Ákos T Kovács Metabolomics in microbiology: interrogating microbial physiology and interactions Mini-review in mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Ákos T Kovács 
Robert (Bob) Kubinec OpenAI, like many for-profits, has little interest in foundational research. What they want is marketing, and that's what their AI math proofs are. OpenAI never bothered to check if the formalization of their AI proofs matched the actual text in the proof. Basic stuff. 🙄 arxiv.org/abs/2610.081...
samuel mehr lab managers: choose your participant incentives such that the participants are still using them thirty years later
Monica H Green Important paper that's going on the 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography even though it's not about plague: He et al., "Ancient DNA implicates Salmonella Paratyphi C as a candidate pathogen in a thirteenth-century East Asian epidemic." Unfortunate omission: Hymes's historical work on 13thC epidemics!
Alberta Claw New oviraptorosaurian dinosaur Infernogallus jamesi: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Known from several specimens, including one with most of the skull! Skull has similarities to those of parrots that feed on soft fruits, suggesting it may have done the same. 🪶🧪 (📷 @funstonpaleo.bsky.social et al.)
Geoffrey 1 / 2
🩵 Really happy to have a tour in @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social. What a great place ! #astronomy #astrosci #science #Paris
Klaus Pforr With all this talk about noise maybe it's worth pointing out this newish paper about different sources of total survey error. It's measurement error, not non-response error docs.iza.org/dp18918.pdf
samuel mehr 1 / 2
in 2020 my lab quit Microsoft Word and began writing in R Markdown, an open-source document-publishing system that facilitates a clear, permanent link between statements in text (scientific prose) and the code producing analyses and visualizations supporting those statements (scientific analyses)
Michael Merrifield Last night’s observation was of the nebula Sh2-140, which illustrates two ways to see a molecular cloud: the dust in it hides myriad background stars in the lower half of the image; and a massive young star that formed from it illuminates its edge with ionising light, making the gas there glow. 🔭🧪
hagwil hayetsk CUPE2278 wants academic freedom for TA's. It will be interesting to see the language in the tentative agreement. I can only imagine the issue of having TA's teach counter to the instructor of record and claim it's their academic freedom to disagree with the prof.
Sam Thomas 1 / 2
Phytomyza germenilicis now published in collaboration with @dan-h-n.bsky.social, Carina van Steenwinkel & Rens Hendrickx. Look out for its distinctive mines on Holly (Ilex) seedlings this winter. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...