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PhD student Bryce Johnson in my group wrote an excellent opinion piece "Why AlphaFold 3 Needs to Be Open Source" covering the closed-source publication and month of debate that followed. Article: undark.org/2024/06/06/opi… Summary: below

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Nobody talks about the harm caused by inappropriate comments from refs during peer review. I’ve seen some that are very patronising. We need to do more to protect our authors. Anyone want to share their experiences? #academicchatter

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