Dr. Thomas Martínez
@thomasmartinez.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Pharmaceutical Sciences #UCIrvine | Studying #microprotein and #peptide biology in cancer and metabolism | #FirstGen | #LAnative | 🇵🇸🇲🇽-🇺🇸 | https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/martinezlab/
just found out that this garbage AI-slop paper was published in MCP...before I had even submitted my reviewer response to a DIFFERENT journal. And still has the nonsense AI figure in the MCP version! Awful.
What in the AI-slop did I just have to review? Authors and editors need to do better. People are already having to wait months for papers to be reviewed and then to waste people's time on such lazy garbage is ridiculous. It severely harms science.
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
just found out that this garbage AI-slop paper was published in MCP...before I had even submitted my reviewer response to a DIFFERENT journal. And still has the nonsense AI figure in the MCP version! Awful.
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Another new policy from the geniuses in NIH leadership.
Apparently, ~70% of grant applications for most mechanisms will not be "triaged", i.e. not discussed at study section.
This is an increase from the ~50% level that has been in place for many years.
I don't know the rationale for this
1/13
Apparently, ~70% of grant applications for most mechanisms will not be "triaged", i.e. not discussed at study section.
This is an increase from the ~50% level that has been in place for many years.
I don't know the rationale for this
1/13
a man with a beard is looking at the camera with the words priorities written on the bottom
ALT: a man with a beard is looking at the camera with the words priorities written on the bottom
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November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Another new policy from the geniuses in NIH leadership.
Apparently, ~70% of grant applications for most mechanisms will not be "triaged", i.e. not discussed at study section.
This is an increase from the ~50% level that has been in place for many years.
I don't know the rationale for this
1/13
Apparently, ~70% of grant applications for most mechanisms will not be "triaged", i.e. not discussed at study section.
This is an increase from the ~50% level that has been in place for many years.
I don't know the rationale for this
1/13
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OK but Juan Gabriel > Bad Bunny www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Before Bad Bunny, the World Had Juan Gabriel
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November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
OK but Juan Gabriel > Bad Bunny www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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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.
1/41
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.
1/41
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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.
1/41
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.
1/41
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Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
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Aaaaaaaand here come the fireworks in LA!
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Aaaaaaaand here come the fireworks in LA!
Amazing 🤩🤩
BACK. TO. BACK.
The Dodgers are the first team to repeat as World Series champions since the 1998 to 2000 New York Yankees.
The Dodgers are the first team to repeat as World Series champions since the 1998 to 2000 New York Yankees.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Amazing 🤩🤩
Video game break your controller nonsense. Unreal 🤯🤯
Shohei Ohtani plays the greatest baseball game of all time:
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Shohei Ohtani Plays The Greatest Baseball Game Of All Time | Defector
Shohei Ohtani creates a world in which there are no stupid questions. Could there ever be a two-way player in the majors? Could he become an elite power hitter and a frontline starter? Could he recove...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Video game break your controller nonsense. Unreal 🤯🤯
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The NLCS isn’t over yet, but if it concludes in LA be on the lookout for a bunch of baseball media types that published a predictions picking the Brewers to beat the Dodgers in this series suddenly and ardently believe that it was literally impossible for 98-win MIL to compete because money.
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The NLCS isn’t over yet, but if it concludes in LA be on the lookout for a bunch of baseball media types that published a predictions picking the Brewers to beat the Dodgers in this series suddenly and ardently believe that it was literally impossible for 98-win MIL to compete because money.
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Yes, AI can accelerate the building off discoveries but human creativity as a force of true discovery is still unmatched. Let’s acknowledge the role of others who came before us, those that still work in the ecosystem even if they do not get the accolades, and those we are training 4/
October 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Yes, AI can accelerate the building off discoveries but human creativity as a force of true discovery is still unmatched. Let’s acknowledge the role of others who came before us, those that still work in the ecosystem even if they do not get the accolades, and those we are training 4/
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
Amazing😎
Absolutely brutal way for the Phillies to lose, Dodgers win the series
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Amazing😎
What in the AI-slop did I just have to review? Authors and editors need to do better. People are already having to wait months for papers to be reviewed and then to waste people's time on such lazy garbage is ridiculous. It severely harms science.
October 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
What in the AI-slop did I just have to review? Authors and editors need to do better. People are already having to wait months for papers to be reviewed and then to waste people's time on such lazy garbage is ridiculous. It severely harms science.
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This was not a sample of academics.
How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*
1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%
*across all windows, on desktop/laptop
yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...
1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%
*across all windows, on desktop/laptop
yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...
October 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This was not a sample of academics.
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I’m calling Roki Sasaki the Dodgers closer even if Dave won’t.
I have seen enough.
I have seen enough.
October 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I’m calling Roki Sasaki the Dodgers closer even if Dave won’t.
I have seen enough.
I have seen enough.
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In Berkeley for a cpl days and couldn’t resist popping into the local used book store. Great finds!
October 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In Berkeley for a cpl days and couldn’t resist popping into the local used book store. Great finds!
In Berkeley for a cpl days and couldn’t resist popping into the local used book store. Great finds!
October 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In Berkeley for a cpl days and couldn’t resist popping into the local used book store. Great finds!
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It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit.
You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.
You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.
August 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit.
You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.
You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.
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HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
September 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Openness means more than access.
We’re pleased to announce that we now publish Replication Studies, helping make science more reliable, transparent, and trustworthy.
buff.ly/Gebypvq
We’re pleased to announce that we now publish Replication Studies, helping make science more reliable, transparent, and trustworthy.
buff.ly/Gebypvq
September 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Openness means more than access.
We’re pleased to announce that we now publish Replication Studies, helping make science more reliable, transparent, and trustworthy.
buff.ly/Gebypvq
We’re pleased to announce that we now publish Replication Studies, helping make science more reliable, transparent, and trustworthy.
buff.ly/Gebypvq