New episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Joe Zackular joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the wily bacterium Clostridiodes difficile (also known as C. diff) which can cause serious disease in humans. Informative session! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord!
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April 1st seems to have become World AI Day, eh? Let that sink in the next time that you use AI for something: we suspect that what you say and show as your own is a lie.
I've seen you use the underscore and tm a few times in more recent posts than this. I suspect you're quoting their own use of the _ and perhaps being sarcastic about the tm. Can you point me to the background?
We always said Jo was a rock star. This proves it.
no worries - hope things are going well!
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I've been in your shoes! I'd suggest Microbiology Resource Announcements. It's a 500 word paper that points to the resource. Your resource could then live on GitHub or somewhere else so that it can "live" by being updated as needed. A paper is likely to be out of date by the time its published
One of my sons has been excited about scoring multiple hat tricks for his beer league team that is blowing out other teams. He's starting to expect my response, "How many assists?" The dude had an impressive display last night, but 3 assists. Looks like Kobe had 2 when he scored 81. Oh well.
Looking for someone to give a talk to your group on the problems with AI for culture, society, or education? I'm a STEM professor at the U of Michigan and would be happy to give that talk.
Someone has a shelf of our fridge full of pickles. I think she needs this! 😂
I always always tried to get students to see this. In fact, they are so much more.
When I scan through open peer reviews I'm surprised by how rarely people comment on the design of visuals. I've been working to develop a constructive approach to critique and have been trying them out on the Tube. Here's the latest www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpt...
The fundamental premise behind AI-enabled cheating is that coursework is merely busy work, because your'e just doing it for professors.
We would never say that showing up for football practice is merely busy work because you're just doing it for your coaches.
I'm open to suggestions of figures (good and bad!). Ideally the figures would be in high impact factor journals and have data available or easy to simulate
Each Monday I post a video critiquing a figure from recently published paper and on Wednesday (9AM Eastern) I do a livestream either recreating the figure or refactoring it. This week's figure has a problem that is too common in science youtu.be/DNop0UjdfFg
I also have PTSD from a previous car of mine dropping its transmission as I was going into the intersection 🤣
On my way home each day I have a stop sign before crossing what is effectively traffic from an off ramp. The ramp has a bit of a blind spot as cars on the ramp come around a bend and under a bridge. I often gun it to get across in case someone is flying around the bend
Thanks!
Going the opposite direction, I thought I was a big deal because I interviewed at a med school with an NSF grant. Then I realized the difference in budgets and shut up about my NSF grant 😂 (I still got the job)
Yep! I love dumb bell plots, but was intrigued by using a curve to denote 3 points especially with a uturn. It also reminded me of some of the DuBois visualizations I recreated last year like this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DTV...
Indeed.
Because I'm ranting... Please figure out how to replace "_" with " " in your taxa names. Then figure out how to italicize them. Not sure how difficult this is to do in Prism, but it's pretty straightforward with stringr/ggplot2/ggtext in R. How do plots like this appear in journals with 20 JIFs?
It seems people are breaking one rule (no broken axes) to follow another rule (zero on y-axis). But the zero on y-axis rule is not as important for jitter plots like this as it is for bar plots.
I'm seeing more and more of this: broken y-axes. Regardless of what you think about them (I'm "anti"), examples like this one don't need them! You could easily put ticks every 5000 units without a break
My pleasure!
An updated version will be up shortly that includes Supplementary Text that got dropped when the journal submission system dropped it somehow. Until then you can find it here: github.com/SchlossLab/S...
New paper up on bioRxiv! This is my third and hopefully final paper on rarefaction. It's still better than the other available methods.
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Thanks! I appreciate you amplifying the message :)
Exactly. It's like a modern Kaliedagraph/Cricketgraph or a high octane MSExcel
The annual freak out is on over the university no longer paying for GraphPad Prism...