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by pmags 2y ago
I was about to recommend VueScan which I purchased once way back in 2004 and have used ever since using the same license, but I was disappointed to learn that they have now moved to a subscription model (guess my perpetual license got grand
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by pmags 2y ago
You seem to prefer snarky comments to actual citations. Your loss I guess.
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by pmags 2y ago
I seem to recall that Vizio was added to my "do not buy" list quite a long time ago, when it turned out they were monitoring your watching habit ( https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/7/14527360/vizio
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Ex-FCC chairs from both parties say CBS news distortion investigation is bogus(arstechnica.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
Would you prefer the phrasing "US scientific and public health infrastructure has been subjected to capricious changes that will effect almost all aspects of research and health care for a decade or more"? https://www.n
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by pmags 2y ago
I'm a US scientist and the use of minimalist phone and a laptop is something I'm planning for all my travel. This is for the simple reason that I have determined, based on a large body of cases that are accumulating at a disturbin
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US scientists lost $3B in NIH grants since Trump took office(arstechnica.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
The negative impact of Trump 2.0 on American scientific infrastructure will be felt for at least a decade after he's gone.
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Commuting More Fraudsters(nytimes.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
Following on the pardon of Trevor Milton discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43500788
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Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he's breaking science(washingtonpost.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
LaB was my PhD advisor! A thoughtful, creative, and curious scientist and a teacher extraordinaire. For a slightly longer form take from Mike on B-movie monsters see: LaBarbera, M. 2013. It’s Alive! The Science of B-Movie Monsters. Univ of
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by pmags 2y ago
A good week for the battle against microbial pathogens! A new class of antibiotics referenced in the article above: Jangra, M., Travin, D.Y., Aleksandrova, E.V. et al. A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial riboso
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Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by pmags 2y ago|6 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
David Geir, who is heading this federal study, was previously disciplined for practicing medicine without a license: https://www.mbp.state.md.us/BPQAPP/orders/GeierOrder07.302.p... He also has a track record of re
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by pmags 2y ago
Thank you.
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by pmags 2y ago
Thank you. EDIT: As per post below, other thread is sadly flagged. Since this is a very serious escalation of attacks on due process I've removed my request to close this new thread.
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by pmags 2y ago
This is terrifying. The US Government is now actively "disappearing" people....
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Masked homeland security abducting foreign graduate student from Tufts(apnews.com)
152 points by pmags 2y ago|26 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
I recommend: Compeau and Pevzner, Bioinformatics Algorithms. https://www.bioinformaticsalgorithms.org/ The also have a new extension (which I haven't checked out yet myself): “Advanced Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Act
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UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first(arstechnica.com)
12 points by pmags 2y ago|1 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
And a related paper on the dairy cattle outbreak of H5N1 in dairy cattle which has lead to human infections: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11909106/
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With New Decree, Trump Seeks to Cow the Legal Profession(nytimes.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
All of Us -- https://allofus.nih.gov/ -- and similar efforts benefit biological science as a whole. 23 and Me not so much...
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by pmags 2y ago
I work in population genomics (non-human organisms), and myself participated in an early near-whole genome genotyping study back when microarrays were still the predominant technology (academic NOT commercial). But for nearly 20 years I&#x2
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by pmags 2y ago
As per the article: """ The IMLS has a $313 million annual budget and about 70 employees. Its stated goal is to “advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, resea
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by pmags 2y ago
The outright lying is only going to get worse I'm afraid.
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What It Means to 'Give Infectious Disease a Break'(theatlantic.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
The Trump administration is trying to tell Columbia what they are allowed to teach by ordering them to place their Middle Eastern Studies department under receivership. This is an indisputably authoritation move, and in no way should be tol
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by pmags 2y ago
See previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43409136

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