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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
That specifically right there is the sound of science in the US dying
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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality. WHAT A SURPRISE!
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Also, 😉
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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Good, it's bloody freezing in Scotland!
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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
74% of all known microbial species remain unstudied www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied
Microbiology research has historically focused on a few species of model organisms. Our bibliographic analysis finds extreme bias in the distribution of bacteriology research across species, with half...
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
CIDRAP: "Almost a third of preteens, teens with long COVID still not recovered at 2 years, study shows" Guardian: "Most teenagers recover from long Covid after 2 years, study shows" That headline is a choice. The news here is really that 29% of kids with #LongCovid still had symptoms at 2 years.
A headline from The Guardian reads: Most teenagers recover from long Covid after two years, study shows

The photo accompanying the headline is a pial of vials with red caps.
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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Is Elon Musk on here? What's his @?
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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A reminder that if you are reading a preprint and the data is not released but is available (privately) on Genbank, SRA, or GEO, you can email and ask for it to be released.
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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Folks are joining ! Follow them and make them stay.
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Christian Diener @cdiener.com · 06/02/2024
Building a comprehensive genomic database for as many foods in FOODB as possible we could connect individual genomes to nutrient content. For now we can match 77% of all foods in FOODB with taxonomic information and the next version of the database will push this to 90%.
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biomickwatson @biomickwatson.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Jesus this is bleak #gemomics #sequencing #microbes
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