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by Fomite 4y ago
This. The maintenance of many experimental populations is because you can't "spin up and spin down" animals like you can an EC2 instance. Perhaps you need functional colonies. Or specific lines of animals, etc. Science isn&#x
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by Fomite 4y ago
A lot of people are assuming this is purely about research for human products/treatments. The researcher who was the most drained from her work was doing work that was entirely focused on the animals she works with . Veterinary school
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by Fomite 4y ago
If they are at all subject to a functional IACUC (i.e. at a university) this is required. The bar for testing things on (especially charismatic) animals is quite high.
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by Fomite 4y ago
As a faculty member at my institution put it: "Where in the land-grant university mission is giving our students traumatic brain injuries?"
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by Fomite 4y ago
Most biological processes that apply to organisms aren't exponential, they're logistic. Which means when they stop growing, they're at steady state.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I'll see if I can catch up with him. Candidly, the last few years have been...disruptive...to a lot of disease research.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Not conjecture :) This is actively of interest in that area. One of the researchers down the hall from me is working on it.
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by Fomite 4y ago
We've had the same thing happen with a local gaming club - we've pretty much wholesale moved from Facebook to Discord. Which is great for current members, but makes recruiting (which is sort of important in a college town) next
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by Fomite 4y ago
The United States Postal Services is legitimately a national treasure.
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by Fomite 4y ago
What if it's the stated goal of that company?
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by Fomite 4y ago
I work enough in the developed world to know that there are a lot of people there with things to contribute to the world, and where electronics are more reliable than mail.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Internationally, there are a lot of people working on laptops and phones cheaper than that. The problem is not the printing - it's the mailing.
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by Fomite 4y ago
It does it in a way Clarkesworld has actively said they're trying to avoid. I'd prefer not to throw the Making Science Fiction More Accessible baby out with the ChatGPT Side Hustle bathwater.
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by Fomite 4y ago
The problem is not the printing - it's the mailing. Clarkesworld intentionally went to electronic submissions to make it easier for international writers. International mail can be prohibitively expensive, and in a lot of places ther
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by Fomite 4y ago
That heavily restricts the audience you can accept submissions from.
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by Fomite 4y ago
This. If I'm paying for it, I'm the customer. Facebook's customers are its advertisers. I'm not shelling out money to be a value added product.
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by Fomite 4y ago
There's a lot of work in decolonization right now, either with competing bacteria (like the parent article) or with various decolonizing agents. "Many surgical patients with staph complications actually infected themselves, and
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by Fomite 4y ago
Generally speaking, education (when done correctly) tries to avoid "...and devil take the hindmost" as a guiding philosophy.
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by Fomite 4y ago
That heavily favors a particular learning style, which isn't necessarily a desirable outcome.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I really wish they'd have provided their false positive rate over several lengths of document, rather than an overall estimate. Because if it dives after say, 1,500 words, that's a relevant piece of information for its use. I&#x27
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by Fomite 4y ago
I think the much more proximate threat is that fear of ChatGPT kills a lot of progress that's been made in making exam material more accessible (take home tests, etc.) to a broader audience of students.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I read every student essay I grade twice. Small classes, admittedly, but this has always been my practice.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Given my experience with this organization when I was an undergrad, and reading their accounting of events that were going on on campus, I'd take this with more than just a grain of salt.
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by Fomite 4y ago
That's my usual line when people talk about smell being indicative of how safe something is. Farts smell. Carbon monoxide doesn't.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I basically channeled my days working in pathogen labs - "hot" surfaces where resin ends up, respirator, goggles and gloves, etc.
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by Fomite 4y ago
laughs in syphilis STIs were rampant in the past. It's not Ole Tyme Morals that keep them at bay - it's antibiotics.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Epidemiology and disease ecology, particularly of antimicrobial resistant pathogens. The Wikipedia entry for it gives the definition I've always seen: "An ecological fallacy is a formal fallacy in the interpretation of statistical
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by Fomite 4y ago
...that is not how I've ever heard "the ecological fallacy" used, and this is what I do for a living.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Having looked at the data on this, the change in antibiotic prescribing was extremely heterogeneous. It absolutely crashed in some areas, and went up in others.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Posted above, but putting it here too: Phage comes up a lot here - it seems to be on of HN's favorite biology topics. I have a deep and abiding fondness for phage, but they're not quite as awesome as they seem at first glance. Fro

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