"How bibliometrics and school rankings reward unreliable science" https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1887. Read also my comments in tab "responses". #openscience
@DORAssessment
"By targeting graduate school applicants, application assistance programs are a powerful and precise method for increasing the representation of minoritized groups in the sciences. These interventions can have a high impact on career outcomes and in remedying the discrepancies between the social and cultural expectations of students and graduate school admissions committees."
Job ad for Zenodo!
@CERN is recruiting a Full-stack Software Engineer for Zenodo. This person will join a highly collaborative team working together to deliver software and services to support open science. Apply by Aug 27! Additional information at https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/743999919476286-full-stack-software-engineer-for-zenodo-it-ca-osr-2023-105-ld-
Winners of BMC Ecology and Evolution Image competition released today:
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-023-02141-x
Super happy and proud that the overall winner is the head and mind behind our EcolClips – Conny Sattler.
EcolClips: https://www.youtube.com/@ecolclips
Website: cosattler.com
#ecology #fungus #FungiFriday #nature #photography #australia #macrophotography
My favorite piece from Ambar is this one about digital access coordinators bridging health systems and patients' tech divide, where she got to shine with her strengths: making personal relationships & telling stories with empathy (and great photojournalism!)
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/24/hospital-language-technology-telehealth-disparities/
'Our aim was to answer two questions: (1) Is COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, intention, or uptake associated with HPV or hepatitis B (HBV) vaccine hesitancy, intention, or uptake? and (2) Is exposure to COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on social media associated with HPV or HBV vaccine hesitancy, intention, or uptake?'
Today — August 18 — is the deadline for submitting brief paper-airplane videos to be part of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony webcast https://improbable.com/2023/07/18/invitation-throw-paper-airplanes-in-the-2023-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony/
12 fully funded PhD positions: Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research
Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research
Do you have a background in the life sciences? Apply now for a fully-funded PhD position at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research in Germany!
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cologne-graduate-school-of-ageing-research-27778-12-fully-funded-phd-positions-cologne-graduate-school-of-ageing-research/?feed_id=55607
Did you know that the scientific term for bisexual flowers is "perfect flowers"? Adventures in nature's nonbinary botany with a side of Emily Dickinson: https://t.co/S6eSRTTXRn
Miro GTPases mediate mitochondrial attachment to motor proteins. @framattedi @alessio_vagnoni &co use photocleavable #Miro to inactivate it in fly neurons, revealing immediate consequences of its loss for #mitochondria, neurons & behavior #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3seG2bE
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Interested in Aging Research?
Aiming to understand age-related diseases & pathologies?
📣 📣 📣 Up to 12 positions for PhD candidates available in 2024!
Join our CGA in Cologne
https://www.ageing-grad-school.de/phd/applications/
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@agingresearch
#Biology #Aging #Ageing #Metabolism #Kidney #Altersforschung #Alternsforschung #Biochemistry #Genetics
“Never has the power to control public discourse been so completely in the hands of a few profit-seeking corporations with no requirements to serve the public good.” writes @Julia. “To prevent those who would hijack algorithms for power, we need a pro-choice movement for algorithms. We, the users, should be able to decide what we read at the newsstand.”
A must-read (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/opinion/social-media-algorithm-choice.html?unlocked_article_code=mT6ntAeiTg4MF3WsZFYZS5Gnpaxv1np12nE0KSei5IFsZ7aQkrlt5T2Z5OKGqoZUhzMe6BKTpIuRK68nJTtGy0nvdlrw5xKZyaiM86GDnl-FebhmJbRWoFug2vBc2aypC3D6pPF6PzDes7N--Bhl_QTsZEeiFFrNsrD_7gLm5wwCUdZ-EEijhFwIeUcVuVEdvwfyhzvhsXeth9Q78ayqTL5GY2lkFdSlcPElS1E3v-MbnYEFOd3OxGTl4UTm-EqtIImZsr_VFtGASplfk6hiMWwEhe3GHHM7JSD1oQvZnrr4igss9odWmTGy_2aJWBdB_4y61Y7P-B7xVppRbHBszOagXV8qVA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#algorithms #socialmedia #MustRead
Our lab 🐌 now has a website and a logo: https://snailab.ca
Check out our website to learn more about our approach and research goals.
To give you a glimpse of the topics that interests us, we have also dedicate a page to the SNAIL Journal Clubs. We'll post summaries of the papers we read on this page: https://www.snailab.ca/home/journal-club
Cell-cell signaling needs to be precisely controlled for proper development & homeostasis. @melisa_degroot &co @CornellMBG show that the secreted Ca-binding protein SMOC regulates #BMPsignaling in #Celegans by binding to both BMP & glypican #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/47BOphw
'Se aprofundarmos e detalharmos a informação disponível, temos que 66% dos trabalhadores ganham abaixo dos 1000 euros mensais e 27% ganham entre 1000 e 2499 euros. Apenas 4% ganham entre 2500 e 4999 euros. Acima dessa remuneração, estão apenas 0,7% dos trabalhadores.'
'Here, we report the T1D Knowledge Portal (T1DKP), an open-access resource developed to help advance T1D research by democratizing access to genetic, genomic, and epigenomic data.'
#Diabetes #Immunology #autoimmunedisease
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002233
'Crick Africa Network Fellows will receive four years of funding hosted at one of five African partner institutions: WACCBIP, University of Ghana; Stellenbosch University, South Africa; University of Cape Town, South Africa; MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM; MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit.'
'The sriracha shortage is hardly the worst crop crisis that’s being fueled by climate change. For years, Michigan cherries have been suffocating in too-high temperatures, while Florida citrus have been obliterated by hurricanes; India’s wheat crops have roasted, while rice around the world has been double-teamed by floods and heat waves. But to now see peppers in peril is its own special burn.'
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/08/sriracha-shortage-hot-peppers-climate/675021/
'The coyote never orders the same product from the Acme catalog twice. “The President did not ask the Academy for advice about global warming again,” writes Jim Hansen, “during the remainder of his eight years in power.”
https://lithub.com/how-the-bush-administration-hid-the-dangers-posed-by-climate-change/
Lithographic print on wood 12x20cm
#Print #Printmaking #Art #ArtGallery #lithography #Handmade #artmastodon
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com