Post 9: A funny case of academic protest 💩

I remeber this paper where the authors investigated a method to sequence DNA from baboon fecal samples. Interestingly, the authors inserted Donald Trump’s face in the 💩 they used in their method diagram, clearly referencing the kind of person he is. Unfortunately, the editors at Nature requested the removal of this, although evidence of this happening remains on social media, as seen in this blog where they discuss in more detail the implications of doing this.

Methylation-based enrichment facilitates low-cost, noninvasive genomic scale sequencing of populations from feces