Mike Fainzilber
@mfainzilber.bsky.social
Molecular neuroscience, cell biology, aikido and haiku, not necessarily in that order.
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/Biomolecular_Sciences/Fainzilber/
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/Biomolecular_Sciences/Fainzilber/
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Mike Fainzilber
@mfainzilber.bsky.social
· Sep 30
“There are two races of men in this world, but only these two - the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man.”
- Viktor Frankl
- Viktor Frankl
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@gingraslab.bsky.social
compared 10 enzymes used for proximity biotinylation proteomics experiments. UltraID is the winner.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@gingraslab.bsky.social
compared 10 enzymes used for proximity biotinylation proteomics experiments. UltraID is the winner.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Benchmarking of proximity-dependent biotinylation enzymes across cellular compartments and time windows
Proximity-dependent biotinylation has become a powerful approach for mapping protein interactions and subcellular organization in living cells. Although a growing number of engineered biotin ligases h...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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@gingraslab.bsky.social
compared 10 enzymes used for proximity biotinylation proteomics experiments. UltraID is the winner.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@gingraslab.bsky.social
compared 10 enzymes used for proximity biotinylation proteomics experiments. UltraID is the winner.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our next #ForceTalk is Prof Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social on "Coping with mechanical stress: tissue dynamics during development, homeostasis and repair"
🗓️ 26 Nov 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online & open to all 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force-talk-yanlan-mao
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
🗓️ 26 Nov 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online & open to all 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force-talk-yanlan-mao
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
🧪 Excellent article by Michael Hiltzik of the L.A. Times - #Vaccines.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: Reaching a new low, CDC discards science in claims about vaccines and autism
Changing its web page, the CDC now promotes the myth that vaccines are linked to autism despite years of research refuting the claim.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🧪 Excellent article by Michael Hiltzik of the L.A. Times - #Vaccines.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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“ShipGoo” - new anaerobic food web living on grease in a confined space around ship rudders
www.reteuro.co.uk/24-168089-un...
“ShipGoo” - new anaerobic food web living on grease in a confined space around ship rudders
www.reteuro.co.uk/24-168089-un...
Unexpected discovery: a new life form emerges from the rudder of a research vessel
The R/V Blue Heron, a university research workhorse, went in for maintenance and came out with a mystery. A dark ooze streaking down the rudder stock
www.reteuro.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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“ShipGoo” - new anaerobic food web living on grease in a confined space around ship rudders
www.reteuro.co.uk/24-168089-un...
“ShipGoo” - new anaerobic food web living on grease in a confined space around ship rudders
www.reteuro.co.uk/24-168089-un...
"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man."
—Leonard Woolf
Via @economist.com quote of the day
—Leonard Woolf
Via @economist.com quote of the day
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man."
—Leonard Woolf
Via @economist.com quote of the day
—Leonard Woolf
Via @economist.com quote of the day
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An amoeba that can live at 63-63 C !!!
An amoeba that can live at 63-63 C !!!
A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690213v1
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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An amoeba that can live at 63-63 C !!!
An amoeba that can live at 63-63 C !!!
🧪 “We urge faculty members to cooperate in raising PSU citations and impact.”
Despite this, Diana Hicks told us, “it certainly feels like mandating metrics gaming and so would encourage a culture not focused on integrity.”
Exclusive: ‘Highly problematic’ policy has Saudi university pressuring faculty to cite its research
Prince Sultan University At Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia, faculty members must help raise their school’s academic standing not by doing impactful work, but by citing the institution’s r…
retractionwatch.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🧪 “We urge faculty members to cooperate in raising PSU citations and impact.”
