#SSPND24 Michele Avissar-Whiting 🎗️ unit of dissem evolution: eLife - the journal, Curvenote journals, AGU (American Geophysical Union) piloting #notebooks now w/ #jupyternotebooks, @NeuroLibre DeSci Labs #preprints where narrative/data/outputs are linked #openscience #openaccess

Sara Sara Rouhi on Bsky @RouhiRoo.bsky.social live tweeting my talk today, making me sound much smarter than I actually am. #thankyou

Shanah Tovah…for the love of all that is good and holy, please make it a better one.

Appreciating this perfectly framed shot taken by Sara Rouhi on Bsky @RouhiRoo.bsky.social …woman of many talents.

As a doctor whose wife experienced 4 miscarriages amongst the 3, now healthy adult children we have raised, I can’t stop thinking about JD Vance’s answers on abortion during the VP debate. Here is the problem with his and Trump’s “leave it to the states” approach. 1/13

"Discover Concrete and Cement hasn’t published any papers yet; it will need strong foundations to succeed." ICWYDT, James Butcher

And they cost ~1% of journal articles (~0.01% of research). So whatever you think of peer review (we need more vs less vs different vs none), supporting a mechanism that provides rapid and universal free access to knowledge should be a no-brainer journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

This is truly awful. God forbid we should be able to see scientists' comments on research and that reviewers should be accountable and credited for their input. We have totally lost the plot.

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!

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

A quick response to the story that eLife - the journal won't be listed in Web of Science any more. My experiences with Wellcome Open Research deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/i-dont… WellcomeOpenResearch Clarivate #peerreview

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! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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.

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

In 2019-2021 Brent Nannenga 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 😳

Poetry

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

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

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

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