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by Fomite 5y ago
There's a ton of research applications with small sensors.
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by Fomite 5y ago
It likely says something that, as an epidemiologist, the only way I've ever gotten a paper into Nature/Science is during a scary infectious disease epidemic. The rest of the time, they're largely uninterested.
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by Fomite 5y ago
One note: "Where the epidemic was first detected" and "Where the epidemic started" are not the same thing. Especially given the relative prevalence of mild disease in COVID-19 cases.
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by Fomite 5y ago
That depends on what you decide to do about it. 1) I've seen people call for a ban on research at all on BSL-3+ pathogens. 2) If you "accept that it was a lab leak" you are implicitly accepting that it was not a natural eve
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by Fomite 5y ago
A couple reasons, from the perspective of an infectious disease epidemiologist who isn't particularly a fan of Gain of Function studies: 1) "The lab leak theory" is actually a collection of theories, from the fairly reasonabl
846.
by Fomite 5y ago
This. In the lab where I did my postdoc, the folks who went on to work for Amazon, Rackspace and Facebook are doing way better than those of us who went to work for universities, the CDC, etc. monetarily. I have, what is for an academic a
847.
by Fomite 5y ago
This. This shit is hard. And expensive. And involves a hell of a lot of travel, which has been exceedingly difficult during this pandemic. We're still fleshing out the animal hosts for MERS .
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by Fomite 5y ago
SARS "Didn't stay local". The canonical super-spreading event was in Hong Kong, and it killed 81 people in Taiwan, 43 people in Canada, 33 people in Singapore, and caused cases in the U.S., France, Sweden, etc. Indeed, the re
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by Fomite 5y ago
Badly written or overly broad public records requests are often met with "Do you have any idea how long that will take?" "Just give me all of it" is easy to request, but hard to implement.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Any dates that have more than the year in them are PHI.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Modifications to 3D printers made before you ever print with them.
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by Fomite 5y ago
No, but this is where a lot of the expense is, when you create a Dean or VP they usually need staff, and very rarely is the problem "The university has too many people working IT support!"
853.
by Fomite 5y ago
This. Almost no teaching is absorbed by someone who would be counted as administrative staff.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Given the existence of a Law School, a Business School, a School of Public Health and a Medical School, this isn't at all surprising to me. Those generate tremendous needs for administrative support, and won't necessarily see a
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by Fomite 5y ago
There are, but a lot of things are hard to peg (either deliberately or just by nature) to measurable indicators. For example, various "Corporate Engagement" types who are building partnerships and strengthening reputations - shoul
856.
by Fomite 5y ago
As a faculty member, the problem here is very similar to people suggesting there be "less regulations" but never really pointing out which ones to get rid of and why. Most of these positions were created for a reason, and have a
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Instagram errantly blocks the Cochrane Collaboration for Covid-19 content(twitter.com)
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by Fomite 5y ago
One of the reasons I took the position I did was that - fairly rarely for my field, which is heavily grant funded - there was enough hard money to do some curiosity driven research and methods development.
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by Fomite 5y ago
There are a number of programs like this - the NIH MIRA is another. They also have their problems, but it's good to have some of them in the mix.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Endow a university to start an archival server project.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Because scientists aren't allowed to have a sense of humor?
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by Fomite 5y ago
It also coincided with me canceling my Spotify account.
863.
by Fomite 5y ago
When you want to stop someone from doing something because you think it breaks the law, you file an injunction. That makes it a judicial thing. This is especially true for state agencies (like the UC system) - you basically have to sue them
864.
by Fomite 5y ago
Spent so much time planning out and figuring out how to build a custom workbench for a weird area (sometimes, you just need an airbrush booth in a bath/shower stall). Ended up just buying something from Harbor Freight.
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by Fomite 5y ago
My spouse went to an elite law school, and their answer was "There's the public service loan forgiveness program. Good luck with that."
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by Fomite 5y ago
This. The medical field is still struggling to fully adopt pre-prints.
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by Fomite 5y ago
"It used to be that journals would at least do good editorial work, help with editing, formatting, and perhaps even graphics. All of this work is now on the author" Not universally.
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by Fomite 5y ago
A good editor can make or break a journal. Some of the ones who are the best at what they do are amazing .
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by Fomite 5y ago
Not all journals charge the authors. Indeed, one of my annoyances is that the open access movement has moved the burden of paying for journals from institutions to individual PIs, which hurts new PIs worse.
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by Fomite 5y ago
A couple things: 1) They do indeed vet reviewers, both their reviewers and also who ends up on their editorial boards, which for most people on them is just "Yeah, you're going to get more review requests." Editors should - b

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