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benoitbruneau

  1. @UncleDynamite All hail the human kazoo!
  2. and another thing: what the hell is wrong with people? Children! Yeah, really getting my sympathies there.
  3. Bloody hell. Between #Houla and #Doha, my parental instincts are getting a heck of a workout. I really feel for all those families' losses.
  4. @drugmonkeyblog @edyong209 Jessica, not Lisa, please.
  5. @mbeisen yes, and I know that there isn't the political will to do so, although cutting the time down to 6 months post pub is not crazy.
  6. @mbeisen but really, the petition I'd like to see is the one mandating immediate open access.
  7. @mbeisen my BBQ has an Internet connection for all to sign. After a couple of beers, I bet everyone will be voting.
  8. Dino fossil! @ Thornhill Elementary instagr.am/p/LJhFnsRrbC/
  9. So basically birds are like baby dinosaurs. Coochie coochie coo little dino! (awesome paper in @NatureMagazine) bit.ly/JNO4pT
  10. @stereoscotty every day is silent and grey.
  11. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell Yes I know it was known; I remember when the 1st paper came out. New types of editing are novel but contentious.
  12. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell Got it. Glass half full: so they're partly right. Or is that glass 5% full.....
  13. One of my postdocs pointed out to me the @ucsf #OA policy, and how his enthusiasm dropped when he read the opt-out clause. #workherenotdone
  14. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell Last point: are we SURE the RNA editing fiasco is just that? Done deal or still possibility of sowething there?
  15. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell And not sure a label is necessary/feasible. Although would help noobs. Again, literature corrects itself.
  16. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell Sure, would be great. But lack of citations and papers that don't reproduce or show alternate result do the job.
  17. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell I have tons of examples from my own field, where ppl ended up being wrong, but expts seemed fine.
  18. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell If all expts were done well, and conclusions based on results, why retract? Field will correct. That's science.
  19. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell Example: Bob maps disease to locus, concludes that gene X is culprit. Turns out it's next door gene Y. Retract?
  20. @dgmacarthur @m_m_campbell To me, retraction is for falsified or non-reproducible results, not for just being wrong.