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My inaugural lecture at @KU_Leuven from ~2 weeks ago. Presented the lab's plans, as well as my experiences with racism in science, and how this relates to reforming science publishing (this part starts at 16:35).
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Devang Mehta ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ฌ๐งฌ
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Devang Mehta ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ฌ๐งฌ
@drdevangm
PI @theMehtaLab at @KU_Leuven. Prev @UAlberta @ETH_en, @imperialcollege. Fmr Early Career Advisor @eLife. he/him @devangm.bsky.social
- My first hire as a PI will be a moderately motivated postdoc because no one seems to want to hire those.
- What an absolutely disastrous decision by the eLife board. Beyond shameful.
- Since this is going beyond BioSci twitter, here's a ๐งต about who Mike Eisen is and why I care so much that he isn't fired from @eLife: First: Mike, as EiC of eLife, is trying to overturn the idea of prestige publishing elifesciences.org/articles/83889
This man is "investigated", ppl tag his employers to fire him, tag funders to pull $$, call on him to resign as EIC, & he deleted his Twitter account. All because he showed support for Palestinians while noting that he is Jewish with family in Israel & condemning Hamas's attacks. - Protein levels are a much better reflection of a cell's state than RNA levels. @ me.
- Donโt conference organizers ever get tired of seeing the same talks by the same people at every conference?
- ๐งตI'm beyond excited to share that I've accepted a tenure-track research professorship at @KU_Leuven in @biosystkuleuven & the @LeuvenPlantInst! @MehtaLab_KUL will study & engineer latitudinal adaptation in plants w/ an experimental systems biology lens:
- PLEASE RT: We're looking for FIVE new members of @eLife's Early Career Advisory Group! The ECAG is an international group of early career researchers (PhD students, postdocs, PIs <5 years) that directly advises eLife's leadership & shapes policy. Brief thread about the position:
- Feel profoundly betrayed by an org. which so many Early Career Advisors (ECAG) spent so many hours help build. And grieving for its excellent staff coz there is no coming back from this for @eLife. Here's a ๐งตof the amazing things we did that the Board has damaged so grievously.
- scientists from the first world really have no conception of the gap between their experience of science and that of all other scientists on the planet.
- New Article out with @CellAtlas colleagues: โWe believe that it is finally time for the plant biology community to retire the western blot as a means to โvalidateโ quantitative proteomics dataโฆโ rdcu.be/c0Owx
- In this weekโs @nature WorldView column, I write: โThe EU can and should play a greater part in ensuring global food security. I urge both ministers and legislators toโฆresist calls to further limit this technology.โ #NGT #CRISPR nature.com/articles/d4158โฆ
- You know what's hypocritical? Trashing the @NatureComms paper authored by people in Abu Dhabi but giving this equally bad @NatureComms paper a pass just coz the authors are based in the West and are friends with influential scientists and journos.
