Daniel Gorelick
@danielgorelick.bsky.social
Science is real gorelicklab.org Editor-in-chief, BiO (Biology Open) Opinions are my own, not my employers
Mad Max: Fury Road is empirically better than any Marvel or DC superhero movie because the villain in MMFR, Immortan Joe, says things like "Bah! Mediocre" when one of his guys gets killed rather than "For this you shall feel the utmost power of my legendary wrath" & shit like that
Save the date! The 20th International Zebrafish Conference will be held in Daejeon, Korea from June 26-30, 2027 🐟 🇰🇷 Stay tuned for more conference updates at the "ofFISHial" conference website: www.izfs.org/education/20... or by following @izfs.bsky.social (and us 😉)! #zebrafish #ZebrafishMeeting 🧪
The Curvenote Reader button is live on bioRxiv! 😎 Click it to explore papers in a new way—zoom figures, pull up references without leaving the page. Button appears 48 hours after papers drop. Feedback? DM us or hit the GitHub repo. openrxivlabs.org/articles/rea...
Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment
Read on for early results and what we’ll be looking at in the next phase.
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Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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New White House plan for science and technology released yesterday www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202... 1/9
OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios
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Anyways, felt like a good day to wear this shirt
Kevin Wright@kevinmawright.bsky.social · 2w ago2025 was the FA part. 2026 is the FO…
In 2007, Texas voters approved the $3B Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Then-Gov. Perry said the investment could “lure the brightest research minds from around the world.” Apparently current TX governor only wants American minds. Sad! www.texastribune.org/2026/07/22/t...
Cancer research could stall amid Texas’ limits on foreign workers
MD Anderson is a global leader in cancer research, tapping hundreds of foreign-born scientists. Now Gov. Greg Abbott’s restrictions on H-1B visas may limit the talent pool.
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A post about how to make microscopy images as accessible as possible. quantixed.org/2026/07/21/c...
Colorblind II: Microscopy images and colour blindness – quantixed
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the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2w agoa bad thing is running a phd program with brilliant international students who must reckon with a volatile xenophobic saboteur government in fresh ways every day, no thank you, 0/10
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo agoAcademics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
I often learn more about giving a good talk by watching a flawed one than by watching a great one. Great speakers can make it look effortless, which makes it harder to see exactly why the talk works www.nature.com/articles/s41... Excellent advice from @itaiyanai.bsky.social
How to give a bad talk - Nature Reviews Cancer
Effective presentations require clarity and audience awareness. In this Comment, Itai Yanai outlines common misconceptions about presentations and how to address them to deliver more impactful and ins...
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Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh
Another way @biologists.bsky.social gives back to the community
The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 3w agoDid you know that for each Research Article or Review article we publish, we plant a tree in a UK forest? We also fund the restoration & preservation of ancient woodland for each peer review. These trees are also represented together in a virtual forest forest.biologists.com
As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
This series of events right here is a great example of why I think we should get behind society journals - and also why @dev-journal.bsky.social is the GOAT.
Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 3w agoThe 1996 Development issue reporting the zebrafish screen (and the special issue commemorating it 25 years later) are now free to read, thanks @biologists.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...
Are you a #PhD or #postdoc planning to go on the faculty job market this Fall? I have collated some resources and data from @facjobmktcollab.bsky.social and @futurepislack.bsky.social (among others) and offer some insights and advice in this piece. www.christophertsmith.com/reflections/...
Resources and Advice for the Academic Job Search
Job Search, Academic Job Search
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The 1996 Development issue reporting the zebrafish screen (and the special issue commemorating it 25 years later) are now free to read, thanks @biologists.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...
The zebrafish issue: 25 years on | Development | The Company of Biologists
Welcome to Development’s 2021 Subject Collection celebrating the 25th anniversary since the publication of the zebrafish issue. The issue, originally publi
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Gaurav Varshney@varshneylab.bsky.social · 3w agoIn 2021, the journal Development published a special issue, “The Zebrafish Issue: 25 Years On.” Unfortunately, all the articles are behind a paywall. At the very least, special issues like this should be made open access. journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...
"The academic hiring system privileges a kind of performative intellectualism—the ability to stand at a whiteboard and extemporize about science...This is not how science works anymore. Science works by prompting, iterating, and deploying" brilliant satire inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...
Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x
Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
Karen R. Lips@karenrlips.bsky.social · 3w ago
Posted my comments opposing OMBs proposed rule. It was so easy, using this great letter writing tool of @faseborg.bsky.social www.faseb.org/science-poli... Did you submit yours yet? The deadline is soon - July 13. This is essential to save science and research in the US.
Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians
![There is a well-known story about the origin of the Nobel Prize, although historians have been unable to verify it, and some dismiss the story as a myth.[26] In 1888, the death of his brother Ludvig supposedly caused several newspapers to publish obituaries of Alfred in error. One French newspaper[which?] condemned him for his invention of military explosives—in many versions of the story, dynamite is quoted, although this was mainly used for civilian applications—and this is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death.[6] The obituary supposedly stated, Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"),[6] and according to the myth went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."[27] Nobel read the obituary and was appalled at the idea that he would be remembered in this way. His decision to posthumously donate the majority of his wealth to found the Nobel Prize has been credited to him wanting to leave behind a better legacy.[28][6] However, it has been questioned whether or not the obituary in question actually existed.[28] An actual obituary (pictured) stated "A man who can only with the utmost difficulty be considered a benefactor of mankind has died yesterday at Cannes. It is Mr. Nobel, inventor of dynamite. Mr. Nobel was Swedish." It was published on the first page of the Figaro on the 15th of April 1888 and retracted the next day.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26hkfmtr7jrchexamh7hk6rz/bafkreiamxbpof2omcdylzhjqx5jvddya4qtd2rranqhfr3hqz7m5v7croe)
Thomas Fuchs@thomasfuchs.at · 3y agoIf we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.
The OMB rule would codify this uncertainty, making termination a constant threat to all federally funded science. Your field might be safe now, but this rule would allow the admin to stop any line of research that becomes politically inconvenient. Posting below resources on where/how to comment.
Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 4w agoI see this often among my grantees. Uncertainty about maintaining funding on a grant (even thought it has been found meritorious in peer review, high priority in programmatic review, and was already awarded) makes conducting the science extremely challenging. substack.com/@27unihted/n...
