Love seeing journal clubs discuss preprints! We recently launched a fund to convert traditional JCs into preprint review clubs (asapbio.org/apply-for-su...) - department or lab JCs can apply $200 for refreshments in return for 4 public reviews* *can be anonymous
Brought this preprint to journal club last week: Lots of new data on the "vagus-liver axis," but I'm particularly interested in the finding that transplanting cancer-associated microbiomes can elicit an anti-tumor response even in tumor-free mice—but only in mice with a severed vagus nerve.
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
Brought this preprint to journal club last week: Lots of new data on the "vagus-liver axis," but I'm particularly interested in the finding that transplanting cancer-associated microbiomes can elicit an anti-tumor response even in tumor-free mice—but only in mice with a severed vagus nerve.
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
One of the quotes of the year: "But let’s be clear: this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
Stunning development in scholarly publishing. NYPL will be digitizing "entire out-of-print backlists" of multiple academic presses and making them available. The Scholarly Press Backlist Revival project shows a striking thoughtfulness in overcoming perceived and real IP and contractual barriers.
Are you a data creator/user in #metagenomics#omicsshorturl.at/NOUW2 Please RT!
There are lots of tips available for biologists jumping into computational work, but we were surprised at the dearth of guidance on sharing it. So we wrote some! We also review how many biology journals require sharing code (not many) and direct readers to lots of resources on how to set things up:
Computational biology continues to spread into new fields, becoming more accessible to researchers trained in the wet lab who are eager to take advantage of growing datasets, falling costs, and...
I've seen similar guidance, for what it's worth, and some savvy journals have said Github isn't an acceptable archival solution when options like OSF and Zenodo are available
Really thorough review of multiomics and the microbiome, from Ashwin Chetty and @blekhman.bsky.socialwww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"The trains were designed to break if they sat idle for 21 days or if a GPS detected them at independent repair centers or competitors’ rail yards."
They found code that killed power to the train and broke a train's compressor: "We are 100% certain of our findings."
Footage from the 4 December encounter shows that LA sheriff’s deputy Ty Shelton shot Niani Finlayson four times within roughly three seconds of entering her home. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
Body camera reveals Los Angeles deputy fired at woman who sought help for domestic violence as nine-year-old daughter watched