Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

In addition, the genetic contribution has remained stable over time, which also means that the much smaller contribution of environmental factors has also remained stable. Therefore environmental factors are unlikely to explain the increase in the prevalence of ASD. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374377/

"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...

I did it again. @globias.bsky.social #GloBIAS2025 Here's hoping I get a chance again next year.

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Biologist David Sabatini loses again in legal fight against Whitehead Institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s Halloween so time to make the cells scream!

There's a year-old problem with looping movies in Powerpoint on Mac. Movie plays once, jitters and then shows blocky artefacts. Same pptx works fine on Windows. Problem seems to be Mac-side (QT?) but 15.7.1 and 26.0.1 both show this behaviour. A solution, in case it helps anyone: 1/2

💡Just presented our new paper at the @iccv.bsky.social BioImage Computing workshop: cubic: CUDA-accelerated 3D Bioimage Computing. We introduce a simple way to add GPU acceleration to scikit-image–based bioimage processing pipelines by swapping import statements. 🧵 1/6 #iccv2025

The editors of ACS Omega cheerfully accepted the authors' excuses and replacement image for this weird shit. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... H/t Leonid @forbetterscience.bsky.social

"Here we show that heartbeat sound promotes structural and functional maturation of human cortical organoids with a physiological astrocyte-to-neuron ratio." 🤯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Free webinar, looks good (wish it wasn't scheduled during Day 3 of SBI2 conference in Boston!) webinars.liebertpub.com/e/The-State-...

President Trump reduces trade surplus in profitable export industry that provides middle-class jobs all across America.

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

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Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!

People often dismiss cell biology as just “looking at stuff”, which makes seminal discoveries like this even sweeter. Congrats @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and team

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

The recording of "Illuminate variant impact with images" by @drannecarpenter.bsky.social‬ and Runxi Shen is now available: youtu.be/l8y00jKXJx4 This talk is part of @broadinstitute's MPG Primer series. For more info, check out broad.io/MPGPrimer

In Somebody’s Daughter, I wrote about a middle school teacher who was super kind to me, and how he influenced me to expand on my preoccupation with reading by encouraging me to write as well. Earlier today, at the Indiana State Library, his adult daughter was in my nonfiction writing workshop 🥹

Again: if you are attending a meeting and start coughing or sneezing in response to an oncoming cold, excuse yourself. Or at least wear a damned mask. Respect your colleagues.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

Here's the link if u want 2 attend the AI & Data Sci panel on Fri 9/19 w/speakers incl Enoch Huang, @drannecarpenter.bsky.social Jeremy Jenkins, Enrique Garcia-Rivera. Listed after the keynote by Vertex SVP Mark Bunnage thebiotechclub.org/career-fair cc Boston Protein Design Club & @sokrypton.org

Pfizer's VP Machine Learning Enoch Huang, the Broad Institute's @drannecarpenter.bsky.social Novartis VP Jeremy Jenkins, Formation Bio's Head of Data Science Enrique Garcia-Rivera & Vertex alum Maria E. Morales are speakers on 9/19 AI & Data Sci panel at @harvardmed.bsky.social. Link is ⬇️ #biosky

I want to start a new global movement: Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.

After careful consideration of the current situation and the tools at our disposal at this present time, I have made the strategic decision to Lie Down For a Bit

principal investigator component analysis

More foundations should do this: "Funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding rescinded due to federal administrative actions" www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Happy upcoming Pioneer Award Application Day to all who celebrate. I was mentioning that the best review comment I've ever gotten came from the related DP2 (New Innovator) mechanism. Enjoy this throwback to #GrantReviewGreatstHits as the deadline gets closer! May you all do better than I've done!

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit. You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

The order to restore grants applies to 300 NSF grants, not the NIH grant suspensions

You can tell the world has gone to shit because last time I was at the dentist the hygienist asked me if I was regularly flossing and I said that I only do it sometimes and she was like yeah that’s fine I don’t really care

It’s just matrix multiplication

$200 million from Columbia $500 million from Harvard $1 BILLION from UCLA?!

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

A paper from the JUMP Cell Painting Consortium presents image-based phenotypic profiles for 75% of the protein coding genome of human U-2 OS cells, offering a valuable resource for exploring gene relationships. @shantanu-singh.cc @drannecarpenter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Morph Map is now published in Nature Methods. Excited to see what the community discovers with this resource mapping ~15,000 human genes! rdcu.be/ezGre

Check out this opportunity to join my lab as a postdoc! www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos... Every year, faculty from EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Sanger Institute co-develop projects that allow fellows to be part of ✨both✨ of these amazing research institutes.

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Good news for NIH MIRA applicants. Grants.gov recently published the forecast notice for the reissuance of the EI/NI MIRA notice of funding opportunity. As indicated at the link, the estimated post date for the NOFO is Nov 3. www.grants.gov/search-resul...