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Group leader at the Ludwig Institute for #Cancer Research in Oxford. We do computational #genomics and #bioinformatics with a particular focus on #epigenetics and #mutation accumulation in the lead up to cancer. Also working on #cfDNA and early cancer detection in general. Views my own.

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aram , to academicchatter
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What fresh hell

@academicchatter

bensb ,
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@aram @academicchatter scite.ai is actually not a bad product, this email is really poorly written though. That's what happens when your sales team is just out for a quick bonus 😅

Basically, scite has a large corpus of citation statements in the context of the paper from which they came. They have a chat bot which will search their data and then use chatGPT to summarise the information extracted from their corpus. It often works quite well as a starting point for lit review etc

furqanshah , to academicsunite
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What do we want? Open science + transparent peer review!

When do we want it? Now!

Yet, reviewers will hide behind the cloak of anonymity. As an editor, there is little to be done about such behaviour. 😔

🧪

@academicchatter @academicsunite @ScienceCommunicator @openscience

bensb ,
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@furqanshah @academicchatter @academicsunite @ScienceCommunicator @openscience

Non-anonymous peer review creates a different, and more common, type of conflict of interest!

As a young PI without tenure, I'm reviewing papers by senior people in the field who wield power over my career, because they sit on all the grant and hiring committees, and will review my papers and proposals. If I cause their paper to get rejected from Nature, I do not want my name put next to the review, sorry.

rwg , to academicchatter
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Hey, @academicchatter, many folks are trying to figure out an alternative to Google Scholar.

Does anyone regularly use worldcat.org for that purpose? I'm trying it a bit and... it's working

bensb ,
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@rwg @academicchatter Another vote for semanticscholar, especially for alerts. They work brilliantly: I have a few folders with related papers, and every day I get an email with highly relevant literature for each of the topics.

kjschmid , to random
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I just deleted my ResearchGate account, because 👇

(Never used ResearchGate anyway, so no loss for me)

bensb ,
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@gpollara @kjschmid @academicchatter yeah, similar here. I think the business case for an "academic LinkedIn" was never very strong, so they are increasingly pivoting towards publication, trying to position themselves somewhere between scihub, biorxiv and the journals. I'm not sure they've really found the sweet spot yet, and this collaboration with MDPI doesn't bode well...

radlschorsch , to random German
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Wo bleiben die Universitäten im Fediverse?

Warum betreiben Universitäten nicht schon längst eigene Mastodon-Instanzen?

Warum bekommen Studierende nicht mit der Immatrikulation auch einen Mastodon-Handle?

Warum hosten Universitäten Vorlesungsvideos nicht über PeerTube im Fediverse?

Es gibt einiges, das für ein stärkeres Engagement von Universitäten im Fediverse spricht.

Ein Aufruf den man nur unterstützen kann!

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/aufruf-hochschulen-aller-laender-ins-fediverse/

bensb ,
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@srfirehorseart @radlschorsch @academicchatter @edutooters I don't think this has to do with "government policy", but rather with a) inertia and b) avoiding the responsibility of content moderation. The latter, I think, is unfortunately a big one. Universities would feel exposed to legal and reputational risks for posts disseminated on "their" fedi instance.

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bensb OP ,
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@academicchatter I just noticed this on the Nature authors page. Basically, they now say they will chase authors down if they refuse to share. Might be worth a try...

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