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August 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
They murdered my goat Ange in cold blood
June 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
They murdered my goat Ange in cold blood
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
May 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
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Things have escalated considerably at the Charge-Victoire game.
May 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Things have escalated considerably at the Charge-Victoire game.
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Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
www.404media.co
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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How it started // how it's going
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How it started // how it's going
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Happy #WorldWildlifeDay. A friendly reminder that livestock cannot replace native biodiversity, despite what you may have heard.
March 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Happy #WorldWildlifeDay. A friendly reminder that livestock cannot replace native biodiversity, despite what you may have heard.
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Unveiling unique metabolomic and transcriptomic profiles in three Brassicaceae crops https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629212v1
December 21, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Unveiling unique metabolomic and transcriptomic profiles in three Brassicaceae crops https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629212v1
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Senators are quite a bit stronger defensively with Chabot also but the really striking change is on offence:
November 25, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Senators are quite a bit stronger defensively with Chabot also but the really striking change is on offence:
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A 🧵 about the recently published discovery of a sabre-tooth kitten, including some personal reflections and thoughts on its age...
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November 25, 2024 at 5:46 PM
A 🧵 about the recently published discovery of a sabre-tooth kitten, including some personal reflections and thoughts on its age...
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Maryland folks, I need another favor.
There is a person from Anne Arundel county that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 for about 3 years (Delta infection).
They probably don’t even know they are infected, but they are shedding a ton of viral material in wastewater
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There is a person from Anne Arundel county that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 for about 3 years (Delta infection).
They probably don’t even know they are infected, but they are shedding a ton of viral material in wastewater
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November 20, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Maryland folks, I need another favor.
There is a person from Anne Arundel county that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 for about 3 years (Delta infection).
They probably don’t even know they are infected, but they are shedding a ton of viral material in wastewater
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There is a person from Anne Arundel county that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2 for about 3 years (Delta infection).
They probably don’t even know they are infected, but they are shedding a ton of viral material in wastewater
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(1/6) Our new short paper on incidental bacterial domestication between patient isolation and creation of frozen stock. Geno/phenotype changes are obscured by rich media and more prevalent than we previously thought.
#MicroSky
#MicroSky
November 21, 2024 at 6:26 AM
(1/6) Our new short paper on incidental bacterial domestication between patient isolation and creation of frozen stock. Geno/phenotype changes are obscured by rich media and more prevalent than we previously thought.
#MicroSky
#MicroSky