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Postdoc, Harvard University. #DNArepair
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Our letter-to-the-editor providing evidence that ARK2N is not a core factor in transcription-coupled DNA repair is now online in PNAS | www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Big news in the publishing landscape of 🇨🇭 The Swiss National Science Foundation will no longer support publications in special issues. This is to fight the unsustainable models pushed by publishing houses like MDPI or Frontiers. There is another way. Go Diamond! 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎 www.snf.ch/en/g2ICvujLD...

submitted 458 days ago • 0 comments

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

submitted 77 days ago • 18 comments

It's now possible to win $1000 for making a PubPeer comment!🤑

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Worrying 👇

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Many years ago I was asked to join the editorial board of the journal Electrochem that was about to start. It sounded very interesting, since OA was just coming in and we were trying to move away from elsevier and other subscription journals. 1/

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Academic fraud is rife with #china at the forefront. As I write in the Spectator, journals are waking up to reality of fake science thanks to dogged detective work of @elisabethbik.bsky.social worthy winner of @einsteinberlin.bsky.social award #fraud #science www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

submitted 100 days ago • 4 comments

More evidence (as if it was needed) that Frontiers and MDPI do not peer review properly, have predatory characteristics and should be avoided like the plague

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Beware using FLAG tags in SUMOylation studies, as the lysines in the DYKDDDDK sequence can be SUMOylated according to this report... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

This study finds that at least N=8-12 RNA-seq experiments are required to avoid a >50% false positive rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Worth bearing in mind! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Hello Bluesky, looking forward to interesting and stimulating science here!

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments