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Dominant fitness costs demonstrate the difficulties in producing a gene drive - even with highly effective homing rates. New paper in collab with Alphey Lab parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

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Dominant fitness costs demonstrate the difficulties in producing a gene drive - even with highly effective homing rates. New paper in collab with Alphey Lab parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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The esquisse addin is a great way to start making ggplots without having to know R code. And with a few tweaks this ShinyApp includes a colorblind palette checker as well! philip-leftwich-esquisse-data-visualisation-app.share.connect.posit.cloud #rstats

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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

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Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.

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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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🚀 Highly recommended for beginners and those looking to level up their R skills! By the end of this course, you'll gain the confidence to tackle complex programming challenges and create high-quality reports, figures, and dashboards in R. 📊💻 #RStats #DataScience @philipleftwich.bsky.social

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"Lies" 👍

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1,000 academic jobs gone in a week. And that's just the start. Britain - the stupid country.

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I don't know why I bother saying these things again and again, but: (1) Cutting won't save you, it'll make things worse and it'll be redundancies again in a couple of years (2) You can't make national infrastructure like this depend on short-term student numbers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Wait until this platform really takes off...

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Yes (and yes). Posted my ballot

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Just beautiful work by @soozuk.bsky.social

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Is this far enough for the Royal Society? Or will this FRS need to march with a squadron of machete wielding skinheads down Pall Mall before he brings the RS into disrepute?

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It is so jarring - On the Rest is Money Podcast- Peter Kyle - Sci & Tech Minister, referred multiple times to universities as being integral to their AI research and integration plans. It's hard to see how that can be the case without funding.

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That's it then. Inevitable, really, but still sobering. There never was any cavalry coming, and that means we will just have to get used to a much smaller sector. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/no-larg...

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When it comes to teaching students about the limitations of generative AI. One of the best tasks is to ask it to provide the answer and reasoning to literally any cryptic crossword clue...

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Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6

submitted 37 days ago • 31 comments

Off she goes 💪🏼 #SaveUEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social

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Norwich takes a stand!

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✉️ UEA UCU members, your ballots for industrial action will begin arriving this week. 📢Your branch committee unanimously recommends that you: ✅Vote YES to Strike Action ✅Vote YES to Action Short of a Strike. ⏰The ballot will be open until Feb 4th. #SaveUEA

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Strike ballot opened at University of East Anglia. Almost one in six staff put at risk of redundancy. "Our members will be voting yes to strike action because they refuse to pay the price for management's continued failings." @drjogrady.bsky.social.

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The feedback on this course was great! It was such a pleasure to deliver this, and I can't wait to do it all over again soon!

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📑 We have a series of technical focused articles written by our research faculty and technical staff, designed to provide the bioscience community with in-depth knowledge and insight into computational and lab techniques. Take a look at some here 👇 www.earlham.ac.uk/articles?tag...

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Another fantastic edition of 'Introduction to Statistics with R' by @philipleftwich.bsky.social ! Great interaction and questions—thank you all for joining! 🌟 Missed it? The next session is this Summer: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

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Copy-pasted link from my LinkedIN post 🤦‍♀️ here's the one direct to the journal enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Doesn't feel dystopian at all to receive emails from the "Staff Compliance Team"....

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🎉 Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉 We're kicking off 2025 with an amazing course! 🚀 The Introduction to Statistics with R course is in full swing, led by @philipleftwich.bsky.social 🎓📊

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Yesterday in a meeting with a colleague told me that when they experience grant rejections they just think of me. "He seems happy in spite of all his grant rejections..." Am I doing academia very right or very wrong? #HE #academia

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Applications are open for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral #PhD project with Prof Irene Papatheodorou, developing comprehensive cell atlases of regeneration in three different species, zebrafish, mouse and axolotl. #singlecell #cellatlas @daniorecode.bsky.social 📅 Apply by: 16 January 2025

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I think you can take 'going to non-traditional lenders' along with this week's 'please pay us up front' as another red flag. Now I know no-one cares, but these are the last warnings you get in most sectors. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/banks-g...

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A very quick blog about the shambles that was last week’s UCU HEC meeting. It’s short, but not very sweet. medium.com/@DyfrigJones...

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🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 We've just launched the RoSE Network blog! If you're interested in sparking conversations about statistics education, then have a read (and think about contributing 👀) Read our first post which introduces the blog: www.rose-network.org/blog/welcome... #StatsEd #Research

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"People's Future Limited". If this was fiction it would be dismissed as too on the nose. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/coventr...

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Suddenly the artistic cover on my maths textbook looks prescient and not just wrong! #mirrorlife

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