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Hawaiʻi got 2 trillion gallons of rainfall in two weeks. At that rate, it would fill Lake Erie in 2.5 years from empty.

Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.

This is a really important paper in an area that is hard to study. I would recommend any student read this preprint to see how confounding issues arise even in clever assays. Internal Ribosome Entry Sites (IRES) are very interesting because they bypass normal translation initiation mechanisms. 1/

LIFT OFF 🚀 Wow That was extraordinary to watch. I wasn’t expecting to feel that way as they counted down to Artemis II launching. Incredible.

Bring your experiences, papers, tools, ideas, or questions. Whether you are experimenting with AI in your teaching, developing AI/MLcontent, or thinking through opportunities and challenges, this informal session is a chance to learn from others and share what is shaping your thinking.

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Cool...cool...cool. Let's regulate drugs the same way we (don't) regulate supplements.

Getting great feedback on my proposal for a cage-free shark diving experience at Cold Spring Harbor this summer. All the sharks will be on Ozempic so it’s totally safe.

You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common? HERBARIA. UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!

11 grants funded by NIGMS since March 15th. 11.

We're now accepting lightning talks! Submit one here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How do you kill a MRSA superbug armed with 15 different anti-phage defense systems? You make a smarter phage. Check out our latest preprint on overcoming bacterial immunity using defense-guided engineering to build durable therapeutic phage cocktails! Led by Sarah Voss. doi.org/10.64898/202...

“After major breakthroughs in obtaining the penises of a manatee, an armadillo, and a pygmy jerboa, I’m pleased to announce that my experimental anticancer elixir is mere weeks away from completion,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The new NIH PF5 mechanism is a prime example of increasing admin burden w/current HHS leadership. Previously, submissions were a single, 12 page proposal and, perhaps, a 2 page MPI plan + standard forms. Now, up to 30 pages: 12 US PI 12 Overall Project 6 Foreign PI & less US-based oversight.

Exciting News! Grant-witness.us now has dynamic funding curves like mine for NIH available. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 1/2

A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science. This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now. rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...

My NIH update Let me start by saying again how glad I am that NIH is now posting these curves on the Reporter front page. It is satisfying that leading by example from outside has led to this change and (I hope) reflects a commitment for NIH_leadership™ to hold itself accountable for this. 1/6

i don't usually post media starring myself (I find self-promotion kinda ick) but Jesse Mulligan decided to play mating calls to all of New Zealand this afternoon and asked me to rate them, and as he did it he had to mute his mic because he was laughing too hard

Honored to be among the other @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social faculty in the 2025 @aaas.org fellows class: news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/26/e...

@cshlnews.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social great 3 days in CSHL working on PDNCure workshop And this digital painting of the bay

Honored and thrilled to be among the distinguished @aaas.org Fellows announced this morning, alongside two fellow scientists from @cshlnews.bsky.social /Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. www.aaas.org/news/aaas-we...

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My favorite genre of pet video.

Integrity and Trust are difficult to build back when building them in collaboration with those offering bad-faith arguments. The most productive thing that can happen with this lineup is that attendees ask speakers/panelists hard questions in public and insist they answer them on the record.

I had a job to do in South Queensferry yesterday , and I left home in brilliant sunshine. However, when I arrived in South Queensferry, it was shrouded in haar. Not to be deterred, I went back to North Queensferry, found a nice vantage point, and waited for this to unfold in front of me.

The crossover point between US & China investment in R&D may come sooner. Last year, the White House proposed $5B+ in cuts to NSF, $18B+ in cuts to NIH, and billions more in cuts to NASA, DOE, EPA, NOAA, ... Hard to stay ahead when support falls behind. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?

For every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. Just sayin’.

Jay Bhattacharya currently hosting lab leak proponent Matt Ridley at an NIH conference. Ridley admits that he has performed no experiments and there is no direct epidemiological evidence for lab leak. Whoever asked that question is my hero.

We are thrilled to announce our second keynote speaker for #BOSC2026: Eric Green, the Chief Medical Officer at Illumina. Dr. Green was a key architect of the Human Genome Project and led the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for 15 years. More info: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

Registration closes Sunday 22/03! #genomics #bioinformatics

Here we have Ian Banks of the right wing think tank (and sister action fund) FAI, platformed by NASEM calling science a “luxury good” & telling us to get used to less funding and fewer scientists. FAI had a $10m 2025 budget. This is what we are up against. www.nationalacademies.org/units/PGA-PO...

When @nasonline.org's Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust' holds a 1+hr Q&A and is largely unwilling to identify bad faith arguments then the rank and file scientific community must understand: we are the only ones coming to help ourselves & the communities we serve.

There are many problems with this statement from Director Bhattacharya. (1) As @michaeldgreen.phd notes, applicants have no option to requests multi-year funding. An applicant may request a front-loaded budget with more funding in early years with justification (may or may not be approved). 1/6

Friends, as many of you know, I recently left the NIH to embark on the next chapter in my career. Today I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on, and what it means for the way we support research and produce scientific advances. 1/

Our @allysonlister.bsky.social and Susanna-Assunta Sansone have co-authored a blog post with Danny Smith from @ukrepro.bsky.social about creating a common, transparent definition of #FAIR for institutional repositories based on work with @ox.ac.uk's ORA. Find out more at blog.fairsharing.org?p=1118!

"it’s going to be fine … so don’t worry" has never made me feel less fine or worry more.

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Brent Pedersen, Mitchell Vollger and I have "posted" our preprint of the manuscript describing bedder, a complement to the functionality of bedtools. The "preprint server" we have chosen is google docs because it was rejected by biorxiv. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

arXiv to spin out as an independent non-profit. They are seeking a CEO jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

Coming from a bear that regularly dines on medical waste, this must be really bad!

'HPC Carpentry will launch as a full lesson program on 1 September 2026.' carpentries.org/blog/2026/02... Interesting focus on Snakemake/Maestro! I assume eventually they'll have a Nextflow too

As unpaid TSA officers brace to miss their first full paycheck, absenteeism is leading to longer wait times at airport security checkpoints.

“Uniquely repulsive and bizarre.” The Five Worst Beethoven Conductors youtu.be/dcD3cQ3GK5o?...

Flight Attendant Quietly Informs First Class Passengers Where Real Emergency Exits Are https://theonion.com/flight-attendant-quietly-informs-first-class-passengers-1819576296/

The 21st century may yet have hope.

The 21st century is not all bad…

We set up our large (3') Winogradsky column in Sept 25 and have been sampling it each month, extracting DNA and using ONT 16S metabarcoding to track ecologic change. The graph below shows the first two months and the top 8 abundance families.