excellent, few more deserving targetsexcellent, few more deserving targets
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last year the NYT had a story about class and college admissions. I posted this graphic about the thing we talk about and the thing we don't even have a name for. Last night Michelle Obama offered a name! "The affirmative action of generational wealth" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"as [bioRxiv and medRxiv] become essential infrastructure, it makes sense to be supported by a diversity of stakeholders..several institutions offered financial support, including Stanford, MIT, Caltech, CNRS, Fred Hutch, Imperial, UW, & VU Amsterdam" investinopen.org/blog/infrast...
An interview with John Inglis and Richard Sever from bioRxiv and medRxiv on their strategic support partnership with IOI aimed at ensuring the two infrastructures’ long term sustainability.
👀 What do people look at on your scientific poster? New eye tracking pilot shows you what people look at, and what people ignore — so you can design a more attention-getting poster. Huge thanks to Ruth Pfosser for collecting the coolest poster data ever. Video here: youtu.be/4x0SLtCVFho
YouTube video by Mike Morrison, PhD
As part of the GREGoR Consortium’s research efforts, we are excited to announce new guidance to encourage clinical labs to report novel candidate genes during clinical testing. We give computable criteria for triaging, sharing, and reporting novel genes authors.elsevier.com/a/1jcDA3vlFV...
Best part of Tim Walz’s bio is that he was the school lunch room monitor. America needs that so badly right now
look, I'm sure we're going to have more stuff come out at some point that make people disappointed in Walz, every politician has flaws but doing this, at that time, is the sign of a fundamentally decent human being
UW is finally ending the caveman mask crow study after 16 years, which is apparently about the time it takes for the cultural memory of the caveman mask to fade out of local crow society 🥺 “It just doesn’t pay to keep scolding this [caveman] guy,” Marzluff said. www.kuow.org/stories/seat...
Researchers have made startling discoveries in recent years about a crow’s ability to communicate, solve problems, remember people, and use tools. What they’re discovering about crow brains is changin...