kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

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🔴 🌍 Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn

"This could be Earth’s hottest year and increasingly warm and humid weather is making more of the planet unlivable, with 600 million people living outside habitable climatic conditions. With each degree of warming in the future, an estimated 10 percent of Earth’s population will join them. Those in the Global South are more exposed than others."

🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/earth-temperature-climate-uninhabitable-science-b2637796.html

#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #Science @science @climatechange

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While waiting for Internet Archive to return, 51 terabytes of extracted data from 26,000 CD-ROMs are waiting for you to search and enjoy at DISCMASTER.

https://discmaster.textfiles.com/

As I keep saying, peer review is a pretty new thing, and it doesn’t have to be the way it is now.

Thank you to the Royal Society, this will be an ✨amazing✨scholarly resource!!

“The initial process was much more informal than the one scientists know today, which became formalized in the 1970s … the Royal Society was asking reviewers to respond to standardized questions, (which) could prompt brief responses even to significant pieces of work.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03287-4

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Madainn mhath | Good morning

http://Archive.org sub services coming back up when they can, safely. e.g. Email working.

Now contract crawls for National Libraries (important to keep collections whole)

Thank you for the patience. More as it happens. @internetarchive

FEATURE: When scientific fraud occurs in the lab, many consequences follow. Some are professional—retractions, rescinded grants—whereas others are deeply personal. Our investigation explores what happens to the people left behind.

By Calli McMurray

https://www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-society/a-scientific-fraud-an-investigation-a-lab-in-recovery/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20241004-a-scientific-fraud

boss: how was your week?

me: I was told there would be no fact-checking

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This list of popular #science #books is great and it's get getting better and better:
https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/113250851798079961 #reading #readinglist

Our instance is being upgraded. I think the process is still on going, normal service will resume as soon as possible.

Townsend’s warbler

I know that they're supposed to be one of the premier scientific journals, but nearly all of my worst review experiences have happened at the #Nature journal family.

The list includes:

- An editor that wouldn't do anything when we presented evidence that a reviewer of one of our papers was simultaneously trying to tank the work in the review process while replicating it in his own lab in order to "scoop" us.

- An editor that refused to intervene when a reviewer kept moving the goalposts by raising new issues with each new revision... after *FIVE* rounds of review.

- An editor that stonewalled an attempt to retract a problematic paper, only to have it come out later that this editor knew of these concerns from the original review process and overruled the reviewers (who rejected the paper), in order to have the problematic study published anyway.

- An editor who refused to answer emails on a paper that has remained in limbo at the journal for months. Unable to provide even an acknowledgement of the emails despite this being his full time job.

Honestly, I wouldn't submit to this journal group at all if my trainee's didn't feel like they needed it for their careers.

#job alert: junior/mid-career PI opportunities in cancer research @ Oxford university: https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancies-assistant-or-associate-professor-level-cancer-researchers

Areas we're looking for:
#epigenetics #chromatin #epitranscriptomics #RNA #myeloidCells #spatialTranscriptomics

Please boost for visibility! @academicchatter #hiring

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Positions at Purdue University

Purdue University

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Positions in the Zheng Lab at Purdue BMCMP

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/purdue-university-27778-postdoctoral-research-fellow-positions-at-purdue-university/?feed_id=82557

#chemical_biology #epigenetics #medicinal_chemistry #mi...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/purdue-university-27778-postdoctoral-research-fellow-positions-at-purdue-university/?feed_id=82557

We have an open postdoc position in the NeuroCyto lab! Come explore new mechanisms of microtubules turnover and their physiological roles in collaboration with Manuel Théry, funded by ANR for up to 3 years. More info here: www.neurocytolab.org/postdoc/
Contact me if you have any question!

I mean, the moon is always super. The Sept. 17 supermoon will also have a minor eclipse! @badastro sorts out the hype from the legitimage reasons to howl at the supermoon https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a-supermoon-really-special/

Steve Silberman, 65, acclaimed author & advocate, has died.

https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman

Known for his book NeuroTribes, which won the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize, Steve was a key voice in the neurodiversity movement.

His Wired article "The Geek Syndrome" highlighted the rise of autism in Silicon Valley. A devoted Grateful Dead fan, Silberman celebrated the band's culture and its sense of community.

He is survived by his husband, Keith, he leaves behind a legacy of empathy and & understanding.