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HIV/AIDS deaths likely to soar after USAID promises broken(science.org)
21 points by pmags 2y ago|7 comments
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US "gene banks" hobbled by cuts to the USDA(science.org)
5 points by pmags 2y ago|0 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
This is about a protein family that mediate different classes of splice sites. If you're interested in the larger context you might look into the term "alternative splicing" to learn more.
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by pmags 2y ago
There seems to be a disingenuous attempt by many respondents to get readers to focus on definitions and ignore the trends. I suggest you to look at the second graph showing the fatal/wounded data pretty much mirrors the incident data.
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by pmags 2y ago
Many of the comments here reveal a profound ignorance about the actual costs of conducting biomedical research, as well as a lack of knowledge what the Trump administration is doing to knee-cap NIH funding. 1. If you want to have some persp
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USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them(nbcnews.com)
192 points by pmags 2y ago|174 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
Perhaps this award? James Landay (Principal Investigator) Claus Portner (Co-Principal Investigator) Interaction Economics: Instruments that Measure Social-Computational Systems https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?
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by pmags 2y ago
That's not how indirects are calculated. Assuming the entire award was subject to the 55% indirect rate (not always true), and the total award was $650K, then the direct award amount was about $420K and the indirect amount was ~$230K.
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by pmags 2y ago
Everything about this sounds highly unusual: 1. Universities do not typically allow graduate students to be PIs on grants. This is for liability reasons. Even for postdocs it would be highly unusual to have full, solo PI status on a grant.
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by pmags 2y ago
Suppressing journalism seems to be high on the priority list of the new administration. In addition to the examples cited in this article, also from today's news is the example of the White House banning an AP reporter from the oval o
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by pmags 2y ago
I'm suggesting that a logical question that readers of Hacker News might want to consider when they get excited about a new result in CS, Physics, Biology, etc. is what are the practical circumstances that fostered these results? i.e.
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by pmags 2y ago
Nice result! <rhetorical> Hmm....I wonder how such research gets funded?... </rhetorical>
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by pmags 2y ago
Some sock puppets are posting nonsense...These directives to NSF, NIH, NASA, etc are coming directly from Trump appointees. Edit: Here's the relevant directive from HHS that affected NIH, CDC, etc. https://www.science.org&#x
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by pmags 2y ago
Spoken like someone unfamiliar with both development and evolution.
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by pmags 2y ago
One of the early assignments for an introduction to scientific computing course I teach has a Rickroll link -- I added it as a light-hearted way to see who's actually working through the materials in a detailed way.
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by pmags 3y ago
Unfortunately our anti-fungal arsenal is not particularly large or all that great. Resistance evolves quickly for most of the commonly used ones; and the ones for which resistance is less easily acquired tend to be highly toxic (key problem
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by pmags 3y ago
...which was based on CWEB/WEB and so on... ;-) Though I guess we can stop there in this particular case, unless someone knows of an example of literate programming that precedes Knuth. I'd be interested if there are such examples
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by pmags 3y ago
And knitr is built on the prior art foundations of Sweave....
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by pmags 3y ago
Can you explain why some users with personal Basic accounts (myself included) found the AI third-party toggle "On" when they checked last week?
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by pmags 3y ago
Not true -- my personal account (free basic plan) had this tab/option and I was "opted in" by default. I managed to change this setting before the AI tab disappeared.
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by pmags 3y ago
I'm curious how many commenters here who are making strong statements about the worth (or not) of peer review have actually participated in it both as author AND reviewer? Or even as an editor who is faced with the challenge of integra
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Dropbox has hidden third party AI settings, not disabled them
134 points by pmags 3y ago|31 comments
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by pmags 3y ago
I have a free account and this option was turned on by default (with the option to disable it). Talk about scummy....
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by pmags 3y ago
The idea of writing technical documentation for your home seems like excellent advise. I think many people do this in an informal manner. I'm not sure a full blown mkdoc setup is necessary -- of having your "home repair/main
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by pmags 3y ago
Unfortunately few animal gametes are as hardy as those of plants and fungi. In terms of a record of genetic and phenotypic diversity, the global network of natural history museums (at least those with research arms), largely play this role.
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by pmags 3y ago
Treatment is in fact a real challenge. Cryptococcus isolates "in the wild" have a relatively high frequency of azole resistance alleles already (azoles are what you give someone for a typical "yeast" infection), and azol
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PayPal experiencing issues processing TaxIDs, customer funds on indefinite hold(paypal-community.com)
2 points by pmags 3y ago|1 comments
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by pmags 3y ago
New IRS regulations require PayPal to collect TaxID information from customers when a transaction of more than $600 is processed. This can be in the form of a social security number or other business related Tax IDs ( https://www
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by pmags 4y ago
For those interested but new to role of endosymbiosis in evolution, it's useful to keep in mind that there's strong evidence of an endosymbiotic origin of chloroplasts, another major event in the history of life. Here's a rec
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by pmags 4y ago
As with all things, YMMV. I've had my OP-1 for nearly 10 years and I've gotten a hell of a lot of use out of it. As a super portable, battery powered instrument with lots of different synth engines and diverse FX it's been gr

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