‘Living biosensor’ lights up to detect wine spoilage in real time. I want a lit-up wine photo!!! Luciferase + Acetic acid www.chemistryworld.com/news/living-...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Starred Kirkus review today for my upcoming book DISEASES WITHOUT BORDERS @lernerbooks.bsky.social (out Apr 7, 2026). Kirkus calls it: “An exceptionally clear and inspiring resource combining a human-centered narrative with compelling science.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

What can "model proteins" do for biochemistry? Check out this press release and read the original Comment! phys.org/news/2026-01... @lightupscience.bsky.social

Model organisms → model protein: a shared reference protein system to support reproducible protein research. Phys.org just covered a perspective I wrote for Protein Engineering, Design & Selection

I just published an op-ed in U.S. News about how college teaching is changing with AI tools like ChatGPT, and what we should do next. Curious how others are handling this in real classrooms. #HigherEd #AI #Teaching

Here are some European train journeys for your bucket list!

Funny thing though: Musk and the other tech lords are still saying such things, and the media credulity has not lessened one whit. And they are richer than ever.

We’ve highlighted some wonderful images and researchers in our ‘Featured image’ series in 2025. To celebrate, we’re inviting you to vote for your favourite in our image competition! #FluorescenceFriday Check them out here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...

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The view from South Africa

In 2025, 27% of Germans say relations with the U.S. are good, while 73% say they are bad – a complete flip from the last year (74% good vs. 22% bad). Americans’ views – while more negative than in 2024 – continue to be positive toward the U.S.-Germany relationship overall.

I saw Jimmy Cliff with my father in Soweto in May 1980

And more South Africans say that it is more important to have strong economic ties with China (50%) than say the same about the U.S. (33%). The gap was smaller in 2019 (39% vs. 42%).

57% of South Africans have favorable opinions of China. 50% say the same of the U.S., marking the first time ratings of China are higher than ratings of the U.S. since we began tracking South Africans’ opinion of these countries in 2008.

Yet another nail in the coffin for the "what about China" argument against bold climate action in the US.

Giving an AI talk at the Stonington Library this Sunday. It would be nice to see some familiar faces.

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

Glowing Green: A Quantitative Analysis of Photoluminescence in Six North American Bat Species - Roberson - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Man’s pig kidney fails just shy of setting record | Science | AAAS

Autonomous Bioluminescence Systems: From Molecular Mechanisms to Emerging Applications | JACS Au pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The winners for the largest photo microscopy competition were just announced and they do NOT disappoint!! [Photos shared with permission courtesy of the 2025 Nikon Small World Photo Competition] 🧪🔬

From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91. She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world. buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺

No South African wines???

Hilarious and spot on. You're gonna love it. Could have been in @theonion.com but it isn't a parody.

About my interview with The World's Education Special: The value of American Education?

This rather impressive chart by @econovisuals shows the global export shift over the last 75 years. The West saw its share shrink while the East boomed.

I ask my Chemistry Wordle custom GPT to create a fluorescent protein related starter slide. The result was disappointingly easy. Esp with hint. Can you find the answer?

✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟 The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday

‘AI veganism’: Some people’s issues with AI parallel vegans’ concerns about diet theconversation.com/ai-veganism-...

Can we acknowledge that these are basically cult gatherings - indeed, that a great deal of "immortality science" is cultish pseudoscience?

NEW from me at STAT: We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/07/21/c... 🖥️🩺🧪🧬 #bioML

Sonny Brebels decided to illustrate the fundamentals of fluorescence and how the building blocks of the near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes he had worked on could be found in kitchen staples such as turmeric: cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #CENChemPics #chemsky #chem #chemistry

Alright, last one, now I need to get back to real work... 😸

From brain gain to brain drain: theconversation.com/turbulent-re...

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels www.science.org/content/arti...

Bioluminescent high fashion. "Who are you wearing?" "Dinoflagellates, of course."

Despite having just 4% of the world’s population, the U.S. has won over half of all science Nobel Prizes since 2000. This success depends on a “brain gain.” Nearly half of U.S. doctorate-level scientists and engineers were born abroad. theconversation.com/turbulent-re...

My newest article, "Turbulent research landscape imperils US brain gain − and ultimately American prosperity." has just been published by @us.theconversation.com

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As a German, for a personal meeting 12 means 12 but for a professional meeting 12 means be 5 minutes early. Any alternative interpretation hurts my little German brain.

Our June issue is live! www.nature.com/nmeth/volume... On the cover, mScarlet3-H, a new monomeric red fluorescent protein. Image by Zhifei Fu. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...