From prompt engineering to agent engineering: expanding the AI toolbox with autonomous agentic AI collaborators for biomedical discovery biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #artificialintelligence #agenticAI #agentengineering

🌍 Gravity was here long before us—and it’ll be here long after we’re gone. Every part of our bodies evolved to manage this force. 💫 So excited to announce my new book, PULL, which uncovers the force that shapes your body, mind & health. 📖 Releases 10/7: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/p...

Indeed, I fear the tech industry and our government are pushing this further apart

It's been a day

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

The Nobel Peace Committee sent a clear message to someone else in awarding the Prize to Ms. Machado: ”But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, …is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.” 👏

Today in our @cedarssinai.bsky.social PhD program, I am lecturing about the history of #epigenomics. We cover seminal experiments by the labs of Allfrey, Kornberg, Allis & Grunstein, ending with ENCODE, Kellis and the histone code. Such an amazing field and a beautiful, revolutionary story!

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Come do neuroscience in Oregon! 🌲🧠 @uoregon.bsky.social University of Oregon has 3 TTF neuro positions open across departments, with applications due around mid-October. #UOResearch #Neuroskyence #academicsky

I really enjoyed this perspective on Cancer journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

MS Word let no one accuse you of lacking a sense of humor... #spellcheck

A fun #scifi piece looking at timely issues at the intersection between #AI and Biology by my colleague Patrick Martin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well, I'm just gonna change topics and note that my expensive new ASUS router is bathing my house in so much WiFi that I just got a tan and the cat is losing her fur

Visit the Strengthen UO dot org site to find out more and for links to petition, pre-filled letter to UO administrators (all very highly paid), and links to contact state legislators about this undermining of University goals and state well-being.

No Boundary Thinking (NBT) emphasizes the need for training in #MachineLearning and #ArtificialIntelligence across disciplines, not just in Computer Science and Math. We must build a Human Infrastructure to address this need #NationalAICampus biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I will be sleeping like a baby 😴

Did you know the Cedars-Sinai’s New PhD in Health AI Program earned accreditation earlier this year? www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced... #artificialintelligence #healthAI #healthIT #bioinformatics #phd #gradschool #compsci

The war on knowledge doth continue

As a researcher it is important to record your thoughts in real time. You don't have to be right, you can change your mind. You just need to be actively thinking, and in #science and #STEM and pretty much everything else, #writingisthinking.

POV: your kids loaded their own dishes.

This was 2003. Since 2013 there’s been no excuse… www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...

Nature

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

The Far Side. We shall never see its like again

Living with a dog is 90% following each other around, watching each other go potty, and wondering what the other has in their mouth.

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth Pesticide exposure was the likely cause of the mass die-off of monarch butterflies in 2024. By killing our pollinators, we're killing ourselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Room full of classic Macs. I have an SE and a Classic II. #vcfwest #mac

"I asked the AI" is not research. clauswilke.substack.com/p/i-asked-th...

Still would love to hear your favorite paper(s)! So far 0 responses

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

For the 12th year in a row, @smidtheart.bsky.social has been ranked #1 in California for Cardiology, Heart, and Vascular Surgery by @usnews.com! www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...

More postdoctoral researchers secured access to neutron-beam instruments when an Australian facility made their application process anonymous. Success rates for the early career researchers rose from 61% to 78%. There's a similar scheme for the HST, which had great results.

Why I didn't retract this paper when I was Editor-in-Chief at Science (THREAD 🧵)

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

1/2 A reminder. The PREDICT breast web tool is free to use (and widely used - over 4 million accesses worldwide since launch), but we (I) have no funding to support maintenance or further development. If you are feeling philanthropic, or know someone who does drop me a DM. breast.v3.predict.cam

What is the best #biology paper you ever read? Specifically looking for well written #science #ScientificWriting #cancer #developmentalbiology #genetics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The most expensive rooms in this place is 6 months salary for most Londoners. Wealth disparity in modern western societies is grotesque.

What is the best #biology paper you ever read? Specifically looking for well written #science #ScientificWriting #cancer #developmentalbiology #genetics

1. From the FDA to the NSF’s new priorities to Chan-Zuckerberg’s recent pivot, there’s a massive push — particularly on they political right — to hand off as much of the scientific process as possible to AI. It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.

We each find our way through these times As an academic, I am doing this: Uplift those whose research you admire. Diversify the academy. Many ways to do this: -Nominate for awards (did 2 yesterday) -If you are in an academy, nominate to it (did 3 this month) -cite them in a paper and/or talk

Loving reading @erictopol.bsky.social’s book Super Agers. Only Eric could write such a smart, evidence-based summary of what we know about the key factors that matter for health and longevity. Read it! Here’s what we know about alcohol:

RIP Bob Newhart. Thanks for all the smiles & laughs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_New... #bobnewhart

"there is evidence that the use of AI tools has enabled Principal Investigators to submit more than 40 distinct applications in a single application submission round" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... #grants #NIH #artificialintelligence

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become Referee #2. #academicsky

Bioconductor: Planning a third decade of comprehensive support for genomic data science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rstats #bioinformatics #bioconductor