Just me, formatting manuscript references by hand. As God intended

120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪

C. elegans. They wiggle to space. They wiggle back down. And sometimes

Glad to appear in @cnn.com talking about #drugdiscovery specifically our collaboration with @elonverse.bsky.social on accelerated drug discovery. We also show some (unrelated) @accelerationc.bsky.social @thematterlab.bsky.social robots that we used to do materials on the same video.

Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth [new]

So grateful to have this pre-print out 🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.14.633017v1

Thrilled to share our pre-print on 1st Federated Learning model deployed between Earth & @Space_Station 🚀 Huge thanks to HPE (SpaceBorne Computer), Intel (OpenFL), & NASA via the NASA Open Science Data Repository. Let’s build & move the ball forward! 🌅 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Launch window opens tonight (1/12) 1am ET, 10pm PT (1/11). So thrilled for this!!! 🎉🚀🌌 First ever launch of New Glenn 🌅

Our postdoc Julien Cicero just sent me this beautiful image of IPSC derived motor neurons and I had to share 😍😍😍

🧬📝🚨 Out today: A genomics learning framework for undergraduates We hope this will be one more tool to help integrate genomics into undergraduate education by supporting evidence-based curriculum design with a set of standardized concepts. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Now available as preprint: The ENCODE 4 expanded registry of regulatory elements - 2.35M 🧍 human cCREs - 927k 🐭 mouse cCREs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by @moorejille.bsky.social, this preprint summarizes data and analyses generated by hundreds of contributors across ENCODE 4

Congrats are overdue to Suni Willaims, who 3 days ago, became the 2nd most experienced US astronaut!

🧠🚀Could space exploration increase the risk of Parkinson's Disease (PD)? Dr. Nilufar Ali led our perspective in npj Microgravity exploring parallels between spaceflight stressors and PD-like changes, from mitochondrial dysfunction to altered dopamine pathways. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

In honor of all the new arrivals, I'm sharing one of my favorite videos. It shows 24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock. Brilliant work by Bartosz Wojczyński. 🧪 artuniverse.eu/gallery/1907...

I’ve been working with rangers at @officialnps.bsky.social for almost 20 years now promoting #darksky and science outreach in the parks. www.spacearttravelbureau.com

Hubble 🔭views of Saturn 🪐: each filter combination emphasizes differences in the planet's cloud altitude or composition. Hubble checks in on Saturn and the other giant planets as part of the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, which celebrated 10 years this month! go.nasa.gov/3VXposZ

Brushing up on my cardiology (am a computational biologist) and it’s oddly uncommon to see the electrics overlaid with the plumbing so to speak… here’s one of the clearest I’ve seen. From Braunwald’s Heart Disease.

Spatial omics of human arteries to understand what drives atherosclerosis: highlights role of the microvasculature (vasa vasorum), adventitial inflammation, migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (and more) nature.com/articles/s44...

Funding to develop a “Data Sharing Index” (S-Index) via the NIH. Initial funding for six phase 1 winners, then Phase 2 finalists prizes are $500k (first), $300k (second), 100k (third) 🎉 🔗https://www.freelancer.com/contest/NIH-Data-Sharing-Index-Sindex-Challenge-2470942/prize-details

Large language models meet physics -- that's the promise of the open source "Genesis" project… the gs.generate() not released yet but the demos OMG I can't wait to use this for visualisation of concepts genesis-world.readthedocs.io/en/latest/in...

Random thoughts inspired tonight: Robin Williams & Rodin’s Thinker; Jimi Hendrix; George Clinton & Lincoln Monument; Tribute to rodent research

Software engineer or bioinformatician? 3 positions via Bastion Technologies, Rothe Enterprises, @bluemarblespace.bsky.social working for NASA Open Science Data Repository/GeneLab 🔗 bastiontechnologies.applicantpro.com/jobs/3589766 🔗 rothe-enterprises.com/careers/ 🔗 easyapply.co/m/apply/0347...

