The AlphaFold Database, jointly developed with Google DeepMind, now contains datasets from specialist communities. This includes rich datasets for microbes, viruses & parasites associated with tropical diseases. Explore the new datasets in the AlphaFold Database. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Mindscape 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Mind, and Morality. Do social structures, like eyes and fins, arise independently from evolutionary pressures? #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Mindscape 341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle. Yes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance comes up. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

🚨Our first talk this new year would be a joint theory/experiment talk by Prof. Marino Arroyo and Prof. Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social describing some of their recent work together on active morphogenesis🧫. Sign up to our mailing list for a zoom link to this talk and other upcoming talks🚨

Stunning 4K Drone Footage Over Iceland’s Mystical Landscapes and Seascapes laughingsquid.com/iceland-4k-d...

This event was amazing! Thank you for organising it @tlmcambridge.bsky.social!

FOSDEM 2026 added a developer room for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: fosdem-bioinformatics.github.io/cfp.html 🧬

End-to-end protein design in the browser through evedesign. Generate and interactively explore designs in 2D/3D and export them as codon-optimized DNA. The underlying open source framework (released soon) is build to easily add new methods, more on that soon. 🌐 evedesign.bio

ripgrep 15 is out! Mostly a host of bug fixes, particularly around gitignore. Some minor perf improvements. A couple small features. And (partial) Jujutsu support for gitignore. github.com/BurntSushi/r...

My project coordinator, Jennifer Fleming, did a detailed podcast on AlphaFold: www.linkedin.com/posts/artifi...

Very insightful research into social networks

Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

The latest in a long series of Nobels for work in immunology - and it won’t be the last (!)

Do you study proteins? The new PDBe entry pages make it easier to explore protein structures. 🟢 Visualise ligands & macromolecules with improved 3D viewers 🟢 Get background info from AI-based annotations 🟢 Add your own annotations to viewers without leaving the browser @pdbeurope.bsky.social 🧬🖥️

Making structural biology data accessible to everyone — from specialists to first-time explorers. ✨ Discover the new interactive, personalised & mobile-ready PDBe Entry Pages. 📖 Read more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... 🔍 Try it: www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/p...

Spot on and really well written!

Thanks for the visit Nobel laureate John Jumper & colleagues Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and Lindsay Willmore from Google DeepMind. Always interesting to hear and discuss #AlphaFold and protein structure predictions.

Mindscape 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics. We go on for a while. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Mindscape 320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe. Our cosmos was once simple, and someday will be simple again. We currently live in the complicated, exciting era of universal history! Enjoy it while it lasts. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Laser Danger xkcd.com/3108/

Mindscape 318 | Edward Miguel @tedmiguel.bsky.social on the Developing Practice of Development Economics. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

This week's episode opens with a joke about control groups that I took from @girlgenius.bsky.social by @kajafoglio.bsky.social and @thephilfoglio.bsky.social. Here is the joke in its original context: www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?da...

Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Near Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin

@sheabelsky.bsky.social was kind enough to interview me for his podcast. I was nervous about doing this, but I'm glad I took the offer. Thank you again! ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/0SLQ...

Mindscape 316 | Niayesh Afshordi @nafshordi.bsky.social and Phil Halper on The Big Bang and Before. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

This only has 36 reposts, but on the Fediverse it has 1.7k, are you really going to let them show more support on banning conversion therapy? A practice that is massively harmful to the LGBTQIA+ population. We need one more country past the threshold (we're at 6/7) and another 452,000 votes.

Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide. It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people. It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... #europe #lgbtq #germany

Mindscape 314 | Karen Lloyd @karenlloyd.bsky.social on the Deep Underground Biosphere. Full of surprises for us surface-dwellers! #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

“The political environment in Russia made it hard to do science because everything was unpredictable. […] That type of uncertainty is incompatible with science, which requires the ability to plan what type of experiments and research you will do a year into the future.”

I forgot to post the video:

Globe Safety xkcd.com/3086

Mindscape 313 | Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Emelia's expertise is invaluable to us at #nivenly and #hachyderm and many Fedi communities (whether they know it or not). She works on highly intricate problems and creates equally intricate solutions. Donations support her ongoing work for collective benefit. She also does contracting work. ❤️

So a not too well known thing about me: I'm the co-author of the Client ID Metadata Documents internet draft that Bluesky / AT Proto uses for OAuth. This document came about due to my work on Mastodon's OAuth implementation. If you'd like to support my work: support.thisismissem.social

I led an engineering team that successfully delivered an #AI product in the #healthcare industry that is demonstrably preventing diabetes. And I need a job. Who’s hiring? (USA remote or Raleigh NC hybrid, senior leadership roles) linkedin.com/in/hedemark #layoffs #opentowork

Mindscape 312 | Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

On June 13, we will have a workshop on Using LLMs by @hadley.nz More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW Please share! #RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

de Sitter xkcd.com/3077

Breaking news Trans Kids Deserve Better have climbed the telegraph office building and hung a banner saying "the daily smellograph"

The reality of sex and gender is complicated. It calls for nuanced examination and thought. The public sphere is terribly bad at this. Add in the close ties between gender and people's self-image, and the issue is ripe for demagoguery. Or you could just be kind to people different from you.

Mindscape 311 | Annaka Harris @annakaharris.bsky.social on Whether Consciousness Is Fundamental. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Wanna know how I got my first job? I was groomed for the test by my future coworker How? He gave me a problem and drilled it. He gave me a rubric too. Then I practiced at home for hours When I tested the next morning I was horrified: I thought it’d be similar, but he had given me the *exact* test

She is still in custody www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Throwback. To get the best seat in the house, move the cat! ⚞ ⚟ ... if you dare! 😈😼 #catSky

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | April 2025. This month we're talking about the Big Bang singularity, compression and complexity, how to teach quantum mechanics, and thoughts about podcasts. Also a Puck update. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Mindscape 310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies. Is evidence accumulating that we need to change the standard ΛCDM cosmological model? #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund nivenly.org/blog/2025/04... in FR news "Le Fediverse regroupe des apps décentralisées comme Mastodon et Pixelfed. Un fonds de sécurité offre des récompenses pour signaler des failles. L’éducation des opérateurs est au cœur du programme." mondetech.fr/un-fonds-de-...