'Half of the study’s participants received a single invitation for a PSA test. After 15 years there was little difference in the number of men who died from prostate cancer, whether or not they had received the test, according to the research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Saturday.'
A survey in European countries showed 69% of people would be willing to give up 1% of their income each month to fight #ClimateChange - but most people believe they are in a minority who would.
How to do climate policy in the age of the green backlash - https://on.ft.com/3urWMxH via @FT
'Imagine my surprise when I received reviews on a submitted paper declaring that it was the work of ChatGPT. One reviewer wrote that it was “obviously ChatGPT”, and the handling editor vaguely agreed, saying that they found “the writing style unusual”. Surprise was just one emotion I experienced; I also felt shock, dismay and a flood of confusion and alarm. Given how much work I put into writing, it was a blow to be accused of being a chatbot — especially without any evidence.'
@MCDuncanLab A good editor will step in when the reviewers are taking personal shots, making inappropriate comments etc Sometime it can even undermine a review that makes important points about the work. There's a good case in this episode of the #EMBOPodcast, where then @embojournal editor Karin Dumstrei & I discussed one such case with the authors. https://www.embo.org/podcasts/the-band-and-the-rhythm/
@MCDuncanLab There are certainly cases where both editors and reviewers fail at their respective roles. I'm a fan of transparent reviews, one experience that came up often at Review Commons was authors and reviewers praising the more positive overall tone of comment vs conventional journal-based peer review.
@MCDuncanLab I wish I could recall the original source, but someone had commented a while back that it starts from the hypercritical approach nurtured at many lab meetings & journal clubs - the comment was something along the lines of "we are training pitbulls and then are shocked when they tear manuscripts apart".
@IanSudbery@MCDuncanLab Peer review workshops making use of real-world reviews are a good starting point (there is always the individual mentoring, but this is entirely up to each PI). One initiative that I heard from a few labs & really liked is that they discuss preprints in lab journal clubs and then write up the comments to send to the authors.
~90K words. A few years of work. A transformative journey that did not end at all as I thought when I started. I'm grateful to have done it - what a privilege. A much bigger conceptual project than anything I've done up to this point.
I got to think intensely for a better part of a few years (in parallel to running a lab and teaching as a professor). Somehow there was not time for that before. I'm not exactly sure where I found it; I just did.
There will be many revisions going forward. And it won't hit the shelves anytime soon. But I'm going to pause and celebrate this moment, where every one of the bits are finally in place. I learned so much along the way. Even today, on the last day, I was fascinated, and I'm grateful. (That said, I'm also a bit tired).
"The NLOS that spits out the Transplant Benefit Scores is one of dozens of algorithms in use in healthcare systems around the world. These applied statistical systems are used by physicians and hospitals to aid decisions such as who receives heart surgery and organ transplantation, which patients are at the highest risk of surgical complications, and in diagnosing cancers and brain injury. The intent behind predictive algorithms, like the NLOS, is to make consequential decisions fairer."
@nicolaromano Depends - the UK liver transplantation algo they focus more on in this piece seems to be a good attempt at improving a difficult situation. But as they say here, there is a fundamental problem:
'Because there aren’t enough livers for all 700 people on the UK’s list, “transplantation remains a zero-sum game and any adjustment in allocation is simply a case of causing harm to one to help another,” wrote Raj Prasad, a surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, in the Lancet this year.'
It has hot swappable switches. I went with the loudest clicky keys on the market: Kaihl Box Jade. Also moved over my custom keycaps from my old keyboard.
I wanted it to be loud but sadly this keyboard has noise dampeners so while the new switches are louder on their own its not as loud once in the keyboard. Either way the soubd is quite unique and feels great.
I wish we had a broader platform because every person following these atrocities with half a conscience could rip to shreds the casual propaganda being spouted by large, mainstream outlets.
Listening to BBC's Global News Podcast and in the intro they just said: "Israeli fighter jets hit another 200 Hamas targets on Wednesday and parts of Gaza have been reduced to rubble"
THIS IS AN INSIDIOUS AS FUCK LIE. As if Israel isn't bombing the shit out of neighborhoods, hospitals, etc (even when they have the GPS coordinates of these civilian centers and the sophistication with targeted strikes to CLEARLY AVOID THEM). And they fail to at all accurately characterize the parts of Gaza reduces to rubble (implying that it's just Hamas strongholds). Holy fuck this disinformation. And this is all amidst Israeli politicians unabashedly stating that Palestinians are animals and they are going to make the 1948 Nakba look tame in comparison to their response. Absolutely evil shit.
It is so blatant and infuriating and an intrinsically essential part of maintaining Western support of Israel's genocidal policies towards the Palestinian people. There are no words for how fucking furious this type of coverage makes me.
I would not subject myself to it but I feel a responsibility to understand why so many people in the US, Europe, etc have such a miserably warped understanding of the situation; know thy enemy type of shit, but omg is this hurting my goddamn brain and soul
@passenger You remember correctly, but since the writer is the same - as you say, it depicts how the message from the top percolated to the rank & file