Library scenes - with almost all scientific literature being digital, including textbooks, I wonder how many of these books actually got picked up in the past year. Any insights into library functioning folks?

Just like food - junk content and mental obesity will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. In such an environment, we must promote independent thought, nuanced discourse, and sustained engagement with any literature as ever more important skills in the future - starting from primary education. 🧪

Yikes!

Growing up in urban Saudi Arabia, I actually didn’t get to see a true night sky until my mid twenties when I visited Cherry Springs State Park, PA. It is almost a grounding experience and one that a huge chunk of future generations might be deprived of.

🗓️Upcoming launch! Join us live on 26 July from 02:40 BST/03:40 CEST to watch our Vega-C rocket take flight once again. #VV27 will carry Airbus's four CO3D satellites and CNES MicroCarb mission. 🚀 Launch is scheduled for 03:03 BST/04:03 CEST.

Call me skeptical but at this point it all appears symbolic unless someone’s willing to enforce these laws and see the judgement carried through. Unfortunately, symbolic feels good but doesn’t achieve tangible outcomes.

I made this bluesky account a little less than a year ago. Didn’t use it much because lack of users and low adoption. Thought other social media might bounce back (delusional me). But now I’m convinced that traditional social media has very little to offer. Back on here to give it another chance!

Washington Post published my resignation letter in its entirety (even the damn typos...) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It seems easy to make fun of basic science – for example why would you want to study bacterial immune systems? But then you would have to admit that that’s exactly what led to the discovery of using CRISPR as an insanely good technology for genome engineering.

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First panel discussion of the symposium: (Generative) AI and its implications for bioimage analysis. Panellists are Assaf Zaritsky, Lydia France and Xiaoxuan Liu. Chaired by Amy Strange #CBIAS2024

The goal is not to have a zero risk project; those are generally not worth working on. People with a good relationship with risk are definitely not avoiding it. They are super honest about it and they basically make it their goal to slowly chip away at it. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the skyline

We need to have a ‘code of conduct’ for reviewing manuscripts, like (1) if you say that something is not novel then provide the reference. (2) If you propose an experiment, state precisely to which claim it is crucial. (3) If you want to say something nasty then sign your name.

Too often we spend only two weeks choosing a problem and then many years trying solving it, but this limits our potential impact. A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/

Hi everyone, I am a postdoc at UW-Madison developing microphysiological systems for predicting patient response to cancer therapies.

wtf this is crazy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On the side, please enjoy these stunning view of the northern lights from Wisconsin!

I had forgotten what it was like to go on social media and not instantly get pissed off, this is refreshing!