Eszter Ari
eszterari.bsky.social
Eszter Ari
@eszterari.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist, bioinformatician, academic researcher, university lecturer 💻🧬🦠📊🏳️‍🌈 http://genet.elte.hu/bioinformatics former Twitter (X) profile: https://x.com/EszterAri
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"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before"

<- this open letter should be read by everyone in #HigherEd

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality.

WHAT A SURPRISE!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@balazsaczel.bsky.social was cited from Eötvös L. Uni. Hungary (where I also teach)
Publishers trial paying peer reviewers — what did they find?
Two journals embarked on efforts to compensate reviewers, with different results.
www.nature.com
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mulea
An R package for enrichment analysis using multiple ontologies & empirical false discovery rate

27 organisms
16 databases
+User-defined GMT

"outperforms Benjamini–Hochberg p correction for interconnected biological data"

#BMCBioinfo 2024
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Let me advertise our latest paper and R package: the "mulea", which is dedicated to enrichment analysis, using a resampling based false discovery rate, and applying multiple ontologies (which we collected for many species). t.co/qnSopW2F7M