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University announces plans to improve student experience whilst simultaneously cutting staff benefits, unaware they might be related thescienceweb.wordpress.com/… via @wordpressdotcom

University announces plans to improve student experience whilst simultaneously cutting staff...

London, UK. Remarkably, a UK university with student approval ratings lower than the Mariana trench has announced plans to “improve the student experience” whilst simultaneously plannin…

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No, not GTeX, those guys are l33t
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That big expensive project was definitely not a complete failure thescienceweb.wordpress.com/… via @wordpressdotcom

That big expensive project was definitely not a complete failure

The World.  That massive science project, the one that cost millions of dollars, employed hundreds of people and achieved almost nothing of any worth, was definitely not a failure, The ScienceWeb h…

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BBC News - Australian schoolgirl raises alarm over flesh-eating disease bbc.com/news/world-australia…

Australian schoolgirl raises alarm over flesh-eating disease

An Australian girl whose knee was eaten away by a Buruli ulcer calls for better research funding.

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Craig Venter uses millions of genomes to predict sunrise thescienceweb.wordpress.com/… via @wordpressdotcom

Craig Venter uses millions of genomes to predict sunrise

CALIFORNIA. Jean Craig Van Venter has used a massive computer and millions of genomes to predict that tomorrow, between 5 and 6am, the sun will rise and morning will happen. This amazing result has…

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Satire is dead
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Robert Kraus@rhskraus29 Apr 2016
That's a fun idea! I'll do the same, should work across species as well. Birds are all the same anyway. xitter.cf/TheScienceWeb/status/7…
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Genomics England decide to just impute from 1000 genomes data thescienceweb.wordpress.com/…

Genomics England decide to just impute from 1000 genomes data

London, UK.  Due to the sheer lunacy of trying to sequence 100,000 people with only a few people and five laptops, Genomics England have decided to instead just impute from 1000 genomes data. Jo Ca…

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Genomics England decide to just impute from 1000 genomes data thescienceweb.wordpress.com/…

Genomics England decide to just impute from 1000 genomes data

London, UK.  Due to the sheer lunacy of trying to sequence 100,000 people with only a few people and five laptops, Genomics England have decided to instead just impute from 1000 genomes data. Jo Ca…

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Owners of Illumina MiniSeq delighted at shitter, more expensive data thescienceweb.wordpress.com/… via @wordpressdotcom

Owners of Illumina MiniSeq delighted at shitter, more expensive data

San Diego.  Early adopters of the Illumina MiniSeq platform have reported that they are “absolutely delighted” that they are now capable of producing much shitter data than their Univer…

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Replying to @ctitusbrown
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New workshops in "Software Dickery" announced wp.me/p4ik2k-67 cc @ctitusbrown
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New workshops in "Software Dickery" announced wp.me/p4ik2k-67
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Preprints in @TheScienceWeb - I think we can safely say they have arrived! #ASAPbio thescienceweb.wordpress.com/…

Preprints definitely shit, say publishers

LONDON, UK.  Preprints, papers uploaded to the internet before they are peer reviewed, are definitely shit, according to a group of publishing companies who have a vested interest in seeing them fa…

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Hey @Sci_Hub - can't wait for you to do Netflix.com ;-)
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God weighs in on the CRISPR/Lander debate thescienceweb.wordpress.com/…

The Hero of Science

A guest post by Derek Blander, the most amazing scientist of all time…. In 1957, the world was bequeathed a gift – one of the greatest scientists to ever live was born – me.  This…

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"We believe that everything in life is better if you are able to laugh about it" thescienceweb.wordpress.com/… xitter.cf/Lab_Journal/status/689…
Laborjournal@Lab_Journal18 Jan 2016
Any resemblance to a living person is… well… fully intentional, of course. xitter.cf/TheScienceWeb/status/6…
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