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Marc Robinson-Rechavi
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mastodon 4.7.3Posts mine alone, in English (mostly) & French. #Evolution #Bioinformatics #openaccess #EDI. Director of @dee_unil@ecoevo.social and group leader at @SIB@mstdn.science. He/Him. PI of @bgeedb@genomic.social, of @selectome@genomic.social, and of @moultdb@ecoevo.social
Also on Bluesky as marcrr@bluesky.social
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1st, it's totally possible to travel by train further than you would first think.
2nd, night trains rule. Treat yourself to a comfortable option, it's probably cheaper than a hotel night + a train ticket.
3rd, more academics should consider the possibility. The most common reaction I get is surprise, from people who did not even consider the possibility. Inside Europe there are often more train options than you might think.
RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/116658075328780586
In an environment of depressing news, this is the most depressing graph I've seen recently #climateChange #AI
Another amazing #XKCD. 💪 🇨🇭 Gotthard tunnel
https://xkcd.com/3266/
RE: https://genomic.social/@Psy_Fer_/116583053574010056
I have now donated to @genomic.social and I encourage you to do so too to keep this server for #genomics and #bioinformatics
Sometimes clicking "random comic" on #SMBC comics @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social, you find such gems
(from https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/in-the-loop)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/116318197069234851
Preprint preprint preprint all academic outputs
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@mbaudis@genomic.social @kofanchen@biologists.social Indeed, there's some privilege that I use: no young kids, live in center of Europe, have funding to pay expensive train tickets.
If those of us who have this privilege don't use it, there is no chance to change the system. And many people are in a similar situation to me yet will fly.
In this case, Lausanne-Glasgow is a long day, but just 1 day.
So keep the flights for those who have no choice, but those who can should make an effort.
Derek Lowe's "unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science" deserves to be shared here:
https://bsky.app/profile/dereklowe.bsky.social/post/3mmwo6oaw5s2h
"we should start to stigmatise X usage for what it really is: a small and selfish part in making the world measurably worse. You are not special. You are not immune to fake news, delusion, anti-reality. You do not have a unique ability to maintain your critical faculties in an ecosystem where everyone else is losing theirs."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/28/still-on-x-ask-yourself-why-platform-twitter-malign-actors-misinformation
I feel seen #xkcd #units
http://xkcd.com/3248
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Amos recognises role #SciHub which helped #biocuration. In Switzerland we are allowed to download pirated papers ;). #ismbeccb2025
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Amos training #biocurators: “If you read a paper and you didn’t find an error, you didn’t read it carefully enough” #ismbeccb2025 #biocuration
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Amos's lament:
"It is quite depressive to think that we are spending millions in
grants for people to perform experiments, produce new
knowledge, hide this knowledge in a often badly written text and
then spend some more millions trying to second guess what the
authors really did and found.” #biocuration #ismbeccb2025https://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2009.3092.1
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In Switzerland we are lucky to have a long-term funding model through @SIB@mstdn.science, even though it hasn’t followed the growth in needs and its future is uncertain. #ismbeccb2025
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@deevybee@mastodon.social Thanks for this! So I thought Scientific Reports was just a PLOS One clone but more expensive to get a nature url, but it turns out to also be less rigorous 😠.
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“The best biocurators are excited about discoveries in their field”. My experience too. #ismbeccb2025
Interesting study of the performance of phylogenetic models for gene expression evolution, although they seem to have only investigated single-optimum OU models, which IMO limits conclusions on datasets with orthologs and paralogs. (Indeed they find poor performance for our 2016 dataset testing the ortholog conjucture.)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.09.527893v2
#phylogeny #GeneExpression #MolecularEvolution #bioinformatics #phylogenetics
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«“Bubble” is just the word you use to say “community” when you don’t like the people in the community.»
https://bsky.app/profile/fraying.bsky.social/post/3mmm7xrilrk2b
Conseil suisse de la science: l'initiative populaire «Pas de Suisse à 10 millions» comporterait des risques considérables pour la formation, la recherche et l’innovation suisses.
https://swr-web.vercel.app/fr/blog/10-millionen-schweiz
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@cOAlitionS_OA@fediscience.org Thanks for this informative thread. So Plan S supports Plan U now? 😉 #planS #planU https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000273
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@kissane@mas.to Thank you! This is such a great framing, and I can definitely see that I've contributed to this in my corner of mastodon. We should try to do better.