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Nachiket Vartak
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Group Leader - Bioimaging: intravital imaging , Raman, CARS, correlation spectroscopy, cell biology and signaling, and always with imaging. Views personal.
Censorship can go both ways.
January 12, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Reposted by Nachiket Vartak
By Betrand Russell
_New York American_, 10 May 1933
#superstupidity
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 PM
X is correct in their response. People who made the prompts that generate offending images are responsible for them.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
More specifically, about the US health insurance system I presume.
December 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The main issue is that the X represents actually what some people think. These social networks are just turning into their own bubbles of ideologies - yes, Bluesky included.
December 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A scientific theory IS an agglomeration (no pun intended) of analytical concepts that attempts to explain observed phenomenon. What you call it is irrelevant. Importantly, is it true? Does the model make testable predictions?
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
So it is semantics. You are referring to the mechanics of phase separation and the maintenance of phase separation in out of equilibrium systems. But the basic definition does not necessarily require nor exclude violation of detailed balance.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Is this semantics? A working def. of phase separation is that a substance exists in two spatially separated forms which have different physicochemical properties at some scale. Now all that remains is to demonstrate that such a thing exists ,and if so, than is it relevant to biology.
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The order of authors as a measure of contribution is already an archaic system. Academia needs drop papers as performance metrics in general.
October 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
You could paint antelope and see if that reduces their chances of being caught.
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Pretty cool to have computational biologists and medical omics people side by side. Omics is not systems biology though.
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
That’s a wonderful initiative. Many don’t realise how to test properly is one thing, and how to come with things to test is the real progress. We are after all limited by our imagination.
September 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I would just plot log2FC(Protein) vs. log2FC(mRNA) and each point is a cell type. That way, everything on the diagonal is obviously seen to be well correlated.
September 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The line interpolating between different tissue/cell types made me cringe. Consider a scatter plot?
September 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It is hardly a 'feel free to' situation - didn't you just mention the funding stream problem in your thread ?
September 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Any other kind of system will be suspected to be susceptible to (and rightly so) forming cliques and mafias of scientists who always accept/promote each others work. That happens even in the current system, but a system that has no check against this is unlikely to work with cynical bureaucrats.
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Publications and impact factors are used like that by granting agencies - with confidence in the metric coming from the assumption that it is essentially adversarial peer review refereed by the journal editor.
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
While I am completely on board with the idea of abandoning the current publication system, any other system is doomed to fail if it does not provide a performance metric *that can be understood by non-scientists*.
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Right. I which case the pValue histogram will not show higher frequencies at 0. Or am I understanding your point wrong?
August 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM