Controversial: sci-hub is tolerated by major publishers since it became essential to maintain the status quo
Impression from having most 💸 subscriptions, still tempted to download from sci-hub 27 times in 2024 (🙊🙈🙉 it would work flawlessly, especially for older literature)
I would really like to do a 2nd iteration (& regular series) of this posting concept👇.
I'm looking for #BIPOC/#BAME scientists to share their stories not of what they do, but of what inspired them to follow a career in #STEM. Maybe a teacher? A friend of the family? A TV programme?
Message me/reply if interested. #MySciMoment
For #Apple fans out there: 10 hidden Easter Eggs in macOS. I was aware of some of these but 3, 6 and 10 were new to me.
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/07/10-hidden-easter-eggs-in-macos/
Want to X twitter, but there is a crowd and community there...
Unlike here, it seems.. Let's try to change!
As I am unwrapping boxes and starting my journey as a PI, I will post a few things here in the next days and stay away from X
Follow, follow-back, and content
There's something delicious about a brilliant, Nobel-prize-winning scientist being wrong.
I'm reading Richard Feynman's (throroughly enjoyable) "Six Easy Pieces" (https://amzn.to/45ie510). In a fine bit of epistemic trespassing, he decides to sum up biology. This is how he starts...
See this superb online resource by Catherine Oikonomou & @theJensenLab: The Atlas of Bacterial & Archaeal Cell Structure - open-access digital textbook with cutting-edge 3D electron microscopy
now includes animated videos illustrating methods‼️
@jamesheathers Interesting question.
Assuming a researcher works 40x50 hrs / year and creates material that requires 10 hrs peer review / year. That'd be 1 full time reviewer for every 200 researchers. A lower number than i thought.
If research proposals are included for review, it might go to 1:100?
Total Internal Reflection
Stephen Royle
Stephen Heard
The EMBO Journal
Akos T Kovacs
Stephen Royle