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by jpeloquin 4y ago
I'm having difficulty reconciling these two opinions: 1. This ethics guidance is bad because it limits, or even censors, scientific investigation related to socially sensitive topics. 2. Social science has a reproducibility crisis and
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> You could write a book on this point. In fact a few have and they are worth reading. If you have time, could you share some specific recommendations?
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The practice of plotting case maps like this started during the 1854 cholera epidemic. The cholera case map helped discredit the theory that cholera was transmitted by miasma, and supported the theory of fecal-oral transmission. Just some
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We just call this "literature review", and everyone does it at times regardless of seniority level. But the aim is not a sentiment graph because it doesn't really matter whether author A said paper B was good or bad. What w
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Not sure how to interpret the question. Using a robot vs. a person doesn't change anything about the physics of how tissue responds to perturbation. You can of course simplify the simulator and correspondingly limit its use to specif
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Yes, you can produce a model incorporating nonlinear elasticity, viscosity, plasticity, frictional contact, subfailure damage, and fracture / cutting. Repeat for each tissue involved. Some of those methods are well-developed, others
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Yep, acknowledgments in the 2017 paper linked by the MIT article check out as referencing the grant I linked, and the paper does describe work with chimeric viruses.
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
> during 2014-2019 NIH actually paid $3.6M to EcoHealth Alliance under the grants clearly specifying the coronavirus GoF experiments in Wuhan with the "Human subjects included" checked. Is this is the grant you're referrin
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
> I’d be very interested in a link, that sounds cool! Paris' Law, which predicts fatigue crack growth rate, was published in "The Trend in Engineering", which is the University of Washington College of Engineering alumni n
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
Start your own journal? It doesn't necessarily matter that citations to it won't be tracked in Scopus or whatever when it's first launched. Even the gatekept academic journals aren't automatically accepted into citatio
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The "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch" talk is a good example of how multiple dispatch is special in a good way, in that everything (should) work together as new types and functions are added to the ecosystem. Howe
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In the US, federally funded research is already required to made available without paywalls within 1 year of publication. Open-access advocates online generally seem to be unaware of this, and that current goalposts are therefore (a) imme
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Yeah, when I speak or write out my thoughts I often find they weren't as fully formed as they seemed while they were just in my head, and maybe shouldn't have counted as thoughts in the first place. This is one reason it's b
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by jpeloquin 4y ago
It's a personal statement from someone with relevant lived experience. Exploring others' viewpoints is interesting, if only to find out that they exist. The article touches on questions that do not currently have an objective an
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Virologists Identify More Than 5k New Viruses in the Ocean(smithsonianmag.com)
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
I remapped control to the bottom row, whichever key my thumb naturally rests on. Usually alt. Also moved \, [, ], enter, and backspace to avoid reaching for them with my right pinky. I think if your fingers start feeling even a little bi
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
Thanks for your reply. Not providing numerical estimates is fine with me, my opinion is that they're not productive anyway. It's like the Drake equation but worse, or trying to estimate the probability of divine creation vs. a n
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
One aspect of the intellectual approach that I struggle with is decision paralysis. That is, second-guessing any expenditure of resources I'm considering as possibly better spent on something else. And there are innumerable options.
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
Sure. P(lab leak origin | last bullet) = P(last bullet | lab leak) * P(lab leak) / P(last bullet). There isn't much evidence to constrain each term, and your post doesn't make any attempt to estimate them, but let's ma
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A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity(taylorpearson.me)
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect? Although that's more about how news and social media are unreliable sources of information on all topics. I've heard "Engineer's Disease" or "Engineer Syndrome" used to describe
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
> If an idea is successful, whether correct or not, then as in business people will blindly support it to 'get a piece of the pie'. I wonder whether articles like this are driven in part by the same copycat effect described abo
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
Apologies for implying that scientific employment outside of the US is easy to obtain. I should have clarified that my comment pertained only to the US scientific job market, which enjoys considerable support from public and private funds.
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
Everything on this list is nice in general; my favorite is #5. I suspect that UBI would not make any difference to the "Karikó problem" though. Labs are almost always desperate for people who can get things done. If you don&#x2
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
> I am trying to get good data to determine if vaccination is risky or not. Rather than giving you a list of work that you may suspect of being curated, I will show you how to quickly find what you're looking for. One of the great t
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
> T-cell immunity was considered borderline conspiracy theory until recently. This surprised me, so I checked my cell biology books. The role of memory T-cells in the adaptive immune response is clearly described in Garland, "Molec
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Laypeople Can Predict Which Social-Science Studies Will Be Replicated(journals.sagepub.com)
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In my experience this is very rare, but that's my plan going forward. I can't guarantee that seed will stay up if I'm not paying attention to it though, so in practice it still means emailing the corresponding author. And a
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> One of the questions I've had to really grapple with is that I just cannot personally host all the terabytes of data I'm collecting. Hosting is a big challenge for open science. Whenever I see someone calling for open data,
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by jpeloquin 5y ago
As a researcher, although I love the idea of a pressure-free job, I'm also keenly aware that I'm being paid by tax money and therefore should be accountable for my productivity (or lack thereof). I would rather have more robust r

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