Their business model is basically addiction. Addiction never ends well.
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Their business model is basically addiction. Addiction never ends well.
The use of impact factors in the evaluation of researchers has contributed to the distortion of scientific publishing practices and research practices, noted France's CNRS as it walked away from Web of Science, using $$$ saved to promote #OpenScience & #OpenData. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
I am normally not like this, but T, die already.
This week's cover @thelancet.com
It's like they've never been on the internet *cough*Streisand effect*cough*
As someone who for Reasons have limited news for themselves, I really appreciate seeing your digging. Thanks for doing this! And completely understanding any pauses/stops etc that occur.
This letter should have been completely unnecessary.
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/u...
💾 any2fasta 0.8.1 is released!
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
I adore that movie. The music, the look, the story. So good!
What kind of wrong was it?
A joke scientific paper with the title "Over 90% of children diagnosed with autism consumed breast milk and/or formula mileL a comprehensive cross-sectional analysis of the obvious"
Who did this?!
Will check them out! Thanks!
Doing so now! BTW, if you haven't caught it yet, might I recommend the amazing Engineering Knits? She does knitting machines, and makes her own motorized ball winders, and does vintage patterns! Loads of fun!
Why why why has she never mentioned it on her main one! Love it!
Our first WiLiMan project paper is out #wilimanid! 🎉 We modelled how host genetics might shape Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) dynamics in wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... (Photo: Olav Strand/NINA) | 1/12
If you haven't dumped manure on someone's doorstep, have you really protested?
What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years?
Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Love it!
Have tried submitting a preprint (an expert based "how to do this without annoying yourself or others" kind of paper) to three different preprint servers the last couple of months. Rejected from every single one of them. Currently considering to just send it to an actual journal. #wtf
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
Det er derfor du kan gjemme folk. Har selv noen litt gusjeblå folk på lista og det har hjulpet oppigjennom åra.
Fig. 1: AIssistant processes an AI-human generated research idea along with supporting notes, routes them through a pipeline of specialized LLM agents, and outputs both a per- spective paper and a review paper.
All hype about the power of facilitating "human-AI collaboration" aside, we don't quickly implement extremely strong norms of disclosure around AI use, science is cooked.
From arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12282, one of many many efforts in this direction.
Holy crapola, that is something.
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
Got a nice new paper out on vancomycin resistant enterococci today! Go check it out!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
@phagedirectory.bsky.social ?
Which media, link please?