Best of Twitter - Week of October 12, 2020
Why observational diet data is unreliable, Exhibit #7493: in a new @KevinH_PhD study, dieters underreport consumption by hundreds of calories. And that's 24-hour recall, which is supposed to be the most reliable. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…
My (short) take on the technology and research achievements of the synthetic biology community over the last decade.
TL;DR - we crushed it 👍
nature.com/articles/s4146…
When writing, I'm usually tempted to work on one sentence at a time, only moving on when the previous sentence feels perfect. But I find I work better when I take a blurry-to-sharp approach: outline, then sub-outlines, then rough prose, then polished prose.
^ very profound imo and i have a very similar experience
"It’s not a coincidence that [SpaceX is] ranked #1 for both stress and sense of meaning." applieddivinitystudies.com/2020/10/15/bus…
guzey.com/economics/cont…
>“What people can’t understand,” Hiers said ... “is how much fun Vietnam was. I loved it. I loved it, and I can’t tell anybody.”
WOW: T cells take up (via extracellular vesicles) telomeres from antigen presenting cells at the immunological synapse. Telomere vesicles retained the Rad51 recombination factor enabling fusing with T cell chromosomal ends causing an average lengthening of ~3000 base pairs 🤯🤯
Michael Dustin @MichaelLDustin
Nobel prize laureate Gregg Semenza in big trouble. Photoshopped western blots and other serious issues in about 30 papers. I’m so tired of data fabrication!
pubpeer.com/search?q=Gregg…
the fact that if you take a giant blob of hydrogen and let physics do its thing for a few billion years, you eventually end up with self-assembling atomic nano-robots never ceases to fucking blow my mind
This is one of the best things I've ever seen. @defcon 1 in 1993. I need this kind of energy in my life.
Here is a fundamental question in neuroscience: if you are saying a neuron has some role or function, how robust should that be to context?
Ari Benjamin @arisbenjamin
My wife and I got to my mother-in-law's house earlier today. I'm setting up her Chromebook.
Josh Thompson @josh_works
^ thread
This is a hugely important paper. Why does breastfeeding correlate so strongly with infant health, for example? This paper explains that result and many other “effects” of health recommendations.
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman