This makes me physically sick. It’s a toxic brew of the artificial scarcity of ‘elite’ institutions, the cheapening of research, and the runaway professionalization of being a kid.
https://www.propublica.org/article/college-high-school-research-peer-review-publications
I wrote this little program to visualise biological tracking data from #microscopy. We used it a lot for sense checking and verifying a lot of our data, but sadly it won't make it into our next paper. Anyway, today I tidied it up a bit and will make it available with all the rest of the code for others to use.
Six year ago, I returned to NIH in Bethesda, where I started my career as a science writer, to be a patient in an ambitious study to understand the patho-biology of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
The study included 30+ researchers & many substudies, and was essentially a fishing expedition to understand what goes wrong to make us so sick (like bedbound-for-years sick). 1/
(photo by @Bether )
Democrats being sunk on judicial appointments (one of the few areas where the party can take tangible, meaningful action) because an aged member of the party can't physically make it to any of the votes but also refuses to simply treat her situation with grace and resign is such an apropos thing for where the country is right now. The arguments against Feinstein's resignation are so dumb as to verge on bad faith.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-resign-calls-arguments-17910730.php
Beware of anti-myths!
Spinach *does* have a higher concentration of iron than a steak.
The problem is that it's not absorbed nearly as much when digested.
Nice read.
What next? Edge (23,34) is not really ambiguous in the Karate Club?
Crosspost from @DanLarremore@twitter.com:
New one on my list of favorite papers.
"Academic Urban Legends"
It explores the ironic follies of how we cite literature by tracing a myth: that we think spinach has a lot of iron only because of a decimal point error in the early 1900s. h/t @jugander@twitter.com
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312714535679
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DanLarremore/status/1631481816057257985
It was so cool to see this story come together. @KatrinaVelle has done a masterful job synthesizing old literature and new comparative physiology to push forward our understanding of the contractile vacuole!
Tell me all the reasons why it would be a bad idea to use a #kickstarter model for #research #funding (especially to top-up existing projects)
(7/13) We then took this project to Woods Hole during the 2022 MBL Science Physiology Course, where Manny Richter, Nick Martin, and Chunzi Liu took amazing videos! Chunzi also started modeling CV filling, which made a great addition to our manuscript!
(1/13) We (Rikki Garner, Tati Beckford, Makaela Weeda, Chunzi Liu, @askennard, Marc Edwards, Lil Fritz-Laylin, and I) have a new preprint about osmoregulation!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.01.529730v1
Here’s the tootorial & backstory:
I'm happy to share our new preprint on osmoregulation!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.01.529730v1
tootorial coming soon
I hope you all enjoy it more than the amoebae did!
RT @FritzLaylin
New preprint from the lab. Love this project. Went in thinking we were studying an actin phenotype, but it turned it WASN’T ACTIN! https://twitter.com/biorxivpreprint/status/1631301191572307968
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
Here’s a collage I made a while back highlighting Naegleria’s actin (cyan) and microtubule (orange) cytoskeletons. Naegleria only use microtubules to build a mitotic spindle, and when they transiently transform into a flagellated cell type.
#MaskUp #GetVaxxed #GetBoosted
@composeroftheday
@buffysaintemarie
#ComposerOfTheDay February 20
Buffy Sainte-Marie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie - "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" (Remas... https://youtu.be/KwOyconXiGM via @YouTube
How to be an academic in a world on fire?
As scientists concerned about the climate crisis, @clarekelly and I set out to rethink the role and goals of the university in tackling the 21st century's challenges. Inspired by Raworth's Doughnut Economics, we propose seven new ways to thinking - not only to help us think, but also to act.
Read the paper: Urai AE, Kelly C (2023) Rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis. eLife 12:e84991. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84991
Join us for a discussion at Growing Up in Science Global on 11 April: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoc-GsqT8uGNXniBIHPo9u4ibfDwxysLkI
... and let us know your thoughts!
Ted Chiang's piece on ChatGPT is extremely good, and full of interesting parallels and metaphors. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
Cell biologist and biophysicist studying evolutionary cell biology.
I'm interested in how amoebae divide, especially relatives of the "brain-eating amoeba"
I study this with microscopy, image analysis, and comparative genomics.
Postdoc at UMass Amherst Biology, PhD in Biophysics from Stanford.
I also love jazz and nature photography!
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