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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Mar 30

Right! I'm so glad you picked this up, the results look very similar to me :)

biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Mar 29

Quite apart from which, bringing manufacturing back to the US (a laudable aim) will raise prices anyway, because the reason they off-shored them in the first place was to make cars cheaper....

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · Mar 29

That specifically right there is the sound of science in the US dying

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 29

F mechanisms (New and Competitive renewals)

Oof!

3/n

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Mar 29

Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality.

WHAT A SURPRISE!

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

Has to be the Heston Easter eggs at Waitrose, surely 🤣

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · Jan 10

Also, 😉

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

you've seen the Easter Eggs, right?

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

Yep. It's rightly described as a timebomb. No idea what the solution is, but the inter-generational gap is obscene.

biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

... indeed, and this only gets worse when generations who couldn't buy their own houses start to retire

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

Good, it's bloody freezing in Scotland!

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jan 10

World breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time on.ft.com/4gNG2DX

World breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time in 2024

Data for warmest year sparks fears climate change is accelerating faster than expected

on.ft.com

biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

yeah, why do they hate oxygen?

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Jan 10

74% of all known microbial species remain unstudied

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied

Microbiology research has historically focused on a few species of model organisms. Our bibliographic analysis finds extreme bias in the distribution of bacteriology research across species, with half...

www.biorxiv.org

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Dec 10

We better get used to it!

Apparently RFK is "finally" going to investigate vaccines/autism

biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Dec 10

I'm on here, but not that active 😂

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · Dec 4

CIDRAP: "Almost a third of preteens, teens with long COVID still not recovered at 2 years, study shows"

Guardian: "Most teenagers recover from long Covid after 2 years, study shows"

That headline is a choice. The news here is really that 29% of kids with #LongCovid still had symptoms at 2 years.

A headline from The Guardian reads: Most teenagers recover from long Covid after two years, study shows

The photo accompanying the headline is a pial of vials with red caps.

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Nov 21

It's still a bit boring though haha

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

Can't believe you don't use "Solexa sequencing"

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

You're right, I'm rusty on this 😂

Both ONT and PacBio are single molecule.

ONT assays the molecule directly, PacBio via incorporation events

I do think measuring the molecule directly represents a step change :)

biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

Do the clones copy the DNA modifications like methylation and such? Genuine question, I don't know

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

But in all seriousness, I think nanopore is the only one that assays the original, unaltered, unamplified, native molecule. Am I wrong?

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

I got lost at avidite and polonies. Is there an English version?

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

Is Elon Musk on here? What's his @?

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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · Nov 17

A reminder that if you are reading a preprint and the data is not released but is available (privately) on Genbank, SRA, or GEO, you can email and ask for it to be released.

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'd say they're different because they assay single molecules

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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · Feb 7

Oh you like chilled now huh

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