Neil Voss

@neilvosslab.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Biology, Roosevelt University (Chicago) Grant-funded Open Educational Resources (OER) Developer Inactive CryoEM Developer & Protein Geometry Researcher Lego Artist | Member of Northern Illinois Lego Train Club (NILTC)

I watched a Companion (2025) and Obsession (2026) double feature last night. I am going to rank Bear as worse than Josh. Josh at least wasn’t trying to be fake. Bear’s reaction to the “please kill me” moment was unforgivable.

Wow, the level of “shoot first, ask questions later” of this scientist hoping to gain notoriety without considering the costs. My jaw was on the floor reading this

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Seven days after the girl’s medical team infused trillions of viruses carrying the recipe for the base editor into her spinal fluid, she died of a severe immune reaction linked to the therapy…” This, in @science.org, is an important and tragic story. (It’s also an incredibly well reported one.) 🧪

I have been really enjoying GPT 5.6 Sol; and because I cannot use fable for anything related to biology (my job). I decided to cancel my claude code max subscription and boost my openAI codex subscription to max

Fable rejection email from the Anthropic's Safeguards Team

Part 1/2: Seemingly every year, I question whether I should switch to PEP 8's recommendation of using spaces in my Python code instead of tabs. I've been using tabs ever since I started coding in Python around 2006. This post pretty much sums up my opinion on tabs: stackoverflow.com/a/5048130

Why does Python pep-8 strongly recommend spaces over tabs for indentation?

I see on Stack Overflow and PEP 8 that the recommendation is to use spaces only for indentation in Python programs. I can understand the need for consistent indentation and I have felt that pain. ...

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