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Dave Baltrus 🦦
about 1 year ago
That specifically right there is the sound of science in the US dying
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Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality. WHAT A SURPRISE!
about 1 year ago
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Crystal Lewis
over 1 year ago
Also, 😉
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Good, it's bloody freezing in Scotland!
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over 1 year ago
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74% of all known microbial species remain unstudied
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied
Microbiology research has historically focused on a few species of model organisms. Our bibliographic analysis finds extreme bias in the distribution of bacteriology research across species, with half...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.04.631297v1
over 1 year ago
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My IRL friends call me Chris
over 1 year ago
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.
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Is Elon Musk on here? What's his @?
over 1 year ago
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Lior Pachter
over 1 year ago
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.
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Christian Diener
over 2 years ago
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%.
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Jesus this is bleak
#gemomics
#sequencing
#microbes
over 2 years ago
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