kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail us at chemjobber@gmail.com

how researchers use (and misuse) G*power
Important preprint by Thibault et al
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.15.24310458v1

Academic journals see "staggering profit margins approaching 40%.... Meanwhile, academics do almost all of the substantive work to produce these articles free of charge". Then, we have to pay eye-watering sums to make our papers open access.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions

"In June a notice posted on the website of the journal Nature set a new scientific record. It withdrew what is now the most highly cited research paper ever to be retracted."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-retracted-stem-cell-study-reveals-sciences-shortcomings/

HT Retraction Watch

#PublicationEthics #NatureMagazine #SpringerNature #ScientificAmerican #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #StemCells #StemCellScience #AdultStemCell #CatherineVerfaillie #UniversityOfMinnesota #BoneMarrow #HighImpact #PeterAldhous

Long COVID can change your life--even if you've seemingly recovered. “People who have recovered from long COVID can suffer relapses or flare-ups from new viral infections — not just from COVID but from cold, flu, and other viral pathogens, researchers have found.”

The ONLY way to prevent Long COVID is to avoid your next infection with #COVID19.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/cold-flu-virus-can-trigger-long-covid-relapses-2024a1000cau?form=fpf

GPT 4 hallucination rate is 28.6% on a simple task: citing title, author, and year of publication https://medium.com/@michaelwood33311/gpt-4-hallucination-rate-is-28-6-on-a-simple-task-citing-title-author-and-year-of-publication-7eb5a86c5bbd

Hallucination rates and reference accuracy of ChatGPT and Bard for systematic reviews: Comparative analysis https://www.jmir.org/2024/1/e53164 #AI #LLM

Barcelona has banned Airbnb.

"The decision is designed to solve what Collboni described as "Barcelona's biggest problem" – the housing crisis that has seen residents and workers priced out of the market – by returning the 10,000 apartments currently listed as short-term rentals on Airbnb and other platforms into the housing market. "

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240701-what-does-a-world-without-airbnb-look-like

#Neuralink competitor #Paradromics gears up to test its brain implant on humans https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/21/paradromics-gears-up-to-test-its-brain-implant-on-humans.html "Paradromics, which was founded in 2015, anticipates the devices will retail for about $100,000 each"; #BCI #NeuroTech

Crete remembers.

Crete.

One particularly cool discovery from the new Harvard-Google brain images:

Some brain cells are arranged in mirror-image pairs, for reasons not yet well understood.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4858 #science #brain #mind #neuroscience #tech

Allen’s hummingbird cruising through the Mexican bush sage

Post doc position available in my group, would be great if you could boost; if you are a theoretical / computational population genomicist looking for a post doc, please get in touch!

https://bit.ly/3QIfeda

Because there are never enough Green Herons on Mastodon, here's one.

#birds

#silentsunday

Superbloom at Mori Point in #Pacifica. #bloomscrolling #ocean

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Southern lights ignite the sky in geomagnetic glory – in pictures

"Aurora australis has proven to be the weekend’s must-see event, offering the most ‘extreme’ celestial display in two decades."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2024/may/12/southern-lights-ignite-the-sky-in-geomagnetic-glory-in-pictures

#SouthernLights #Aurora #AuroraAustralis #Image #Images #Picture #Pictures

"Researchers publish largest-ever dataset of neural connections

A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 terabytes of data, Harvard and Google researchers have just accomplished something stupendous."

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/the-brain-as-weve-never-seen-it/

#News #Science #STEM #Tech #Technology #Brain #NeuroScience #Data @science

Truly amazing: This 1 cubic mm of human brain tissue, about a millionth of a whole brain, has ~150 million synapses and results in 1.4 petabytes of data! Wonderful renderings in the article, too. #neuroscience

https://www.popsci.com/science/see-the-most-detailed-map-of-human-brain-matter-ever-created/