"Metastatic cancers (those that have spread beyond the organ where they originated) account for around 67–90% of cancer deaths2,3, and are almost always treated systemically, meaning with drugs that enter the bloodstream. To improve treatments for people with metastatic cancer, the community urgently needs to shift from using organ-based classifications of cancer to using molecular-based ones. This will require radical changes in how medical oncology is structured, conducted and taught."
Limpiando unos cajones ha aparecido una resistencia de 1000 ohmios (tolerancia 5%) y me he quedado un rato recordando cómo se traducían las bandas de colores. Era todo muy bandera LGTBI pero en plan ingenieril: es decir, complejo pero con una cierta coherencia interna. Luego me he acordado que la usaba de anillo en plan chic.
@j_bertolotti in Nature:
"In any discussion about if and how to share data, and how much to share, a large fraction of the debate boils down to people coming from different disciplines, with different approaches to the everyday working of scientific research, and thus different problems that need to be solved."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0625-2
The subjacent issue is that there is no defined scientific method for all fields, disciplines, and subdisciplines (and no need to). So, it is not a good idea to impose the same rules for all.
I adore this comic by by @elisegravel.
“So, yeah, YOU can be a scientist, too!” #science #art #education
"To date, being fluent in English has been a ticket to enter the world of academia," says Amano. "We must abandon this old system. Anyone in any part of the world should be able to participate in science and contribute to accumulating humanity's knowledge."
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-non-native-english-speaker-science.html
Physicist Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry without her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.
Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://whyy.org/articles/lise-meitner-the-forgotten-woman-of-nuclear-physics-who-deserved-a-nobel-prize/ #science #history
My last paper published in Soft Matter (Open Access), about the power-law behavior in the micro-mechanics of F-actin solutions:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2023/sm/d2sm01445a
Pues con los TFGs, revisiones, y actas terminadas ya podemos dar por terminado este cuatrimestre. Ahora a preparar el curso que viene para que no solape con la convocatoria de septiembre, y a intentar avanzar algo con la investigación. Y en algún momento de agosto habrá que parar y desconectar, por aquello de la salud mental.
¡Cuásares! https://youtu.be/V4Z8EdiJxgk
«La difícil situación de los investigadores becarios en Canarias: sin jubilación ni seguridad social»
Y no solo en Canarias, en todo el Estado español los investigadores "en formación" tuvimos becas sin derecho a cotización. Y hay casos auténticamente sangrantes de más de una década sin cotizar.
It sounds trivial and obvious, but are you reading error bars correctly?
Do you know whether you're looking at standard errors (measures of inferential uncertainty), standard deviations (measures of spread of individual observations), or 95% confidence intervals around the mean?
And are your intuitions about what each of these mean correct?
Here's a nice primer, refresher, or teaching article.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2659
h/t @jakehofman
Petición a Springer Nature para preservar el archivo digital de Investigación y Ciencia junto con la campaña de recolección de firmas:
Estupendísimo el vídeo de Quantum Fracture acera de qué es el método científico y, por tanto, qué es la ciencia. https://youtu.be/9mn_apO2DKk
Físico en UNED. «Avergonzador de estudiantes», pero «benévolo corrigiendo». «Bueno pero no excelente». Intento investigar en 'Soft Matter'. Opiniones propias. https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/ciencias/pablo-dominguez-garcia.html