An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

I honestly do not understand why people think family is so important. They are just people. Blood simply gives them an excuse to treat you the absolute worst and expect little/no consequence. The most toxic people I have ever associated with are the ones related to me (or through marriage)

I know it seems like a heretical idea, but one way to figure out if a preprint is really interesting (to you) is... to read the preprint. Then, in the spirit of sharing, send a note to authors: a simple kudos or a more detailed question. I do this a dozen times a year. It's awesome. Try it.

For real

1/5 — Academics write publicly funded research. Academics peer review it for free. Commercial publishers charge universities ~$10B/year to read it back. Elsevier runs ~37% operating margins — higher than Apple. We built this system. We can build a better one. 🧵 #ReclaimResearch #OpenAccess

Everyone talking about what to do when students turn in Chatbot answer but I have now seen multiple professors give shite Chatbot replies to student homework. One actually pasted the "a good criticl response woul be:" at the top. Crap comes from both ends it turns out.

Beyond phylogeny: Genome-wide DNA sequence patterns suggest DNA physical properties associated with thermal adaptation in extremophile microbes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.16.732181v1

Announcing BoltzMol-1, BoltzProt-1, and the Boltz API boltz.bio/boltzmol-bol...

‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot."

What a trove! Brief, factual one paragraph summaries of science news and one-liners for actual articles with links. No opinions, or 'discussion' just quick snippets of news, article links and general happenings in science, all with sources and direct links. #science #nature #academics #world

I have taken my break via the complete #brainfog and misery of #covid ! The universe always shows you the way. Or as #MarcusAurelius once wrote, #theobstacleistheway (Thank you @ryan-holiday.bsky.social for the reminders) I feel like I have fresh eyes on my research. For better or worse.

In other news: The generation that hates participation trophies cries and throws fit when it does not win. Demands it did win?

#Academia #PostdocLife #Science #HPS #BioSky How do you deal with complete lack of motivation and writers block?

In a single week? During study section and NBA finals? Next grant deadlines August 8th. Sleep is tentatively scheduled for week before student orientation. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS VERY IMPORANT AND INCREDIBLE MATTER!! MAKE SLEEP GREAT AGAIN! - RANDALL T SCHIRRA, Postdoc of US #POTUS

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Just like airlines sometimes tell you tonnes of C02 produced per flight, I would like every task and query to an AI agent be followed by a rough estimate of how many natural resources this would cost to answer & they’d only proceed when you acknowledge the true cost eg of organizing your vacation

Me: I will be working as much as I can, I am very sick and basically bedridden with a sick, sick toddler. (*sends email*)🤢 Boss: Let's finally get some work done on your paper! can we meet via zoom. Also get ready for a bunch of individual email questions! Me:... Oh..Okay 🤮🤧 #acadmia #gohome

Literally, life giving you lemons. Its free fruit! So much lemonade and great pasta dishes to be made!

Astrophage #ProjectHailMary What can go wrong

Talking to a professor about electron interactions and i used some engineering terminology that apparently biologists do not commonly use. "Nobody says that." "Sorry Nuclear Engineering term" "No its not. Are you a nuclear engineer?" "I was. Yes." "..." "Former Lieutenant. US Navy Nuclear Reactors."

Monthly check-in: I am still on the hunt for the right climate policy and regulatory role. I’m a Ph.D. microbial ecologist specializing in biogenic methane, agricultural climate policy, and complex systems mapping.

A horse is a powerful animal. Completely vegetarian and a symbol of strength and endurance. They seem almost ageless right up tot he end. Burying one is like burying hope and youth. It is a strong reminder of mortality. I have at least 2 more of these in. My future and likely many more.

Feedback: Your draft is good. maybe we should restructure the results Me: Here's the new draft with the restructured results we discussed. Feedback: These changes are a complete restructuing, maybe we should discuss in person. I don't know what I'm still doing in science, but tis not this.

5 days left to apply for PhD and Postdoc positions in a cool project about herbaria, plants and digitization!🌿😎 Postdoc: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... PhD: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... More info: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... #Jobs #HPBio #HistSci #DigitalHumanities #PhilSci

What I'd like to see AI used for is scheduling lectures across universities instead of classes and thn to coordinate the org of classes from lectures across the campus and distributing grading to those professors and collecting the results for final analysis to ⬆️ information efficiency and dissem

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Even within an orgnism cells have memory. There are chemical signatures that relay information from its past. Within a non living system the same can be said for the local chemical environment and its true all the way up to the scale of the universe. Some scientists seem to forget the fuzziness.

CS tools is very handy! Just added another couple of CS tools scripts to my github - one for making adjustable templates for picking membrane proteins in nanodiscs & micelles: github.com/olibclarke/c... (cont. next post:)

Can viruses "make decisions"? The physicists are torn debating #free-will and a #deterministicuniverse and how those things exist simultaneously. The #physiologists are pursuing how decisions are made and what is and is not free will +more. The #biophysicists are in the middle and not loud enough.

I worked for the past two days on my grant and I can’t believe I’m saying this but… I’ve made negative progress. I could have binge watched Netflix for two days and be in better shape than I am now. Armed with this information I’m going to work on my grant for the next two weeks.

This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

New on the Archive: Nguyen, Timothy (2026) The Role of Rigor in Artificial Intelligence. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29688/

Chinese companies are racing to develop and deploy artificial-intelligence powered brain–computer interfaces that can help people to move, speak and control devices go.nature.com/49Kiiir

I highly recommend the ASUS ProArt series with a powerful NPU and GPU but read this article and go offline with the best AI www.makeuseof.com/free-way-to-...

And we call that proportion... jealous. It's okay to be proud of your students and accomplishments. You should lead with the name of the first author anyways and not the title or the journal. which so many mentors don't. Authors, 1 liner synopsis, title, journal <--always.

When #gradstudents give #ResearchInProgress talks, they should also take like an extra hour or two of their time to sit down with 2-5 faculty after the talk to have a 1-on-1,. This would be a good time for some focused discussion and great practice for interviews for their future #postdoc positions.

The converse of extremely kind and generous mentorship … can also be highly motivating.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Maybe we should take a "Trust the process" approach to #politics. Get as many democrats to register Republican as possible since so many republicans stay for the identity and not the policy, Shift the conversation on the right back to the center, and trust that the dems will be okay. Then vote.

#UO If youre giving a talk to a #Molecularbio peeps about #MolecularBiology. Only a few people ok the room need the ' #diseaserelevence ' hook. I personally just want to know what's going on with your system. Im not the #NIH and this isnt #the90s man. Im already interested or I wouldn't be here.

California is literally just becoming its own country .

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

Next week, we welcome Gry Oftedal ‬(University of Oslo) in our ROTO Lecture Series. Gry will speak about self-assembly in living systems. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #HPBio #PhilSci

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The magnitude of my frustration is directly contradicted by the length of my frustration. I go from 0 to 100 very quickly. (I need counseling, I know) But I let it go pretty quickly. Which honestly I'm willing to live with currently after observing others hold a grudge for weeks/months/years

A new goal for the rest of the year os to write 1 email a week to my congressional representatives. I feel like thats a small thing that would be worth the five minutes. If anyone would like to join, we could draft together and invite more people.

There's a lot to be said for finding the right team. In the Navy, I had good teams and bad teams. Often a good leader can make all the difference. Im academics this is so much more important. The support systems for researchers are such garbage and so expensive. I miss me some mando-fun.

Declaring it, doesn't make it real. #MichaelforPresident #TheOffice #IYKYK

If you like #food and you do not follow Bob Morano on some platform, you are truly missing out