Steven L. Salzberg

Steven Salzberg

@stevensalzberg.bsky.social

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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostats at Johns Hopkins Univ., tennis player, @StevenSalzberg1 on Twitter, lab: salzberg-lab.org, Substack blog: stevensalzberg.substack.com

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Steven Lloyd Salzberg is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology. .. more

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 4d

How interesting that my 2016 invited talk on Open Science now has a DOI and a link to the talk (on YouTube) where anyone can watch it. If you or your students are interested, check it out - and thanks to F1000Research for making this accessible f1000research.com/slides/5-1701

Slide: Open source, open access, and open data: why science moves faster in an open world has been published by F1000Research.

Read this work by Salzberg SL, at F1000Research.

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 5d

no, go ahead and call him an idiot, it's well-deserved 😆

Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 6d

thanks @arking.bsky.social - did you have direct experience with this? I know the rules are still in place, but I'm wondering if anyone has experienced it for their own grants

Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 6d

does anyone have experience yet of whether NIH is permitting the standard 25% carry-over on grants from one year to the next? (Eg if <25% of budget is unspent in year N, this automatically gets carried over to year N+1.) Or do we need to spend 100% of our budget each year to avoid losing it?

Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 13d

Very pleased to see that 4 faculty from our Center for Computational Biology (incl 2 @jhu-bdps.bsky.social) are listed in @clarivateag.bsky.social 2025 #HighlyCitedResearchers: Mihaela Pertea, @mikeschatz.bsky.social, @timp0.bsky.social, and me clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 17d

great thread on Jim Watson from @jeremymberg.bsky.social, an insightful perspective

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17d

Bluetorial-Jim Watson

I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.

What follows is my personal perspective.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17d

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 23d

Our soon-to-be Surgeon General has some unscientific views. I have some thoughts about that... open.substack.com/pub/stevensa...

Dis-Functional Medicine in the Surgeon General's office

What the heck is Functional Medicine anyway?

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Dis-Functional Medicine in the Surgeon General's office

What the heck is Functional Medicine anyway? It appears that our next U.S. Surgeon General will be Casey Means, who labels herself a “functional medicine” doctor. Or maybe I should put “doctor” in quotes as well, because she doesn’t have a license to practice medicine, although she did graduate from Stanford medical school.

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 25d

In @elife.bsky.social, our OpenSpliceAI paper, led by @kuanhaochao.bsky.social, is now 'official' though it's been online since July. If you want to enjoy the reviewers' comments and our responses, check it out at: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

OpenSpliceAI provides an efficient modular implementation of SpliceAI enabling easy retraining across nonhuman species

OpenSpliceAI is an open, retrainable framework for splice site prediction that enables rapid, memory-efficient, cross-species analyses at scale with accuracy comparable to SpliceAI.

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 27d

My former mentor, colleague, and friend Hamilton Smith passed away this week. He was a giant in science, a Nobel Laureate, but also one of the nicest people you could ever meet. He will be missed by many. www.jcvi.org/media-center...

Remembering Hamilton O. Smith

Hamilton O. Smith August 31, 1931 – October 25, 2025 It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., a...

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · Oct 22

Wow indeed. This is a disaster for U.S. science in so many ways. We're losing the future.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Oct 21

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

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