Quoi?
'We find that at least half of TFs also bind RNA, doing so through a previously unrecognized domain with sequence and functional features analogous to the arginine-rich motif of the HIV transcriptional activator Tat.'
Predicting Parkinson's disease up to 7 years before it is clinically diagnosed, and better than any known predictive risk factor, with a wrist accelerometer https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02440-2
So many good points in this piece by
@PhilippBayer
My highlight in this screenshot, but if you're vaguely involved in #academia, do have a read and think how it may apply to you. #academicchatter @academicchatter
https://genomic.social/@PhilippBayer/110644840476993836
@helma @helenajambor Apparently there’s a phenomenon known as “Nobel Disease” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
Well worth reading this:
Don't get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science.
@pre perhaps we will return to a pre Facebook internet experience. Perhaps this will backfire and we will have less monoliths and more distributed niche forums. Does every interest need the same platform to build a community?
Today
* Reddit ends free API access.
* Twitter turns off anonymous reading.
* Youtube is talking about banning ad-blocking users.
The tech industry was living on cheep money and low interest rates, and now they're all afraid to let their precious content get used for AI training.
The walls are going up, the lawful corporate web is collapsing in on itself.
After a day of running into multiple accessibility barriers while attempting to do multiple online things, I just needed to come here to say thank you to everyone on Mastodon who participates in creating a small corner where I don't feel like an afterthought. I appreciate the dedication to alt text and video descriptions so, so much, and I know many people have already said it, but I don't think it can ever be overstated.
Very interesting piece by Vassilis Galanos on the use of #ai in higher #education #teaching
I recently heard Vassilis talking about this, and it gave me a lot to think about!
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New posting! This one is about the number of unpaid hours in #academia, an insight that's come from the realisation of how much time I'm still committing despite now (currently) being unemployed. To what extent is academic research sustained by the massive expenditure of unpaid labour? How much unpaid overtime do you think you're clocking? Let's lift the lid...
https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/06/29/pro-bono-a-riff-on-unpaid-labour-in-academia/
In a new video @geerlingguy spots the #enshittification of #RedHat #Linux quoting @pluralistic thanks to the new Redhat source code paywall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF5pyVUQBH8
Turnitin acknowledged that its AI detector sucks
https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/teaching-center-doesn-t?fbclid=IwAR1Lp40fzkpNbWFPt1J-CeUBzbk8ENplO0Z2jgff1_AumOiZSe80R79vOE4
While big tech tries to force employees back to the office, smaller tech companies are using remote work as a competitive advantage to hire and retain talent. 81% of firms <5,000 employees allow remote work or have a remote work options.
""If you require someone to move to a certain location, you are inherently limiting the talent pool that you’re going to be working with." @zuhayeer
https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/20/23762655/tech-perk-remote-work-freedom-airbnb-yelp
You are doing #Bioinformatics? Would you say data analysis requires interactive work, e.g. using jupyter, rstudio, etc.? Or would you prefer using a workflow system, e.g. #snakemake, #nextflow, #galaxy, etc.?
I am not talking about visualization, though. Visualization is important and can be achieved regardless of the approach.
Please boost. Thank you.
Great job for someone who wants to bring down Elsevier
"Do you believe we can break out of the culture of publish-or-perish, and find new and fair ways to evaluate the contributions researchers make to society?
We are seeking a motivated, proactive and organised individual to develop and deliver a research outputs analytics service across the university."
Full time, permanent
£41-50k
Imperial College London Library
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ACA00173/research-outputs-analyst
@WhyNotZoidberg @GalmeshRosewood If you’ve held a “Save” icon in your hands, that makes you ancient now.
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Senior lecturer at the Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE) and Edinburgh University.
Undergraduate Programme Director, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. I study #heterogeneity in #pituitary (and other) cells.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.