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steveroyle

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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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steveroyle, to random
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I just completed a "can you beat AI" challenge for a student project. AI-generated images of epithelia mixed in with the real thing. Challenge was to spot the fake. It was tough!

Utterly terrifying. I don't think biology is ready for the onslaught of fake AI-generated data.

#CellBiology #ScientificIntegrity

steveroyle,
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@albertcardona interesting thoughts! I hadn't got past the requirement of validation to publish. I think you may be right about a shift away from papers. The use of papers as career tokens is already being seriously undermined by many factors (hypercompetition, pay-to-publish, papermills etc), but the fake AI data may finish it off!

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steveroyle,
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@gpollara @academicchatter We did a Review Commons submission a while back. It was a good experience for us, I wrote a bit about it (scroll to end)
https://quantixed.org/2021/02/23/keep-a-knockin-new-paper-using-knock-in-technology/
We have also had a lot of experience with just porting a paper-with-reviews to another journal. The difference is that reviewer identity is known in the case of RC but not necessarily with a port.

albertcardona, to android
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Probing the internet hivemind, trying to help a colleague: their android phone country setting says UK, but their google account was originally created in the US, and hence the Google Play store is still set to US. There are no buttons – despite what google support online says – offered to change the country in the Google Play account settings. So UK-only apps cannot be installed. Updating the address in the google account didn't help. What else can be done?

steveroyle,
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@albertcardona ask them to make a new Google account? Serious suggestion!

steveroyle, to random
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A printed copy of reviewers' comments in my hand. As a friend used to say “how do they look: is it highlighter or firelighter?”

#AcademicChatter #LifeOfPI

steveroyle, to running
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In Kate Bush's “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)”, she wants to do a deal with God to swap places with someone else. Is the hidden meaning that Kate’s motivation is to experience running as someone with a higher VO2Max? She feels a thunder in her heart whilst running up a hill (a road or stairs in a building) and wishes it was easier. We've all been there Kate! #running #lyricInterpretation

steveroyle,
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@WTL I hadn't thought about that, but yes, running would have to come after relearning to walk in the new body!

albertcardona, to academia
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"Asymmetries in trust", new blog post on the disconnect between academics and the associated academic bureaucracy.

https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20230823_asymmetries_on_trust.html

#academia

steveroyle,
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@albertcardona absolutely spot on. I have found myself in absurd situations like the ones you describe. For a while I tried to point out the absurdity, refuse to sign etc etc. in the end, complying is the quickest route to moving on (and the bureaucrats know it) so the absurdity continues.

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@albertcardona I should add that my current employer asked to see proof of my PhD but my previous employer (first PI position) did not 🤷🏻‍♂️

steveroyle,
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@albertcardona very true. It’s just ironic that I was already a Senior Lecturer when they asked. Plenty of PIs without a PhD of course. Including Julius “Julie” Axelrod IIRC.

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For any people: is there an alternative software for skinning that you can recommend?

I’m building a 3D model of a complex subcellular structure, using 3DMOD. During skinning, imodmesh is generating a many misconnections. I've minimised them but I’m wondering if other software has better algorithms for generating the mesh.

FOSS-preferred. Please don't suggest Amira!

steveroyle,
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@albertcardona no, I haven’t. Currently passing between MIB, 3DMOD and ChimeraX. Will try, thanks!

BorisBarbour, to random

Comically, tragically predictable.

https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-politics-2023-8-post-brexit-talent-visa-gets-just-three-applicants-in-two-years/

steveroyle,
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@albertcardona @BorisBarbour most of that is UK wide but I think some of what you are complaining about are Cambridge-specific phenomena. There’s a weird combination of factors there that make the inertia significant.

steveroyle, to running
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My 3rd #parkrun today. Love the happy vibes at these events. Pleased to break my 5km PB which I set in 2019. #running

steveroyle, to random
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Really not enjoying this “will they won’t they”. UK science is at stake. Sunak and von der Leyen fail to agree Horizon Europe deal.
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-politics-2023-7-sunak-and-von-der-leyen-fail-to-agree-horizon-europe-deal/

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I should tell my Head of Department that I am constantly being pestered by Nature Cell AND Science to submit my work to them 😂
#AcademicSpam #NatureCellAndScience

steveroyle, to mastodon
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If you are looking for academic communities on #Mastodon then this is a great resource

https://nathanlesage.github.io/academics-on-mastodon/

#AcademicChatter #ScienceMastodon

steveroyle, to random
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Grant-writing rituals

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-01920-0

tl;dr 1) latte and jazz, 2) write for 2 h/day or between 5 and 8 am.

I was hoping for a few more insights into other people's writing rituals from this article.

steveroyle,
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@gpollara @academicchatter I wouldn't say that's my norm, but yes: at a soft-play centre or poolside while a swimming lesson is happening… sometimes you just have to grab what time you can!

petersuber, (edited ) to ai

Will #AI end double-blind #PeerReview?

Double-blind peer review was never truly blind. "Experienced researchers can often correctly guess from which [person or] research group an anonymous submission originates." Now AI can improve the accuracy of those guesses. "Our method achieves an unprecedented authorship attribution accuracy, where up to 73% of papers are attributed correctly."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287611

#Anonymity

steveroyle,
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@petersuber @OverlyHonestEditor I wonder if this works both ways? i.e. helping authors to identify anonymous reviewers.

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Looking like a genius move for @Co_Biologists to launch their Mastodon instance this week.

#JustSaying #TwitterRIP

steveroyle, to random
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Well worth reading this:

Don't get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02101-x

TIR_scienceblog, to random

New posting! This one is about the number of unpaid hours in #academia, an insight that's come from the realisation of how much time I'm still committing despite now (currently) being unemployed. To what extent is academic research sustained by the massive expenditure of unpaid labour? How much unpaid overtime do you think you're clocking? Let's lift the lid...

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/06/29/pro-bono-a-riff-on-unpaid-labour-in-academia/

steveroyle,
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@TIR_scienceblog +1. Academia is underpinned by unpaid labour. Of course it is the way in other occupations too. But the overwork won't go away while we comply! For example, professional services (i.e. admin) staff at Unis will say “No. We do not have headcount to do this extra thing” (and rightly so), then a new person is hired to cope with the increased workload. Academics on the hand just suck it up and do the extra thing at the weekend or whatever. So the academic overwork continues.

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Author 1: I think you should replace reference 45 with an older reference about heat stress in yeast.
Author 2: OK
Preprint:

steveroyle, to science
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(just moved to new instance)

I am a cell biologist running a research group (@roylelab) focused on membrane traffic and cell division in human cells. My lab is in @Warwick_CMCB at . My posts are mainly about and but also , and .

My previous handle was clathrin. For my data analysis alter-ego, follow @quantixed.

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