@renu3m @dnjoshispeaks It is embarassingly elitists that you are embarrassed by how people use cutlery. I eat with the fork in my right hand, and knife in the left. In 18 years of living in Europe, people only have asked if I was left-handed and no one was bothered about it.

@NikoMcCarty However, I have always felt skeptical about Mendel reporting 7 traits - all of them monogenic, when we know today that most phenotypic characteristics are polygenic. He must have undoubtedly seen polygenic inheritance. Did he cherry-pick?

@CoderUday There is a different between writing text and writing a book. The vast majority of ‘software programming’ is about skill set. But acquiring the skills to paint does not necessarily give to the creativity to think of *what to paint* to make art.

@bhav_paaji @sanjana_writer Don’t do that. Ever. It doesn’t work for any serious workflow because the iPadOS apps are all handicapped. Better off with a MacBook Air.

@ShwetaKukreja_ IPhones are not expensive compared to other flagship phones for eg from Samsung. The difference is that Apple only makes flagship phones, while other manufacturers make a range of budget phone too. Can you imagine the anti-trust lawsuit Apple will have if Apple Music was free?

@mikemayfieldlv @PhysInHistory And one of them has supporting evidence.

@HaoYin20 @JanBroderEngler In general R has horrible syntax due to the way packages are written. Python is the future.

I am @vartak.bioimaging.tech on BlueSky

@ganeshunwired Parliamentary protocol is simply derived from Victorian British tradition as well. There is no particular reason it is more valid than any other tradition. Former colonies are simply asserting their identities now - perhaps dramatic but not savage certainly.

Their style is based on Elsevier - Vancouver (numeric) but deviates it because it requires 'et al' to be used if the number of authors is >4

RT @TanentzapfLab: Gonna get a tattoo on my chest that reads "just because a result is statistically significant does not mean it is biolog…

@thinkingwest It was a force for good in the same way that the World Wars were a force for good in terms of industrial development and technological progress. The problem is the asymmetric distribution in cost borne by one group of people, while another group merely enjoyed the benefits.

@plantscientist9 @AcademicChatter I learnt that the first mistake is writing a grant for an idea that will need equipment and resources you don’t have without asking for them in that very grant. You will also learn to take deadlines less seriously esp. if you are the ‘contributor’ and not a stake holder.

@wc_ratcliff Yes. In general, using Emojis is a little pointless and lazy especially in email that is not personal in nature. It only signifies that your grasp on language is not so good and you need to draw a picture to communicate your intention/feelings etc.

@TanentzapfLab This is just a variant of ‘we stand on the shoulders of giants’. I don’t see your point.

Just got an email from a journal #AcademicTwitter to revise the entire reference list by writing 'et al' if there are more than 4 authors, but name only 3. Which begs the question, what happens if there are exactly 4 authors.

I tried Twitter Premium for 3 months and while it was nice to not have a word limit, the ad experience is not something I am prepared to accept. If it were not for Twitters user base, other services from Mastodon or even Bluesky seem more palatable.

@jamimmunology @fammi_ridere @SciComm_India I can imagine that will happen - which is mainly because the format of a poster session needs to be adapted as well. I've seen '1-min flash talks + separate sessions with interested members of the audience' work far more effectively.

@upnote_app Great. Now all we need is a dynamic icon.