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811.
by Fomite 5y ago
As a researcher, someone writing me to say they're interested in my work and would like a copy of my paper will: 1) Result in a PDF attachment with a short note. 2) Probably be the highlight of my day.
812.
by Fomite 5y ago
If we assume that most studies that get into Nature Neuroscience are NIH R01s, which have a cap before you need to start fleshing out the budget in exacting detail of $125,000 in direct costs per year, and we assume a 50% overhead rate...
813.
by Fomite 5y ago
Not dumb at all. Academia loves its jargon.
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by Fomite 5y ago
"There’s no justification for snobbery of pure over applied work." is such an important point. The most gratifying, impactful work I've done in my career has been applied work. The growth bit at the end is the most important
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by Fomite 5y ago
I'd suggest that "grandest and most fundamental" and "important", while correlated, are not the same thing.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Indeed this comic, which has been around for quite some time, makes fun of sci-fi's tendency toward the opposite. https://imgur.com/gallery/n6vZCm2
817.
by Fomite 5y ago
I had this happen to me once on Digital Ocean, and I contacted them - they were rather understanding that the bill I had was clearly "atypical for my account and not intended" and refunded it.
818.
by Fomite 5y ago
Survival analysis was my first great methodological love. Dr. Cox was an absolute giant in the field.
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by Fomite 5y ago
I switched back to Apple Music because of Joe Rogan's deal with Spotify, but I recognize that this is likely a niche reason.
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by Fomite 5y ago
The romance fiction genre has about as many sales as the entire comic book industry. Perhaps publishers are misallocating the pie.
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by Fomite 5y ago
The thing is, if you want to ignore someone's random seed, you can if it's provided. If it's not provided and you need it to chase down why something isn't working, you're SOL. It's zero cost to include it.
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by Fomite 5y ago
This is how my lab works. We do a lot of prototyping, exploring, making sure everything seems to be working, etc. and then pack it all into reasonably well documented standard code. Learned this the hard way after working for a group for aw
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by Fomite 5y ago
I'd be more sympathetic to this if Uber and Lyft hadn't built their businesses on the premise that regulations are for other people.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Every clinician I know (I work with a lot of infectious disease doctors) have been cut to the bone with stuff like this.
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by Fomite 5y ago
This. Blockchains can't guarantee provenance, or that art isn't stolen, etc. Just that the agreed upon story has remained consistent, whether or not it was true.
826.
by Fomite 5y ago
It would be interesting to see - but that effective sample size of 10 for the Facebook survey of 4,500,000+ people should be terrifying to researchers in Big Data.
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by Fomite 5y ago
"This project involves data derived from patient-level information collected by the National Health Service (NHS), as part of the care and support of cancer patients. The SARS-Cov-2 test data are collated, maintained and quality assure
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Unrepresentative big surveys significantly overestimated US vaccine uptake(nature.com)
3 points by Fomite 5y ago|2 comments
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by Fomite 5y ago
Current real life scientist in biomedicine: "Interesting but I don't know how to make sense of it. How can it be that "close to nothing of what makes science actually work is published as text on the web"?" I'm
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by Fomite 5y ago
Very little money, and more than that, very little unallocated money. I'm fortunate enough to have a decently well funded lab, but almost all of that funding is spoken for . Your Compelling New Product needs to be compelling enough
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by Fomite 5y ago
Also hard disagree. Everyone I know takes papers quite seriously, there's a major push to get more information into the literature (publish null effect estimates!), etc. This feels a lot like the graduate students on the Academia Sta
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by Fomite 5y ago
It also doesn't happen enough to design for - I once presented a fairly open-source contributor friendly project at SciPy that I hoped would be compelling (it was about modeling the zombie epidemic), actively asked for help, had set up
833.
by Fomite 5y ago
No, I'm using it to mean an untestable (or in this case untested) narrative explanation for a biological phenomenon. There are several prevalent narratives around the evolution of microbes that are taken to be true because they tell a
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by Fomite 5y ago
The problem is one of those camps was relying on an equilibrium condition and pretending like it was on a clinically relevant time scale.
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by Fomite 5y ago
It's more of a "yes and..." problem. There's also a sanitation aspect to things.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Yeah, but this was very much a just so story.
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by Fomite 5y ago
It's been funny working at the intersection of human and animal health. The medical types all want to blame agriculture. The agriculture types all respond that they're not using major frontline human antibiotics (outside some stuf
838.
by Fomite 5y ago
This is certainly a problem when banning antibiotics for growth promotion, but allowing the prophylactic use of antibiotics. Any animal in the type of farm looking for growth promotion is at risk for a bacterial infection basically all the
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by Fomite 5y ago
The problem is that there was a very compelling "just so" story that antibiotic-resistant bacteria are inherently at a competitive disadvantage vs. susceptible bacteria absent selective pressure. Take the antibiotics away, and the
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by Fomite 5y ago
It definitely is - both in the developed and developing world there is a staggering amount of overuse of antibiotics.

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