Wow. 95% of people online get the Hebrew New Year's greeting wrong.
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅
@iddux.bsky.social
Curses back at dimensionality. High throughput, some output.
When your h-index increments a day before your annual productivity review.
Redshirts was the first @scalzi.com book I read. I would like to warn you: don't do it. It's a gateway book! Before you know it, you'll be like me: i finished this book, then read all 6 books of "Old Man's War" series , and then The Collapsing Empire. There's no end in sight.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.Happy birthday to Star Trek, as it happens I have a very obvious reason I'm glad that universe exists; without it, at the very least, one of my novels would have a very different title. Even without that connection, however, this universe has given me a lot of joy. Live long and prosper, Star Trek!
I've watched Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time in two decades. I have new insights. It really is an elaborately produced training video about the consequences of not following lab safety protocols, including IRB, proper PPE use, and new personnel training.
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
carlsonlab.bio
Wow. There are still journals that require you to register for their review system just to decline a review request. No thanks.
So, somebody finally creates a sorely needed framework to design phage therapy. Social media: "We're all going to die!"
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
That's exactly what a stochastic parrot would say.
Rob Patro@robp.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe most popularly repeated “stochastic parrot” interpretation (that LLMs merely remix surface text & can't reason or create genuinely new abstractions) is no longer tenable. Novel open-problem solutions with machine-checkable Lean proofs are evidence of systematic generalization, not quotation.1/3
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
nytimes.com
Somebody pitched Universal studio the latest installment in the Jason Bourne franchise. It was called "The Bourne Again Shell". The studio rejected it because the script was deemed too slow and unintelligible.
Matt Damon Jason Bourne
Alt: Matt Damon Jason Bourne
static.klipy.com
If you stick around to the end of #ISMB2026 drop by the Bioinformatics in the USA track Thursday after lunch to hear my talk. Why chickens? Why corn? Why is a plant hormone made by bacteria? What is the difference between Amazon turking and undergraduates? What's with the patriotic tractor?
"Springer Nature was nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95 until this story was published" www.science.org/content/arti...
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
science.org
The #OpenSource in the Age of #AI panel will be the second of two panels at #BOSC2026. Find more info, including names and bios of panelists, here: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...
BOSC 2026 Panels
For the first time ever, BOSC will include two panel discussions featuring perspectives from across the open science, bioinformatics, policy, and AI landscapes. Panel 1: Policies and Strategies for Re...
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Mónica Muñoz Torres, PhD@monimunozto.bsky.social · 3mo ago📢 Join us for the Open Source in the Age of AI panel at #BOSC2026 (part of #ISMB2026)! Is #generativeAI a force multiplier or a challenge to long-term #sustainability? As code generation accelerates, we'll debate attribution, licensing, and scientific integrity in bioinformatics. 🧵 👇
The Longitudinal Assessment of protein Function Annotation (LAFA) is live! LAFA compares contributed models to each other and to baselines. If you have a model you would like to upload to LAFA, please let us know! FunctionBench.net
Nethack 5.0 dropped last month. I think I'll take a sabbatical.
As I'm going to see the Mandalorian & Grogu tonight, here's my take on the rest of the Star Wars franchise: 1977: the best. Han shot first ESB: Excellent. ROTJ: where things started to go bad.
Congratulations to Dr. Parnal Joshi! Onward to your next adventure!
Want to find #prophage in your #bacteria genomes? We built PhiSpy a long time ago, and now we've created a new web page for it: linsalrob.github.io/PhiSpyWeb/ Best of all, the data never leaves your computer! #phage #phagesky
PhiSpyWeb – Browser-based Prophage Prediction
Browser-based prophage prediction using PhiSpy, Pyodide, and WebAssembly
linsalrob.github.io
Excited to share: Advances in Protein Function Prediction from the Fifth CAFA Challenge. 📈huge increase in participation, due to @kaggle.com 🤔 New "partial-knowledge" score reveals major open challenges 🗨️ Protein language models are driving progress doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Doodle now have an infinity symbol in their logo, to underscore how long it takes to coordinate a meeting.
I forgot that yesterday was World DNA Day. At least I didn't forget my DNA.
When writing the NIH Current & Pending (CPOS Common Form) via SciENcv it omits the "in kind" section when I try to fill it out. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way around it?
Have you developed a new #bioinformatics tool to understand #phage or #virus? Make sure you add it to #awesome-virome github.com/shandley/awe...
Want to annotate a bacterial genome with structures? @oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky
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