Confused AI

Great to meet with our #LegorretaCancerCenter Director of Cancer Bioinformatics Shared Resource to discuss exciting progress with visualization tools for our catchment area. @ShiOnaCo @rwsobol @bcarneiro7 @DrSGraff @SeanLawler20 @HinaKhanMD @SenduraiMani @SheRiseRogersMD

Ladder to the moon

#Happy #Father’s #Day

An AI’s Journey: From Analog Confusion to Digital Comfort Sometimes it’s not about intelligence…it’s about input.

Indeed… remember when you had retract a paper with an incorrect finding? What about hundreds of incorrect findings?

New comic at Biocomicals “Cell Division” See at www.biocomicals.com

🚀 Biocomicals has a new look! We just launched our redesigned main page www.biocomicals.com 🎨 New sections like Artificial Life, From Life and Tales, and Cell Lines are now more accessible. #ScienceCartoons #ScienceCommunication

New comic from Biocomicals

This Mother’s Day, let’s celebrate one of the many gifts we carry from our moms, our mitochondria! These tiny powerhouses of the cell are passed down maternally only and stay with us for life, fueling everything we do. #MothersDay #Biocomicals #Mitochondria #ScienceHumor

Latest Biocomicals cartoon at www.biocomicals.com | ©2025 "How’s it going, guys?" Academia in one panel. When I asked my colleagues how they are doing, this is the unanimous reply: “Hangin’ there!” #Academia #Science #Scientist

Turn cold tumors hot by reprogramming the tumor microenvironment - @mdanderson.bsky.social go.nature.com/42Bo9lT

Engineering innate immune cells for cancer immunotherapy go.nature.com/3E9NbjZ

Half the reason I've been able to live off my comic since 2007 is because I've always made sure I own and host my own work. Social media can offer you money sometimes, but it's inherently volatile, and you're at the mercy of invisible algorithms. Use it as advertising first, anything else is a bonus

Even if you're not trying to go pro, having your own website with your own work on it means you have a stable place where you keep everything, plus a tangible copyright for when ghouls try to steal/scrape your work.

New Biocomicals Cartoon! “I don’t just raise the H-index… I am the H-index.” In the world of academic publishing, the h-index often looms large, used (and misused) to gauge a researcher’s impact. This cartoon plays with that idea: the towering, overcited paper that overshadows everything else.

New Biocomicals Cartoon “Lights Off” www.biocomicals.com

My #commodore64 story at from Life and Tales at Biocomicals www.biocomicals.com/LT2.html?car...

Can internet use become addictive? A #SciencePerspective discusses the addictive potential of the #internet and how it can be best conceptualized and evaluated. scim.ag/3R5Npv1 #BrainAwarenessWeek

As the NIH expects staff cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.

"Multiple recent US measles outbreaks, coupled with low vaccination rates, signal a growing domestic hazard." This Viewpoint discusses updating the existing MMR early third dose recommendation for infants aged 6 to 11 months. ja.ma/4kSNpw4 #MedSky

Today is Pi Day!!! New comic from Biocomicals “Irrational Insomnia” #piday HAPPY Pi Day!!!!!!

Just published @science.org On fixing the NIH 15% cap "The consequences of failing to do so—reduced research capacity, weakened scientific competitiveness, and increased financial strain on institutions—are simply too dire to ignore." science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I would like to share my recent interview with The Brown Daily Herald, where I talk about how I combine #science and humor through Biocomicals. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

🧠 Spheres of Now – A reflection on Alzheimer’s. This From Life and Tales story explores how time and memory drift for those with Alzheimer’s. Moments exist in isolation, untethered from the past and future. link: www.biocomicals.com/LT2.html?car... #Alzheimers #Memory

This International Women’s Day, “Rapunzel the Geneticist” from Life and Tales at Biocomicals is dedicated to all the brilliant women who are shaping the future. In this reimagined tale, Rapunzel doesn’t wait for a prince, she uses science to break free. www.biocomicals.com/LT2.html?car...

Currently, NIH's Center for Scientific Review reviews 66,000 grant applications a year, with panels run by NIH’s separate institutes reviewing the rest. Under a new plan, the institute-run panels will be eliminated, and many of the scientists overseeing them will be laid off. scim.ag/3QP0FUG

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New Biocomicals cartoon is online now! "🔬💰 Science Funding Freezer ❄️" In #research labs, the -80°C freezer isn’t just for storage—it holds years of work, valuable samples, and sometimes… the fate of an entire project. With #NIH #budget cuts looming, even the freezers are getting nervous. 🥶

The NIH summer internship program was cancelled today. www.reddit.com/r/NIH/commen... Another important summer program that allowed young researchers pathways into STEM, gutted.

My new cartoon at Biocomicals A request from cell lines “scientists, assemble!!!” #standupforscience

In a new Science study, researchers present ESM3, a protein language model that enables the programmed generation of protein structure and sequence in response to user prompts. Learn more: scim.ag/40l2z3J

Neurologists say the downsizing at CARD could be a blow to the scientific quest for new Alzheimer's treatments. NIH scientists at CARD work with external scientists to turn early scientific discoveries into treatments and medicines. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Stand up for #science

What could possibly be gained? So much at stake, so many careers in jeopardy. So much progress stalled.

New cartoon from Biocomicals! "Frozen Grants" In labs across the country, scientists wait... and wait. Without #funding, groundbreaking discoveries are put on hold, brilliant ideas remain trapped in limbo, and #scientific #progress slows to a crawl. #ScienceFunding #ResearchGrants #NIH #Science

Stand up for #SCIENCE (Since I’m creating these cartoons,If you like to use them, you can use all these “stand up for science” cartoons freely.) #science @standupforscience.bsky.social

Stand up for #SCIENCE

Stand up for #SCIENCE. #Rhodeisland March 7th 12-4 pm

NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

My latest cartoon at Biocomicals about Budget Cuts in Science! "Suffering" #sciencefunding #NIHcuts #researchlife

A paper in Nature presents a generative AI tool that could help video game designers to craft gameplay iteratively. The AI model, developed by researchers at Microsoft, generated robust 3D worlds that obeyed the mechanics of the video game they were designed for. https://go.nature.com/41mNgcG 🧪

The $21 billion anime industry is notorious for the grueling hours that workers put in. After a scathing UN report on working conditions, the government is trying to change this.

Viewpoint: Recent disruptions and funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) undermine the infrastructure and stability of US scientific research, threatening the nation's global leadership and scientific productivity. ja.ma/41hBnoc #MedSky

Happy #Valentine's Day They call it tight junctions but today they are “Love Junctions”