I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

So excited that the theme of LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is 'Science and Innovation,' with super badge designed by @canopyrobin.com! 🧬🏳️‍⚧️🔭🏳️‍🌈🚆 Wonderful launch event at the Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org this evening. 👏 lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history... @lgbthm.bsky.social #LGBTplusHM 🌈🗃️

There were a few years when I thought I can’t be gay & an academic scientist at the same time. James Watson pushed the view that only certain people can be scientists - basically straight white men. Fortunately in most places his view is not taken seriously anymore. But we have to remain on guard.

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

Watson had it all: misogyny, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia. He would have been anti-trans if he’d heard of it.

We enjoyed your visit to Univ Maryland Baltimore and great to spend time with a colleague with whom I shared an office 35 years ago! Ain't dead yet...

Baltimore Penn Station is really beautiful.

Dems in ARRAY

I’m old enough to remember when Americans newspapers either didn’t believe that gay people exist or didn’t recognize our relationships or humanity (think of the early years of the aids epidemic). I’ve never fully trusted them since.

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

You will not find a sadder post on the internet today.

Univ. of Utah & Huntsman Cancer Institute are seeking tenure-track faculty in cancer biology (broadly defined), especially in combining experimental & computational structural approaches (incl. AlphaFold & other AI/LLM tools) to study cancer-relevant signaling. utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/189...

Moriwaki et al. used our ipSAE metric (github.com/DunbrackLab/IPSAE) and ipTM to evaluate predicted structures of protein complexes in biosynthetic gene clusters. They "found that ipSAE showed greater discriminative power than ipTM in identifying true binding pairs among highly similar proteins."

It’s weird that British Airways does not know how to conjugate Middle English verbs: “May we haveth your attention?”

@us.theguardian.com headline: millions marched today. @nytimes.com headline: why they can’t be bothered to count crowds. Earlier their article said “1000s marched…”. They’ve changed it to “large numbers.” I read the Guardian first every day. Then check the Times until it pisses me off too much.

More from the LARGE "No Kings" rally here in #Philadelphia. #Philly has a history of telling kings to fuck off! #NoKings #StrongerTogether #PowerToThePeople #GoBirds #NoKingsDay

Listen to this. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

Very Philly. Philly’s Scrapple Sculpting Contest was won by a Delco tattooer who carved the Tush Push www.inquirer.com/columnists/s...

He’s never deserved it. But also this has never occurred to me.

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Dumb question: if you have a lead compound you want to dock to a protein and you're in a non-profit institution not working with a commercial entity, can you (legally) use AlphaFold3 and LATER commercialize the lead compound (or its derivative)?

Did Schumer hire a new social media team?

Why aren’t major news channels sending reporters to Portland and Chicago, and then refuting the Trump regime’s claims on live TV? Oh! Because headlines are more profitable than facts. Residents be damned.

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Gift version of this article. a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

There’s often some a$$hole billionaire behind Trump’s worst initiatives. The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

More "American carnage" caused by Trump and Jay Bhattacharya: www.science.org/content/arti...

Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Really disappointing from @royalsociety.org which is hiding behind "not policing politics" to sustain the membership of an openly white supremacist anti-science billionaire who never should have been admitted in the first place, talk about low bars 🧪 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Read Thomas Zimmer to understand the current moment.

Horus: Reproducible Workflow Manager for Biomolecular Modelling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678751v1

Same as it ever was.

The new Calder Gardens museum in Philly (works of Alexander Calder) is pretty magnificent.

Does anyone have a good, reasonably up-to-date review of cryo-EM uses and methodology for (relatively) high-resolution protein structure determination? For someone who doesn't have a cryo-EM background.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Texas Tech signs up for the fascist enterprise. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

#ASBMB26 abstract submissions open on Oct. 6. Get ready to present your latest research among scientific leaders and peers. Explore poster abstract categories, which include #cancerbiology, #microbiology, #neurobiology, #immunology, #proteins, #lipids & membranes and much more: ow.ly/ZX9g50WYoFH.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Protein kinase structure 2. Protein side-chain rotamers (way more than 3 hours) 3. LGBTQ+ rights

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

Honestly, I’d rather they blamed acetaminophen (Tylenol, Paracetamol) than vaccines. Although it’s almost certainly wrong.