Working on an article for two years only to be called "et al."

"In some labs". The entire culture of modern science fosters a dynamic where people who produce desired results are favored, regardless of the quality of the work or even research integrity. You can't avoid that just by joining a different lab.

🤖 So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this Elsevier article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review? pubpeer.com/publications/C…

R.I.P. scientific publishing and peer-review system. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #AcademicTwitter #academic #academia #researchers #research #phd PhD Voice - Independently Run PhD_Genie

this is so grim

The question is does one tattoo the UMAP made by Seurat or Scanpy?

couldn’t agree more about the need for more computational biologists. More importantly, we must ensure they receive the recognition and support they deserve. Their work should never be dismissed as merely “just service”. Additionally, I’d like to remind everyone of the excellent

These 11 people tell Skynet why they love working for Cyberdyne Systems

Results of my n=1 study on potassium supplementation and weight loss. potassium-weight-loss.org

I think P<0.0001 would have been ok.😂

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was. We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from

Many people asked what was behind this cultural shift towards industry in academia. Decided to dig into the latest U.S. National Science Foundation data on sources of R&D funding to find out. The answer is pretty shocking!

Predicting and improving complex beer flavor through machine learning | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Too Many Labs Run Like This Derek Lowe writes about ‘a principal investigator steamrolling his own grad students and postdocs, hiding key details and pressuring everyone to get papers out no matter what misgivings they might be feeling.’ science.org/content/blog-p…

I love seeing HTML only websites But this is a top designer's portfolio. made only using HTML.

In 1599 the church used a placebo controlled trial to test if a French girl was possessed by a demon. Holy objects and identical, non-blessed objects were shown to the girl. "She reacted similarly when exposed to both genuine and sham religious objects" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thread of surreal sculpture details 🧵 1. Water flowing over toes

The biggest hummingbird in the world is a new species. Now out in PNASNews and 8 years in the making, here's how we figured it out with mini tracking devices, genomics, and a century and a half of museum specimens.👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵1/

My primary PhD project with Frances Arnold at Caltech is out now in Nature Chemical Biology! Here we show that the β-subunit of tryptophan synthase (TrpB) is a latent *tyrosine* synthase (TyrS), capable of regioselective and irreversible alkylation of phenols to tyrosines. Read more below: