The funny thing about getting older is you start wondering why you are the way you are...and after spending a week with your parents it all makes sense.

I've been telling people "happy Friday" since Monday. Work weeks after conferences that span weekends are hard 😅

If you want to rediscover your youth, join a book club and relive the young adult anxiety of having to finish a book on time or passably fake it in front of new friends.

New NCI K32. Up to $80K for salary. $30K/yr research development. US citizenship NOT required. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Mike Feigin 🥯@mikefeigin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Well this is interesting. No more F32 at NCI. Replaced with K32. Anyone know why?

Sending me "year in review" information on December 10th is just violence. Do you know how many goals I'm intending to hit between now and the end of the year 😅

Bless my colleagues for keeping a straight face during our conversations while these joyful critters played cornhole. #ASH24

It's not the jingle of Santa's sleigh bells, but thousands of heme folks rushing through the San Diego Convention Center's halls. #ASH24

Good morning #ASH24! I'm ready for some science...as soon as I finish this letter of recommendation and haul over to the Hyatt where my morning sessions are 😅

Oh, I'm seeing a really nice amount of #ASH24 skeets. So grateful to have a new vibrant place to engage with conference attendees and content!

I worry less about AI taking my job and more about how much of my job becomes 1) verifying AI-generated claims and 2) figuring out where the AI went wrong and fixing it.

Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired.@wolven.blacksky.app · 2y ago

First Sundar Pichai, now Tim Cook, both admitting that generative "AI," by dint of its very foundations (cf. "Bias Optimizers"), will not and cannot stop bullshitting (cf. "On Bullshit Engines"). futurism.com/the-byte/tim...

I love December. The festive spirit, the cheesey movies, and the race to finish 2 months of year-end activities and planning for January events in a very short 3 weeks 🫠

Very excited to see the increasing number of #ASH24 posts! Looking forward to connecting with everyone in San Diego later this week.

I've always lived in places where school fundraisers focused on silent auctions and selling wrapping paper. I like this option better.

Happy "pie for breakfast day" to all who celebrate.

Actually, the best time to start thawing your turkey was the day after Halloween.

Good morning to everyone trying to decide precisely how invested they are in cooking Thanksgiving this year.

In retrospect, using my computer's desktop as a catch-all for projects in progress was a mistake.

A little belated, but huge congrats to @petrapopovics.bsky.social for her SBUR Young Investigator award, plus a neat talk on her labs work on BPH. I've enjoyed seeing this project develop!

It's wild how quickly I've progressed from reading printed scientific papers to consuming scientific literature largely on my phone.

Evergreen conference skeet: Have I had too much caffeine or not enough caffeine?

I know there are some very clever ways to reconnect with folks I've previously followed in other places, but I'm really enjoying spontaneous and intentional rebuilding of my timeline.

I love everything about this sign.

Day 1 of my #inktober2024 project #CreativeCryptids is the dreaded Are You Done Yet-i. Terrifyingly annoying with all these questions about your productivity and whether you're making any progress. Sheesh. #sciart

1/Our preprint "A renewed call for open artificial intelligence in biomedicine" is now available! This commentary, led by Anthony Gitter, discusses the importance of data, code, and model sharing for further scientific progress and independent evaluation of claims in biomedical #AI 🧪🧬🖥️ #AcademicSky

New paper I'm extremely proud of: "Extended time, elevated expectations: The unappreciated downsides of pausing the tenure clock". We argue that extensions should be treated as a safety net, not insurance policy (1/6) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Too lazy to read it out loud? Word can read it out loud to you too!

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2y ago

One of the handiest editing tips I ever learned, and was genuinely *stunned* to discover how effective it was, was to simply read the text out loud during the editing process. It makes you read and say every word. I catch so many dropped words, misplaced words and incorrectly-spelled words that way.

The Hallmarks of Cancer Research 🧪

I'm willing to forgive a lot in TV shows, but I cannot forgive inaccurate travel times or ecosystems.

Nice opportunity!

Julie Pollock@julieapollock.bsky.social · 3y ago

Hello chemistry and biology higher education bluesky world. Do you know of anyone who is interested in a career at a primarily undergraduate institution? I want to make you aware of the Consortium for Faculty Diversity www.gettysburg.edu/offices/prov...

Freezing fog the past couple of nights has led to the most spectacular ice crystals.