In the latest #EMBOPodcast, @cyrilpedia and Review Commons' @tlemberger talk to Pavel Tomancak about his research, #preprint publishing, #peerreview, #ai and how to ensure that authors receive proper credit for their contributions to a scientific paper. https://www.embo.org/podcasts/who-reviews-the-reviewers/

“The nature of biological training is changing” Could not agree more - fascinating episode of the #EMBOpodcast with the chat between @CyrilPedia ans @StephenQuake on quantitative va qualitative, basic vs applied research. A must listen 😊 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2QjGkVgxQM1OgS3mPfvi7d?si=HpY8G4AXR1K2RxG9EWuUHw

Fun story about nature surprising the scientists. I learned this one from an excellent #EMBOPodcast with @CoriBargmann & @cyrilpedia.

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/our-special-feature-as-humans-is-communication/

The era was the human genome project (late 1990s). In question: how many genes do we have? Going in, they knew that a worm (with 302 neurons) had ~13K genes. The presumption was that we, with our billions of neurons (and other complexities), would have a lot more.

GeneSweep was the official betting pool, organized by Cold Spring Harbor. Of the 460 (presumably well informed scientists) who entered the competition, the winner was the one who made the SMALLEST guess (~25K). The mean guess was 62K; someone guessed as high as 200K.

The small number of genes in the human genome (25K) surprised nearly everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneSweep

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/23/science/scientists-cast-bets-on-human-genes-a-winner-will-be-picked-in-2003.html

In the new #EMBOPodcast, Steve Quake - Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - talks about his career, #OpenScience, entrepreneurism, research funding and much more.

Along with Michael Swift and Felix Horns, he recently posted a #preprint on "Fate Bias and Transcriptional Memory of human B cells" with public referee reports from Review Commons - see https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.14.499766

Hear the whole podcast at https://www.embo.org/podcasts/the-biologists-were-pretty-darn-good-with-their-microscopes/

In the latest episode of the #EMBOPodcast, @cyrilpedia and @tlemberger spoke with the Editor in Chief of BMJ Open, Adrian Aldcroft, about #preprints, #peerreview and #ReviewCommons.

BMJ Open is an open-access medical journal with an open peer review process. Adrian, Thiago and Thomas discussed the challenges clinical research present to #openscience, the role of editors in basic and clinical research and more!

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/peer-review-preprints-and-the-pressures-of-clinical-research/