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This is a must-read for everyone involved in metabolomics. Personally I love this article because I no longer have to write a long paragraph when I say 'please don't use pathway analysis' during peer review 🤣

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'Beware employers bearing yoga mats and wellbeing sessions....It’s patronising, and ideologically suspect. It’s not your job to be resilient, it’s your employer’s job to provide you with decent working conditions.' 1/3

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Repurposing without Reinventing the Wheel - Ensemble Models for Differential Analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats pkg github.com/himelmallick...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A key question for universities is whether they are spaces of curiosity, creativity, and learning that enables people to think and act in new ways… or whether they only exist to serve job markets by churning out compliant workers.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

New content for #julialang TidierCourse: • What is Tidier.jl? tidierorg.github.io/TidierCourse... • Reading data from files: tidierorg.github.io/TidierCourse... • Verbs of data science: tidierorg.github.io/TidierCourse...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Yep. Every word of all of this.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

submitted 57 days ago • 42 comments

I was livid when I found out about this and continue to be. Labour exploitation in academia is a huge problem and it's infuriating to see researchers treated like this. You deserve compensation for your work!

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

This piece is absolutely brilliant, not just for how completely it tears apart Edinburgh's Senior Management on their complete failure to justify any cuts, let alone 140 million quid's worth...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

399 sigatures now, let's get this to 500 at least! docs.google.com/document/d/e...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

In light of today's announcement of job cuts at Cardiff & Durham here's an indication that VC's are doing pretty well in Scotland at least 😕 www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/education... #UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky

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Dundee's deficit has left staff on a lifeline. Today I told the Education Committee that Dundee University have... ❌ Kept trade unions out of discussion ❌ Offered no solutions to a long history of governance failures ❌ Lost the trust of their staff & students

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 Cancer Cachexia and the Brain Stem (a thread) In NEJM, Groarke et al. report the results of a phase 2 clinical trial of ponsegromab therapy for cancer cachexia in patients with elevated humoral levels of growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15). nej.md/3XE645a 1/10 #MedSky #ScienceSky

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

🧪 #stats #PsySciSky

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Luigi was in The Stranglers!

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

Maxinquaye by Tricky

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Where is post-Brexit Britain? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Recent Brexit news looks like a ragbag, but that shapelessness is significant, as it reflects drift and ambiguity in the government's policy and strategy for post-Brexit Britain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/wher...

submitted 151 days ago • 3 comments

Enjoyed being able to contribute Bayesian analysis to this cool work led by Colleen Deane: www.degruyter.com/document/doi... 🧪

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I keep this next to my office desk. It’s the story of my life!

submitted 154 days ago • 6 comments

Pleased to have been part of this great effort from driven/guided by Tony Robertson ‘A Glossary for Social-to-Biological Research’. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 1 (aop): 1–47. doi.org/10.1332/1757.... 🧪

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submitted 190 days ago • 2 comments

Here are two very useful resources for open-source scientific images/illustrations: 1. bioart.niaid.nih.gov This NIH-funded collection of high-quality, scientifically accurate vectors, icons, and brushes is freely available within the public domain. 🪰🦠🧪

submitted 190 days ago • 17 comments

I keep pushing my Sisyphus joke on people.

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

quote posting myself because i forgot the #science 🧪

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

New MS on MedRxiv... it's hard to track changes in insulin using changes biomarkers over lifestyle modification!

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If, like me, you have issues extracting bibliographic info from APA journals websites into Zotero, you can use the wand feature + the article DOI 🪄

submitted 202 days ago • 1 comment