we use this in house for low-cost, high-throughput gene construction and are rolling out the tools for everyone to do it

Very excited to see this come out, happy to have played a very small part academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

unreal

wonder how many people who have been to Jackson Hole, Aspen, and North Conway would say the latter is best

March 5, my birthday, and now I’ll always think of this

Harvard response to all its involvements with Epstein has been woefully inadequate

no it couldn’t

Elizabeth Holmes deserves so much worse. She was only ever convicted of defrauding her investors even though she also defrauded thousands of patients.

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UPDATE: Person infected with bird flu in Washington state has H5N5. It's the first time H5N5 has been found in a human

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train. One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.

is black mirror making shorts now?

Didn’t write this post I promise

If you're attending #AMPath2025 in Boston, check out the full lineup of NEB events in our new press release. Hope to see you there! https://nebiolabs.com/4hT4K6Z

the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Not now, carnivorous death ball

wow my BMI will be -27

come see me and plenty of other NEBers!

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Bluesky rn

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Massachusetts at 4pm after daylight savings

don’t use this at all really but extra don’t use it to judge resumes

YOU GOT MOSSED

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

A new bat coronavirus discovered in Brazil confirms what we already knew: nature handles furin cleavage sites just fine. Lab leakers, don’t worry, you've got the track record to pivot seamlessly to a career in creative fiction writing. Quick update on the news: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

If anyone’s wondering, here are three for Eastern and Central MA that cover a lot of ground and supply many other local food banks themselves: the Greater Boston Food Bank, the Merrimack Valley Food Bank, and the Worcester County Food Bank.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

most educated state in the nation baby!

🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"? It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.” I took its claims seriously. The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833

MONKEYTRUCK (2025)

the big evidence here is…a woman was asked to review a paper in her field for Nature Communications

this is good, plus it refers to David Sinclair as an “expert-influencer” which is funny

The Grokipedia article on PCR tells you that Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize in 1993 7 times and also includes a section on political parties with the same acronym

up there with “Tyson Homosexual”

don’t take medical advice from the guy who repeatedly spells it “hepatitas”

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

best possible outcome here; just format your damn papers

we all eat ham for Thanksgiving right?

a new savior of Massachusetts has been found

“slashed the number of Ph.D. student admission slots for the Science division by more than 75%”

Must just be trained on Nate Silver claiming basic epidemiology principles as things he invented as “takes”