timrpeterson

I'm the longevity working group lead which will be evaluating the projects. Please AMA.

Most people who will be qualified will already have lab space wherever they are.

I have ample lab space and the team to execute here in St. Louis. Also, I have a family.

YC's "move to the bay area" requirement makes sense for software startups, but less so for bio (at least for most of the good ideas).

Do you have to move to the Bay Area?

I'm a professor at WashU and am interested, but I live in St. Louis.

I'd be curious to learn more about what you know about this. Could we have a conversation? I'm a professor at WashU can you email me?

[email protected]

Not much seeing much output from that initiative which I signed btw.

Pretty interesting experiment by Radiohead. Kinda bored with their music but I'll be curious to see how this plays out. Should start conversation and the value of always being connected online.

I actually wrote this comment 2 days ago. It's interesting that HN corrects this to "2 hours ago" to fit the post timeline, which was also originally 2 days ago. Note, the original post didn't make it to the front page unlike now. Weird stuff.

Because they can and academic scientists don't do anything to change the status quo.

Really interesting read. I had no idea. Hope it gets some up votes so that more knowledgeable people will comment.

Interested to know how Twitter let their momentum tail off starting mid-2013. Does anyone know the missteps?

Thanks for saying this. I agree the flexibility is huge. Pay for freedom! (Or rather don't get paid, :)

So how does customers!=market

Best suggestion list I've come across. Please Twitter think about this stuff.

Yes. Cmon man. You're being overly literal. I'm just starting as a professor in biomedical sciences, where you probably know the terribleness reaches its peak. I'm also nearing 40 so the duration of "training" required is also a total bullahit factor especially in my area.

The general point is true: the financial incentives in academia are blatantly terrible. The quality of what's produced isn't much better. So this whole thing about universities being all about their research missions? Sadly for all those hundreds of billions the hedge funds are generating, produces a depressingly small output.

Except, they treat their researchers like total crap. Taking 2/3 of all grant money for overhead? Salaries for 45 year olds with 20 years of experience that are the same or worse as 25 year old with zero experience in private sector. Publish or perish? This whole thing you say these schools focus on, research? Pathetic. And trust me I know I've been at all the top schools and am now a professor.

The key issue is getting funding. The funding agencies like the NIH need to set the rules.

Proposal: Funding agencies should require publishing in open access pre-print servers and ban publishing with for-profit publishers like Elsevier.

If I have to post to pre-print, worry about others scooping me with what I post there while I'm waiting for the regular journal to publish it, why bother? We need the funding agencies to accept the pre-print servers as the endgame, and not just another thing we have to do. Otherwise it's a non-starter.

Yea slowness is what led me back to Sublime. I tried for months, I really did.

Nobel prize winning scientists can go rogue. Until these same rogues hire incoming professors based on their own biorxiv papers this is a small advance.

This whole thing needs to start at the level of the funding agency, namely NIH. Publishing in a good journal is a prerequisite to getting a grant. Try getting an R01 on a Biorxiv paper. Not gonna happen.

People in the 1950-60s said The Beatles and Bob Dylan were trash. It's called change, get used to it.

Pretty confident Kim Kardashian will be considered an icon some day in the same sense as Marilyn Monroe, Madonna or whoever else was considered crap during their peak by the old guard. Heck, Donald Trump shows she might even be President if she wants to.

Something tells me you will see this report on FB all day today. Nothing goes viral like controversy over a health matter.

Nvm, whatever celebrities are doing goes more viral.

Pubmed amino acids and cancer.

It's a good study from high quality researchers, but to be fair there is a study almost every week for the last 50 years saying something like this.

Media: journalism, music, videos is definitely a hypercompetitive market enabled by the Internet. It's just unclear whether it's "good" for consumers.