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Nicola Romanò

I am happy to share our latest article, looking at towards laboratory animals in sciences students in the UK and China.

In this study, we developed a survey to explore compassion towards laboratory animals in students and used it in groups of biomedical sciences students in the UK and China.

Exploring Compassion towards Laboratory Animals in UK- and China-Based Undergraduate Biomedical Sciences Students - mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/22/3584

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Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志

#bioawk is a command-line gem; it’s an extension of awk that auto-assigns variables for BED, SAM, VCF, GFF, and FASTX[AQ] format files, speeding up routine tasks.

For FASTX:
$1:name
$2:seq
$3:qual (FASTQ only)
$4:comment

Found in @vsbuffalo’s great #Bioinformatics Data Skills.

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Katrina Velle

I am actively recruiting students for my lab at UMass Dartmouth!

Are you interested in a project on actin, amoebae, cell migration, and/or pathogenesis? Send me an email & apply to the Integrative Biology PhD program by Jan 15!

Please RT
More info: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/scien

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ProfessorIn Tatiana Ilyina

What does a #scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before.

science.org/content/article/wh

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Nicola Romanò

@analyst42 @smach @appsilon @rstats You don't have to do that, though. You can have modules, for examples, or source external files.

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Caspar Addyman

@nicolaromano @tomstafford
I'd agree. But that's why I voted C. It's past the time where these self serving bad practices can be called "inadvertent".

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Nicola Romanò

@caspar @tomstafford Agree, I voted the last one as well!

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Nicola Romanò

@tomstafford
I think there's a lot of accepted behaviour that is really wrong

"Just do three replicates, that's enough to do stats"

"It's almost significantly different, just do it again"

"We'll just discard this sample, something must have happened here"

"I've tried <test X> but it didn't show the difference, so I went with <test Y>"

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Nicola Romanò

@tomstafford Also, the stark reality is that universities often care more about (short term) reputational damage more than science integrity .

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Tom Stafford

Researchers! Please complete my poll with uneven response options (and boost for reach)

How much of a problem is deliberate research fraud?

68 people · Nov 11, 2023, 07:33
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Nicola Romanò

@cyrilpedia can't read the article as it is paywalled... I guess the conclusion is that they are not necessarily making things fairer?

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Chip Unicorn

@jalefkowit

The problem isn't that COVID is deadly.

The problem is that different people react to it differently.

For most people, COVID is a mild cold. Often, it's so slight that people don't realize they have it.

For some people, it's terrible -- but something that they can handle at home.

For a few people, COVID sends them to the hospital. Or gives them long COVID.

And it killed roughly 1% of people who got it at the beginning of the pandemic, if I recall correctly.

So, if Boris had done this really stupid act, chances are that he would be fine. But many more Britons would have died.

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Jeff Atwood

meetings today? zero should be the goal blog.codinghorror.com/meetings

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Jeff Atwood

Even this very, very simple lesson is lost on most large companies, even today

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Project Gutenberg

"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity."
Lecture at Vassar College

~Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)

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Nicola Romanò

@dom_somma I've played a bit with Elicit and while at least it doesn't hallucinate references it often only returns vaguely related (if not unrelated) results, especially if the prompt is very specific.

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Tonight a dear friend sent me this photo of my lab circa 2007. A coffee bar, shelves of books, and off-camera a 12' long table in a massive room surrounded by whiteboards.

Now? My department has moved to a sleek new building. I don't have a lab, just a 120 square foot office. Theorists don't need space; all they do is think. If they need to talk to one another, they can reserve departmental conference rooms so long as they remember to do so six weeks in advance.

Progress marches on.

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Nicola Romanò

@ct_bergstrom yes, apparently that fosters community building... I think it's all a plot of electronics companies to sell more noise cancelling headphones.

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Andy Smith

Last time I brought this up on a UK-based technical mailing list, an entrepreneur—themself from a historically persecuted ethnic group—told me that, "no one cares".
Well, I can't make anyone care but if you are in the position to advise on or choose a domain name you should maybe at least know some of the history behind .IO before buying one.
beep.blog/io/

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Thiago Carvalho

"He was doing physical therapy, spending time with family members, and playing cards with his wife, according to the university. But in the days leading up to his death, his heart began to show signs of organ rejection; in other words, his immune system recognized the pig heart as foreign and attacked it. "

wired.com/story/pig-heart-tran

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