I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of
@eLife
for retweeting a
@TheOnion
piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.
because of vaccine mandates we’re losing teachers who don’t believe in science, healthcare workers who don’t believe in medicine, and police who don’t believe in public safety…
Not to be a crankypuss, but awarding a Nobel for work that suffered from not being taken seriously for decades only *after* it proved to be of incredible value is not a triumph of prizemaking - it's a complete condemnation of it and the entire culture of modern academic science.
Ladies, if he:
* Solicits opinion of 3 strangers before agreeing to a date
* Takes months to reply
* Nitpicks about your appearance
* Demands you make major changes
* Won’t let you see friends unless they pay
He’s not the one. He’s a scientific journal.
as a lifelong die-hard
@redsox
who spent a freezing cold night in Fenway watching Curt Schilling help deliver the 2004 World Series to my beloved team, I can say it is a privilege and an honor that this racist fuckhead blocked me
The Onion speaks with more courage, insight and moral clarity than the leaders of every academic institution put together. I wish there were a
@TheOnion
university.
What the fuck does David Brooks - the child of academics who grew up in a tony suburb, went to the University of Chicago and, after graduation worked at the National Review, Hoover Institute, WSJ and NYT - know about hardship?
I still believe deeply in the need for a radical restructuring of science publishing to create an open and fair system that works well for science, for all scientists everywhere, and the public that supports us, and am proud of the steps we have taken to begin to get us there.
Every sane person on Earth is horrified and traumatized by what Hamas did and wants it to never happen again. All the more so as a Jew with Israeli family. But I am also horrified by the collective punishment already being meted out on Gazans, and the worse that is about to come.
The Onion speaks with more courage, insight and moral clarity than the leaders of every academic institution put together. I wish there were a
@TheOnion
university.
It's not that complicated. We can and should simultaneously celebrate Dr. Kariko for her ideas and persistence in the face of adversity, while acknowledging that she succeeded in spite of us, and realize it is our duty to do whatever we can to never let it happen again.
Grampa Joe what did you do during the pandemic?
I fought against the scourge of women with PhDs calling themselves “Dr.”
(silence)
Grampa Joe, didn’t women with PhDs develop the vaccine that ended the pandemic?
@SusannaLHarris
What does he do when he wakes up in a panic of unknown origin at 3:00 AM? Or when he can't function at work for a few months because 🤷♂️?
I challenge
@RobertKennedyJr
@joerogan
and
@PeterHotez
to submit papers with data supporting their vaccine hypotheses which we will subject to open, public peer review by domain experts.
I am excited to announce today that
@eLife
is transitioning to a new model based on author-driven publishing (preprints) and public post-publication peer review and curation
A central problem in the interpretation of the scientific literature is that people (both in and outside of science) systematically fail to recognize that peer review is not, and has never been, about validating facts. It is about certifying conformity of approach.
@twkelly_EDU
Y'all fills a serious gap in the English language. So many other languages have a distinct second-person plural, and it's incredibly useful. I'd like to see y'all become ubiquitous.
In this scenario, the cost of publication is covered by an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid at the time of publication. The APC for Nature Neuroscience in 2022 is €9,500/US $11,390/£8,290.
if we printed all 2,000,000 STEM papers published every year, put them on a rocket and launched them to Mars with their spacecraft to take them their, it would cost around $3b a year - we currently spend around $10b a year to put them online
To have everyone on the planet have immediate free access to the every academic paper ever written, and for people in power to stop making excuses for why they can’t.
Today is the anniversary of the day, long ago, when my father killed himself, and I just want to commemorate it by saying thanks to all the people working to improve the culture of science and confront mental health challenges within our midsts.
I’ve learned from a decade on this app to not accept the superficial way things are presented here, especially when someone’s words are being used against them. And so I watched the whole session for context. And I’m glad I did. Because in context it’s way worse.
To date, only 61 women have won the
@NobelPrize
compared with 898 men
Yet, Kurt Wüthrich: a successful Nobel Laureate who runs 3 academic labs in 3 continents (🇨🇭🇺🇸🇨🇳) complained that he faced discrimination for being a man in science.
