Mark A. Hanson
New PI interested in #immune #evolution, host #pathogen interactions, and #ScientificPublishing @ University of Exeter, UK. He/him. 🇨🇦
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- Well said!
- Some v useful clarifications. Thanks for this summary @mjafreeman.bsky.social !
- Could not find all organisers on here, but thanks to @wimpouw.bsky.social @bregtlameris.bsky.social Laurens Kemp, Jos Baeten, Elisabeth Elbers, and Mihaela Cimpian!
- All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing. Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward! bit.ly/StrainQSS www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule
- All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing. Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward! bit.ly/StrainQSS www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule
- Both MRC and BBSRC responsive modes now withdrawn until further notice. Existing applications unlikely to succeed (late 2025 round expecting 1-5% success rate). Listen, I get that UKRI wants to pivot. But killing both at once is devastating. Let's hope at least one opens by summer... #AcademicSky
- @ukri.org if there ia any chance to at least keep BBSRC responsive mode open, and normal, during the downtime of MRC... Otherwise this pivot will absolutely not boost the academic sector's collab with industry. It will kill it. We'll all lose our planned staff and lab continuity will be broken.
- Like... @ukri.org if continuity of local induction and training is lost, we'll all be set back 1-2 years of productivity. Just devastating.
- @ukri.org not to mention all the wasted effort of the entire sector on summer/fall 2025. I was just prepping a responsive mode for April too.
- To argue "infections" are an extrinsic factor to heritability is bizarre to me - as if aging takes place in a vacuum. Infections are part of longevity. Infection resistance is heritable (e.g. AMP polymorphisms in mammals, insects). I don't disagree longevity is highly heritable... 1/2
- 🆕 @science.org Revising the heritability of lifespan, from 25% to ~50%, by correcting for extrinsic factors science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- What ought to be said here is that heritability of lifespan is in part explained by an individual's ability to avoid a disease state, not just "infections are up to chance, and if you're lucky and avoid them, longevity is highly heritable." Don't disagree with findings, disagree with message. 2/2
