Conference vignette 👀: #OpenScience is about much more than #OpenData. Presenting unpublished work is also Openness, as social science alumna Dr. Ros Attenborough reminded us. And if you can share that way, then... In the Presidential symposium, another lab alumnus introduced a mouse protein that massively affected the clock ⏰ . His group found it through an ambitious phosphoproteomic 🧪 + candidate selection approach on a cell line 🧫 , looking beyond the canonical idea of the clockwork (TTFL in the jargon). Canonical here means canonised by a Nobel prize. A good friend from Japan explained in the Q&A that his group had just found the SAME gene in a genetic screen of mice 🐁with altered sleep patterns 🐁💤🛌. We know the clock controls sleep. So, independent evidence across continents.👍 Over dinner they started to coordinate how they would each publish their work. #Science working.
@kofanchen One would think that, in the years trains have been running (centuries, even), there would be provisions in place, such as side tracks or alternative power, to overcome the limitations of a one-dimensional public transport system.
On the positive side, when a train breaks down it's far safer than alternative means of transport.
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Albert Cardona
Dr Micha Campbell