People always used to tell me that freelancing is "feast or famine" It's not. It's fucking around and finding out. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/feast-and-...

Expressing unpopular political opinions over Thanksgiving dinner with MAGA relatives can dramatically slash your gift-giving budget this Christmas. Follow me for more money-saving tips and tricks.

Here's a fun column! Carsten Lund Pedersen uses #AI to create a kind of career advisory panel. Panelists include digital simulacra of Einstein, Bohr, Feynman, and on one memorable occasion, Bond author Ian Fleming. Here's how he did it. @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“This new class of genetically encoded sensors has really opened up this world.” New @nature.com, what's new in the world of genetically encoded neurochemical sensors. by @dianakwon.bsky.social 🧪 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Writing scientific software is time-consuming and technical. Google’s new development workflow aims to automate the process by allowing software to evolve, building on both existing tools and online resources. New @nature.com, by @silverjacket.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Read this fantastic defense of independent journalism by @marisakabas.bsky.social. Bravo! 👏 www.thehandbasket.co/p/grennell-c...

😱 Fascinating and terrifying thought experiment from @lauriewired.bsky.social: "The original sin of computing ... that no one can fix". TL;DR: how much can you trust your compiler? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu3l...

America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.

Democracy in action, Illinois. Proud of our state for peacefully showing up and speaking out together in one voice to fight back against Donald Trump’s takeover of our democracy.

Meanwhile in Alabama

12 years ago, I typed my first "Hello world!". It is not easy to learn bioinformatics from scratch. But it is possible if you put in effort and have a clear pathway. read my story here divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/publication...

Fluorescent proteins are usually distinguished by their color. A new breed of FPs can be distinguished by 'fluorescence lifetime', too! Interesting read from @sjmelchor.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“It’s a really nice, completely closed loop where the end user is also the data provider.” New @nature.com, a fascinating read by Heather Richardson on the rising use of 'digital twins' in #ecology. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

'Digital twins' have been used to model everything from electronics components to UK hospital wards and even the nation of Singapore. Now, they are transforming ecology research. Heather Richardson reports @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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New @nature.com, by @silverjacket.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Important story by @scattercushion.bsky.social @nature.com

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀 Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: napari.org/dev/release/...

At long last, the 2025 @nature.com global PhD Survey is out! This first article by @lindanordling.bsky.social charts the state of the PhD experience in 2025. Good news: satisfaction is high. Bad news: so is harassment and discrimination. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The challenge of staying up to date with the scientific literature has become a burden for everyone from students to senior investigators. New @nature.com, three researchers offer strategies for separating the wheat from the chaff #phdlife #AI 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When's an #RStats movie coming to the silver screen?

"NumPy has been a driving force for my whole life." It was a real pleasure to speak with @numpy.bsky.social developer Travis Oliphant about NumPy, SciPy, and #Python: the Documentary! New @nature.com 🧪🐍 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history. "The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

We need additional ways to fund science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It was a real pleasure to speak with @numpy.bsky.social creator Travis Oliphant about NumPy, SciPy, and #Python: the Documentary! New @nature.com 🧪🐍 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

For decades, researchers have strained to reconstruct cellular backstories through indirect means. But these are forensic efforts at best, postmortems of a vanished process. A new generation of DNA-recording tools promises to change that. By Elie Dolgin @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Incredible work: "This is the first time #AI systems are able to write coherent genome-scale sequences.” Researchers at @arcinstitute.org use AI to design new viruses capable of infecting bacteria. @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to raise public funds for transdisciplinary, discovery-based research." @virginiagewin.bsky.social reports for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

“Did you consider not complying with this request?” Judith Butler spoke to @samtlevin.bsky.social about being reported to the feds by UC Berkeley for supposed antisemitism

Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing. Read this fantastic story by @dangaristo.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social @nature.com! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From large national databases to bespoke sample collections, biobanks offer a wealth of avenues for scientific enquiry. New @nature.com, @smjyoti.bsky.social speaks with @ukbiobank.bsky.social & other biobanks and users to learn how best to make use of their services www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

From large national databases to bespoke sample collections, biobanks offer a wealth of avenues for scientific enquiry. New @nature.com, @smjyoti.bsky.social speaks with @ukbiobank.bsky.social & other biobanks and users to learn how best to make use of their services www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Often the news happens so quickly that there's little time for it, so we took a step back to talk about the stories of the researchers who have been fighting back against the Trump administration's assault on science. w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @heidiledford.bsky.social

RFK Jr.’s new report that claims it will make childen healthy again ignores the number one cause of death for childen in the United States: gun violence. Fellow Defend Public Health member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy talked to the LA Times about this. We didn’t ignore it in our IHAT report.

I always learn interesting new tricks from @tommytang.bsky.social — this is a good one!

Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

A perfect description of the grad school experience, by @charliejane.bsky.social in LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER!

Absolutely fantastic piece by @meredithwadman.bsky.social on #endometriosis w/sobering (angering!) infographics and how this may be an autoimmune issue. ALSO: a GREAT illustration showing a menstrual cup which is a first for me to see in a magazine!): #womenshealth www.science.org/content/arti...

A new semester has started! And if you are kicking off a new research project and wondering, what are some things you can do to set your project up for success and ensure you collect more usable data that won't give you headaches down the road, here are some thoughts! cghlewis.com/blog/project...

It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.

Mammoths in Mexico! A fascinating read by @rpocisv.bsky.social @science.org on the discovery and analysis of a massive Pleistocene fossil trove beneath an airport in Mexico City. 🧬 🦣 🇲🇽 www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