Australian science policy wants trees but not seeds. Public funding of science is essential at low Technology Readiness Levels. We cannot have high TRLs to translate without working through the pipeline from fundamental science via speculative applied science. (Explainer by @granttremblay.com)

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

Given that science funding is under attack, it might be as good a time as any to reflect on how we spend our precious dollars. Cutting out expenditure publishing papers in overpriced journals might be a good thing to seriously consider once again.

I setup a small demo on how to use Sheriff with Superb-seq data, so if you're interested in seeing the kinds of outputs you get when you profile Cas9 edits and gene expression in the same cells, please try it! github.com/BradBalderso...