Joshua Sharp @JoshuaSharp@qoto.org

Microbiologists are larger than one might expect.

So, yeah, if we take these two stories in combination: Elon is (a) demanding that everyone who uses Twitter hand over their live location info to him and (b) has now banned anyone from posting the live location of anyone.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/14/twitters-big-ad-plan-violate-both-ftc-consent-decree-california-privacy-law-to-force-users-to-hand-over-info-for-ad-targeting/

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/14/elons-promise-not-to-ban-account-tracking-his-jet-didnt-last-very-long-at-all-also-bans-guys-personal-account/

Place your bets

"To try to prove our own brilliance scientifically (before we are replaced by machine learning) is a challenge few editors would be able to resist, and we were no different. We thus set out to test our ability to predict citations of unpublished research papers submitted to The BMJ."

#ScientificPublication #PeerReview #ScientificEditor

https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-073880#

Now you know: #Gender composition of #PhD degree earners in 2021: Selected fields with >500 degrees.
#highered @academicchatter

@jyates is on the mastodon!

Welcome!

#teammassspec #Proteomics

Announcing papertooter. Papertooter is a simple script that takes the URL of a biorxiv preprint, and posts the title and link to the paper on Mastodon using the Mastodon Python API. It also posts a unique hashtag it generates from the paper's DOI.

Feature requests and bug reports welcome.

https://github.com/idoerg/papertooter

What a tragedy that this good man, who has devoted his life to public service, who has made mistakes and learned from them, and who still expresses a profound understand of America’s public-health problems, should remain a target of vitriol from the worst among us. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04432-7

I will have PhD and RA positions open very soon. There's quite some flexibility for young researchers interested in experimental and #bioinformatics approaches in #MassSpectrometry #proteomics and #singlecell.

Please boost and spread. Feel free to get in touch.

Oh dear, it's Raoult.

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/13/plos-flags-nearly-50-papers-by-controversial-french-covid-researcher-for-ethics-concerns/

Out today, my short piece in Nature Medicine about what scientists can do as authors to combat misinformation and disinformation about their own work.

https://rdcu.be/c1x7X

Notorious lickspittle Lindsey Graham doesn't seem to understand that we don't license expression in this country, and the reason for that is made plain by his suggestion: it would be used to punish expression that upsets the government.

📜 Our latest collaboration out in @embojournal!

In efforts led by Dr Ben Wang and Dr Julie Takagi, we identify Core 2 glycans as inhibitors of toxigenic conversion by a virulence-encoding phage in Vibrio cholerae.

#GlycoTime
💰 support: @snsf_ch & @UniBasel
https://embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2022111562

Big day for vaccines? HUGE day for vaccines. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-merck-vaccine-combo-cut-melanoma-recurrence-by-44-study-2022-12-13/

Okay. Migrated from masthead.social to mastodon.social. Meanwhile, here's the Substack on my decision to leave Twitter.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter

The toughest thing about proving white collar crime, as I've learned from @Popehat is proving intent. I'd imagine that suspects having a groupchat called "Wirefraud" must make prosecutors positively *giddy*. (ht: @annmlipton ) https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/ftx-s-inner-circle-had-a-secret-chat-group-called-wirefraud-20221213-p5c5sx

@richardsever

Richard, with the increasing migration of science Twitter to sites like Mastodon, what are the prospects for adding a Mastodon sharing option, and more importantly, adding Mastodon to Altmetric article metrics in bioRxiv and medrXiv? For obvious reasons, supporting science dissemination by sustainable, non-commercial social media sources seems more important than ever.