Michele Avissar-Whiting

Director, Open Science Strategy at HHMI | talk to me about preprints | tweets are mine 🥑🎼🧬🤓🎤

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

@PracheeAC https://t.co/aPWhLo9Z2U

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

@OdedRechavi Amazing - glad you made it safe and sound! 😌

[Pardis Sabeti @PardisSabeti]

Author selfie — but this one feels different.

Our newest @sabeti_lab paper came out in Science just as conflict escalated between Israel and Iran, Shira’s and my birth countries. A painful reminder of how fragile the world can be. But also a reminder of what’s possible: that across borders and conflict, individuals can still choose to build together. @WeingartenShira

https://t.co/PSF0ErBOwG

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

A lot of people know deep down that the Trump Admin is behaving shamefully with regard to Ukraine, but don't want to admit, even to themselves, that America is being dishonorable, so they fixate on matters of no consequence, like Zelensky's manners, to distract their consciences

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

If Trump would grant Volodymyr Zelensky (head of a country invaded by Russia, w/countless dead soldiers and civilians) a fraction of the grace and open-mindedness he has granted Andrew Tate (accused rapist/sex trafficker), that would be good

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Yarden Bibas burying his wife Shiri and his babies Kfir and Ariel 💔

[Professor Booty PhD @ProfBootyPhD]

About to click "submit" on my new grant proposal, "Diverse signaling mechanisms engaged by systemic all-trans retinoic acid." Wish me luck!

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

Poetry

[Morag Mitchell @MoragMitchell3]

He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

@gonenlab @BrentNannenga חוצפה!!

[Tamir Gonen @gonenlab]

In 2019-2021 @BrentNannenga and I put together this methods in cryoem book. It was a lot of work. It sells for 120$ and chapter downloads are 35$. The publisher informed us that they had 78,000 downloads so far. Thats several million dollars profit for them...

We got nothing 😳

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

@cshperspectives @jasonpriem Prosciutto

[Ubadah Sabbagh @neubadah]

Since we're talking about funding of absurd research by NIH and other federal agencies, the funded scientists:

- watching flies fuck
- giving rats massages
- spending years digging into why jellyfish glow
- tracking penguin poop from space
- using horseshoe crab blood

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

It’s becoming painfully clear that people are incapable or unwilling to understand nuance, unable or unwilling to hold multiple ideas in their heads at once when those ideas create the slightest cognitive dissonance. It’s a maturity issue, and it’s poisoning our discourse.

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

@DkSemyon @TaliaRinger Came here to post this 😂

[Rafeeque @rafeequemavoor]

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍

@NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations!

all freely available in the public domain.

Retweet and spread the message!
https://t.co/p1bD1kxO7H

[Dorothy Bishop (inactive account) @deevybee]

A quick response to the story that @eLife won't be listed in Web of Science any more. My experiences with Wellcome Open Research https://t.co/dGxWG2KtHq
@WellcomeOpenRes @Clarivate #peerreview

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

@cshperspectives @davidacrotty Hard disagree with this comparison. If anything, this is akin to WoS delisting all the journals that painstakingly investigate and log corrections and retractions on papers they've published.

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

Web of Science is good with indexing venues that routinely publish inadequate research so long as they don't label them as such.

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

The Web of Science has suspended the journal eLife from its listings because the novel publishing model adopted last year conflicts with Web of Science’s standards for assuring quality. https://t.co/Rp2oin2psL

[Tamir Gonen @gonenlab]

The 2024 Summit is over and it was quite an event! We are planning to hold this Summit annually going forward, at Lake Arrowhead as a regular venue. If you know someone that should be invited let us know. All attendees speak. Self nominations are welcome!

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

@VicVijayakumar This immediately made my eyes tear up. Hope it's feeling ok? Big hugs!!