The group of Prof. Dr. Melanie Schirmer @TU_Muenchen Translational Human Microbiome searches for a motivated Technical Assistant to work on clinical samples, culturing and investigation of human microbiome. Check it out! https://t.co/yNMoHVYKkT #lifesciencejobs#humanmicrobiome
Major, fatal errors found in the data and methods of a 2020 paper in @Nature, including millions of reads mis-identified as bacteria. The "cancer microbiome" in this study was simply not there. @abrahamgihawi@elapertea@YuchenGe1@JenniferLu717 https://t.co/z5Aja84kiR
New hybrid hypothesis for the origin and spread of the Indo-European #languages. New study in @ScienceMagazine by an intl. research team of linguists and geneticists led by @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. See: https://t.co/mK0kfrTTXm & https://t.co/1CPx38O09V
Elsevier's revenue: £2.9 billion. WTF?
We scientists produce the content for manuscripts and review for free. Then we pay huge fees for open access publishing. Science should not be business. What on earth can we do to fight against this?
https://t.co/x7T3RG6aam
A new @ScienceAdvances study suggests that curry recipes may have been introduced to Southeast Asia about 2000 years ago, during a time when the region was pivotal in the early global spice trade. https://t.co/RCGUcCxKPh
The train manufacturer, Stadler Rail signed an agreement with two Italian railway operators to supply a total of 25 hydrogen-powered trains. The hydrogen-powered narrow-gauge trains are a world first.
🇨🇭🚂 🌊 https://t.co/lgt3XBC7gH
"Analysis of which researchers publish, get credit, move around, get funding, collaborate & receive citations shows how deeply ingrained the bias against women is.." #WomenInSTEM
Science’s gender gap: the shocking data that reveal its true extent https://t.co/gD4UUt6VuD
We’re excited to announce our new manuscript published in the most recent issue of Cell, in which we explore insights generated from ultra deep-sequencing of the gut microbiome of Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania.
https://t.co/6rzvimYv2Q
As an academic writing coach, here are the 7 mistakes I see supervisors and PIs make in the process of co-writing a paper with their PhD students or mentees.
A thread. 🧵
#AcademicTwitter#PIchat#newPI
What happens when you have a chronic illness that isn't being researched seriously?
Patient-led groups like @remissionbiome are designing their own research to address the needs of those with ME and long-COVID. See my latest in @ObserverUK@guardian
https://t.co/pqy8FPMfiw
JOB ALERT!! 🔥 DLopezLab @lopesrra at the CNB in Madrid has several open postdoctoral positions for candidates interested in molecular infection biology #microbiology MolBio and CellBio. Check out the add below 👇👇for details.
#ChatGPT wrote passages of this @IEEEorg conference paper. The caveat “As an AI language model...” is characteristic 😵💫. @ComputerSociety should audit the peer review process held, reassess the entire proceedings, and retract unreliable papers. https://t.co/Co1pffHu0b
⚡️ 36+ problematic papers flagged in the
@ElectronicsMDPI journal published by @MDPIOpenAccess. They contain tortured phrases, questioned references, and other anomalies 📷. Retract/correct + transfer APC of 2,300 CHF per unreliable paper to charities. See https://t.co/av2jE7ZTgB