My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

“I think the secretary has caused a lot of irreparable harm, and when you look at many of the polls out there, the trust in public health, specifically CDC, has decreased dramatically, over 20 points in many polls." thehill.com/policy/healt...

Last 4th of July, a dad had a kid run up to us and ask why I supported Hamas. During a parade. I’m Palestinian, I’m used to it. But goddamn, be better.

To ensure a future to 64DD.org, I have now added a Patch page, powered by @marcrobledo.com's RomPatcher.js, and that way, if you are actually a 64DD owner, you can now patch your disk dumps to english while keeping the save data as is! 64dd.org

Yo @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board, what the actual fuck is wrong with all of you? Add this to my pile of examples about the casual racism Middle Eastern people constantly face in this country and in the world

Here is a good one. I'm looking for fluent Vietnamese speakers who want to do a little volunteer catalog assessment for the archive. Just a few hours, all browsing and listening. Hit me up at [email protected].

NEW EPISODE! Let's look at some games that make the console they're on look pathetic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRNa...

full alert in case anyone does need the info to evacuate by chance

I've been looking forward to @alyssamerc.bsky.social's book for some time now! I've read books that touch on the individual topics, but they need to be interpreted in the context of each other to truly understand how we got to where we are today

For anyone curious: I have a master’s degree, this isn’t a work of fiction or a biography, it’s a heavily researched non-fiction book about the resurgence of GamerGate, reactionary politics and content, and internet culture. Will share more when I can!

The single biggest story in video games this month, prompting widespread concern across the community, and the ESA has no comment. Thank you @duckvalentine.bsky.social for holding them accountable for their total failure on this issue

Come on, we can do better than this, y’all.

If you would like to help preserve web history it’s as easy as installing the Wayback Machine add-on/extension and making two clicks when you see something interesting to save it. Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wayba...

Really enjoyed speaking with @joho.bsky.social and @wendyorent.bsky.social about what’s been happening at the NIH under Jay Bhattacharya, often driven by Russell Vought. Got in a nod to efforts to impeachvought.com. Give it a listen!

Open #PhDposition in our group! Interested in #virology, #immunology, and #placenta biology? Apply to join our team! The project is part of the #aging research consortium CRC 1506. More info: tinyurl.com/zw3y2mhv and www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/we....

Game dev peeps: I'm trying to think of a good computational project related to game dev. Would it be beneficial to have a a fast open source alternative to TexturePacker? Texture packing seems like an interesting algorithmic challenge www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker

I…worked on this story for a decade…and…he just…he blurted it out on teevee.

💪 The Lancet comes out swinging on how the MAGA/MAHA Administration is destroying US science Trump’s new OMB rule will “silence independent experts, codify ideological censorship, prioritise politics over data, & erect new barriers to international collaboration” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 is now available in 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 format, narrated by the author, @natedrake.bsky.social 🎉 The audiobook comes free with purchase of the ebook, as a digital bundle. (Includes previous purchases.) retrogamebooks.com/products/i-a...

Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure.

As I've said many times in the past, archive *everything* because this administration wipes things they don't like. And support @archive.org

Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

I’m grateful to @nickkristof.bsky.social for his continued reporting on the Trump Administration’s horrific retreat from global health cooperation—which has had deadly consequences—& for sharing the painful human stories of deaths that could have been averted I guess this topic is kind of my lane 🧵

How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...

cutting physical media save costs for corporations with no benefit passed on at the expense of consumer rights and ownership

The Video Game History Foundation has called on trade groups like the ESA to find a way to "legally preserve" digital-only games for research. "Asking museums to download a copy of GTA 6 and hope it’ll run in 50 years is not a preservation solution." www.videogameschronicle.com/news/video-g...

This whole end of physical media thing is really affecting me. It’s not just having the disc - it everything around shopping, hunting for things, spending time with buddies. None of it matters to business but it makes me question why I bothered getting into the gaming space at all. Really sad.

Some of the most fun we have when John is in the states is visiting is going out game hunting and then trying out all of our purchases when we get back at the end of the day. Its not just playing the games, its the experience of finding an oddity or something you've been looking for, and sharing it.

𝗟𝗲 𝗷𝗲𝘂 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗻'𝗮 𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶 𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝘆 ! Nous sommes en 2026, et une nouvelle version de la Game Boy Advance vient de sortir. L'AGBM de @mousebitelabs.bsky.social est une GBA construite à partir de composants d'origine (CPU, RAM...) et de composants neufs.

Scott Atlas has always been a hot mess. He is always the champion of bad ideas (like let 'er rip--meaning the virus--during the height of the COVID pandemic) and gets all hot and bothered when people point out his sheer idiocy. Now he wants to burn it all down. No one should listen to this fool.

Continuing the stream of new features following the salmon rust re-write (i.e. salmon 2), v2.3.0 has landed with a feature I've long wanted: you can now provide salmon with a genome BAM file (i.e. spliced alignments to the genome; still name collated though)! github.com/COMBINE-lab/... 1/2

Save the Games. July 29 and 30. Rochester, NY. Worried about our all-digital future? Want to know how researchers interact with game history? What the challenges that game studios are facing? All that and more, just weeks away. www.museumofplay.org/save-the-gam...

A new set of Covid-19 origin documents has recently been made public by the FBI. We learn that ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ and ⬛⬛⬛. Also, ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜. vault.fbi.gov/origins-of-c... #RadicalTransparency #covidorigin

Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.

Damn dawg, I'm starting to think it was a bad idea to put inexperienced morons in charge of our country's public health infrastructure 😬

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

Finally put up my signed Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred poster in my office to commemorate my first game credit 😄

Spending my morning writing a statement for press inquiries about all this when all I want to do is say "consumers haven't had purchasing power in about ten years now because we gave all of our money to like ten weird guys, what did you all expect"

Caught wind that my CDC contract might end in July, so I'll likely need to figure something else out for summer salary in future years. I have the safety net of summer teaching, but I figured I'd use this as an opportunity to expand collaborations with industry (especially the video game industry)!

"We're ending physical disc production, but don't worry — we're ALSO shutting down our digital stores!" blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...

Oof, this is terrible news for game preservation. What happens when the servers you get these digital-only games shuts down? What happens if Sony loses the rights to the IP for a game you bought and can no longer distribute it? (The latter isn't hypothetical: they'll disappear it from your library)

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secretary hegsgeth is 100% directly responsible for this tragic and preventable death.

it's finally time to reveal my birthday gift to the community! I present to you the RGR ezBuff. A disc polishing and resurfacing machine, which can restore your scratched discs back to work.