That specifically right there is the sound of science in the US dying

Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality. WHAT A SURPRISE!

Also, 😉

Good, it's bloody freezing in Scotland!

74% of all known microbial species remain unstudied www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

CIDRAP: "Almost a third of preteens, teens with long COVID still not recovered at 2 years, study shows" Guardian: "Most teenagers recover from long Covid after 2 years, study shows" That headline is a choice. The news here is really that 29% of kids with #LongCovid still had symptoms at 2 years.

Is Elon Musk on here? What's his @?

A reminder that if you are reading a preprint and the data is not released but is available (privately) on Genbank, SRA, or GEO, you can email and ask for it to be released.

Building a comprehensive genomic database for as many foods in FOODB as possible we could connect individual genomes to nutrient content. For now we can match 77% of all foods in FOODB with taxonomic information and the next version of the database will push this to 90%.

Jesus this is bleak #gemomics #sequencing #microbes