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steveroyle

@steveroyle@biologists.social

I'm into chord changes and cell biology.

Professor at University of Warwick. Director, Trustee and Deputy Chair of The Company of Biologists. Affiliate of bioRxiv. Author of "The Digital Cell". Views my own, obviously.

#CellBiology #MembraneTrafficking #CellDivision #Microscopy #ImageAnalysis #Science #ScienceMastodon #Academia #AcademicMastodon and #Music #Running #Cycling

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“This also explains our publisher's strapline ‘Supporting biologists, inspiring biology’, which is in sharp contrast to the aims of profit-fuelled publishers, ‘Exploiting biologists, constraining biology’.”

Seema and Michael telling it like it is!

@J_Cell_Sci and @Co_Biologists Rock!

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/24/jcs261856/339107/Journal-of-Cell-Science-more-than-just-a-journal

steveroyle, to running
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A self-indulgent post about my #running exploits in 2023. I ran 3110 km in total and thoroughly enjoyed it!

https://quantixed.org/2023/12/31/running-around-2023-running-dataviz-in-r/

danielcolquitt, to random
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How to guarantee that I will not review manuscripts for you:

• Send me an invitation to review at midnight on 26th Dec.

• Send me a reminder that I have not responded to the invitation at midnight on 29th Dec, despite my OoO stating I am on leave until Jan 2nd^.

• Send me yet another email at 6am on Sunday 31st Dec, informing me the invitation is withdrawn because I haven’t responded.

^ Yes the systems are automated but, implementing a conditional action if an OoO response is received, should not be a difficult problem to solve.

steveroyle,
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@danielcolquitt totally agree with you. This year I had a reminder on Christmas Day at 9am to do a probation meeting with someone I line manage. It wouldn't take much to ensure these reminders were sent on working days.

elduvelle, (edited ) to android
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Dear @zotero , just to say, I am really looking forward to the day when you’ll have an #Android app :)

EDIT: coincidence? Zotero released a beta for Android yesterday!!

https://fosstodon.org/@zotero/111640029099241577

#Zotero #ReferenceManagers

steveroyle,
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@elduvelle I think they just announced the beta? Or is that what you’re referring to?

https://fosstodon.org/@zotero/111640029099241577

albertcardona, to random
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This season of family gatherings is a great moment to persuade your relatives to install the Signal App @signalapp in their phones as a way to get your photos of the events. Then setup a family group chat with them all so that there's a reason to start and then continue using it.

That's one path to wean them off whatsapp and even worse messenger apps. At the very least your own communications within the family will happen outside those privacy nightmarish ever-hungry gargantuan for-profit corporations.

steveroyle,
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@albertcardona @signalapp I’ve given up on that battle!

steveroyle, to random
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More adventures in machine learning.

I took advantage of the holiday period and set up another training session on one of the GPU workstations in our building (thanks to Laura in CAMDU for help). Considerably faster on this machine but still by my calculation it should only finish by Christmas Day afternoon.

steveroyle,
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An update: the training finished ahead of schedule on Christmas morning.
Inference on a small dataset worked OK 🎉
Then, segmenting two much larger datasets knocked the workstation offline (twice) 😕
Now, using substacks of those two datasets, it seems to be working 🤞🏻

steveroyle, to random
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My annual call!

Please suggest a cool paper/preprint in your field in the last year or so!

For a course I teach, I am collecting papers on: cell/dev bio, microbio, neuro, maths/stats/CS/chem/phys applied to biology.

Students use one paper as the basis for a "research grant application" that they will write. So papers that are cool but also open doors to future study are ideal! Do you know one? It can be your own, I don't mind!

Last year's selection: https://quantixed.org/2023/01/14/papers-for-md9a8-2023-edition/

#ScienceMastodon

steveroyle, to running
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OK this is a serious #running achievement. 365 Marathons in 365 days. Aaron Robinson you nutter/legend.

Story:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/17/i-never-thought-i-would-get-this-far-london-man-runs-365-marathons-in-365-days

Strava:
https://www.strava.com/athletes/111600907

justgiving (fundraising for Hope for Justice):
https://justgiving.com/page/mycrazycollies

steveroyle, to random
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I am acting as External PhD (sorry, DPhil) Examiner in Oxford tomorrow. In the regulations it says:

"External examiners may, if they wish, wear the appropriate academic dress of their own university.”