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
suffer little children
the smell
of rotting rice
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
Published this Monday, but I am still tagging this one as a #SenryuSunday
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
the smell
of rotting rice
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
Published this Monday, but I am still tagging this one as a #SenryuSunday
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
suffer little children
the smell
of rotting rice
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
Published this Monday, but I am still tagging this one as a #SenryuSunday
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
the smell
of rotting rice
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
Published this Monday, but I am still tagging this one as a #SenryuSunday
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
Sometimes, as patients near the end of life, eliciting and fulfilling a simple wish can lead to acceptance and a peaceful death — a lesson absorbed by a physician during a week of ice cream.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Sometimes, as patients near the end of life, eliciting and fulfilling a simple wish can lead to acceptance and a peaceful death — a lesson absorbed by a physician during a week of ice cream.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A new selection carefully curated by editor extraordinaire David McMurray
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
November winter--the endless drizzle wears down the sleep--Claudia Brefeld (Bochum, Germany)
www.asahi.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A new selection carefully curated by editor extraordinaire David McMurray
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
absolutely LOVE this preprint on tricking LLMs using poetry:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
absolutely LOVE this preprint on tricking LLMs using poetry:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
—Voltaire
Via @economist.com quote of the day
—Voltaire
Via @economist.com quote of the day
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
—Voltaire
Via @economist.com quote of the day
—Voltaire
Via @economist.com quote of the day
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
econ.st
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
Science WITH Anguish?
Grant rejection today. It never stops hurting no matter how successful or how many you dealt with before (this is no. 57). Thanks to my team for helping me handle it today. 😀 Tomorrow we go on.
ECRs dealing with rejection: you are not alone! Hot tip: saying this helps me too!
Grant rejection today. It never stops hurting no matter how successful or how many you dealt with before (this is no. 57). Thanks to my team for helping me handle it today. 😀 Tomorrow we go on.
ECRs dealing with rejection: you are not alone! Hot tip: saying this helps me too!
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Science WITH Anguish?
Grant rejection today. It never stops hurting no matter how successful or how many you dealt with before (this is no. 57). Thanks to my team for helping me handle it today. 😀 Tomorrow we go on.
ECRs dealing with rejection: you are not alone! Hot tip: saying this helps me too!
Grant rejection today. It never stops hurting no matter how successful or how many you dealt with before (this is no. 57). Thanks to my team for helping me handle it today. 😀 Tomorrow we go on.
ECRs dealing with rejection: you are not alone! Hot tip: saying this helps me too!
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
I am on holiday in #Krakow #poland
The world doesn’t always end with thunder. Often it ends quietly, like when someone waters their flowers, or a child chases a butterfly.
Milosz asks us to pay attention to the small, ordinary moments that keep our humanity intact.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
The world doesn’t always end with thunder. Often it ends quietly, like when someone waters their flowers, or a child chases a butterfly.
Milosz asks us to pay attention to the small, ordinary moments that keep our humanity intact.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I am on holiday in #Krakow #poland
The world doesn’t always end with thunder. Often it ends quietly, like when someone waters their flowers, or a child chases a butterfly.
Milosz asks us to pay attention to the small, ordinary moments that keep our humanity intact.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
The world doesn’t always end with thunder. Often it ends quietly, like when someone waters their flowers, or a child chases a butterfly.
Milosz asks us to pay attention to the small, ordinary moments that keep our humanity intact.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
suffer little children
the smell
of rotting rice
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
Published this Monday, but I am still tagging this one as a #SenryuSunday
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
the smell
of rotting rice
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
Published this Monday, but I am still tagging this one as a #SenryuSunday
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
suffer little children
the smell
of rotting rice
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
Published this Monday, but I am still tagging this one as a #SenryuSunday
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
the smell
of rotting rice
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
Published this Monday, but I am still tagging this one as a #SenryuSunday
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
textile tariffs
the emperor’s
new clothes
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
the emperor’s
new clothes
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
textile tariffs
the emperor’s
new clothes
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
the emperor’s
new clothes
🙏 to Roberta Beach Jacobson (Robin) for featuring this one in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry
fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
The question is where is the phase separation? You may call cars liquids because at regime traffic can be described as a fluid. What have you learned?
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The question is where is the phase separation? You may call cars liquids because at regime traffic can be described as a fluid. What have you learned?
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
Though comedians in India may not be fined or jailed for every complaint, police are required to investigate, which means comedians spend time and money defending themselves. So why do they keep going?
Indian comedians have never been so successful or endangered
Jokesters lead the fight for free expression in India
econ.st
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Though comedians in India may not be fined or jailed for every complaint, police are required to investigate, which means comedians spend time and money defending themselves. So why do they keep going?
Reposted by Mike Fainzilber
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...