first check.
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by Fomite 3y ago
I have had reviewers and editors dig throughly into work, including code, and it has never been met with anything other than appreciation. I've sent reviews in detailing what further test or figure might be needed to make a point more
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by Fomite 3y ago
There's a lot of research into ways to treat C. difficile. Some of it is genuinely antimicrobial stewardship - keeping people off proton pump inhibitors and certain classes of antibiotics. Fecal transplant is also getting both more via
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by Fomite 3y ago
This helps, but doesn't solve the problem entirely. We have some data showing cattle with antibiotic resistant E. coli to antibiotics that are not administered to livestock, because they're carried on the same plasmids as other
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by Fomite 3y ago
Canadian and U.S. research funding work very differently
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by Fomite 3y ago
What makes you think they aren't? I can name four or five labs on my floor that are currently working on various aspects of antimicrobial resistance, all of which are government funded.
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by Fomite 3y ago
This manual saved a friend's passover celebration once when a number of electric ovens went out cooking lamb and I suggested the grill.
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by Fomite 3y ago
I've come to truly hate remote scientific conferences. There are a lot of things to commend them in theory, but between day-to-day distractions, the inability to really do the "I'm sorry, I'll be in $CITY" rather th
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by Fomite 3y ago
I was legitimately expecting "I believe in the United States, and the egalitarian enlightenment era principles upon which it was founded..." to end in "...but Peter Thiel..."
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by Fomite 3y ago
Similarly, I read the one about dog parks, and if you approach it with the good faith notion that it wasn't just fabricated whole cloth, it reads like an okay-ish Master's level paper being submitted to an okay-ish journal. And fe
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by Fomite 3y ago
I don't think I was being particularly hostile, but honestly? Because I'm tired of seeing another round of programs meant to help students succeed and remain in college, having to sort through lists of journals that are going to b
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by Fomite 3y ago
Publication fees are like, #982 on the list of things driving tuition. You want to solve the student loan crisis, the first place I'd look is the evaporation of state funding for higher education from the 2008 crisis that was never res
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by Fomite 3y ago
There are tiers of editors - including both administrative and academic editors. The latter are rarely paid. For example, I'm on the editorial boards of three journals: Epidemiology, PLoS Computational Biology, and Infection Control &a
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by Fomite 3y ago
These are a drop in the bucket compared to what's funded by HHS via the NIH.
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by Fomite 3y ago
It's also something that can be turned on programmers. One of the things I'm told the most by computational students wanting to join my group is that they want to do "something worthwhile" instead of going to work for
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by Fomite 3y ago
In contrast, grad school allowed me enough flexibility on how and where I worked that my wife was able to pursue her career ambitions without me having to compromise my own.
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by Fomite 3y ago
One of the biggest risk factors for a C. difficile infection is being treated with fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, gemifloxacin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, norfloxacin, and ofloxacin), which are often used in outpatient settings.
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by Fomite 3y ago
"Everyone you said it to" was probably the wrong audience? Because digging into potential infection/inflammation related precursors for a number of chronic conditions has been a thing for over a decade now.
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by Fomite 3y ago
It feels like HN should be one of the places that best understands this.
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by Fomite 3y ago
YouTube's recommendation system is notorious in several hobby communities for a tendency to point you toward alt-right content with remarkable ease.
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by Fomite 3y ago
Ironically, in my field I'd argue this isn't necessarily true - so long as the ML PhD sees value in that field. Part of this is because public health as an undergraduate discipline is extremely new, so the field is used to havin
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by Fomite 4y ago
It's gutted several communities I'm a part of.
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by Fomite 4y ago
They threw money at some big name early adopters.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Faculty pay rates at most (if not all) state universities are publicly searchable. I ended up using that at least once during a salary negotiation.
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by Fomite 4y ago
In the U.S. it varies by university, and even department. For some, it's hard to buy out teaching obligations, etc. One university I interviewed you would effectively get a raise if you brought in more than you needed to cover with you
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by Fomite 4y ago
It should be noted its not even universally true in the USA. I've never had to cover summer salary. It's always been a question of a hard vs. soft money percentage. Often one where just having to cover somewhere between 0 and 3
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by Fomite 4y ago
Minor note: Tuition isn't typically included in the "base rate" for overhead calculations.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I mean, on a per grant basis, the direct costs (and thus indirects) for a non-modular NIH R01, which is probably the most common form of grant, haven't changed since the Clinton era.
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by Fomite 4y ago
The immediate question that would come from that is why is a technician or grant admin paid off tuition, when a student will never benefit from that? That also doesn't account for things that don't "feel" like your typic
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by Fomite 4y ago
Both the university where I got my PhD and the university where I'm at right now have mechanisms to reduce your tuition to very, very near 0 (usually whatever is the minimum number of credits) once you pass your prelims.

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