Benoît Kornmann

@KornmannLab at @UniofOxford and @StHughsCollege

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Note to self: don't forget to pin a thoughtful tweet in my profile...

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@galosgann My interpretation of the saying is that esprit (which is very polysemic in french) must be understood as wit. And the stair is the one leading you down from the podium.
The feeling that you have a good repartee, but it comes to you only after you're leaving the stage...

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Terrible case of "esprit de l'escalier" (this is a thing, Google it).

In the coach, back from defending my proposal in front of the panel,

and thinking of aaaaall the perfectly good answers to their questions.

Missed them all, pretty much. 😣

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(just quickly back on Twitter because I promised myself to also tweet about the not-so-rosy things in the job)

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Nucleotide influences client binding. What's the mechanism?

Voilà. thanks for reading!

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🚨New preprint Alert🚨

Shared Structural Features of Miro Binding Control Mitochondrial Homeostasis https://t.co/zkGdDj8GOQ

If you want to get the gist follow the 🧵

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This will spark more research!

The hydrophobic pocket is part of a Ca++ binding domain. What's the crosstalk?

We now can surgically disrupt client-Miro interaction without affecting other functions of client or Miro. What's the significance?

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just stumbled upon a @eLife paper. Title seemed awesome but out of my field. couldn't know if it was a paper I needed to read ASAP or if it could wait.

I just read the eLife assessment and
got much more info than just knowing the journal name.

Get into the habit of doing that!

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@MicrobiomDigest

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Great talk by Ben Barres Spotlight awardee @AJKowaltowski !

With seminars like this, science has no problem reaching all corners of the globe. Journals' purpose isn't dissemination anymore, but evaluation.
Time to endorse this and change the way we publish. @eLife

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Thank you to @AJKowaltowski for the great lecture, to @BenoitKornmann for the discussion on the new @eLife model, and to the 250+ participants!

See you again next month, for another @MITOtalk!

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@OdedRechavi To put it simply, recognizing the idea more than its implementation might be rewarding survivor's bias.

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@OdedRechavi Well ideas are valuable but the fact is: I can have hundred (mostly bad) ideas per hour.

The hard task is to sieve through the good ones, and follow them up.

The students/postdocs do it by actually doing the work to test these.

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@OdedRechavi @PavelTomancak @NatRevMCB '(except in the case of COI)

darn...

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@OdedRechavi @PavelTomancak @NatRevMCB The main problem is that a paper is for a readership, not for authorship.

It's for communicating science, not recognizing your work.

The reader doesn't care about who's done what (except in the car if coi).

It is sufficiently complicated to understand the science!

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@DanielCaviedesV @OdedRechavi @PavelTomancak @NatRevMCB Yes but:
-scientists are evaluated by scientists, not by institutions.
-If you want to acknowledge the work of X or Y, maybe there is a way to write an actually informative author contribution section rather than complicate the text body with information useless to most readers.

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@OdedRechavi @PavelTomancak @NatRevMCB "Oded suggested that..."

We all know that usually, the experiment was done for some other reason, but to keep the paper simple and understandable, the - originally very convoluted - story is made linear.

Again, this is fine. A paper should be written for its readers.

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@OdedRechavi @PavelTomancak @NatRevMCB Yes, the fact is nowadays authorship = recognition.

But let's try to sever that link rather than make it more complicated.

(Again, think from the reader's point of view! The paper is meant for them).