James Heathers

So this is fun as shit: it's a dataset search engine.

ods.beta.sci2sci.com

I put in some physiological signals where I know the availability of data sources very well, and goddamn it if it didn't find a few more for me.

New Substack post.

Rescued from the drafts bin of mid-Plague mental horrors - when I genuinely thought that The Big Stupid (the collective incentive to science-grift) had begun.

Not a happy piece of writing, but it happened.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesclaims/p/the-right-to-be-wrong-isnt-the-freedom?r=6xosj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Happy Marburg/Zombie Day, everyone. May your descent into filovirus-derived insanity be pleasant and effortless.

Alright: given everyone's so interested in the data search engine from yesterday -

(A) if you're looking for *online, free, or open datasets* to do science, where do you look? What are the most common sources or databases?

(B) what field are you in?

Rewhatsisname this pls.

Full-length profile of ya bois at @DataColada in the Wall Street Journal. You love to see it.

BTW - THE STREISAND EFFECT: STILL UNDEFEATED.

https://archive.ph/lmKHg

@grrrr_shark@supervolcano.angryshark.eu yeah, that's about the extent of it.

I guess it became more relevant in retrospect.

I was today years old when I found out HERG stands for "Human Ether-à-go-go-Related Gene".

And that it's the homolog of a gene that makes anesthetized flies dance like they're at the Whisky A Go Go.

Bring back whimsy in science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItTGFd_HGmE

@auscandoc@med-mastodon.com @marcia@spore.social Everythingggggggggggg

@marcia@spore.social not a non-porous wall - just enough for some Goddamned Peace

I need some help with something.

Does anyone not have an ORCID?

Or, rather, does anyone have students who don't have an ORCID?

(I want to help them sign up, but I also need some information from the sign-up process.)