Generative AI can be a valuable aid in writing, editing and peer review – if you use it responsibly, says Dritjon Gruda go.nature.com/4ahSVpq

Of de lijn doorzet is nog onzeker, maar 2025 bracht toch echt positief klimaatnieuws: voor het eerst werd er wereldwijd meer elektriciteit opgewekt uit hernieuwbare bronnen dan uit steenkool. Vooral zonnepanelen maakten een indrukwekkende opmars. Lees hier het commentaar van NRC 👉 buff.ly/NVn1NIk

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

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Life is too short to pause receiving reviewer requests for every single journal you could possibly get an invitation for.

Ten rules for a structural bioinformatic analysis PLOS Comp Bio offers a roadmap for users to leverage the Protein Data Bank’s vast collection of protein structural models into reliable and valuable insights.

EU and Japan agree on Japanese association with Horizon Europe research programme - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues... The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.

Ever wondered how many bins to choose when making a histogram of data? The answer is that you shouldn't choose a number of bins yourself! ☄️ #astrocode Here's a little notebook explaining how to make less biased histograms:

🧪🌾PAPER - How does alternative splicing change protein structure? Vergara et al. present IsoformMapper, a tool that uses protein structure to compare splice isoforms, enabling functional analysis across biological systems.🧬 Read more in @rnajournal.bsky.social: rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/32/1...

Something like 90%+ of the fake AI stuff I am asked to comment on has been very clearly labelled as AI by the original uploader, then taken and spread 1000x as far by people presenting it as real. It’s a nightmare.

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Open to foreigners. 7 junior and 7 senior positions available in my section. Little to no knowledge of French required. Are you a structural bioinformatician with interest in protein-protein interaction cascades, evolutionary biology and/or glycobiology, do not hesitate to contact me.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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Kaja Kallas: we have to be really clear-eyed. We have one aggressor and one victim. And the one that needs security guarantees is Ukraine, not Russia. In last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything. It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.

As an epidemiologist, this makes me so sad. I have relied on the CDC for most of my career. It breaks my heart to see such a respected institution turned into RFK Jr's propaganda machine. It will take decades to rebuild all that has been lost after this administration leaves office.

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De VVD wil met JA21 in zee, de partij vol ex-PVV en ex-FvD’ers, pleitte voor het platbombarderen van Gaza, asielzoekers enkelbanden wil omdoen, alle denkbare vormen van racisme in de fractie heeft vertegenwoordigd én Annabel Nanninga telt. Maar GL-PvdA zouden dan de radicalen zijn, volgens de VVD.

Our review on Integrative modelling of biomolecular dynamics 💃 is now live at COSB We discuss approaches to integrate computational methods with time-dependent & time-resolved experiments to study protein dynamics With @dariagusew.bsky.social & Carl G. Henning Hansen doi.org/10.1016/j.sb...

I'm happy to share that our work describing the #cryoEM #structure of the glycosyltransferase ArnC from Salmonella enterica has been published in Nature Communications. #membrane #protein #PetrouLab The article is open access and available at: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

It's time that @flashes.blue became available for android. 80% of my Instagram time line is AI-generated. I've mostly lost interest in posting there

We are increasingly coming to a point where it actually is Europe that is fighting Russia, only the burden is extremely unevenly shared. For Ukraine the war is existential but it's becoming clear to other Europeans that it is existential for them too.

Social media promotes the idea that the loudest and most talkative person in the room is the one worth hearing. And if you've ever been in a room with an obnoxiously loud person who WILL. NOT. SHUT. UP. you'll know how wholly untrue this is.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

'The perfect brand collaboration doesn't exist.' Agatha Christie/Mr Men:

Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws

Five years ago, researchers at Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold2 go.nature.com/3M1Tvxx

So... this just happened. archive.ph/2025.11.29-1...

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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Unsurprisingly, Grok is a piece of crap designed to glorify Musk and his neo-Nazi ideology. The most worrying thing is that tens of thousands of people use this crap every day to get information.

Did you know you can find over 1 million preprints on Europe PMC? With a single search, you can explore preprints from 34 servers, including #PsyArXiv, alongside peer reviewed journal articles. One platform making over 47 million research outputs searchable in one place! #Preprints #OpenScience

Helpful reminder that both Kyiv and its European partners can safely ignore Trump's pushes for a bad peace deal.

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Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements. Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Donetsk Oblast. The military arrived to get people out, but there was no one left, only ruins. russia exiles people from their homes, by destroying entire cities. Let’s not let them: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

Mariupol, Bakhmut, Vovchansk, Toretsk, Chasiv Yar, Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka, Avdiivka, Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, Myrnohrad - and many, many more. City after city, annihilated by Russia. #Ukraine

Vandaag pas geleerd: voor 3 euro koop je in een Belgische kaartautomaat voor een maand Rail+ en je reist per direct met 40% korting in daluren of voor 24 euro voor een heel jaar dalkorting met de trein in België. Praktisch

Some still praise James Watson despite his racism. Same with colleagues who won’t condemn Elon Musk’s politics, hiding behind “scientists shouldn’t mix science and politics.”