Diego Alzate
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Diego Alzate
@diegoalzatec.bsky.social
Colombian Neurobiologist @Ohio State University
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Certainly my lab is not perfectly run, but perhaps my tips for management of an academic lab can help you!

What are your tips?

Of course its music themed because consistency is my first tip!

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December 5, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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New post on the 100% Christmas Interval -- after almost 8 years, it's time that we finally talk about CIs.

www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
Why you are not allowed to say that your 95% confidence interval contains the true parameter with a probability of 95%
A shibboleth is a custom, such as a choice of phrasing, that distinguishes one group of people from another. The term goes back to the Hebrew Bible, in which the inhabitants of Gilead identify members...
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December 5, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).

The renamed:

Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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December is here & we're granting wishes!!! We're super pumped to be hosting @nabalabuic.bsky.social for a talk on The Matrisome project plus - a special surprise just for The Meshwork community - a demo of MatriTools! Chair: @collagenyoshi.bsky.social
Register now: forms.gle/7x3q7AfPNp38...
December 2, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Greenberg (2009) is one of my favourite papers, showing “conversion of hypothesis to fact through citation alone” and jarring citation bias in grant proposals.

Just struck me that it’s about a literature on beta amyloid—not in Alzheimer’s, but maybe still affected by the awfulness of that research?
November 30, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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The reproducibilty crisis and other problems in science. A great talk:

youtu.be/vY9mGJQFdyE?...
The reproducibility crisis and other problems in science | John Ioannidis
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
youtu.be
November 29, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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If you had to cite an event that opened the "replication crisis" era, what would you point to?
November 26, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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Cancer-associated fibroblast subtypes modulate the tumor-immune microenvironment and are associated with skin cancer malignancy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cancer-associated fibroblast subtypes modulate the tumor-immune microenvironment and are associated with skin cancer malignancy - Nature Communications
Fibroblast heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment can explain their multifaceted role in cancer. Here by single-cell transcriptomic analysis of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and m...
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November 22, 2024 at 5:29 PM