Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@social.cleverlibre.org

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
At the time, I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 55 now.
HIV treatment works and it means I can’t pass it on - we call this #UequalsU.
HIV changed. Tell everyone.
#WorldAIDSDay #WorldAIDSDay2022 #AIDShistory #CantPassItOn #FightStigma

Yesterday in my BIO/INFO 270 class I lectured about predatory publishing. Whether or not you think Hindawi falls into that category, they need to be doing a much better job of vetting the articles they publish.

Via Josemari Feliciano over at twitter, one of the worst examples of a #DatavizFail #GraphCrime that I've ever seen from this paper:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/3802603/

Look closely: These are not error bars. They are literally the typeset letter "T" placed atop each bar in the bar graph.

I hear new people noting how chill, tolerant, and pleasant Mastodon is.

Mastodon isn’t chill or tolerant or pleasant. It’s a tool… a foundation on which to create and maintain a culture.

It’s those who’ve been on Mastodon, run servers, and served as admins who did the hard work and created the culture you now enjoy.

Now, it’s your turn. The only way it stays tolerant and chill is by us doing the work to keep it that way.

A good example of, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

3,013 neurons, half a million synapses: the complete #connectome of the whole #Drosophila larval brain!

Winding, Pedigo et al. 2022. "The connectome of an insect brain" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.516756v1

We’ve mapped and analysed its circuit architecture, from sensory neurons to brain output neurons, as reconstructed from volume electron microscopy, and here is what we found. 1/

#neuroscience #connectomics #vEM #volumeEM

"Why don't we share data and code?" Nice and concise infographic about perceived barriers and benefits. Full article: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1113

So, the European Union has set up its own Mastodon instance, EU Voice, as an official channel/platform for all its many institutions - what a great initiative https://social.network.europa.eu/about
#TwitterMigration #europe #Diplomacy #Transparency

Growth.

I have been using Git a long, long time. I have worked on Git clients and libraries. At some places I've worked, I am the person folks go to when they need Git help.

And yet, only today I learned you can pass -m to commit twice (or more) and it will do the right thing of making each successive message a new paragraph (which is useful for the convention of a short summary as a single first line and following paragraphs as a more detailed message).

Has anyone ever investigated whether people (researchers or lay people) are more convinced from pregistered / many labs / many analyst projects compared to "normal" projects?

BREAKING: Democrat and indigenous Alaskan Mary Peltola officially wins race for Alaska’s only House seat, defeating Pro-Trump Republican Sarah Palin.

2/ Let's just forget for a second that #predictive #crime is just quackery anyway, extremely stupid mistakes are being made. For example, if your name is in the police systems because of something somebody else did, that was considered an indicator by the #algorithm (called #ProKid). Amateur hour.

@polka @PracheeAC

On the photocopier and peer review claim: yes, nice story, but...

Typewriters+carbon paper (or indeed, just 'typewriters + copy typist) could make multiple copies of papers way before photocopiers became common. But the journals I've looked at weren't asking for multiple copies (though they were requesting typescript rather than handwritten).
I suspect the rise in use of peer review in the third quarter of 20thC coincides with photocopiers but wasn't caused by them.

Dear students:

If you’re considering emailing a former professor just to check in and say hi, but are hesitant because you have nothing substantive to say, consider this an invitation to go ahead and send that email. It really means a lot.

Just a reminder to all of those who are new around here and getting used to the mechanics of mastodon timelines.

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@scullingmonkey
Many of the Cell press journals are on #mastodon too!
@CellReports
@CellMetabolism
@cellcellpress
@cellpress
@TrendsCellBio
@CellGenomics
@CellStemCell
@cellhostmicrobe
#science #CellPress #cellbiology #metabolism #stemcells

Time for an #introduction

I'm a computational (bio)physicisct and have mostly worked with MD simulations of lipid membranes and membrane proteins but also some experience in machine learning and free energy calculations.

Currently I work as a senior scientist at Schrödinger in New York City, after doing a postdoc at Stanford University and a PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics.

Besides work, I'm an avid amateur photographer and I like reading about science, history, and languages.

Should grants use a lottery approach? 🎟️

"Research shows that, barring a minority of outstanding projects, grant winners and losers are not decided by a precise and objective identification of worthy and unworthy projects. Instead, the luck of the draw — who reviews what proposal and the opinions they hold — generally determines these outcomes."

"It is excessively wasteful in terms of researchers’ time."

https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/21/research-funding-broken-lottery-approach-could-fix-it/

#sciencereform #macademia #metascience @academicchatter

Interesting webinar by Gabriella Rustici & Guillaume Desachy where they will share their experience about the @rstats journey AstraZeneca is currently on.

R at AstraZeneca: ​​upskilling our workforce through education, experience, and exposure

https://www.addevent.com/event/Kq14516694

Following up from the newly implemented #ungrading pedagogy (see https://lgatto.github.io/ungrading/), I have gathered an initial student feedback during this term's year committee, where student delegates and teaching staff meet to discuss how things have been so far.

Here's what concerns my 3rd bachelor course:

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