Casey Bergman
@caseybergman.bsky.social
Dad, bioinformatician, ex-expat. Currently working on transposon bioinformatics & infectious disease genomics.
Thanks very much!
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Thanks very much!
Interesting, could you post a link to these slides. TIA!
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Interesting, could you post a link to these slides. TIA!
👏👏👏 Fantastic work, can’t wait to read!
October 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
👏👏👏 Fantastic work, can’t wait to read!
I don’t know of anyone who tried firsthand, but that’s the problem with big result/no follow up results. It’s impossible to know who (if anyone) tried. Until I see a published follow up, I will continue to treat “mites as HTT vectors in insects” as a tentative hypothesis.
July 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don’t know of anyone who tried firsthand, but that’s the problem with big result/no follow up results. It’s impossible to know who (if anyone) tried. Until I see a published follow up, I will continue to treat “mites as HTT vectors in insects” as a tentative hypothesis.
This work is intuitively appealing, but as you say there has been no follow-up in decades, which makes me skeptical of the findings. If it was a robust result, others would have shown the same in a variety of systems. YMMV. bsky.app/profile/case...
@brunolemaitre.bsky.social once told me not to trust big claims from papers with no follow-up work. People have likely tried and failed to replicate, but not published negative results. One of the best pieces of scientific advice I’ve ever received.
The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?
That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience
A 🧵 1/n
That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience
A 🧵 1/n
July 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This work is intuitively appealing, but as you say there has been no follow-up in decades, which makes me skeptical of the findings. If it was a robust result, others would have shown the same in a variety of systems. YMMV. bsky.app/profile/case...