2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

If the NIH appropriations are generous, many applications are submitted to take advantage of the available funds. If NIH appropriations are constrained, many applications are submitted to compete for the limited funds. 11/17

🎶 Staaaaar House Is a very very fine house, With no cats in the yard, Because cats belong indoors, But there’s no cats in there either, Since my wife is allergic, And we have bunnies,, And I’m not really sure how this song goes…🎶

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

What is everyone's favourite review on anti-phage/defence systems? Ideally as an introduction to the concept/key systems for undergraduate level without expertise in phage biology #MicroSky #PhageSky

Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs

Rare bird fails to move Overton window

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

Friends, the mathematics department @hmc.edu is looking to hire a new tenure-track operations researcher who would feel at home in our department. Please spread the word: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...

Elio Schaechter was one of my heroes. His 1958 paper with Ole Maaløe and Niels Kjeldgaard (fondly known as “SMK”) is a North Star for so much work in my group. A wonderful scientist, great communicator, and a very kind person. May his memory be a blessing.

If you ever find yourself needing evidence for ‘Plasmids are just as common in microbes without resistance genes,’ we’ve got you covered! Check our new paper, out today: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Yup. clauswilke.substack.com/p/phd-level-...

LLMs wouldn’t pass a grad school comprehensive exam (It’s the confident bullshit in the face of experts that would fail it)

tip for trolling live imaging scientists: watch their little cell movie and then tell them "the book version was better"

Hadi Yasmine (with @schraderlab.bsky.social): BR body condensates degrade mRNA during exponential phase and store mRNAs during stationary/stress in #Caulobacter; this storage is advantageous as it promotes a faster transition to exponential growth #phages2025 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Also interested in this!

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

Okay some wisdom here would be most welcome. ICE continues to run rampant through our community and many of our students are at risk simply because of their identity. Other than providing flexibility to faculty in how they run their courses, what institutional policies or practices can we adopt?

Doing a PhD where you abandon a project after less than a year is probably perfect preparation for industry.

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

The Wadsworth Center is expanding it's research focus on #virology /vector-borne diseases! www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research-scientist-5-g-31/78488664/ This is a unicorn assistant prof equivalent position with 12-month hard money salary and no teaching commitments (!) Reposts appreciated 🙏

Smith College is seeking a cell biologist with expertise in biochemistry to fill a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Biology. Review begins August 28. Details and application at apply.interfolio.com/170354

I am a firm believer in this, in part because the most informative media I ever found about what a fruitful career in a creative discipline might mean was a Sparks (pop band) career retrospective documentary. The ability to pivot, to fail, to blend one’s style & taste with emergent trends – all key!

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!! My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students! We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Genome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

When I was driving along the Eastern Sierras I stopped at Manzanar to reflect and pay respects. Manzanar is a National Historic Site administered by the Park Service. It was where the US imprisoned Japanese Americans during WWII. 1/x

Love the name of this project

Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu. apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry) apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)

I'm at the housing crisis I'm at the Third Amendment I'm at the combination housing crisis Third Amendment

Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia. The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G

Today, I’m remembering my great-grandmother, who was baptized over her mother’s coffin during & due to the 1918-20 influenza pandemic. Acute respiratory infections during pregnancy can have devastating, permanent consequences. To throw away the tools to prevent them is as asinine as it is cruel.

The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed. There was a shimmer - a demon appeared. "Curious. What ritual is this?" "I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!" "I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

Oh! To be sincere for a second, this thread gives me a chance to share my all-time favorite comic panel. It’s from @xkcd.com. It captures beautifully why you should never make fun of someone who doesn’t know something you know. I must have shown this to 30 people over the years. xkcd.com/1053/

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

Job opening in my department: 50% vivarium manager (it’s a small facility!) and 50% teaching lab coordinator. This will be a good position for someone who appreciates lab animal research, has lab animal care experience, and enjoys working with undergrads. Happy to answer any questions! 🧪🧠

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...

Glad this is finally getting any reporting at all. I have to wonder, though, is it just those seven universities that have received no payments whatsoever from DHHS since mid-April? Or is it even more widespread?

It's not a lab so much as an anarcho-syndicalist science cartel

Strange reviewers lying in ivory towers distributing grants is no basis for a system of scientific funding. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical academic ceremony.

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated postbac researchers interested in / with experience working with phages? We are hiring a junior specialist/research tech! Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04863 (start date more flexible than stated in ad!)

Elon Musk is an utter fucknozzle. If you had an X account, deleted posts, but kept the handle, there's a good chance they restored your posts.

Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.