Which programming language should you actually learn? This is like asking whether you should learn Spanish, French, or Cantonese. It is all relative, but this article will help you finally decide. medium.com/@protobioeng... #learntocode #biomedicalengineering #science #gradschool

Hey, yo, you can shoot lasers at cancer to tell if its cancer or not. Between this and MR spectroscopy, there are avenues for getting better at detecting cancer without even opening a person up. #medicine #medicalimaging #oncology #biomedicalengineering

This was thought provoking 🧠 Doesn't invalidate computational approaches but a clear-eyed view of the limits/assumptions, and an eloquent description of why neurobiology is endlessly fascinating

When we teach, we multiply not only the people around us but ourselves. #scienceeducation #teaching #biology #biomedicalengineering

People in mosh pits end up behaving like particles in fluids, with vortices and other stereotyped patterns. #fluiddynamics #neuroscience #engineering #psychology www.youtube.com/shorts/1weOV...

I have been exploring neural circuits of emotion in the brain lately, which led me to write this primer on the amygdala over the holidays!

AI that speeds up science > AI that replaces artists #biology #biomedicalengineering #ai #machinelearning

What keeps the world spinning is the niche little work done day to day. Chipping away at problems, big or small, makes us and our world better. If it seems like a waste of time, remember that "our work works on us more than we work on it" (Alex Hormozi, paraphrased). #work medium.com/westenberg/t...

Now seems as good a time as any to remind people that the guy who wrote “Pretty Fly For a White Guy” earned a PhD in molecular biology. We all contain multitudes.

Have genome data that needs assembling? The Galaxy Training Network offers a comprehensive collection of tutorials to guide you through every step in an accessible, browser-based environment. training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

USC biomedical engineers have found a way to make a solid tumor paint a target on its own back in order to train the body’s immune system to find and destroy it. Learn more: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/11/tricking-tumors-into-marking-themselves-for-destruction/

The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.

A scientific image forgery detection competition is going on on Kaggle for the next two weeks. Check out the code that people are writing to automate the detection of scientific fraud. Recod.ai is giving away $55,000 in prizes, which is neato. www.kaggle.com/competitions... #science #forensics #ml

This review presents a framework for high‑performance artificial #SensorySystems, spanning #nanomaterial processing to device integration, highlighting coating/printing methods, human‑sense applications, and future #AI integration. #OpenAccess in #IJEM: doi.org/10.1088/2631...

1/ 🧠 Is there a "hidden" brain signal that protects against age-related memory decline? Our new paper in @neurobiology-aging.bsky.social explores how periodic (oscillatory) and aperiodic (non-oscillatory) EEG activity may be a key biomarker for cognitive resilience in older adults. 🧵

🧬 Key Biological Databases in Bioinformatics From GenBank & UniProt to KEGG, GEO, and Ensembl — these databases power modern genomics, transcriptomics, and multi-omics research. Perfect for students, researchers & early-career scientists 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 #Bioinformatics #Genomics #MolecularBiology #PhDLife

The paper submission deadline for the 11th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2026) is coming up fast. Don't miss the January 10th deadline! Learn more and submit your paper: https://2026.ieeebiorob.org/call-for-papers/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

A Dozen Resources for Learning Bioinformatics from Scratch: medium.com/@protobioeng... #bioinformatics #python #biology #biomedicalengineering #learntocode #r #tidyverse

Cool graph. Not to nitpick: how much of the world would even able to access ChatGPT if the internet and phones had not taken decades to pave the way? However, the mere fact that any technology can be adopted by 800 million people so quickly can be a standalone reason why the graph is meaningful.

(Nucleotide Transformer v3) A foundational model for joint sequence-function multi-species modeling at scale for long-range genomic prediction instadeep.com/wp-content/u... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/instadeepai/... (noncommercial)

Need some wearable device data for your next project? We just uploaded some free movement and heart data from the Empatica E4 smart device (data created by Andrea Hongn and team in Buenos Aires). www.kaggle.com/datasets/pro... #exercisescience #wearables #python #r #biomedicalengineering #science

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led a path of gutting and destruction of public, global health, and medical research resources, among others. How much did it save in federal spending? Nothing...it led to an increase www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

For those wishing to slash government medical research spending: "Just because our lives are finite, doesn’t mean that they’re worthless.” Ben Strauss

EEG waveforms (brain waves) from learningeeg.com

New and improved Python tutorial for opening EEGs. Work with seizure data, sleep data, and more. medium.com/@protobioeng... #neuroscience #biomedicalengineering #python #eeg #biohacking #seizures #sleep

Learn and practice identification of EEG rhythms (brain waves) for seizures and more with this dope website: www.learningeeg.com/terminology-... #biomedicalengineering #science #eeg #seizures #brain #neuro

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Lots of free brain data out there. I collected 80 free datasets of EEGs, MRIs, strokes, seizures, and more and put them in this here article. Enjoy! #science #neurosky #datascience #opendata medium.com/@protobioeng...

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

We want to take a moment to express how proud we are of you, America. You have stood up and spoken out every step of the way—especially when Congress and the media remained silent. When we called for help, you answered.

If you are on Bluesky, follow the Alt government departments. These are federal employees sharing information. Alt National Parks Alt CDC Alt NOAA Alt Health and Human Services Alt DHS They are being told to delete data and files (against the law). They are risking everything to share information.

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

Reminder that a study on lizard saliva eventually led to the development of Ozempic so be real wary of the criticism of studies and funding that sounds non-sensical when presented with no context.

Our gut microbiome and its metabolites have key interactions with our immune response to cancer and success from cancer immunotherapy. Nice perspective @jclinical-invest.bsky.social www.jci.org/articles/vie...

The feasibility of patching a severely damaged heart with stem cells as a bridge to transplant, actualized in a 46-year-old woman @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Despair not (yet) "If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research."

When the government is gagged and not allowed to talk about science, the people will continue. Long live science and journalism. Long live the First Amendment. #science #usa

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Red knots taking off. Bald Hill Beach. 🪶 #birds

Other scientific journals should follow. I've requested this of the journal where I'm an editor. Other journal editor friends, join us!

Altmetric lets you know where your research is being talked about all around the Internet! Blogs, newspapers, Reddit, and more.

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

A study in Nature Medicine reports that a surgically implanted brain–computer interface can detect and decode finger movements in a person with paralysis, allowing them to play a video game#Medskyky 🧪

This is my plan moving forward. Part 1

A high-throughput platform for single-molecule tracking identifies drug interaction and cellular mechanisms. https://buff.ly/40nMuKL

Them: Please summarize your 80K word book into a 45 minute talk. Me: Sure; fun challenge! Them: Now summarize your book in a 2 minute video that anyone can connect with. Me: 😲. That's ~250 words; a compression of 320x. Yikes! I do not know that algorithm ... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

World Central Kitchen (@wck.org) also has free food trucks for evacuees and first responders posted throughout the city. Check out wck.org/news/meal-lo... and app.watchduty.org to see Red Cross's and WCK's locations in LA.

As wildfires rage in LA, this graphic in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at one way chemistry can be used to tackle them: cen.acs.org/environment/... #ChemSky 🧪