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by jryb 4y ago
There was a point when I was learning and retaining so many new French words that I added on Chinese just to see what my limit was. It may be the optimal way to memorize as much information as possible, but ultimately I suspect that most of
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One answer: anyone can start a journal, there are no laws or standards. Peer reviewers are busy and don't always have the background to criticize every aspect of a paper. Another: not all research can or should have randomized studies
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This also creates ozone though, which is detrimental to human health. Review here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-017-9239-3
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There are way more scientific problems than scientists, funding for science is limited and competitive, NASA requires a review process before handing out soil samples...I could go on.
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From Ad Tech to Synthetic Biology(ginkgobioworks.com)
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Correct, you take one sticker and place it on the form you're filling out, and place the other somewhere else, I forget where. So when the tech turns around they can't know which one you picked.
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During blood donations there's a step where they ask you if it's okay to use your blood (which is indicated by selecting one of two barcode stickers that the technician can't interpret). I assume this is for people who are pr
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Many of my colleagues have gotten messages on linked in from consulting firms where they basically offer $300 for an hour long phone call with a client. I'm not sure how they're getting picked, but they all have PhDs and papers in
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Sorting by Review Done Right(convermax.com)
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The pitch video is pretty heavily oriented towards investors - much of it was dedicated to their current grants and collaborative partners, and implies they're still developing the process. I can imagine they're working on CO2 seq
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Maybe not: https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps#12/51.4321/30.0...
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Live Radiological Maps in Ukraine(saveecobot.com)
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I follow almost exclusively biologists. It's pretty much the place to be to learn about new papers, especially outside of my field. I often learn about papers there before my google scholar or biorxiv alerts reach me. and the general
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Comp. bio accuracy correlates with sustained development, not journal/citations(genomebiology.biomedcentral.com)
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Some smaller labs at my tier 1 research institution have their grad students TA (so the university pays their salary) because they don't have the ability to pay them the $30k salary. $11k for one paper is a meaningful amount of money,
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Authors and institutions don't get any royalties at all - only the journal profits.
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When I make my todo list for the day, I estimate how long each task will take and write the time I expect to start each one. Since I rarely overestimate, it mostly serves as a way to limit myself to reasonable expectations, but there is the
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One way he be might doing this while not sacrificing substance is if he's the head of a very large group. If you have 20 postdocs and 40 grad students, that wouldn't be a crazy number of papers over five years. Alternatively, he m
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I specifically mean: give them enough understanding that they'll make reasonable predictions of what it might be used for in the near term. If they're worried about supersoldiers or immortality then I've failed - if they thin
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> I get the feeling much of academia shuts down such attempts to preserve their grip on knowledge and thus their authority There might be fields like that, but in biology, it really just is that we've accumulated so much knowledge o
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It...doesn't? Sure, it gets into junk DNA, but there's only a brief mention that the genome has structure, and it's not examined in any depth. Notably, they never discuss enhancers or insulators, which I feel would really imp
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by jryb 5y ago
I deleted my Facebook account years ago. Friends and family remember to reach out when something important is happening. I'd highly recommend it.
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Sequencing efforts are quite decentralized. If it hasn't been detected yet, either organizations haven't reported it to the CDC yet or it's still below the limit of detection.
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We've eradicated diseases before and nothing happened (e.g. smallpox, polio). Also, the only risk is that the bacteria gain resistance to these peptides. Which isn't even that great of a risk - if humans express these peptides, we
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If we were just interested in bioprospecting for new antibiotics, sure, there's more phage genome out there than human. But there's a unique value in understanding how human antibiotic peptides work (or fail to work). Does express
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NATO alphabet, phone numbers of close friends/family (in case my phone is lost/damaged and I need to call one of them), conversions between Fahrenheit and Celsius for common temperatures used in biology (both for science communica
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by jryb 5y ago
From the original article [1]: >The growth in unpartnered adults has been sharper among men than women. In 1990, men and women ages 25 to 54 were equally likely to be unpartnered (29% of each group). By 2019, 39% of men were unpartnered,
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It is generally called the Okabe-Ito palette since it was created nine years before the Wong paper. But I digress. Colorblind-friendly color palettes are not sufficient in all cases - even a non-color-deficient person will have trouble dist
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There's also a negative impact of not posting paywalled links: it lowers the quality of the content we discuss here. Some really great stuff is behind paywalls. There's a reason people pay for subscriptions when there are still
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Last I checked the US was sequencing about 1% of patients. In the Houston Methodist hospital system, they sequenced the viral genomes of 56% of patients, which they estimate is about 4% of Covid cases in the Houston metropolitan area: http

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