Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Listened to the "Library of Alexandra" podcast last night - much more than I expected! A live, in-person interview with Alexandra Elbakyan at her mother's home in Kazakhstan. How Sci-Hub was born. The real story about why new papers are not appearing on Sci-Hub (a court case in India led by a young volunteer). Her strategy and hopes for the future of accessible science...

https://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra

#SciHub #OpenAccess #AlexandraElbakyan

India case notes:
https://infojustice.org/archives/42977

Text of another Alexandra interview:
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/interview-alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-elsevier-academic-publishing-open-access/

Lab-based PhD will be testing as well

"Four years of self-directed study, especially in a non-laboratory based, solo subject such as economics, will test your reserves of internal motivation."

https://www.ft.com/content/199d70aa-3090-4c6f-9dd5-0b4940e54234

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

Hello, I am a mathematician working at #LundUniversity in Sweden. My research is in #ScientificComputing for a sustainable world, more specifically about iterative solvers for the simulation of all sorts of flows, e.g. in the atmosphere.

I am interested in many things, will mostly post about Scientific Computing, #OpenScience, climate change.

#introduction

@DrYohanJohn
Thanks for this really excellent summary. You nailed so many great points here.

(b/c the thread was broken, I’ll comment at the top).

One idea from this book that I found particularly thought provoking was Tychonic principle: the idea that the data required to push science forward is exceedingly difficult and tedious to collect. What then might possibly motivate scientists to do such work? It’s how we’ve set up the scientific enterprise: to prioritize and reward the acquisition of difficult to collect data.

That idea both resonated with me and haunted me at the same time. Resonated because yes, there’s truth to it - data collection is tedious and unless we prioritize and reward it, no one will do that really, really hard work. Haunted because I worry that the cost of that system is that sometimes not enough thought is given to considering the data that’s most important to collect (because who knows?)

Which leads to another big idea that I found haunting: that scientist can make science work but no one can explain how it works (neither scientists nor philosophers nor historians). Haunting because: if we are concerned it’s not working, how do we diagnose and intervene in a way that doesn’t do more damage than good?

Hauntings are good, I think. It’s a really thought provoking and accessible book. I recommend anyone in the headspace for that type of contemplation.

'In Disputed Inheritance, historian of science Gregory Radick provides a scholarly, detailed and perceptive analysis of why Mendelian genetics has long dominated our approach to understanding inheritance, despite valiant attempts to propose alternatives. The answer lies in fierce competition between two scientists in the early days of the field.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02310-4

“I was forty-five years old and tired of being an artist. Besides, I owed $20,000 to relatives, finance companies, banks, and assorted bookmakers and shylocks. It was really time to grow up and sell out, as Lenny Bruce once advised.”
Mario Puzo (in Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli)
#Books #Book #writer #reader #bookshelf #bookstodon

New guidance: Reporting research misconduct. When, how, and to whom. https://doi.org/10.37672/UKRIO.2023.03.reportingresearchmisconduct (PDF)

Our #ResearchIntegrity Manager @mattjhodgkinson gives advice to complainants on preparing a report, finding contacts, and getting action taken.

#ResearchIntegrity #Whistleblowing

I have excellent and probably surprising news for the person or people who asked this question so often that it appeared in my #google recommendations

New preprint from the lab! Decoding working memory information from persistent and activity-silent neurons in the primate prefrontal cortex.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.25.550371v1

#neuroscience

Hello world!

Sending a message to all former Plant Physiology and Plant Cell Assistant Features Editors: drop me a note if you plan to attend the Plant Biology conerence in Savannah, Georgia next week. We're having a do and would like to invite you.
#PlantScience
PS - if you'll be in Savannah and would like to learn more about the Assistant Features Program, find us at the ASPB booth, especially Sunday August 6 from 6-6:30 pm ("meet the editors"). 🌱

'Here, we used a human tonsil organoid platform to elucidate the cellular dynamics of Ag-reactive B and T cells in primary human tonsils as they responded to IIV, LAIV, and #influenza viruses. Tonsil organoids are a useful system for tracking human adaptive immunity and can recapitulate numerous aspects of the developing B and T cell response'
#Immunology

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00276-5

'On July 7, a Tulsa County district judge dismissed a recent lawsuit brought by three living survivors of the 1921 attack: Viola Fletcher, 109; Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108; and Hughes Van Ellis, 102. Their attorneys argued that the City of Tulsa and other government entities were directly involved in the decimation of Greenwood. Police officers deputized members of the white mob, witnesses reported seeing officers taking part in the destruction, and Tulsa’s mayor at the time, T.D. Evans, wrongly blamed a “negro uprising” for the destruction.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opinion/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations.html

Post-doctoral position « Bacteriology of Host-Microbiome interactions » @francoisleulier

Functional Genomics Institute of Lyon (ENS de Lyon/CNRS)

Postdoctoral position available for a bacteriologist interested in probing how #microbiota members shape mouse #physiology using #gnotobiology.

See the full job d...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/functional-genomics-institute-of-lyon-ens-de-lyon-cnrs-27778-post-doctoral-position-bacteriology-of-host-microbiome-interactions/?feed_id=52617