If you care about any of the following: #Fairness and #Integrity #Honesty in #HigherEd #Liverpool and #Wellbeing
Can you please RT?
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It pains me to have to tweet the following about the University where I have spent 18 largely happy years. I am still an honorary professor there and I want it to remain an honour.
Apr 23, 2020 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
This highly cited 2010 @acsnano article reports the first MD simulations of gold nanoparticles with lipid membranes. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…
Let's look at how they justify the research.
They say "applications have been growing over the past 5 years" and give references [1-5], but ref 1-5 just make similar promises. 10 years later these applications which were supposed to be growing still do not exist.
Feb 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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Dear #Liverpool - the red, #antiracist city, that proudly denies to far right racists the mere possibility of walking in its streets. 🙌🙌🙌
@LiamThorpECHO Thread.
I genuinely do not understand this editorial. It correctly lists some of the terrible consequences of austerity and the risks of another Conservative government, whilst barely mentioning Brexit at all.
@LiamThorpECHO The EU has transformed our city, something that the Echo has well-documented. And Brexit will be a disaster for us. Whether it is a Labour Brexit or a Conservative Brexit.
Nov 25, 2019 • 28 tweets • 13 min read
Arthur Taylor introducing a very exciting week of science with the second workshop of @renaltoolbox
Project funded by the #EU bringing to Liverpool young scientists from across Europe and the world.
First morning is statistics training. Marta Garcia-Finima starts by hammering the message that high IF doesn't mean you can trust data; cites Cressey, Nature, 2015. @renaltoolbox
Mar 28, 2019 • 32 tweets • 9 min read
@psobolewskiPhD Fig 3 is the most convincing. It shows some photothermal killing dependent on cell type and laser power. No statistics.
@psobolewskiPhD finally, ponder the last line #17's abstract:
"both efficient cancer cell diagnostics and selective photothermal therapy are realized at the same time."
Diagnostics and therapy achieved? These are (very poor) experiments on *cell lines*. The hype is breathtaking.
Feb 13, 2019 • 85 tweets • 21 min read
In this thread (continued), I am looking back at highly cited (over 1000 citations) 'historical' (prior to 2008) bionano papers, in particular those that deal with nanoparticles & cells. Comments most welcome. #bionano#NanoBubble.
Some background on selection of papers + comments on the first 10 papers here threadreaderapp.com/thread/1093179…
Feb 6, 2019 • 76 tweets • 20 min read
In this thread, I will be looking back at highly cited (over 1000 citations) 'historical' (prior to 2008) bionano papers, in particular those that deal with nanoparticles & cells. Comments most welcome. #bionano#NanoBubble
The set of 31 papers considered was identified as follows: WoS search for "Nanoparticle*" [1900-2008, only articles and letters] => 75,260 results of which 181 have over 1,000 citations.
Out of these 57 have a bio angle, e.g. DNA, corona, tumour, cells, etc
First morning is statistics training. Marta Garcia-Finima starts by hammering the message that high IF doesn't mean you can trust data; cites Cressey, Nature, 2015.
