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A proposal for a new requirement to get co-authorship - agreeing to cite the paper at least once within the 24 months following publication. This will drive up everyone's h index, especially for consortia papers.

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To get my mind off the crazy rest of the world - has anyone looked at the correlation between the number of authors of a paper and the number of citations?

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Is this the new look of a scientist in the US?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Double.

submitted 19 days ago • 3386 comments

Does performing numerous small, bureaucratic tasks dull your ability to think deeply about a few important things?

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How often do we actually expect experiments ot replicate exactly in biology? The systems are complex and designs usually are not precisely reproduced. What the lack of replication tells us maybe the better question - assuming things are carefully done. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19503614/

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps the biggest impediment to gaining new knowledge is our arrogance about what we already know

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

When science and religion or power collide - remember the sun revolves around the earth and Lysenko was right

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A frightening reality. I see similar trens in grad students And then add AI. A recipe for disaster www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Is it how many papers we publish or what we publish? Just asking for a friend

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We need to emphasize that learning to analyze data is different from understanding what data is telling us. It is the knowledge gained not the numbers crunched.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Can we even discover why data is not shared? Tough one... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

It's time to submit abstracts for ASHG 2025! It's going to be a fantastic meeting in Boston. Hope to see you there! www.ashg.org/meetings/202...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The search for simplicity in a very complex world gives us - "I will solve it on day one". Shouldn't scientists be a little more realistic?

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Love seeing my former students going out and being successful. Congrats Rafal! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40383794/

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Print out a couple of papers. Leave your office/computer and turn off your phone. Then read papers, carefully (including methods). That is how you learn to do science and to write. Do that long enough and then you can read on your computer - but until you master the skill of reading do it slowly.

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This is insane. Why not simply ha e a diploma printed by AI and move on...

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As more data becomes available on more people, why do we still limit our conceptualization of complex disease to simple models and testing? For the first time we are able to assess more realistic models, yet often do not do so. Need to get out of 20th century thinking and get real

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Really, really looking bad

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A very nice piece by a colleague about how our plans aren't really as set as we think - and they shouldn't be. Paths are usually not in straight lines and that is ok. Abandoning my long-held career plans was painful—but I love where I landed | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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What do the numbers for the heritability of Alzheimer really mean? We try to address this. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, yes indeed. And most with only moderate academic credentials.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Is there any way of turning off all AI apps without going completely off the internet? Operate in darkness and discover your real self again?

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Very cool

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

We live in a world of context. Nothing happens in a vacuum and all else is never equal. So why we do we construct models to explain nature ,using models that make assumptions known to be false? And worse, why do we believe them to be true?

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of noticeable absences, unfortunately. If you believe in the mission of higher education should stand up for it - even at some risk. Otherwise you do not really believe.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Microbiome and Alzheimer in Uganda - our first paper on the topic pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40258729/

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

If papers mostly cite papers from high impact journals (esp. in high impact journals) - why do the other journals exist? Are other papers less worthy or do people even read other journals? With internet searches being so easy this should not be the case. We are all on Nature/Cell drugs

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Learning the basics of a field - well, trumps knowing the most advanced applications. Reduces the number of stupid mistakes.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

When starting a nonfiction book, do you read the introduction first? Or just jump into the main text. I am transitioning to the former in my reading.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, we need to remember the mission of education and not consider it a simple good that can be viewed the same as a new car

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

As we traverse the new academic landscape can someone please tell me the difference between compromise and capitulation? I see schools capitulating to government and now see administrators requiring the same from their faculty. Due process is dying from the head down.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

A great line up for an ever more important topic

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