Happy #Pride 🌈

Computers can plausibly simulate anything from a household to multiplanetary civilizations. Simulating the fundamental unit of life — the cell — should be a cakewalk. New in @nature.com, @eisensteinium.bsky.social explains why it's not. 🧪 🤖 🦠https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01731-1

Audrey Munson, America’s first supermodel. Read her relatable , tragic story today in @thepersistent.bsky.social www.thepersistent.com/who-was-audr...

“Come now, Miss Pickering... All may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology. Cheating is practically one of our scientific principles.” Check our takes on THE ORNITHOLOGISTS FIELD GUIDE TO LOVE & 8 other lab-life fiction reads in @nature.com! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Computers can plausibly simulate anything from a household to multiplanetary civilizations. Simulating the fundamental unit of life — the cell — should be a cakewalk. New in @nature.com, @eisensteinium.bsky.social explains why it's not. 🧪 🤖 🦠https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01731-1

Heading out on holiday? @nature.com Careers editors have compiled 9 fun reads about life in the lab/academia to help you unwind, including KATABASIS, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS & more. 🧪 📚 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy Pride Month, y'all! 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️ 💛 🧡 💚 💙 💜 🏳️‍🌈

This, this, 100% this! 💯👇

Heading out on holiday? @nature.com Careers editors have compiled 9 fun reads about life in the lab/academia to help you unwind, including KATABASIS, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS & more. 🧪 📚 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to study the inner lives of whales, seals and other marine mammals? 🐋 🦭 Try making hormone measurements from baleen, tusks and blubber! @virginiagewin.bsky.social explores the fascinating world of 'wildlife endocrinology', new @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

"Lincoln Memorial weigh-ins" has me thinking about loading my pockets with rocks and walking into the nearest lake

This is...breathtakingly xenophobic. "NIH officials are telling grantees...to remove papers that name co-authors affiliated with foreign institutions if NIH had not previously approved a foreign component for the grant." www.science.org/content/arti...

In these dark times, I get a genuine dopamine boost whenever @lyz.bsky.social’s Dingus of the Week drops in my inbox. Here’s her latest, on AI in college graduation ceremonies. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/158886...

This is a fascinating study. And @marlabroadfoot.bsky.social covered it in a deep dive into 'biocodicology' for @nature.com in April! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

all americans are created equal which is why equality demands that we obliterate all representation for 40 percent of the people of the state

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

30.9% of genetics papers data are kind of trash because of Excel’s aggressive auto-formatting.

 Until 2023, there was no global option to disable data conversion. For example, the human SEPT family (1-14) of genes is directly related to cell division and cancer research.

Congratulations, @smjyoti.bsky.social !

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump tells the truth.

ARE YOU REGISTERED? The maternal Tdap webinar is TOMORROW! Join us at 1pm ET to hear the the latest data on Tdap safety and effectiveness in pregnancy & how to communicate that data effectively. From @healthjournalism.org, @cidrap.bsky.social & The Evidence Collective

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

How can we translate our growing understanding of the dark genome into therapeutics? We asked experts in the field for their thoughts go.nature.com/4tQ1zTn rdcu.be/e8Eci

I'm thrilled to announce that my book LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown is available to pre-order now and has been chosen for Indies Introduce, the American Booksellers Association's list of best summer/fall debuts! www.instagram.com/p/DYCj597DTp... (1/N)

Most relatable comic of all time?

We are doing nationwide injunctions again I guess, in order to turn national law into Louisiana law. apnews.com/article/abor...

Bet against King Harold on Polymarket.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79 A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. #GiftLink Nicholas Wade writes @NYtimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/s...

Capture science in action. Enter Nature’s photo competition for a chance to be featured in the magazine, win a print and online subscription, plus £500! 💰✨ Send your best #ScientistAtWork photo (and any questions) to [email protected]. 🔗 Enter now: Nature’s Photo Competition 🚀🔬

Marking our 250th year by having the British King visit to remind us about the development of the rule of law, while the president reads lines presumably written by Stephen Miller about the transcendent nobility of the mythic English blood.

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers www.nature.com/articles/d4... My take is to use whatever you feel comfortable. whatever can have the job at hand done more efficiently.

Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Translation: Trump is mathematically innumerate.

This week marks the release of my book Beyond Inheritance 🎉 📖 . It tells the stories of patients with mysterious ailments who have been saved by doctors' new understanding of genetics. And how whales can teach us about preserving our DNA as we age. Available as book & audiobook: tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n

Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.

Commercial software can contain 50+ errors per 1000 lines of code; scientific software, written by relative newbies, is more error prone. I spoke to @tracykteal.bsky.social @amyko.phd @weecology.bsky.social & more to learn best debugging practices @nature.com 🧑‍💻 🐜 ❌ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients. The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

Commercial software can contain 50+ errors per 1000 lines of code; scientific software, written by relative newbies, is more error prone. I spoke to @tracykteal.bsky.social @amyko.phd @weecology.bsky.social & more to learn best debugging practices @nature.com 🧑‍💻 🐜 ❌ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UCS just released a very nice and concise guide for how to stay safe in the public eye -- for scholars and researchers, but also for anyone else concerned about safety during autocratization: www.ucs.org/sites/de...

Category 4 Super Typhoon Sinlaku is making landfall now over Saipan in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sustained winds of 150mph and 50ft waves. Folks in Saipan are US citizens and they need our help.

Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark

It's been a week. Re-live the #ArtemisII Moon flyby with me, in the room where the science happened. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fantastic #longread here from @ashleythesmart.bsky.social @undark.org about the push for germline #crispr genome editing. 🧬🧪 undark.org/2026/04/08/g...

"'No' is a really powerful word for scientists, because it makes you kind of think around corners." A fascinating story about how DNA is helping researchers study manuscripts not just for the words they contain but what they tell us about the ancient world in which they were made. @nature.com