No comment on their quality

There's basically at least one long review article for every gene under the sun, all published in late 2020 because so many scientists were locked out of the lab during the early pandemic

Fun fact, we've had 5 Prime Ministers since 2016.

We also had 5 Prime Ministers between 1979 and 2016.

"Everyone remembers COVID-19 for its early work but I think the later albums are the where the real genius should be appreciated"

A manuscript starting with the words: "While COVID-19 has gained popularity as a pandemic".

Sorry, but what a choice of words

I don't think we factor viral dosage in enough when we consider symptoms. A toddler sneezed in my face 9 days ago and it's the worst I've felt since getting COVID in 2021.

I bet the sheer amount of virus I was inoculated with played a role in the severity of disease!

Let my dad choose the family Christmas film. Last year was Blue Velvet, this year it’s Contagion

The early phase of AI image generation was artistically brilliant.

Prompt: Boris Jonhson observing a toilet

Robust antibody and T cell responses tracked longitudinally in patients with long COVID After severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, a minority of patients experience persistent or emerging symptoms, termed ‘long coronavirus disease (COVID)’ or post-acute...

Really pleased to see this work, looking at stability of the immune system after Long COVID, is published!

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I'll write an explanation of our findings (and further scientific context) soon!

Not as far as I can tell but the email only addressed “Benjamin” so…

I'm so incompetent that I just got a rejection letter for a job I didn't apply to. At least I apparently performed well at the interview?

Houses without lounges are a reality for renters Nearly a third of homes advertised on a property sharing website had no living room.

Oddly was discussing this last night, I don’t think I rented a place with a living room between 2009 and 2017. I doubt it’s got better!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love how you can word a sentence clearly, but reviewer 1 and 2 don't like the sentence so you carefully reword. Then it comes back and gets carefully reworded again. Months of back and forth before acceptance.

Then the copyeditor says "correct for clarity" and it goes back to how it was!

Tidying out my parents place, this folder has every western blot I ran during my PhD

I'd love to know whether...

1. I'm just getting old
2. UX no longer exists
3. UX as a concept has changed

...because I really struggle to log into websites these days

Hope you're doing well! I don't have the same compulsion to come on here as I did with twitter.

I opened this app just to see if you'd say this, and you didn't disappoint!

I'd love to understand why my local neighbourhood's section of NextDoor needs so many posts about Jeffrey Epstein

... so the public-facing literature seems really convincing UNLESS you're in the field and chat with researchers. But I have no idea how many people have failed to find X in disease Y. Maybe it's just my mates?

Publication bias muddies academic fields a lot more than people realise.

I'm reading a very persuasive review linking disease Y to mechanism X. The issue of publication bias is so interesting though as I've spoken with plenty of people who failed to find X in disease Y. The negative data is either unpublishable or goes into small journals that people don't read....

Google AI informs me that Ken Watanabe is not a herpesvirus and has nothing to do with herpesviruses

Google AI tells me that Ken Watanabe works on the herpesvirus HHV-6

Helpful

My favourite part of #ihw2025 was the student explaining their poster who said: "This is the mechanism we propose, which is supported by the data. I don't think we have it right really but its the best explanation we have". Quite appreciated the honesty!

Having to explain Yu Gi Oh to an Emeritus Professor #ihw2025

…I got an email today from the SLC asking why I paid my student loan in 2021 when I wasn’t earning anything

Back in 2021 I was unemployed so I asked the SLC if I could stop repaying my student loan until I got a new job. They would only recognise me as unemployed if I took unemployment benefits. I actually got a job before I managed to get unemployment benefits….

How to tackle a laboratory spillage. YouTube video by James Leith

Doing chemical safety training today, not sure why the videos all have a jazzy intro but I'm thoroughly enjoying it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyxB...

This is probably the most exciting result I’ve had in about 18 months!

Update, I asked them to discuss similar work in the field. They said no! What a weirdly convoluted way to get your manuscript rejected

I'll be honest, I've read this so many times and can't work out what you mean!

I’m amazed how many papers I read which don’t compare their data to similar studies. “We found xyz”. Ok but similar studies found wxz, why?

It feels so fundamentally incurious that you wouldn’t discuss this after doing 2-3 years of work?