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I implore everyone to read the full article and not only the headline. The paper that is being reported on was widely criticized in its scientific community for its weak evidence and should probably be seen (if you are very charitable) only as a starting point for other virus experts to jump into the discussion and do more experiments and not as something for general consumption.

That's a valid, but still weird take to me. Academic publishing takes a very long time. Every paper I was involved in took many months from submission to eventual publishing (completely ignoring the time it takes to prepare a submission).

Ioannidis published something extremely controversial (if not even flawed) and one of the main authors he attacked responded with a lengthy explanation so that this manuscript would not remain unchallenged. I found that aspect way more important than the venue of response. Would you prefer to leave Ioannidis' work unchallenged for potentially months instead?

This still means that tools published in the last few years until now might just be gone soon. The people who uploaded the images might have graduated or moved on and none will be there to save the work.

This will be quite bad for reproducible science. Publishing bioinformatics tools as containers was becoming quite popular. Many of these tools have a tiny niche audience and when a scientist wants to try to reproduce some results from a paper published years ago with a specific version of a tool they might be out of luck.

My grandmother has nine children. Seven of those survived and two did not. This was very common in the area she lived then. To this day, however only in private moments, she talks about the two that did not make it. The loss of the two children many decades ago still brings her a lot of pain. She gave the name of one of the children that did not survive to a later child, however that never erased the suffering.

I think we should be more kind to our ancestors. Just because they lived in fucked up times, compared to our current standards, does not mean they experienced a different quality of suffering.

The message from the community was to ensure mask supply for medical staff first. They are both more at risk themselves and a risk for others due to the large numbers of contacts.

Once supply is secured everyone should be educated about correct use and be encouraged to wear them.

Most of Asia already has a culture of wearing masks and existing supply chains. Europe/US did not and it takes a while to establish.

It might not be surprising, but it is an extremely important point to keep reiterating.

People keep spreading the malthusian myth of overpopulation and shifting blame to the poorest. Blaming the poor while giving the rich a free pass is not only unfair, it’s cruel.

Once climate change denialism is not tenable anymore, climate change will be instrumentalized for atrocities.

I was looking for adding at least one Threadripper server to our local HPC system. I only found one ASRock motherboard for TR4, but none yet for sTRX4. I hope we will see 1U rackmounted sTRX4 systems soon.

Our new HPC system will mostly consist of Epyc 7742, but having one node with super high single-thread performance would be nice for less well parallelized applications.

I did the calculation myself due to multiple conflicting numbers in this thread: I get 2.6 dollar per gallon of gas (8.65kg CO2 produced by complete combustion of 1 gallon gas):

300$/ton * 8.65kg = 2.6$ per gallon (0.6$ per liter)

100$/ton * 8.65kg = 0.87$ (0.23$ per liter)

30$/ton * 8.65kg = 0.26$ (0.07$ per liter)

7 cent per liter seems quite acceptable. And people are reporting that some companies are targeting that price point for sequestration. Please correct my if I miscalculated something.

Publishing companies tend to create many journals for different (sub-)communities and also numerous other reasons. Nature Research (the company) has next to Nature (its most well known journal) many smaller ones, like Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications or in this case Scientific Reports. Some are well regarded (e.g. Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications). Scientific Reports has a comparatively low impact factor, which has furthermore dropped every year in the last few years. Impact factor measures the average number of citations a published paper receives. Its impact factor of 4 is not very impressive. The main Nature journal has an IF of 41 (Nat Biotechnol has 35 and Nat Comm has 11).

In this article the patent applications are disclosed in the Competing Interests section. The readers can draw their own conclusions from those. It would be very unusual for a journal to not demand a declaration of conflicting interests.