Paying other countries for climate damage... Interesting concept he brings up. @mark-carney.bsky.social

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Hey ADA, how did that work out for y'all? 😂

The math *almost* checks out: if you federate the data from 10 companies you'll end up with *exactly* 10 times as much data as each of them has on average. That's how averages work 😅 doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Ubuntu Proteomics Summer School. In case you're in doubt whether you should go register, watch this video 😎 youtube.com/shorts/iASW1...

As I've said for quite a while: I have nothing against you using AI to write your job application. It only becomes a problem if I can tell that you used AI, because that shows me that you are not a competent AI user. And that disqualifies you!

Switching from the default Faster Whisper to NVIDIA Parakeet for speech-to-text was a huge improvement for voice control of @home-assistant.io

Love it! Also the owl analogy 😂

Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new AI-assisted materials discovery institute. go.nature.com/4pf2jQ3

New video: a brief introduction to NVIDIA's BioNeMo, OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind, and Anthropic's Claude Science. While they all sell "AI-powered drug discovery", they are in fact very different products. youtu.be/NQvWXcYszMI #artificialintelligence #bioinformatics #drugdiscovery

From their examples, it unfortunately looks more like an abdication of domain expertise to AI rather than just handling friction points. Like the three sentence prompt to write a review article 🤢 and being proud of a host of AI agents having reviewed the papers rather than oneself

Very good points in this thread.

If we come up with enough alternative top-1% publication / researcher lists, everyone gets to say on LinkedIn how humbled they feel about being in the top-1% 🎉

I see that the NNF Center for Protein Design has finally begun advertising some group leader positions. In case you did not already watch my short video with advice on the topic, here you have it: youtube.com/shorts/hkPxq...

The plan to kill research in USA www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Moscow celebrating day 1576 of the 3-day special military operation with "fireworks".

Do you rely on chatbots for doing your research? Are you using STRING? Good news: there's a chat interface for that too! youtu.be/Qss0jxGNlMk #ai #bioinformatics #networkbiology #systemsbiology

Russia has bombed the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra overnight, a UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in 1051 and sacred to Christians, older than Moscow. The Uspenskiy Cathedral is currently on fire. The Lavra is listed under Enhanced Protection under the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention.

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints of editorial critical of the Trump administrations's ongoing attacks on science. Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz arstechnica.com/science/2026...

ADA censors scientists at their own conference on Friday 2 (maybe more) board members resign by Monday It shows scientists in solidarity with each other 👏🏻 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

One billion 3D protein structures: Should you care about ESMfold2? youtube.com/shorts/ucRZw...

My personal conspiracy theory: Thermo Fisher does this because they want everyone to stop doing Western blots and change to buying mass spectrometers 😜

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

For those of you who've been hiding under a rock 😜 "From LLMs to scientific AI agents" #LLMs #AI #agents #science youtu.be/O658XYRmAqE

New in @natgenet.nature.com: a moving obituary for Peer. Francesca Ciccarelli, Jan Korbel & Christian von Mering reflect on his scientific vision, from protein domains and genome evolution to metagenomics, and on his generosity as a mentor and friend to so many. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OTD in 1997 Ukraine & Russia signed the Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty in which we promised to "respect each other's territory". A treaty in which Russia promises not to invade you is the traditional way we announce that we one day will. So you can believe us on a peace treaty now. Lol.

I cannot believe that I say this: For a well balanced view of the AI revolution, I refer you to the recent encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIV. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

This is awful to hear, describing how Sean Eddy (HMMER, infernal, pfam, rfam) has been defunded. The letter said his work "had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated," www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

We’re looking for a Director 👇 ABI is seeking a senior scientific leader to help grow a continental hub for bioinformatics and computational biology. Applications close 30 June 2026. Apply: webapp.placementpartner.com/wi/vacancy/?... #AfricanScience #Bioinformatics

This prohibition affects 30% of all papers published by NIH grantees. It’s horrifically damaging to already deeply wounded American science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Looking forward to annual performance evals with AI employees. "You do not meet expectations. You keep making mistakes and when I point them out you just apologize but then they keep happening." "Yes, you're right. I'm so sorry. It won't happen again." "But it will." "Yes, you're right. I'm sorry."

Heartbreaking to hear Sean Eddy (@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social) talk about how arbitrary cuts to his lab's NIH funding have decimated his lab Sean's lab has built computational tools that enable so much important biology research also quotes by @jeremymberg.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/05/11/n...

Has anyone made an AI (?) tool that takes an author-submitted manuscript and the publisher's page proofs, compares the two, and reports what the publisher has messed up this time?

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...

Don't remind of trying to find a monkey wrench 🤯

We were all afraid of aliens and AI, but the world has been taken over by idiots and terrorists…

Once the expert advisory boards are gone, next step: replace with political ideologues and/or patronage system. Example from NIH via @mmolteni.bsky.social: Blanche may not have prior publications/NIH funding but is Founder/CEO of "Integrative Healing Center & Spa, a holistic medicine practice."

We are recruiting a PI in biomedical data science at @bakerresearchau.bsky.social in Melbourne! A fantastic opportunity and do get in touch if any q's! www.seek.com.au/job/91619982...

I know, I'm a terrible person: I created K-pop #slopcore with fully local AI models 😆 youtu.be/O8g58vuImaw

Time to get back to science! A new video on network embedding, including how we use them to analyze STRING protein networks! youtu.be/8eBD-TlE56A

Hey @natureportfolio.nature.com is this some sort of joke?? Please act ASAP. This is an abomination! 👇How the hell did this ever pass peer review, editorial processes??? doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Monthly median Received to Accepted time (days) at Nature Genetics

With 10k YouTube subscribers, I guess I'm now officially an "influencer", whether I like it or not 😂

(Checks calendar ... no it is not April 1st yet) Maybe we don't need animal testing after all. We can just give untested substances to Silicon Valley bros. They are even willing to pay for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0lt...

A reminder that next week we will have this workshop by @masalmon.eu , register if you haven't already! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky

It is great sadness that we share that our dear friend and colleague, Phil Bourne, passed away on March 8, 2026. Phil was one of a kind ... brimming with brilliance, joy & love. He will be missed by so many.

New video: The dark side of academia TL;DR: You have worse conditions and get paid less 😉 youtu.be/K9SLZQ7Ua_g