Free journal T-shirt and jeans is the appropriate academic dress at my university.

steveroyle, to random
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Wiley to stop using “Hindawi” name amid $18 million revenue decline

https://retractionwatch.com/2023/12/06/wiley-to-stop-using-hindawi-name-amid-18-million-revenue-decline/

steveroyle, to random
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I've spent the last couple of days trying to get a machine learning routine running to segment 3D EM data. Lurching from one error to the next on the command line. I have certainly been learning something, not sure about my machine though….

steveroyle, to random
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Students using tracking pixels in their emails asking about potential PhD study. Not a good way to break the ice IMO, maybe that's just me.

steveroyle, to random
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Oh hooray. A leak in the lab, from the ceiling.

steveroyle,
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@CellySally Great idea! I think this would rouse the team spirit!

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“We would like to invite you to take part in the next Times Higher Education World University Rankings by completing THE's Global Academic Reputation Survey.”

Aaaarrrrrggghhh!

#UniversityWankings

steveroyle,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite ah, sabotage! I like the sound of that!

steveroyle, to random
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I just searched and found they have a ghost profile for me! I have requested they delete it.

I was vaguely aware that they did this but I don't use the site and block all their emails, so I was blissfully unaware!

steveroyle,
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Update: ResearchGate responded to my request and have deleted “my” page.

steveroyle, to random
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The bioRxiv/medRxiv crew are running a survey to understand how the community uses these preprint servers. If you have a few minutes to spare:

https://bit.ly/biomedrxivsurvey

#preprints #OpenScience #bioRxiv #medRxiv

elduvelle, to music
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What’s your favourite #Coding #Music? Looking to refresh my playlist…

(My top 3 albums:

steveroyle,
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@elduvelle weirdly I can productively code to music I would struggle to write to, e.g. metal or techno. Current favourite: Cydonia - In Fear of a Red Planet.

steveroyle, to running
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This morning’s 🌧️ run commute put me over 2500 km for the year. Ahead of my target of 3 Mm for 2023.
An easy running week for me following a new parkrun PB of 19:27 last Saturday.

Note, occasional running achievement posts are intended to inspire other runners (rather than bragging, honest!).
#running

albertcardona, to science
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Not sure what those who advocate for the use of ChatGPT in scientific writing have in mind. It is the very act of writing that helps us think about the connections and implications of our results, identify gaps, and devise further experiments and controls.

Any science project that can be written up by a bot from tables of results and associated literature isn’t the kind of science that I’d want to do to begin with.

Can’t imagine completing a manuscript not knowing what comes next, because the writing was done automatically instead of me putting extensive thought into it.

And why would anyone bother to read it if the authors couldn’t be bothered to write it. Might as well put up the tables and figures into an archive online, stamp a DOI on it, and move on.

#ScientificPublishing #science #ChatGPT

steveroyle,
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@albertcardona I feel the same. I saw someone I respect advocating use of LLMs for paper writing, saying “it’s only like using a grammar check”. I get that if one is writing in a second language, it could be helpful; but this was kind of shocking to me.

elduvelle, to twitter
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I reached a wall in my quest to delete all my past tweets.
I can’t see any of my tweets before July 2022, so I can’t delete them.
My retweets from around that time don’t have the 🔁 button in green, so I can’t undo them.
They are clearly still there as the account says 16k tweets.

I tried the Redact app and it doesn’t seem to do anything.
I would like to keep my current account so I can keep encouraging people to join Mastodon, but I don’t want my content to be used by MuskTwitter’s “AI” training, so I want to delete ALL my past tweets.

Any suggestions?
#Twitter

steveroyle,
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@elduvelle well I was going to reply to say I am in a similar position (12.5 k posts written but essentially no content) but I just checked and they have reinstated a whole bunch of old posts! I have read about this happening to other people. Gah, I will try again!

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Anyone who cares about scientific publishing* in biomedical sciences should read this piece by @richardsever

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002234

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