Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm teaching a course on Experimental Design in #Biomedical #Research, and I like to start with the discussion of a short paper, pretending to be a scientific article but isn't (it draws conclusion with no actual data). The thing is that's a bit too obvious, so students tend to pick up the deception. Can anyone direct on a not so obvious yet false scientific paper? I'd appreciate it. #science #ExperimentalDesign #experiment

A Dutch art detective has recovered a precious Vincent van Gogh painting.

The precious 1884 painting was stolen from the Singer Museum in Laren near Amsterdam in March 2020, when the museum was closed during a Covid-19 lockdown.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2023/09/12/dutch-art-detective-finds-stolen-van-gogh-painting_6133338_30.html

#Netherlands #Laren #Art #Museum #SingerMuseum #VanGogh #Painting #Detective #ArtDetective

We have good news. Following our complaint, the European Commission has announced it will cancel a contract on merger policy research with Google’s close friend - a consultancy firm called RBB Economics.

Read all about it here 👉https://corporateeurope.org/en/node/2002

#SIB Early Career Award very very deserved to Maria Brbic https://people.epfl.ch/maria.brbic, who is an outstanding #SingleCell #machinelearning scientist with a great commitment to equality and inclusivity in science and to #OpenSource #BC2basel #EDI

I've seen a lot about aligning spatial functional genomics in this session at #BC2basel, which makes me wonder how much they could be applied to aligning data between (close) species and not only between experiments. #EvoDevo

@PlantTeaching So that's the app https://conservation-gardening.shinyapps.io/app-en/ or https://conservation-gardening.shinyapps.io/app-de/

https://github.com/istaude/conservation-gardening-shiny-app

#gardening #germany #endangered #plants

Well, well, well ... Bureaucrats in Poland's "anti-immigrant" nationalist ruling party, the same one ostentatiously building walls on the border, are suspected of selling visas, and thus bringing more than 200,000 non-Europeans into Poland last year....
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,30157205,w-tle-sledztwo-w-sprawie-gigantycznego-przerzutu-migrantow-do.htmlhttps://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,30157205,w-tle-sledztwo-w-sprawie-gigantycznego-przerzutu-migrantow-do.html

👏 #SIB PhD paper award goes to Viktor Petukhov for Cell segmentation in imaging-based spatial transcriptomics, with open code at https://github.com/ZhuangLab/MERFISH_analysis https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01044-w #BC2basel

Lots of interesting background in this piece on OpenAI: https://www.wired.com/story/what-openai-really-wants/

The germ deniers. Great highlight, with Dr Dan Wilson! @debunk_the_funk

Conspiracy theories about viruses and vaccines have exploded in recent years. At the same time, something even stranger has emerged, those who don’t believe in germs at all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5d94

Classic.

'Although private equity’s foray into book publishing is new, funds have been buying up news publications for the past decade. When they do, they tend to lay off reporters and editors, cut back on print editions, and invest less in the resources necessary for great journalism.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/private-equity-simon-and-schuster/675261/