It constantly baffles me how people who are smart, curious and observant can be so blind to simple realities of their profession (and this is not a US thing - indeed it’s worse in most other places). You can not like it - I certainly don’t - but how is any of this a surprise?

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This is a substantially revised and improved preprint, thanks to quality peer review at eLIfe. The new eLife model is beginning to grow on me. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… eLife - the journal

The same practical and ethical considerations that demand that Google DeepMind release code and models along with their publications apply to researchers publishing papers behind paywalls.

What's a book that's so bad you had to read it more than three times?

I’m ok with anyone who doesn’t have precisely 302 neurons

The tragedy of modern urban development

this is molecular phrenology

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This extended tweet is remarkable for, like the AllofUsResearch from a few months ago, fundamentally misrepresenting the value of continental diversity in variant discovery AND for touting the diversity of a dataset that is 80% white.

i don't know how to feel

This is a damning critique. But not, as is intended, of Chinese science (there are equally skewed subfields in the West), but rather of science publishing.

The fact that it’s a child is completely irrelevant. They should be treated the same as if they were the President of Stanford, and immediately named CEO of a billion dollar startup.

tea tea

I was ambushed at the end. It seems tea heresy is going to be a part of every podcast I do now. I had one Texan, Jen Richmond, suggesting I might be not be altogether inclusive of diverse approaches to tea (cos Texan), but I knew where that was going so shut it down quickly.

The fact that it’s a child is completely irrelevant. They should be treated the same as if they were the President of Stanford, and immediately named CEO of a billion dollar startup.

True story: this is how I got my first graduate student.

It should surprise nobody that while the most strident voices around scientific publishing were hyperventilating about an imaginary anti-Israel bias, the real actions was in the opposite direction.

False.

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