Venus Lau, PhD
@venuslau.bsky.social
Custom Solutions Lead @ Magna Labs
🚀 On a mission to make software testing & QA easier in #bioinformatics 🧬 PhD in microbial genomics/infectious disease
🚀 On a mission to make software testing & QA easier in #bioinformatics 🧬 PhD in microbial genomics/infectious disease
Reposted by Venus Lau, PhD
PLOS is progressive on authorship - recommends saying who did what (e.g. with CRediT), most of its journals don't require contributions to the writing to become an author, advocates for other outputs having persistent identifiers so they can more easily be rewarded. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Authorship practices must evolve to support collaboration and open science
Journal authorship practices have not sufficiently evolved to reflect how research is done. In this Perspective, Veronique Kiermer argues for urgent improvements to support teams, collaboration, and o...
journals.plos.org
October 17, 2023 at 7:42 PM
PLOS is progressive on authorship - recommends saying who did what (e.g. with CRediT), most of its journals don't require contributions to the writing to become an author, advocates for other outputs having persistent identifiers so they can more easily be rewarded. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Reposted by Venus Lau, PhD
"Why does nobody want to do a postdoc anymore?"
Honestly, the real question is why some of us are still crazy enough to try
Honestly, the real question is why some of us are still crazy enough to try
In America, 6% of people who earn a PhD eventually get a faculty position. I thought that was bad, but in the UK it's a staggering 0.45%
October 17, 2023 at 3:31 PM
"Why does nobody want to do a postdoc anymore?"
Honestly, the real question is why some of us are still crazy enough to try
Honestly, the real question is why some of us are still crazy enough to try
✈️ Will be heading to ASHG 2023 in Washington DC next month.
Anyone here will be going as well? Been working remotely for too long and would love to meet some cool people in-person and learn about the latest research in #genomics/#genetics 🧬 🖥️
Anyone here will be going as well? Been working remotely for too long and would love to meet some cool people in-person and learn about the latest research in #genomics/#genetics 🧬 🖥️
October 17, 2023 at 6:45 PM
✈️ Will be heading to ASHG 2023 in Washington DC next month.
Anyone here will be going as well? Been working remotely for too long and would love to meet some cool people in-person and learn about the latest research in #genomics/#genetics 🧬 🖥️
Anyone here will be going as well? Been working remotely for too long and would love to meet some cool people in-person and learn about the latest research in #genomics/#genetics 🧬 🖥️
Hello 👋 #HiSciSky I finished my PhD last year in microbial genomics and bioinformatics at SFU 🇨🇦 Now I help bioinformatic teams to build and test their analysis pipelines more quickly and easily.
Time to check out what's on here :)
Time to check out what's on here :)
October 13, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Hello 👋 #HiSciSky I finished my PhD last year in microbial genomics and bioinformatics at SFU 🇨🇦 Now I help bioinformatic teams to build and test their analysis pipelines more quickly and easily.
Time to check out what's on here :)
Time to check out what's on here :)