A fruitful collaboration with Mueena Jahan, @christinalynggaard.bsky.social, Hjalmar Kühl, Mimi Arandjelovic, the PanAf team, and @scs22.bsky.social. Thanks to the @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @villumfonden.bsky.social, @mpifg.bsky.social + @restoreideu.bsky.social! Thanks everyone!

With comments and insights by @eddieholmes.bsky.social, @lucyvandorp.bsky.social, Tom Gilbert, and Hendrik Poinar, who summed up his excitement about ancient RNA with "I think there’ll be a revolution in this space very shortly". @science.org @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social

Except this one :) www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I will try to keep it in mind for upcoming studies and then you can donate the 20 dollars :)

I hope there is a good way though to create a easily accessible and useable collection of all the efforts people are making - would be great to see :)

These sorts of data on the other hand are perhaps less likely to be used by most of the data generators - so there might be less uptake to upload and figure out the process? Not sure though what the psychology is.

Mandates to make sequence data available also did wonders and perhaps that’ll work down the line, once uptake has shown it to be a community resource people bought into. I feel like sequence databases worked well in part also because sequence generators were also publishing using other’s sequences.

And acknowledging all the work data generators are doing to drive meta analyses forward seems fair somehow. Even if just for the ,here is this resource introduction paper’ for a database. Bringing field people and lab folks into these efforts from the ground up might help if they weren’t already.

But I guess the idea of doing all of this is that folks can use the data to do publishable things with them - and I imagine you will have an idea or two for meta analyses too ;) All that to say, publications are a key metric for many and might be a better motivator than 20$ but just an idea.

‘Their work’ not ‘they work’ - baby induced exhaustion :)

What about offering co-authorship in exchange for people’s efforts generating, curating, and sharing the data that is the building block for all sorts of analyses? So much time and effort goes into they work - I think that would be much more likely to generate interest than 20$ - and seems fair?

P.S. Perhaps @ankerofficial.bsky.social have a double check of all the AI interactions down the line to make sure the right call was made... and they would have reached out anyway to correct things if I hadn't had that weird gut feeling. But I kind of doubt it...