The most ridiculous bit about this sketch is that this is actually why the British called this part of the world "New South Wales": it did remind them of South Wales www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxKn...
YouTube video by Giop Saus
What I meant is that when I was a postdoc with an h-index of 12, I didn't get as much respect as now that I'm a group leader with an h-index of 45
The only thing that stopped this for me is having a decent h-index I might even deadpan "oh, I'm sure there is" in response to that question and it'll get the message across
As they say, the purpose of a system is what it does and most tools are used not to make predictions that will be tested but to make predictions that can "aid interpretation" (i.e., write up a story for a Discussion section of a paper that will never get tested)
I've also clearly noticed how status and traditional markers of success shape the conversation The fact that Macrel underlies a Cell paper makes it be taken more seriously The fact that I'm not "just a postdoc" anymore makes me be taken more seriously www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A machine-learning-based approach predicts nearly one million new antibiotics from the global microbiome, with 79 out of 100 tested peptides being active in vitro and several showing efficacy comparab...
With macrel, some users are disappointed that the tool produces fewer results than other tools If I was in the business of making the most popular AMP predictor, this could be a big liability. However, I'm in the business of predicting AMPs! It's a different business peerj.com/articles/105...
Why are bioinformatics results so full of false positives? I've been thinking about this for a few years: the incentives in the field are to produce false positives luispedro.substack.com/p/why-are-bi...
It's what the incentives
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