Remember with increasing sample size, your averages become more reliable The Ns justify the means

Cassini’s Huygens lander on Titan’s surface. This was a commission for a group I’m affiliated with to turn into a poster. #blender #b3d 🔭

Care to learn #AI #ML to apply it to spaceflight biology & health?🚀 Here’s an open, free, at-your-own-pace course: 🔗 About www.nasa.gov/using-ai-ml-... 🔗 Register: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/8JYKD7 Cheers to NASA for the Transform to Open Science Training grant awarding this work 🎉🤗

BREAKING: A 7-magnitude earthquake struck Ferndale, California, the United States Geological Survey said. A tsunami warning has also been issued reut.rs/41i4Vm7

"Scientists collaborate — funders must, too" @dartar.bsky.social & @k8hert.bsky.social www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...

The Rise of Skywalkers

The distribution of ~ 2 trillion immune cells in the human body.

These working groups are incredibly active and collaborative! Reach out!!

Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web. 🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com 💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev 📄 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Hmmm, maybe something could help detect unwanted pathogens on lunar biodomes, crop beds, or general crew habitat ecosystems? Interesting!

Interested in #SpaceBiology ? Consider joining the ‘Open Science for Life in Space’ Analysis Working Groups, around NASA Open Science Data Repository. W/~20 open collabs +always room for more. May the best ideas win! 🔗 awg.osdr.space/about 🔗 awg.osdr.space/t/how-to-be-... 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Two phrases which stir the red hot wrath within my soul: “It’s good enough for government work” “B’s and C’s get degrees”

This is crazy. This type of behavior will make being an editor even more difficult and time consuming. It’s shocking how much time people take to do fraudulent science when they could spend the same amount of time actually doing the science and publishing it. 🫠

A successful encounter! #ESA #BepiColombo passed Mercury today, gathering valuable science data. 🛰️🌖 Here's an image taken at 10:46 UTC (11:46 CET) 1 December, from ~51000km from the surface. x.com/BepiColombo/... Congratulations to our amazing teams for this next milestone towards Mercury orbit.

NEW survey from the science team at Pew Research Center looks at a key topic ahead of the second Trump presidency: Public trust in scientists and their role in policymaking www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...

www.scixplorer.org/scixblog/ann... It is an honour to accept the role of the NASA-funded SciX Lead Ambassador in its inaugural cohort. I am commited to supporting ECRs, scholars, and aspiring scientists from the Global South. I look forward to collaborations to advocate for Open Science.

This course is open to everyone! Sign up for the NASA Open Science 101 course here: science.nasa.gov/open-science... 🧪🔭

Done ✅ Coffee science chat 🗓️ soon. Dr Joanne Kerr, Human Anatomy Professor at San Jose State for nearly 3 and a half decades. Guaranteed best scientific discussions of my entire life held in that office. She also in effect let me take over the back during thesis writing.

What is a paper that has changed your view or direction research? I am searching for inspiring gems. For me, it was the 2013 IBM paper on Computational Creativity. It showed that computers can be used in entirely different ways in Science, which was a complete eye-opener: arxiv.org/abs/1311.1213

A joy last evening to finish “Leonardo da Vinci” A New Documentary from @kenlburns.bsky.social Sarah Burns, David McMahon. A good reminder of the pursuit of discovery, science, creativity, and the soul. The 2-part PBS series are here: 🔗https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/leonardo-da-vinci/

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Thinking about one of my very most favorite museums in the entire world, the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée in Paris.

The NASA open science data repository (OSDR) is a solid resource for those wanting access to highly curated data from biological experiments performed in space or in analogue experiments. I invite you all to check out their latest paper & site (Osdr.nasa.gov). academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

NASA open science data repository: open science for life in space. #SpaceBiology#SapcceHealth #NASA #NAR #Omics 🧬 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Pleased to share NASA-funded open, free, async curriculum to learn AI/ML for space biosciences. From math, to models, to quizzes, lectures & Google co-labs. Cheers! @astrocrawford.bsky.social @cgentemann.bsky.social 🔗Info: www.nasa.gov/using-ai-ml-... 🔗Register: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/8JYKD7

An introduction for the new followers: I am an astronomer living in Baltimore who now works at NASA HQ on all things open science, open source software, data science, cloud, and AI. I’ll usually post about that or hiking with my dog. And I love responding to questions on any of those topics!