Jessica Kain
@jessicakain.bsky.social
genetics PhD candidate 👩🏻💻🔬 Stanford, CA 📍🌲
metabolomics & multi-omics for rare disease 🧫🧬🥼
metabolomics & multi-omics for rare disease 🧫🧬🥼
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"A literature that's ...polluted with junk is not only no good to anyone, it's a source of real harm, and it lends itself to ... bad-faith attacks on scientific research in general... We need to speak up more about this situation and we need to start cleaning house more vigorously" #Papermills 🧪
Inside a Scientific Paper Mill
@dereklowe.bsky.social writes about how Csaba Szabo was contacted by a paper mill and offered money if he could help them write more junk papers.
www.science.org/content/blog...
@dereklowe.bsky.social writes about how Csaba Szabo was contacted by a paper mill and offered money if he could help them write more junk papers.
www.science.org/content/blog...
Inside a Scientific Paper Mill
www.science.org
May 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"A literature that's ...polluted with junk is not only no good to anyone, it's a source of real harm, and it lends itself to ... bad-faith attacks on scientific research in general... We need to speak up more about this situation and we need to start cleaning house more vigorously" #Papermills 🧪
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KJ Muldoon, a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition, made medical history by receiving the first custom gene-editing treatment. The technique used has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases.
Read more: nyti.ms/44H77pg
Read more: nyti.ms/44H77pg
May 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
KJ Muldoon, a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition, made medical history by receiving the first custom gene-editing treatment. The technique used has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases.
Read more: nyti.ms/44H77pg
Read more: nyti.ms/44H77pg
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Very sad to see that #RareDiseaseDay event at FDA-NIH has been cancelled. Cuts that limit rare disease research and cures (1) leave patients behind, and (2) forfeit precious opportunity to learn more about common human diseases.
udnf.org/udnf-stateme...
udnf.org/udnf-stateme...
Statement on Rare Disease Day, Research and Funding - UDNF
UDNF Statement on Rare Disease Day 2025 Cancellation, Research Funding, and Policy Impacts on the Ultra-Rare and Undiagnosed Community
udnf.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Very sad to see that #RareDiseaseDay event at FDA-NIH has been cancelled. Cuts that limit rare disease research and cures (1) leave patients behind, and (2) forfeit precious opportunity to learn more about common human diseases.
udnf.org/udnf-stateme...
udnf.org/udnf-stateme...
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Elisabeth Bik (@elisabethbik.bsky.social) organized a fund to finance the work of sleuths, including their training and travel expenses! Elisabeth used the full sum of the Einstein Foundation Award she received. It's an incredible honor to know and work with Elisabeth
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Renowned scientific integrity investigator endows fund to support fellow sleuths
Microbiologist Elisabeth Bik donates $200,000 to support training, travel
www.science.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Elisabeth Bik (@elisabethbik.bsky.social) organized a fund to finance the work of sleuths, including their training and travel expenses! Elisabeth used the full sum of the Einstein Foundation Award she received. It's an incredible honor to know and work with Elisabeth
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Given that science funding is under attack, it might be as good a time as any to reflect on how we spend our precious dollars. Cutting out expenditure publishing papers in overpriced journals might be a good thing to seriously consider once again.
February 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Given that science funding is under attack, it might be as good a time as any to reflect on how we spend our precious dollars. Cutting out expenditure publishing papers in overpriced journals might be a good thing to seriously consider once again.
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Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field.
Interdisciplinary work is still not really embraced by academia.
Interdisciplinary work is still not really embraced by academia.
January 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field.
Interdisciplinary work is still not really embraced by academia.
Interdisciplinary work is still not really embraced by academia.
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No branch of the Federal government should remain complicit with the scam that is science publishing - an elitist and bureaucratic industry that impedes research, stifles innovation, silences open debate, and corrupts the practice and direction of science.
December 19, 2024 at 6:48 PM
No branch of the Federal government should remain complicit with the scam that is science publishing - an elitist and bureaucratic industry that impedes research, stifles innovation, silences open debate, and corrupts the practice and direction of science.
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We've created a Starter Pack with GREGoR Cosortium Members: go.bsky.app/KW4m3zR
Let us know if you're a part of GREGoR and would like to be added!
Let us know if you're a part of GREGoR and would like to be added!
December 12, 2024 at 1:08 AM
We've created a Starter Pack with GREGoR Cosortium Members: go.bsky.app/KW4m3zR
Let us know if you're a part of GREGoR and would like to be added!
Let us know if you're a part of GREGoR and would like to be added!
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“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯
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New report highlights the scientific impact of open source software
Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:08 AM
“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯
www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...
www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...
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This is really horrific. These single cell reference atlases are widely used as is to train all kinds of models! This is one of the reasons I've constantly harping about uniform reprocessing & extremely careful QC of large atlases. 1/
scRNA-seq has revolutionized biology, but it’s not without challenges. We uncovered significant quality issues in widely used reference cell atlases like the Human Cell Atlas and Tabula Sapiens. Up to 85% of cells in some datasets are low-quality or misidentified!
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December 4, 2024 at 7:06 AM
This is really horrific. These single cell reference atlases are widely used as is to train all kinds of models! This is one of the reasons I've constantly harping about uniform reprocessing & extremely careful QC of large atlases. 1/
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THe #metabolomics starter pack is now up to 75 members. Again, if you would like to be added let me know. Equally if I have put you on the list by mistake let me know. go.bsky.app/J3VPYKm
December 2, 2024 at 5:09 PM
THe #metabolomics starter pack is now up to 75 members. Again, if you would like to be added let me know. Equally if I have put you on the list by mistake let me know. go.bsky.app/J3VPYKm