Postcard

Mexico City, 2nd September

Dear Professor Hutseephluts,

We enjoyed meeting you at the recent FAIR training in Bratislava. It was very inspirational.

My colleague has been studying the distribution of parasitic infections of bats across the world and I believe there might be a correlation between certain bat infections and the number of spectral apparitions that are observed in a place. I think it would be very interesting to combine the dataset with yours.

Have you been using a standard metadata scheme for identifying countries or geographic locations of your observances? We must agree on a standard way of identifying the locations of our bat infections and spectral incidents so that we can easily combine our datasets to look for these correlations.

Such a surprising positive result would lead to opportunities for further investigation of the causes and we would already propose to collect blood serum and brain imaging/MRI data from your human case studies and from our bats. We must discuss how we will collect and organise this data so that we can make our datasets “interoperable”.

Let us not waste time! We could expect to produce together a high impact paper in, for example, Nature.

Please take a look at the dataset I am referring to using the following DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3369922

Yours, in academic respect,

Marisela