ShubaVarshini

Postdoc Bioinformatics Scientist @Charitè | defining data management for clinicians | combining human genomics and microbiome in cancer and rare diseases

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Zero is not absence: censoring-based differential abundance analysis for microbiome data https://t.co/asBaVIUvOA

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Yes, as a PI, you can publish more papers by pushing your students/postdocs really hard.

But NO, those extra papers will not improve your life.

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They will only make everyone unhappier:

- Your team members will feel burned out and depressed.

- Journal editors will get another manuscript that no one is willing to review.

- The poor reviewers will have to review a manuscript they don’t care about.

- Fewer researchers will want to stay updated on your research as the quality and depth of the papers decline.

- Finally, YOUR well-being will suffer, as health issues and stress could outweigh any benefits gained from your 'extra push’.

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Instead of pushing your students (and yourself) into becoming paper generators, try this:

- Focus on the quality and depth of research

- Let your students lead their projects, be curious and more passionatve for science

- Publish less so that your readers become more interested to read EACH of your papers

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Robert Solow, the Nobel laureate in economics, once said:

"I estimate that if I had neglected the students, I could have written 25 percent more scientific papers. The choice was easy to make and I do not regret it."

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By neglecting your students, you neglect the community and science.

And yourself.

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#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdlife

[Lars Barquist @LBarquist]

Check out our new preprint, where we started off building a statistical model to investigate the effects of RBPs on RNA stability, and ended up finding out that average RNA half-life in bacteria is less than a minute -- less than 1/3 of previous estimates https://t.co/RVUWGORYK0

[Patrick Bohn @PatrickBohnPB]

Excited to share my first first author publication of my #PhD at @Helmholtz_HIRI! Anne-Sophie Gribling and I shared the work to develop this new tool to study #RNA folding in cells with long reads, revealing differences in structures between isoforms.
https://t.co/INbYypBnGB

[siTOOLs Biotech @siTOOLsBiotech]

Trust your gut and read our latest #siTOOLs blog post: https://t.co/WwXxMwGHvo 🌟! We interviewed Dr. @_Daniel_Ryan_ on his research focused on small RNA’s influence on Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron’s metabolism. #gutmicrobiome #bacteria

[Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI) @Helmholtz_HIRI]

The marathon season is here and team #HIRI is ready! 💪🏃

[Cell Press @CellPressNews]

"Green Teens: Understanding and Promoting Adolescents' Sustainable Engagement"
@UniUtrecht Sander Thomaes

Read more from this @OneEarth_CP Perspective here: https://t.co/OxLVcOU7yN

[ShubaVarshini @ShubaVarshini]

@elise_bor Can I have one or two…😋…disadvantages of being a computational biologist😂

[Zuguang Gu | 顾祖光 @jokergoo_gu]

Do you know you can directly subset the heatmap list in ComplexHeatmap?

ht_list[abs(cor) > 0.5, ]
ht_list[gene_type == "protein_coding", ]
ht_list[tss_dist < 1000, ]

All the parameters you set in ht_list are subsetted accordingly and automatically.

https://t.co/JQG4lHJ1l8

[Westermann lab @WestermannLab]

New preprint from the lab in collaboration with @DeutschbauerLab and @LBarquist: https://t.co/ToujPIhK1u. Stress-specific and metabolic gene expression profiling of B. theta complemented with functional genomics uncovered a ncRNA that modulates sensitivity to tetracyclines.

[Jakob Jung @jakobjung]

Happy to share my 1st 1st-author publication!
Our experiments reveal mismatch-position dependency of antisense-PNA #antibiotics. We Included this in MASON, a web-based PNA design tool. Big thanks for the support of the co-authors/helpers from @LBarquist @JoergLab @Helmholtz_HIRI

[Beisel Lab @BeiselLab]

Check out our brand new lab logo designed by our super talented PhD student @adiniqisthi !

[ShubaVarshini @ShubaVarshini]

@xianfeng_zeng Hey thank you :D

[Uni of Reading @UniofReading]

In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods.

@R0b1et @UniRdg_water

[ShubaVarshini @ShubaVarshini]

@prezzag They also associate the old tags to the new one. They do hate you cos annotations and definitions keep changing as you improve science :P

[Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI) @Helmholtz_HIRI]

#HIRI's Sabina @ganskih is still amazed by the #SARSCoV2 #RNA genome. The @M_Munschauer lab, where she is doing her #PhD, investigates the molecular interactions between human cells and this #coronavirus. These insights contribute to the development of novel RNA-based therapies.

[Seqera @SeqeraLabs]

The Nextflow training workshop now includes over 7 hours of YouTube content, as @EvanFloden leads you through 10 chapters from total beginner to Nextflow expert https://t.co/GcEI0Zp6SE