I saw a group post this and have to say that it is amazing.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman

It is impossible to imagine Eisenhower saying he would fight “without mercy” even against the Nazis; nor would he have reveled in the thought of death and destruction. He would have regarded it not only as deeply un-American but also beneath his dignity as a serious career soldier.

To simulate an asteroid impact in the lab, researchers put bacterial cells on a membrane and shot them with a gas-fired projectile that struck the microbes at up to 480 kilometers per hour. The bacteria largely shrugged off the cataclysm. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social at @science.org

A comparative analysis of the immunotranscriptomic features of DENV-1, -3, and -4 human challenge models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.17.706422v1

We live in a bizarre world where longevity influencers tell millions to take rapamycin, sit in hyperbaric oxygen chambers, blast themselves with red light therapy, and take 50+ supplements daily. Meanwhile something that cuts dementia risk by 20% Is invisible. open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...

On the one hand, I think it's great that someone mapped Bluesky users. On the other hand, I'm a bitworried that I map at some kind of Lagrange point between "Biomedical Research Scientists" (totally makes sense) and..."Brazilian Young Adults on Bluesky". Where's the cycling group?

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I like my thylakoids the way I like my pancakes: Stacked so densly it causes iridescence and apprears blue when lit at the right angle.

Honestly. There is no easy fix to <waves in GenX> alla this. But a starting place could be to address the CRIME of Citizens United. Corporations are NOT people. Money is NOT speech. And the place we're in right now? Owes a LOT to those two things being perverted by Citizens United.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

How does SARS-CoV-2 infection lead to dysregulation of the immune system in severe and #LongCovid? An unanticipated mechanism described @pnas.org with depletion of specific immune T and dendritic cells, open-access www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...

As with Shakespeare, I always found myself coming out of a Stoppard play feeling more intelligent than when I went in.

For the astronomers: I found an accretion disk diagram cheese. A quesar.

It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️ Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity! C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊 #IDSky quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...

It is not often that a new flow cytometry protocol makes the newspaper! I also got a kick out of seeing our science tagged as "quirky"! www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/fairy-l...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

New - my first piece for @science.org ! Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany. Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...

An alien fleet appeared in Earth's orbit, and broadcast a message: "Having studied you furtively, we now seek formal contact, and want to meet your greatest thinkers..." A long list followed. "How do we tell them?" world leaders wondered. Topping the list were the names Calvin and Calvin's Dad.

Researchers in #ScienceSignaling have mapped out the genetic and proteomic effects of a protein named MYC that is intimately linked to cancer growth—a discovery that could lead to new therapies aimed at this “undruggable” target. https://scim.ag/4nuQB1R

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The drosophila Dscam1 gene presumably evolved specifically to mess with bioinformaticians

I keep staring at this video showing the movement of aerosols in the atmosphere. It's so mesmerizing! That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Some people ride bikes for fitness, and others for transportation. Some ride for _______ 👇 ?

“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.” There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.

The National Climate Assessment, and all special reports and past assessments, are now offline. Federal climate science is being systematically erased.

Every few minutes, a dragonfly dives into water and takes off again, turning several forward somersaults as it ascends. The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and the loop-the-loops help it dry off by flicking away the water. Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mKKBI

There’s never been a more relatable Pope

Nature has posted graphic images of early Denisovans and they were jacked and look sorta like Mickey Rourke.

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

This. Is. Already. How. It. Works.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Ignoring the input of nationally recognized experts committed to the safety and well-being of the American people is not only reckless but sets a dangerous precedent for the leadership of public health organizations tasked with critically evaluating vaccines and protecting the US.

The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health. apnews.com/article/kenn...

A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.

"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...

After degranulation, mast cells attract neutrophils with LTB4 and trap them inside. These trapped neutrophils provide the mast cells with nutrients and lend them neutrophil abilities like expulsing NETs and proteases. Mihlan et al 2024 @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A crucial thing left out of conversations about colonizing other planets is that humans evolved to live on Earth.

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Holy moly! 🤪🤪🤪

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

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Whoa, I now have 21,000 followers! Thanks guys!

@science.org 🧫🧬❄️🔬 Molecular basis of influenza ribonucleoprotein complex assembly and processive RNA synthesis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @yiweichang.bsky.social www.yiweichanglab.org @jiwasa.bsky.social #virology #Influenza #Cryo-EM #StructuralBiology #RNA #polymerase

Read this excerpt of an interview with Jay Bhattacharya, new NIH director. And do not miss the last graf. Via @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Cartoon by @paulnoth.bsky.social