Had a wonderful day at UConn! I made a lot of great connections and am expecting some nice papers to come my way. The BME dept is really impressive. Thanks so much to Guoan Zheng and Visar Ajeti for so graciously hosting me.

On Feb 7 2020, Dr Li Wenliang, known as one of the first whistleblowers on COVID, died from the disease in Wuhan.

I had an amazing time @jacksonlab.bsky.social at Jackson labs today! I am so impressed with the hIPSC projects, emphasis on women's health, investment in rare diseases, and commitment to in vitro models of human physiology. Thanks so much to Sasan Jalili my host!!

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

Sorry to piggyback off this post Richard, but we recently published an editorial on what scientific papers might look like in the future: "In this view, it is easy to imagine that the future of the scientific article will be for papers to be written by machines to be read by machines." rdcu.be/e2buu

ICYMI: New online! Oral–gut bacterial transport drives chronic liver disease

to peruse

It's always frustrating to me how the term AI has evolved. AI was an umbrella term from 1950s. Then Machine Learning (a subset of AI), Deep Learning (a subset of ML), and modern generative AI (a subset DL). Now LLMs are used synonymously with "AI". So I made these graphics of the "AIroboros"

Yep.

Very excited to be doing back-to-back visits at Jackson labs and UConn BME later this week! www.bme.uconn.edu/event/rita-s...

I had a really nice ride on my horse today, and it was absolutely restorative to something deep within me that was feeling bruised. I hope everyone who reads this has something similarly nice happen for them this weekend.

I hear about neoantigens a lot these days in immunotherapy, but are they doing what we think they are? Interesting study jitc.bmj.com/content/14/1...

She stole every scene she was ever in. Sad day.

TIL I was not following my own journal on bsky 😂😅

I could not be happier to welcome Xinyu to the team!! She is smart, kind, experienced, and ready to help us make the journal even better!

Make your gene knockouts more efficient with multiplexed Cas12a sgRNAs. Our new paper is out now, with tools available from @addgene.bsky.social , www.plasmids.eu and @vdrc-flies.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CRISPR #geneediting #Drosophila 🧪🧬✂️🔬🪰 Summary 🧵 below.

I'll be part of a very illustrious seminar series at Duke BME later this year! bme.duke.edu/news/disting... Thanks to Junjie Yao and my other hosts!

QI Class of 2025! Centroid = @sciencedoodles.bsky.social & @florianjug.bsky.social / first minima = @talley.codes & me. Applications for 2026 due on Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

@taskforce.bsky.social mourns the loss of our friend, colleague, mentor and vaccine visionary, Dr. Alan Hinman, who passed away at the age of 88 on January 26. He spent more than 50 years working in public health, devoting his career to a vision of a world without vaccine-preventable diseases.

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.

⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

What a bad time to try to call it quits on vaccines and vaccine development.

What a great opportunity!!!

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Please forward this REU opportunity (paid summer internship) to undergraduates interested in plant biology and related fields etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o...

I knew it was bleak but this is hellish.

Exciting opportunity for a #postdoc to join @suyangzhang.bsky.social’s group in the LMB Structural Studies Division to investigate co-transcriptional splicing using cryo-EM and biochemistry. Read more: www.nature.com/naturecareer... Apply by 11 FEB #PostdocJobs #ScienceJobs

We need Le Guin and cats now more than ever.

This reminds me of the time people were mad at me because I didn't mourn the (brief) loss of TikTok. Amazingly those were better times, and that was a better TikTok.

My daughter looked at me eyes wide in defiance as she poured all that soy sauce on her rice ..We had talked about this before.. Later, when I wordlessly stirred the extra rice into her bowl I knew she was grateful

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

The other Tri-I is hiring!

#Drosophil. Does anyone know who hosts the flyfos GFP tagged library now? We need some constructs but I cant find where they are. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

It's sadly easy to imagine a near future where biomedical engineers are pitching me papers about improved iron lungs because we let polio come back.

My riding stable had signs posted all over that they are closed tomorrow because they know if they don't say something horse riders will be crazy enough to try to get there in the blizzard.

Thanks, Rita! I was pretty darn happy that the journalists at Nature (and Science) were kind enough to write up the story of Maria's discoveries. I appreciate y'all, it really helps our mission. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Everyone should read this! 🧪 #AcademicSky When two years of academic work vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well that's cool Source: Nature search.app/FLn5P

19th #OME Community Meeting, Düsseldorf · 28–30 April 2026 Registration is now open! Join researchers, developers, and imaging facility staff to connect, share experiences, and discuss the future of OME tools. Details & registration (deadline: 31 March 2026): gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20...

Good thread

📡🧵 Excited to release an updated version of our preprint: Zebrahub-Multiome: Uncovering Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics During Zebrafish Embryogenesis 🧪🧬🖥️🐠 doi.org/10.1101/2024... A tour-de-force by @yangjoonkim with an unexpected discovery!

The polio vaccine works so well that people think we don't need the polio vaccine and other misadventures in public health.

NIH will no longer support studies that use human fetal tissue derived from elective abortions, citing advances in alternate methods. “It’s clearly a political decision, not a scientific one,” says Lawrence Goldstein, a neuroscientist at UCSD. By @heidiledford.bsky.social and Edward Chen

I just thought everyone should see this

As the use of machine learning in medicine explodes, we need to make sure the accelerators have matching breaks and that we do things correctly. I highlighted a study on the problem of sycophancy in chatbots as it relates to medical advice. Read the full paper too! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While I understand the need for animal research in biomedicine, I am also excited to see the ways in which the field is developing better in vitro systems for human physiology, like this cool paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Ah the good old days