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One of the best papers of the year... you have to read this one.
Genome content predicts the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01458-z
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Really enjoyed reading this one tonight:
Analysis and culturing of the prototypic crAssphage reveals a phage-plasmid lifestyle
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.20.585998v1
📊 Post engagement
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Avg engagement / post
0.9%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Takes on rat-gate 0. Extremely obvious point that still needs to · 14 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.25 / week
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Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
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Honestly I hope this is a sign that the AI bubble bursts soon
this is a fun terminal
https://www.warp.dev/
GenomeSPOT: Genome-based Salinity, pH, Oxygen Tolerance, and Temperature for Bacteria and Archaea
GitHub: https://github.com/cultivarium/GenomeSPOT
Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586313v1
Really enjoyed reading this one tonight:
Analysis and culturing of the prototypic crAssphage reveals a phage-plasmid lifestyle
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.20.585998v1
I was wondering what the true origin of the "smartest bears, dumbest tourists" quote is. I think it goes back to this slashdot post from 2006... can anyone find an older example?
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191810&cid=15757…
10. This has *almost* nothing to do with rat-gate, but others have made a connection so just to explain it: for-profit Nature and Cell exist not just because scientists are prestige-chasers but because there is a genuinely important and va…
7. There are way worse preprints and papers out all of the time on arXiv and in other low tier journals without peer review that do actual harm, just a bit less flashy.
8. What's the way forward?
A. Society-run non-profit journals that va…
3. We desperately need metrics that indicate the expected quality of peer review at each journal, and need to make this *the* metric for publishers to chase.
4. Impact Factor is the best we have right now and currently the only answer I'…
A leap in user experience: AlphaFold Database introduces sequence-based search and structure cluster members
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/updates-from-data-resources/alphafold-database-update-sequence-based-search/
Sequence similarity …
One of the best papers of the year... you have to read this one.
Genome content predicts the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01458-z
So has anyone tried any alternative literature search websites?
It's actually horrifying how bad google scholar and pubmed are. Lack of a legitimately good literature search (maybe even one that safely and carefully uses LLMs) is like a h…
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mstdn.science
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
66/100
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Credibility score
89%
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Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
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About
Microbiologist.
I'm posting more at bsky.app/profile/acritschristoph.bsky.social than on here these days.
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