In my day job, we organized a new tutorial series with the aim of doing roughly one public tutorial per month (on our different tools). The NGLess tutorial ran out of spots quickly and we added a second date (July 5, also quickly running out of spots). The Jug tutorial (July 19) was posted this week, so spots remain, but register before July 12th.
Our quarterly lab newsletter comes out on Monday.1
I (and many of my group members) will “be at” the World Microbe Forum, this coming week; find us there.
Links of the Week
Related: The official list of Unicode bugs
Tweets of the Week
A few simple facts that some people find surprising the first time they hear them.
Imagine $100 is behind door A or B and I give you independent hints about which. The hint says either A or B but is right only 55% of the time.
First hint is worth $5, second hint is worth... $0!
Peak "Jesuit" moment from the archives: July 1862, Jesuits attend a spiritist séance to expose it as false/demonic, call up the spirit of St. Augustine, proceed to interrogate him on Catholic doctrine to prove he couldn't be the real Augustine/
I really take issue with the phrase "hypothesis-free" when it comes to data mining experiments. It's not that there's no hypothesis, it's that instead you are positing a "class of hypotheses" and the mining is about identifying instances of that class for which there is evidence.
In this pandemic:
* Suicides fell
* Income and savings rose
* Consumption bounced back quickly
* People paid their rent on time
* State budgets were healthy
* Business formation accelerated
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The secret heart of academia is... Wikipedia.
In an experiment, this paper found that a single quality Wikipedia article written by chemistry experts influenced the content of 250 published peer-reviewed academic papers! Articles referenced in Wikipedia also become more cited.
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Technically, it should come out on Sunday as the summer solstice falls on June 20th this year, but who reads a microbiome newletter on Sundays?