Said while talking in an all-male panel🤦
I am very excited to announce that, beginning today,
@eLife
will review preprints directly on
@biorxivpreprint
and, based on these
@PreprintReview
's, consider them for publication in the journal.
Preprint Review offers authors the opportunity to have
@eLife
review their work directly on bioRxiv, and, simultaneously, consider the work for publication in the journal
Science is a collective endeavor. No matter how smart, talented or accomplished you are, if your actions make it harder for other people to do science, you are impeding, not advancing, science.
The academic job search system is so messed up - it's tortuous, inefficient, biased and stochastic. Dozens of institutions try to hire the same 10 anointed people, with most searches failing, while so many talented postdocs don't get positions. There has to be a better way.
Hi, I'm a federally funded research scientist. You may know me from my greatest hits including, “ ” ,“ ” and “ ”. What? You don't know me or my work because it's behind a
#paywall
?
I don’t care if you cure cancer, end global warming and resurrect unicorns. If you sexually harass someone you should be expelled from the National Academy <FULL STOP>.
@NeedhiBhalla
Robert Weinberg adds: “... it might be useful to ask whether sexual harassment by a member has anything whatsoever to do with their credibility as a scientist and the soundness of their research accomplishments—the criteria that were used to elect them in the first place.” 🙄🙄🙄
I have a favor to ask. For 20+ years I've been working on a dream: to make all science funded by US taxpayers freely available to all. We are on the verge of achieving this. But we need to show that people care. So please, if you can, sign this letter:
Shocked to learn rich white people buy kids' way into Ivies by donating buildings - I mean by sending them to elite boarding schools - I mean by moving to rich white suburbs - I mean by hiring application consultants - I mean by bribing soccer coaches
Sure. In neuroscience. I mean is there anything more truly hard to grasp than how some members of a species can produce incredible art, music, poetry, writing and science, while others emit unmitigated bullshit like this?
Does biology have truly difficult ideas? Studying math, comp sci, physics, etc., one quickly encounters material that is hard to truly grasp (and many of us get to a point where we mentally just can't go further, while some others can). Does this exist in biology? If not, why?
i get really stressed when the eye doctor does the “are these tiny letters clearer with lens 1 or 2” because my vision for the next year depends on the answer and i can’t fucking tell
The Onion is not making light of the situation. And nor am I. These articles are using satire to make a deadly serious point about this horrific tragedy.
we should destigmatize retraction - retracting for fraud is bad - but not all retractions are fraud and there needs to be a way to say "hey, we messed up" or "hey, we were wrong" without being treated like a pariah
If Rosalind Franklin had been male, she'd be remembered not as someone who was screwed over by colleagues who stole her data, but as the co-discovered of the structure of DNA and co-winner of the Nobel Prize.
Today is the 100th birthday of crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray diffraction images of DNA were critical in confirming the structure of DNA. This video highlights the double helix structure and base pairing in PDB entry 1bna:
#Franklin100
Now that flipped classrooms are all the rage, maybe we should consider flipped labs in which the grad students sit in their offices coming up with ideas and raising money while the PIs do all the experiments.
First they came for dark skinned refugees, but I said nothing because I’m a white college professor.
Then they came for the skilled workers, but I said nothing because postdoc visas are exempt.
Then they came for the Chinese undergrads whose tuition pays my salary ....
Just posted
@biorxivpreprint
describing one of whackiest discoveries of my time in science. We found a virus that has swapped hosts from insects to a fungus that manipulates insect behavior - and we think it might be involved in hijacking fly behavior .
You know what I don't want to ever hear again? A single complaint from anyone about how efforts to fix science publishing are going to affect their society or society journal. Because far more than anyone else it is scientific societies who are responsible for creating this mess.
Congrats to my colleague Jennifer Doudna who is not just a great scientist, but also, and more importantly, a great person. And congrats to Basic Science, which was honored here as much as the individuals.
