Smarter people than me will write about how we got here, but one thing that’s striking about the university protests is the absence of an actual peace movement. There are pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups, but what you don’t see is a broad movement for a full ceasefire, more

Chris Harrod Good god

I think something that's often lost in the discussion over choosing how big a risk to take is: what is the competition?

Here's a graphical explanation that I find helps: as things get more competitive, variance beats mean

Heading home from #bog24 on the overday flight (sorry to miss the last session) and here are some thoughts from this Biology of Genomes

Nathan Pearson We have very different experiences - the grandees I see spend most of their time fighting tooth and nail to defend a status quo that punishes risk taking, while at the same time they castigate people for not taking risks

Is it just me, or is curiosity driven research more widely accepted in engineering than in biology?

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Crazy to think the year I was born Simon Tavaré is publishing absolute bangers like this

Finding the genetic variants with influence on exploratory behavior in these #fish required developing and implementing a new analytical framework, which was the key contribution of Milan Malinsky #unibern to this paper Science Magazine: sohub.io/n1od

Gonna write a paper on this. PLEASE DON'T USE VCFTOOLS TO CALCULATE π. It is a random number generator, as the software assumes all bp that aren't SNPs are invariant (i.e. ignores missing data). This is especially bad in plant genomes, with abundant TEs where you can't map reads.

Mixed feelings …

Sympathetic towards the bravery of Ukrainians who want to fight against their overbearing bigger neighbour.

At the same time, billions worth of new weapons is not going to save lives on either side. That’s ridiculous. It means many more are going to die.

Was fun reading this nice little interview with my friend and colleague Carolin Sommer

'I dive for fish in the longest freshwater lake in the world' nature.com/articles/d4158…

Again, publishing is not a scam, and it’s a cop out to frame it as one. It is an integral part of science whose ludicrous economics and toxic impacts we willingly inflict on ourselves. Blaming it on publishers gets us nowhere.

This sounds horrendous, shameful really. FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia how can you justify this policy?

Indeed, perplexing 🤔😅…

I have a preprint out! Evidence for extensive appearance of chatGPT/LLM derived text in scholarly papers, signalled by words that mysteriously became a lot more popular in 2023 - eg 'commendable'. I estimate upwards of 60,000 papers last year (& rising...) arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887

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🚨New preprint alert!!🚨 I am delighted to share my first postdoc research paper on the interaction between transposable elements (TEs) and piRNAs in African cichlid fishes 🐠🐠

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