Jeremy Wideman
352 posts
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The Fourth Annual Symposium on Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution will again be held at ASU. November 5-8, 2025, Tempe, AZ. Theme: Unicellular Diversification of Cell Types and Division Systems.
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@XFilesAesthetic @Super_Sodiq I always imagine if fights aren't allowed, skates and sticks would be used more in frustration. A fight is honorable, two-hand swinging a stick at someone's neck is dishonorable. Fights will never leave the game of hockey.
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@Super_Sodiq Is it like a tradition or something? Or it's just tolerated? What if someone gets seriously injured? Do they press charges? So many questions.
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It still trips me out that you can just stop playing this sport and fight if you want. Can one of my hockey folks tell me why don't they just take out a teams whole roster like this?
Ben Davis@BenTheBaneDavis
Greatest KO in Hockey history?
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@ayeejuju I'll fall for this just once. Explain mitochondria.
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Pure Beauty
Gautam Dey@Dey_Gautam
#ExM has transformed how we perceive the microbial diversity all around us. Some gorgeous critters from the @EMBLHeidelberg pond - DNA red, centrin yellow, tubulin gray, images courtesy @F_Mikus. Bonus points if you can identify at least 4! Want more? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Confused about Stramenopiles, but too shy to ask? Fear not and read further a piece from @dasa_jirsova now out in ISME
doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…
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Anyone have a Rotifer and Vorticella in one video? Any other good protist/animal comparisons?
Igor Adameyko@adameykolab
A vertebrate and an invertebrate. 500+ millions of years of evolutionary distance.
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Is there a "go shopping with @dieworkwear lottery"? I don't gamble, but I'd put in $100. I bet we could generate $100k pretty easily. $50k to charity. $25k to derek guy and $25k to travel and a new wardrobe.
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@fburki Sub 60 is really quite low... should have SELMA trees that suggest this outcome as well?
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After reading this paper in more details, I think that it needs to be taken with a word of caution. There are many issues that affect my confidence in the conclusions: eg low bootstrap support for the critical nodes, no CATGTR analysis, the inclusion of rpl36 the supermatrix etc
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Two secondary endosymbioses at the origin of complex red plastids?
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-ar…
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Love the orange stuff.
Vayu Hill-Maini@NOFOKitchen
Our latest paper @NatureMicrobiol: converting waste into delicious food using fungi. We studied a traditional Indonesian food and discovered a mold domesticated for waste-to-food conversion. Amazing international collab involving scientists, chefs. tinyurl.com/36rzkr57
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I had no idea paleontology was such a toxic place
Christopher Wheat@ChrisWWheat
This is a damn wild read .. buckle up, dive in for a wild dusty ride through fossil hunter madness (academic style)
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@jim_bouldin @MicrobiomDigest I disagree. It's the motivation to cheat that leads to image manipulation. The point I'm trying to make is that even with image verification processes, I'm confident I could cheat without anyone knowing. I don't because of my values. There will always be ways to cheat.
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I honestly don't see this as a concern. Any unethical scientist has been able to make convincing data for decades or centuries. Sure, it's easier now. Finding ways to police fraud isn't and has never been the solution. We need to prevent and disincentivize scientific fraud.
Elisabeth Bik@MicrobiomDigest
AI can be used to make convincing looking fake data. There is no way we can distinguish real from fake anymore. It is safe to assume that genAI has already resulted in many fake papers. Scientific publishing is not prepared for this.
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@jim_bouldin @MicrobiomDigest Maybe jailtime would be a big enough disincentive?
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@evocellbio We can only catch the dumb fraudsters unfortunately. For every one we catch and post on PubPeer, there might be many more others who have executed their fraud better.
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