Science publishing is NOT a pyramid scheme. NOBODY is being scammed. We all KNOW what's going on and yet we DELIBERATELY continue to participate in the theft of billions of dollars of public funds and the crippling of science.
Weird getting an email with a $10K bill for a journal publication fee, followed by an email requesting to review a paper for the same journal for free. Feels like being a victim in some kind of a pyramid scheme
the great disappointment of my professional career is the discovery that the structures of science careers reward people for violating the principles by which science is supposed to operate
I'm really excited for the chance to be EIC at
@eLife
! Anyone who follows me here knows how deeply I care about making science communication not only open, but also more effective and truly accessible and fair for all
Everyone going apoplectic about someone publishing Midjourney hallucinations in a
@frontiersin
paper, but they're totally fine with people publishing T-SNE hallucinations in
@nature
.
@PPathole
@cleantechnica
A good PCR test should identify if I have the cov2 spike proteins, although I have heard some low accuracy numbers for those too. Hard to get a straight answer.
False positives will roughly scale with # of tests & daily test rate has gone ballistic:
The greatest lie in academia is that tenure is a mechanism universities use to guarantee intellectual freedom. It’s not. You will understand academic institutions far better if you see tenure for what it is: a tool they use to reward and enforce adherence to the status quo.
Accepting and rejecting papers is an archaic practice that is terrible for science. It strips peer review of its value & institutionalizes the practice of judging scientists based on where, rather than what, they publish. It's time for this system to go.
Want to change the system? Post preprints and only post preprints - don't submit to journals, don't subscribe to journals, don't read journals - only hire and fund people based on their preprints.
Nature now charges $12,290 US to publish a single article open access. Shall we list some things that cost less than that? I'll go first: a 2017 BMW 330i sedan, a 7-day cruise for a family of four, six Louis Vuitton purses. 🤪
I asked everyone about what's the best butter recently and it got Kerrygold to trend. Well, they just sent me an entire box of butter and cheese for St. Patrick's Day. God bless the Irish.
I've been telling y'all that the
@ImpossibleFoods
burger looks and tastes like beef, but now you can hear it from no less an authority than
@BurgerKing
i know others have said this but HOW IS IT FUCKING POSSIBLE THAT IT IS TAKING 10 DAYS TO GET COVID TEST RESULTS BACK, DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW THIS IS FUCKING USELESS?????
If only we had a group of trained professionals who had spent years studying and researching these issues and becoming experts on things like viruses, epidemiology and public health.
I’m so frustrated right now ... that we can’t trust the media to tell us the truth without inflaming it to hurt Trump ... that Trump has misled so many times we no longer know when to trust his word ... that even I as a journalist am not sure where to turn for real info on COVID.
I know the
@NobelPrize
committees are struggling over which three people to credit for
#CRIPSR
. The solution is obvious - give multiple prizes:
Medicine/Physiology: Mojica, Horvath, Marraffini
Chemistry: Doudna, Charpentier, Siksnys
Economics: Zhang, Lander
Just a reminder that it cost less than 1/4 of what we spend on science publishing every year to develop, build, test, launch, fly and land a large and incredibly sophisticated scientific instrument on another freaking planet.
I can't even with the people whose response to UC postdocs earning a living wage is to complain that they can't afford them anymore. That our field is dependent on exploitative labor practices is not their problem.
@SusannaLHarris
Potter HJ*, Granger HJ*, Weasley RB*, Longbottom N, Lovegood LE, Weasley GM, Hagrid R, Order of Phoenix Consortium, Dumbledore's Army Consortium, Dumbledore APWB (1997). Deathly Hallows act via phase separation and epigenetic modification of microbiome. HogwaRxiv 9.75.
@lkcalloway
And I have never once asked a student for proof of bad shit happening to them. Is it possible some of them are making shit up? Sure, it's possible, maybe even likely. But catching them in a lie is not worth inflicting any additional pain on people who are actually struggling.
Because
@UofCalifornia
has tried to suppress faculty support for employees striking today, I think it particularly important to say that I offer my complete solidarity with
@uaw2865
@UAW5810
and their effort to improve the living and working conditions at UC.