Weronika Klecel
@weronikaklecel.bsky.social
PhD | Postdoc @UCalgary 🇨🇦 | Research Assistant @SGGW 🇵🇱 | horses | bioinformatics | precision phenotyping | evolutionary biology | environmental adaptation | besides science: mostly running, music & geopolitics
I really wish this is the future of the peer review
alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint.
so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality.
also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting
so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality.
also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting
Briefly read through this and...hmm. I have thoughts that may merit a deeper dive.
One big concern: while their reference method seems reasonable for research uses, I'm thinking that if you want to claim you're cloning one, I'm sorry but you've actually gotta de novo that.
One big concern: while their reference method seems reasonable for research uses, I'm thinking that if you want to claim you're cloning one, I'm sorry but you've actually gotta de novo that.
April 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I really wish this is the future of the peer review
There it is
On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647074v1
April 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
There it is
I'm really waiting for the paper. For now, it looks like the marketing at Colossal is stronger than science itself.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close (Gift Article)
Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm really waiting for the paper. For now, it looks like the marketing at Colossal is stronger than science itself.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
Currently stuck in the latter
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 5, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Currently stuck in the latter
The old site is dying
Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
The old site is dying
December 2, 2024 at 7:16 PM