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#2726 Methodology Trial 

If you think THAT'S unethical, you should see the stuff we approved via our Placebo IRB.
xkcd.com/2726/

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Antanicus

"The research into Verra, the world’s leading carbon standard for the rapidly growing $2bn (£1.6bn) voluntary offsets market, has found that, based on analysis of a significant percentage of the projects, more than 90% of their rainforest offset credits – among the most commonly used by companies – are likely to be “phantom credits” and do not represent genuine carbon reductions."

So greenwashing schemes do not work as advertised? Who'd have thought?

theguardian.com/environment/20

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IAintShootinMis

Beautiful creamy eggs in a bright and smoky tomato sauce. Crusty bread and punches of acid and heat.

#Shakshuka is one of my favorite #breakfast dishes and a #Recipe I'm excited to share

#FoodToot #Recipes #Cuisine #tomato #egg #vegetarian #parsley #garlic #parmesan #GoodEats

justinmcafee.com/2023/01/shaks

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I have the following problem: you can buy a lot of different brands of canned tomatoes.
Indeed I have been trying a few of them to find one I like.
However, there are a lot: very often I recognise a can, but I don't remember if I liked it or not.
This is worsened by the fact that I shop at a few different stores, each with different cans on sale.
I guess I could snap a picture of each of those, print it and place it on the fridge so that I eventually get to remember them, but this solution is not really scalable.
I can keep the pictures in my phone and go through them when I'm shopping, but I'm unsure I can put a label on the picture and I'm not really sure how I'd be able to find them.
I know it appears like a small petty problem, but it is not when you get a can that is disgusting and you have to throw away the food you cooked; to avoid this I always have to buy several cans of different types and I end up with my house filling up with the ones I don't like.

Damn you!

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Ok, you convinced me... I guess I'll take a look at your paper.

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Nicolas Fressengeas

@rastinza @erinnacland @MatteoCarandini @academicchatter

Yes indeed, it is a long road until researchers take back the whole of their publishing activity. Yet, there is hope. For instance, in France, almost two thirds of the papers published in 2020 are open, and it is growing.

You can find all the details here, in French and in English : barometredelascienceouverte.es

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Erinn Acland, PhD

Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.

Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.

"Elsevier’s prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.

via dailyemerald.com/news/pressing
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter

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ErrantScience

So far no Piranhas have been hurt while making the solution 🐟️

#cartoon #academia #science

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My apartment is quite humid, thus I decided to buy some mushrooms to grow in here.
I'm hoping the temperatures will be high enough since I have not heating...
Let's see if I get to eat any!

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

#MastoAiuto

Qualche persona qui ha già provato a collegare a Linux un badge a led con testo scorrevole?

Ci si possono caricare 8 messaggi, ma il programmino che lo fa è solo per Windows.

Il comando lsusb lo identifica come

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0483:5750 STMicroelectronics

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My company internet access blocks youtube, which I need for my job, and not porn websites...
Changed the dns and finally I can follow my youtube courses.
Apparently they don't care which dns server you use.

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This year only half the doctoral thesis written in the University of Santiago de Compostela were in English.
42 of these were in Galician, which might make sense considering 44 of these thesis were written by Spanish students working in the fields of arts and humanities, thus they might have written stuff about Galician literature in Galician.

This fact to me highlights the poor aperture of Spanish academics to the outside world and plummets the value of their work.
Some time ago, I was talking with a professor about a possible collaboration and he sent me a PhD thesis of one of his students to give me an overview of what they've been doing. This thesis was in Spanish, I didn't even read it. I believe that if you feel you've done a good work you'll try to share it with other people as much as possible, publishing a thesis in Spanish makes me think you do not value your work enough to make it accessible to other researchers.
I'm disappointed by the Spanish researchers because of this.
Indeed, lots of good researchers are Spanish and I've read plenty of good articles with Spanish authors; however, I believe that this kinds of things lowers the value of their research.

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Lost World

*Why are walks in the coniferous forest so useful?*

Scientists have proven that the air in a coniferous forest is practically sterile (no more than 200-300 harmful bacteria per cubic meter). A walk in a coniferous forest relieves stress and nervous tension, tones the body, activating gas exchange in the lungs and, as a result, improves breathing. Such walks are vital for heavy smokers and office workers.
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More interesting: @Lost_World@mastodon.social

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Barbara J. King

Wow-- "The US has approved use of the world's first vaccine for honey bees. It was engineered to prevent fatalities from American foulbrood disease, a bacterial condition known to weaken colonies by attacking bee larvae..... It works by introducing an inactive version of the bacteria into the royal jelly fed to the queen, whose larvae then gain immunity." #bees #pollinators #insects #animals #environment
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6

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Future Past

Facts are facts.

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Wedgr

Had to share this amazing DIY rotovap published in Make Magazine

#Chemistry

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Oliver Steinbock

@rastinza Two examples from google scholar :)

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Oliver Steinbock

@rastinza retractionwatch.com/2016/10/04

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Jan Jensen

Computational Chemistry Daily is out! paper.li/compchemdaily?edition Stories via @MLSTjournal@twitter.com @alvascience@twitter.com

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Is there a list of drugs developed completely through public investment and whose patent was still owned by a public institution after production and sale started?

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