Hopkins sent out a fairly obvious phishing attempt as a training email, and it's rather distressing that there's now a thread in the JHU subreddit full of people complaining about getting caught by it and being required to take anti-phishing training.

CMU biophysicists are flipping the script on cell membrane dynamics. They’ve developed a new theoretical framework that links membrane stress to lipid flip-flop, uncovering a key driver of membrane asymmetry. 🧪⚛️ www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

CMU Researchers Capture the Randomness of Lipid Flip-Flopping

Cell membranes are dynamic, two-sided structures made of asymmetric lipid layers. While lipids can randomly flip-flop from one layer to the other, membrane proteins sort lipids between the two sides. ...

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Oh boy, I better go find a phone book!

It's so funny to read a (science fiction/fantasy) novel written in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and get to a chapter that's just a completely undisguised complaint about how annoying this newfangled "TSA" is.

This sums up the frantic and coerced deployment of "AI" throughout public and private sectors. Results of even cursory audits are horrifying every time, invariably paired with forced adoption and retaliation for asserting professional norms. Colonialism is a cherry on top.

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 4w ago

Mayo Clinic’s former director of research operations alleges she was sidelined, then terminated, for raising objections over lax standards of studies involving AI.

When you're rapidly approaching the grant deadline and finally have a complete draft

Paper Squidward Reacts to Paper

Alt: Disheveled, not-okay Squidward kisses a stack of papers

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Watching a required university training video and... is Sameer here living in Cyberpunk 2077?

Is there a nice (standardized) way to indicate or hint at the integration measure of the functional when writing down a functional derivative? I find it annoying that I can't deduce the units of a functional derivative at a glance the same way I can for ordinary derivative expressions

Is there a nice (standardized) way to indicate or hint at the integration measure of the functional when writing down a functional derivative? I find it annoying that I can't deduce the units of a functional derivative at a glance the same way I can for ordinary derivative expressions

The 4th of July. Reservoir Hill. Baltimore, MD. 2026.

Homescreen weather widget was not designed with this weather in mind

In terms of both eh direct costs and indirect effects, we've spent 3 times the NIH budget on the fucking war with Iran, and instead of cures all we got was 5 dollar per gallon gas and the loss of all our allies

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · last mo.

The NIH is an ENORMOUS bargain for the American people. Do folk think that private industry will do the background slog work for drug discovery for 250K direct costs?

Article by Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels about the value of academic research and the highly productive partnership between academic institutions and the federal government. Read it here: www.science.org/eprint/VXUK8...

Apparently autonomous teams of engineers require significantly higher capability than autonomous teams of researchers, for some reason. Setting aside whatever units "capability" is supposed to have. Inverse hallucinations? Fizzbuzzes/minute?

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · last mo.

At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.

What if instead of a grant proposal, I could just put together a packet of all the scribbled down notes on random science ideas I've had and then the reviewer just picks the one they want to fund. I think it would save us both a lot of time.

On the bright side, though, this is my 100th citation according to google scholar!

Sam Foley@samuelfoley.com · last mo.

I like to peruse the papers that have cited my work to get an idea of who finds it interesting and useful. For the first time, I've gotten a citation from what seems to be a review-style article chock full of AI-generated figures. In a (supposedly) peer-reviewed journal with a modest impact factor.

I like to peruse the papers that have cited my work to get an idea of who finds it interesting and useful. For the first time, I've gotten a citation from what seems to be a review-style article chock full of AI-generated figures. In a (supposedly) peer-reviewed journal with a modest impact factor.

Clicking "Access Through Your Institution" on an article's webpage and being assaulted by the flashing lights of 8 half-pageloads and redirects in the span of two seconds Then being returned to the same page with no PDF download link and an "Access Through Your Institution" button

Mesmerizing waves that seem to move in slow motion at a water-cyclosiloxane interface.

📣 Hear! Hear! 🦋 Behold this Bluetorial on a cool paper written with my PhD student Nathaniel Wesnak 🧪 If you want to dive into the rabbit hole of lipid flop-flop and its description as a stochastic process—here’s your TEASER TRAILER on some flippin’ awesome work: doi.org/10.1063/5.03... 1/26

Stochastic process description of lipid flip-flop

Since lipid bilayers are self-assembled macroscopic aggregates, their constituent lipid molecules can spontaneously transition between the two leaflets. This so

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"How was the simulation time step decided?"

Oh no I accidentally posted a comment that turned out to be a hot take and now my notifications are exploding

Even all the way in Baltimore, if you aren't watching the game, you still find out the Knicks won by people screaming in the street.

Just checked and Firefox still suggests that I might mean "clarinet-mediated endometriosis" whenever I type "clathrin-mediated endocytosis"

Fran Bottanelli@franbottanelli.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is outrageous that word still does not recognize the word “clathrin”

🧪⚛️ Our paper is finally published in Phys Rev Research! doi.org/10.1103/cnfz... Can cells make decisions using equilibrium physical principles, without resorting to irreversible, energy-consuming signaling cascades? We say yes, with the help of self-assembling membrane proteins! 🧵(1/7)

Self-assembly can help cells make decisions: see Sam's awesome work!

Sam Foley@samuelfoley.com · 2mo ago

🧪⚛️ Our paper is finally published in Phys Rev Research! doi.org/10.1103/cnfz... Can cells make decisions using equilibrium physical principles, without resorting to irreversible, energy-consuming signaling cascades? We say yes, with the help of self-assembling membrane proteins! 🧵(1/7)

🧪⚛️ Our paper is finally published in Phys Rev Research! doi.org/10.1103/cnfz... Can cells make decisions using equilibrium physical principles, without resorting to irreversible, energy-consuming signaling cascades? We say yes, with the help of self-assembling membrane proteins! 🧵(1/7)

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.