Excited to partner with Anthropic on using AI for #RareDisease, and grateful for support on building the @monarchinitiative.bsky.social DisMech pathomechanism knowledge base! #MedSky #GeneSky

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're offering grants of up to $50,000 in Claude usage credits to researchers accelerating cures for rare diseases. This is our first focused call within AI for Science, our program supporting scientists using Claude to speed up discovery. https://www.anthropic.com/news/rare-disease-research-grants

Attending #ISMB2026? Check out the #BOSC2026 keynotes and panels: Keynote 1: Maryam Zaringhalam Keynote 2: Eric Green Panel 1: Policies and Strategies for Resilient Open Science Panel 2: Open Source in the Age of AI More info: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

BOSC 2026

Since 2000, BOSC has covered all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science. BOSC 2026, the 27th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, will take place July 14-15 in Washington, DC,...

open-bio.org

If you are attending #ISMB2026 you can hear @severaltimes.bsky.social's presentation at the Function COSI on our use of agentic AI to do this!

'Phil was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology, where he created the beloved Ten Simple Rules series. He was so prolific in the series that the meta-article “Ten Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules Article” literally includes, as Rule 4: “Be Philip E. Bourne.”

Remembering Phil Bourne

Personal reflections on a legendary scientist, leader, builder, and mentor

blog.stephenturner.us

Music for today is Greg Haines - Slumber Tides open.spotify.com/album/7cpUOM...

Whenever I see variations of the "Dependency" comic by xkcd (xkcd.com/2347/), I always feel it's actually more like this:

What is that rule about questions in headlines and how they can nearly always be answered with "No"? Or is that the entire rule? generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google...

news.spencer.place/p/alive-inte...

Good news, for now www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Judge orders Trump administration to restore more than $500 million in research funds to UCLA

The decision marked a major win for the beleaguered UC system, which is facing a $1 billion demand to restore the funding.

politico.com

Music for today is Lauren Bousfield - Palimpsest open.spotify.com/album/34Vo08...

Palimpsest - Album by Lauren Bousfield | Spotify

Lauren Bousfield · album · 2020 · 13 songs

open.spotify.com

A use case for Vibrio phages? That is, if we aren't worried about seeding the oceans with exogenous viruses

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.

Vibrio?!

"The suspended NSF grants, a list of which Science obtained from an agency source, span work from computer science and plasma physics to the measurement of volatile compounds created by this year’s Los Angeles fires." By @dangaristo.bsky.social in @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA

Move follows Trump administration finding that school didn’t effectively combat antisemitism

science.org

I can’t begin to enumerate the ways the Corporation for Public Broadcasting made my life better, literally from my earliest memories until today. This is gut wrenching.

Ben Mullin@benmullin.bsky.social · last yr.

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

more than a year ago, the lancet put this out, now seemingly lost to the collective memory: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

thelancet.com

If you work in the sciences and are hesitant about using generative AI, let me suggest this minimal application: please please use it to make a unique, searchable name for your next project

The 2010 paper claiming arsenic-based life has been retracted by Science today. 🧪

Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication

A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.

livescience.com

NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.

@bosc.bsky.social begins at #ismb2025 !

Amos Bairoch keynote at #ismb2025 - biocuration is still very relevant, though it's unfortunate that it's still so necessary

On my way to #ismb2025

Japanese fireworks catalogue circa 1880

Hello bot! @bokbot.bsky.social

Indiana University, home of one of the best cognitive science programs in the world, appears to be cancelling its undergrad cog sci program. Fascist ghouls continuing their horrid torrent of destruction.

Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · last yr.

IU has the oldest Folklore Department in the country--no longer a major. Cognitive Science? gone! PhD programs also sacrificed. Full list here: www.in.gov/che/files/In...

Today, I'm back to thinking about generative AI as a spooky technology

Free expression is a hallmark of the First Amendment. All our rights are in jeopardy when trans peoples’ freedom to exist is undermined.

*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO

Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting

The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO.

politico.com

Time to bring back Asimov's laws of robotics I guess

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last yr.

How escalatory of an AI chatbot will our governments choose? Researchers found they were more likely to recommend escalation for countries like the US, UK, or France, and less likely for China or Russia.

U.S. attorney demands scientific journal explain how it ensures 'viewpoint diversity' Letter raised concerns it was designed to suppress academic and scientific freedom. @evanbush.bsky.social reports @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

NEW: The entire NIH payment system is currently frozen for all grantees. This is tied to DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” caper, reported in today’s Post, which has already led to payment cutoffs to doctors and health workers at hospitals treating the poor.