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"'The culture of academic medicine in the United States has been defined by the culture of NIH, the Francis Collins culture mindset that the gene is responsible for most of our problems and the gene can solve most of our problems,' Makary said at the event on Wednesday, referring to the former NIH director, who is a geneticist."

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www.medpagetoday.comA 'Culture Change' Is Needed in Academic Medicine, FDA Commissioner SaysNutrition, not genetics, should be a big focus, according to Marty Makary
#healthcare#food#nutrition
ProPublica

Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles
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In 2013, ProPublica reporter David Epstein was contacted by a woman with a wild story and a batch of photos she believed were clues to the mystery of her condition. Turns out, she was right.
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ProPublicaThe Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles
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#Journalism#Genetics#Science
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Nonilex

In a July 8 memo, Rollins prohibited #USDA staff from publishing #research w/foreign nationals from the 4 "countries of concern" w/o agency approval & from attending events organized by "foreign adversaries."

#ARS staff were further told in a meeting that all publications currently under review will be re-analyzed & those co-authored w: #ForeignNationals from the 4 countries will be denied, said Ethan Roberts, an ARS employee & president of the American Federation of Govt Employees Local 3247.

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Nonilex

"We don't have the talent now to progress on these research projects. It's setting us back by years, if not decades," he said.

The #ARS conducts #research on #agriculture topics like #pests, #FoodSafety & #ClimateChange that are high-priority to American #farmers. The agency has lost about 1,200 employees, more than 17% of its 2024 staffing level, to terminations & voluntary incentives to quit offered by the #Trump admin.

#BrainDrain#idiocracy#science
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Nonilex

The contractors had worked at the #Agricultural Research Service, the in-house #research arm of the #USDA, said Thomas Henderson, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1657, which represents #ARS workers in Albany, California.

Most of those dismissed were Chinese post-doctoral researchers on 2-year contracts w/the agency, & who were already subject to vetting before being hired, Henderson said.

#Trump#BrainDrain#idiocracy
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"You know what else makes innovation possible? Boring stuff like universities, research institutions, and a functioning legal system.

You know what #authoritarian regimes love to do? Gut all of those things.

Think about where most breakthrough #technologies actually come from... decades of basic #research...

Yes, eventually the private markets and companies take over the commercialization, but so much of the core infrastructure of innovation comes from elsewhere."

#Science#Technology#News
Hacker News

The impact of file position on code review

arxiv.org/abs/2208.04259

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arXiv.orgFirst Come First Served: The Impact of File Position on Code ReviewThe most popular code review tools (e.g., Gerrit and GitHub) present the files to review sorted in alphabetical order. Could this choice or, more generally, the relative position in which a file is presented bias the outcome of code reviews? We investigate this hypothesis by triangulating complementary evidence in a two-step study. First, we observe developers' code review activity. We analyze the review comments pertaining to 219,476 Pull Requests (PRs) from 138 popular Java projects on GitHub. We found files shown earlier in a PR to receive more comments than files shown later, also when controlling for possible confounding factors: e.g., the presence of discussion threads or the lines added in a file. Second, we measure the impact of file position on defect finding in code review. Recruiting 106 participants, we conduct an online controlled experiment in which we measure participants' performance in detecting two unrelated defects seeded into two different files. Participants are assigned to one of two treatments in which the position of the defective files is switched. For one type of defect, participants are not affected by its file's position; for the other, they have 64% lower odds to identify it when its file is last as opposed to first. Overall, our findings provide evidence that the relative position in which files are presented has an impact on code reviews' outcome; we discuss these results and implications for tool design and code review. Data and materials: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6901285
#HackerNews#fileposition#codereview
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