Medical data protection is important and I do understand that the German laws for doing research with them are rather strict.
But why is it allowed that private health insurances insist on you signing to lift all restrictions and allow them to store everything forever?
Yes, I am familiar with those. Really nice work. I meant rather concretely modelling in infections. To achieve something like "one flu accelerates a particular CHIP phenotype by x months/years on average". I think such rather simple conclusions are important to advertise prevention efforts.
This is really a substantial change 😯. I wonder what else one would need to properly model the relationship between infection and clonal hematopoiesis. It does not seem totally out of reach... Ill think about that 🤔
This is really interesting!
Of course your message reaches me through WifionICE 😂
Do you know how much the turnover is increased by an infection over the “normal” turnover?
I am delighted, humbled, proud, and grateful to let you know that I became a professor for life today.
I am very aware of the privilege that this position now brings to my life. I will do my best to pay forward the kindness and support of the people who got me here.
And has anyone excluded a relationship with vaccinations? I am just asking, because for people to infer a link, is of course not a big leap…
This is super interesting and I have been wondering whether there is a relationship. What do you think may the mechanism be?
Congratulations, James, this is very exciting! All the best for your new start and all the commuting…
I love this initiative. I think generally it would be great to have a grant system for providing basic income, if private citizens propose something that enriches society. This could be art, literature, building up something.
It may even make sense for doing science or humanities.
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Lieber @bundestag.de , für viele ist der #ÖPNV essenzielle Infrastruktur. Warum darf der überhaupt bestreikt werden?
My comment was specifically about MSCA, where I was (as a reviewer) shocked about the review process.
For ERCs it is a completely different evaluation system.
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You did not get your #MSCA and you are upset, because you really wanted to work on somatic cell evolution on the way to malignancy with single cell data and 🧬machine learning 💻?
Then get in touch!
There are other ways to fund a postdoc ;-)
Yes, indeed. At the same time I have always been wondering whether it is a good idea to focus so much on PhD students with project funding. It might be worth shifting it a bit to postdocs to accommodate this bottleneck and at the same time the numbers in the system would go down.
But how do you want to fix it? I understand the plan to reallocate big funds from super-PIs to the base, but ultimately - even then - money will be the limiting factor. So do you think the numbers of applicants should go down? And if yes, how would that be done?
Well, for MSCA the review process is broken. It is mostly all about whether it is written the right way, much less about the content.
What brings it over the threshold, is whether the candidates were advised properly on how to write it.
Congratulations, Rita!
Are you interested to hear about DNA Language Models (in German)? Then I would have apodcadt for you. It was a really nice conversation and I hope you’ll like it!
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Congratulations!🥂
I am sorry and hope you will feel better once your plants distract you from all this.
Congratulations, @anatv.bsky.social!
In essence: Don't say you are interested, show that you are!
"I am interested in topic xyz, because my work on xyz showed that there are a lot of unanswered questions, for example xyz. And I think answering them is important, because of xyz. For me to do this in your lab is ideal, because of xyz."
I once mentored a student from a different lab about applying and I told him to show that he has ideas about the lab's papers.
A few weeks later, the PI came to me and said "I had this student applicant, who suggested future directions for our papers 😳"
Mission accomplished 😊
Come to Germany and do a PhD with DKFZ. You'll be supported by an international community doing amazing science in a fantastic place.
I joined the DKTK from the UK 3 months ago and couldn't be happier with how easy it has been fitting in. The quality of work here is phenomenal and you should apply!
Or is iraira actually from Portuguese? So there was no pointless anger in Japan before Europeans came?
What a coincidence that ira in latin is anger :-)
Thank you :-)