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Much resonance in this statement generally and this bit in particular: "My plea to my academic colleagues in this time is to trust that science’s leaders are making the best judgments they can about how to proceed, remembering that timing can be everything." 💯

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Don’t forget your spot at the next ICOR meeting on 27th February focused on new paradigms in research communication. Speakers and perspectives from @gallseeker.bsky.social, @madubs.bsky.social, @katiecorker.bsky.social, Veronique Kiermer and Geoffrey Boulton. incentivizingopen.org/2025/02/the-...

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Reading the specifics of this case, it doesn't really surprise me that the plaintiff was favored and this was not ruled fair use, but now I'm very curious where the courts will draw the line. Is this a harbinger of future rulings or an outlier? natlawreview.com/article/fair...

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The inimitable, formidable James Heaters has gifted us (some of) the contents of his brain in the form of a primer on evaluating rigor in research articles. And he published it using @curvenote.com so it's versionable and its code is executable - the only way it makes sense to publish in 2025. 👏👏👏

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But Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

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I think it would be a catastrophic mistake to confirm RFK Jr to lead the nation's health; he is arguably the world's most extreme, notorious, & dangerous anti-vaccine activist & he has a long & shameful history of enriching himself by peddling grotesque, harmful disinformation & conspiracy theories

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NIH-supported research saves lives: here are two "poster" human beings to prove it. Emily Whitehead: cured of her leukemia by CAR-T developed at Penn. Victoria Gray: major symptoms of her sickle cell disease resolved following CRISPR gene editing - path paved at Boston Childrens, UW, UC Berkeley.

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Journal of the American College of Cardiology: "preprints are a cornerstone of modern scientific publishing. Our commitment extends beyond just accepting preprints—we want to actively encourage their use" via @hmkyale.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Interesting point here by @lisalibrarian.bsky.social that we could see APC-based models favored over TAs/pure pub agreements as a result of the ICR cuts b/c APCs are covered by direct costs. Awkward timing as the words "beyond the APC" have been trending. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/10/n...

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A bit of levity. I just want to understand the series of events that led up to this branding decision.

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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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I have a piece half-done on the entire world of indirect costs. It's too big an endeavor to finish now, in the middle of the night, when this problem that was always a live grenade with a half-pulled pin is suddenly a topic du jour. Shit of a thing. Here are some highlights.

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Submissions to Janelia's CellMap Segmentation Challenge are officially open! 🎉

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Presenting our first examples of publishing peer-reviewed protocol papers with @protocolsio.bsky.social gigasciencejournal.com/blog/publish... See our first protocol with a peer-reviewed method badge dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro... And the paper embedding the protocol here doi.org/10.46471/gig...

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Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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(From A.Word.A.Day, Anu Garg) Psychrolutic societies in Britain promoted cold baths to keep impure thoughts away. "Blobfish belong to the fish family Psychrolutidae, so called because they live in deep cold water. Biologists are still working to ascertain the purity of their thoughts." 😂

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Lots of yuck everywhere right now. Here's something that's not. Sam Beam, 2007. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYUF... Have I found you? Flightless bird Jealous, weeping Or lost you, American mouth? Big pill looming

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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

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embeds bring fragments of a cited work into the citing article, so when we are reading it on the web (its 2025) the content is available in place, with appropriate attribution. with some further UX tweaks this could be the basis for citations++ on the web!

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the little car 😂

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Attention AI/cell science people: Janeila's CellMap team is seeking participants for an organelle segmentation challenge based on ~300 training crops of well-annotated eFIB-SEM. Check it out! Details here: cellmapchallenge.janelia.org

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🎉 eLife is pleased to announce Timothy Behrens (@behrenstimb.bsky.social) as our new Editor-in-Chief! A distinguished neuroscientist and long-time supporter, Tim will lead our efforts in transforming research communication for all.

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At the dentist’s office, where they’re playing the uncensored version of Love on the Brain in the waiting room. This is the energy needed for 2025.

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Uggh. I really wish that publishers would not be doing this. This is in Oncogene. Can we get one download button for one file containing the article + all supplemental figures and tables, please? The Cell suite of journals actually does this and it is so lovely.

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Good article on the consumption of scholarly articles by LLMs and how authors should think about this w/r/t open access. But it doesn't make the explicit point that CC BY NC ND (considered an OA license in most circles) could end up being a pitfall. 🧵 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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What better way to improve my 9 year old’s probability intuitions.

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Many academics point to bioRxiv as “the one thing improving science publishing”. If so, the one thing you all can do is persuade colleagues to submit and make this a norm. 1/2

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