Dr Peter Morwool

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus) investigating eusocial evolution of pathogens

[matt blaze @mattblaze]

Side effect of the Twitter implosion will be decreased access to science and scholarship.

While a sizable minority here may sneer at us, I think one of the most valuable things about Twitter has been the way it allows(allowed?) experts to engage with the public and each other.

[Dr Peter Morwool @ElucidatingLife]

Writing my r code for my boxplot when I still only have n = 1, and it turns out that a single replicate boxplot looks pleasingly like a PCR gel

[Elisabeth Bik @MicrobiomDigest]

Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem
* Unfortunately, many scientific journals and academic institutions are slow to respond to evidence of image manipulation — if they take action at all.

My opinion piece @nytimes - #MyGiftArticle
https://t.co/VLC0wb2hor

[Dr Peter Morwool @ElucidatingLife]

One of those days when you think "God, I've only done one thing today. Gotta shame myself for being unproductive" and then you remember that that "one thing" was counting 2972 caterpillars

[Dr Peter Morwool @ElucidatingLife]

This. Do whatever style works for you, but please make sure in advance that it actually works

[Dr Ashley Nova - THE POTENT SOLUTION out 16/10/24 @DrAshleyNova]

The thing about scripts or no scripts is wherever you sit there is one thing that both styles need to be done good

PRACTICE. Writing a script doesn't mean you can deliver it well, winging it doesn't mean you'll have a perfect spontaneous talk. You need to practice.

[Kirsty Sedgman @KirstySedgman]

we’re doing the ‘should academics present from notes or using a script?’ discourse again, I see

[Dr Peter Morwool @ElucidatingLife]

I once saw a 30 min conference opening talk go on for 90 minutes. No slides, he just put a pdf of his recent paper up on the projector and very slowly read it in a mumbling voice. He was pretty senior in the field, but I don't understand how he wasn't stopped after an hour!

[John Bull @garius]

"I believe I have 15mins but I have 30 slides and haven't timed this so let's see how I do HAHAHA" https://t.co/5Z440TqnGM

[soul nate @MNateShyamalan]

“if the government makes scientific papers free, how will journals pay experts to review submitted work?”

they don’t

“but how will they pay the editor who oversees review & curation?”

they don’t

“what about the authors whose work they publish?”

theyre literally charged $2000

[Adam Jackson is tooting on the other network @binarystate]

I'm attending #ICNS2022 remotely so if you want to talk about inelastic neutron scattering... well to be honest you can get in touch whenever, but I have a talk on Wednesday at 17.40 and I'll be running on Argentinian time for the next few days!

[Dr Peter Morwool @ElucidatingLife]

Wow!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is the first imagery we have of tiny cuboid crystals made of tens of molecules of NaCl emerging from the chaotic mixture of separate sodium and chloride ions. In other words, the first-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time https://t.co/ZVvmDSWf07

[Dr Addy Lowe @adriana_lowe]

NERC just sent an email out recognising that the cost of living increase means its PhD stipend isn't sufficient to live on.

Their solution isn't to increase it, it's to suggest students start selling Avon and sign up to clinical trials...

@ARIES_DTP @UKRI_News @NERCscience

[Jacob Aron @jjaron]

Not properly aligned, but this is an animation between Hubble and JWST. What an improvement!

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B

[Dr Peter Morwool @ElucidatingLife]

Doing sequence analysis and its probably possible to write a script to automate this, there might even be a button in the software, but it would probably spend more time working out how to do that, than to manually compare each sequence to the WT and note the differences in excel

[Kathleen Hefferon, PhD @KHefferon]

This one is also quite funny

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

At various points throughout the year, the hottest part of the solar system is Didcot. There is a nuclear fusion reactor there that can reach temperatures higher than the sun.