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/
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Pleased to share the final version of this behemoth of a paper, now finally published. I guess I can retire now?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More functional data, many thousands of words removed, and a few other updates from last year's preprint.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More functional data, many thousands of words removed, and a few other updates from last year's preprint.
February 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Pleased to share the final version of this behemoth of a paper, now finally published. I guess I can retire now?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More functional data, many thousands of words removed, and a few other updates from last year's preprint.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More functional data, many thousands of words removed, and a few other updates from last year's preprint.
What does a Mexican-Arab guy bring to the super bowl party? Homemade guacamole and hummus, of course.😄
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 PM
What does a Mexican-Arab guy bring to the super bowl party? Homemade guacamole and hummus, of course.😄
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Bawling my eyes out at this. THIS is why we need art and culture. THIS is why language and literacy is so important. It’s all there, to be gleaned. As he says, 400 years ago! Twas ever thus.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Bawling my eyes out at this. THIS is why we need art and culture. THIS is why language and literacy is so important. It’s all there, to be gleaned. As he says, 400 years ago! Twas ever thus.
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But, as they say, there is no time like the present
[OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick]
But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves!
2/3
[OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick]
But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves!
2/3
February 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
But, as they say, there is no time like the present
[OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick]
But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves!
2/3
[OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick]
But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves!
2/3
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
February 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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BEHOLD! The glyphosate-aluminum-fluoride complex! Found here:
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
February 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
BEHOLD! The glyphosate-aluminum-fluoride complex! Found here:
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
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First they came for the brown people, and I said nothing
Then they came for the white people and I said now hang on a minute gang this is pretty fucked up
Then they came for the white people and I said now hang on a minute gang this is pretty fucked up
January 25, 2026 at 7:59 PM
First they came for the brown people, and I said nothing
Then they came for the white people and I said now hang on a minute gang this is pretty fucked up
Then they came for the white people and I said now hang on a minute gang this is pretty fucked up
Members of my family have resorted to carrying their passports with them everywhere. I do, too. If you don’t understand why, or think we’re paranoid, or have never once thought to do the same, consider yourself lucky. I am so sick and tired of worrying about proving we belong here.
January 25, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Members of my family have resorted to carrying their passports with them everywhere. I do, too. If you don’t understand why, or think we’re paranoid, or have never once thought to do the same, consider yourself lucky. I am so sick and tired of worrying about proving we belong here.
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Well this about to be a disaster. Forget hESCs, hope nobody needs HEK cells or WI-38s or MRC-5s or or or 😩🧪
January 24, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Well this about to be a disaster. Forget hESCs, hope nobody needs HEK cells or WI-38s or MRC-5s or or or 😩🧪
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On this day 58 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his last speech on a college campus at Kansas State University. King didn’t have his speech written down, just notes. It was a powerful example of homiletics, the art of preaching without a script.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s final college speech was in a somewhat unlikely place: Kansas
Martin Luther King, Jr. would start 1968 — one of the most tumultuous years in American history — with an event at Kansas State University. Just months before his assassination, the speech was his last on a college campus.
www.kcur.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
On this day 58 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his last speech on a college campus at Kansas State University. King didn’t have his speech written down, just notes. It was a powerful example of homiletics, the art of preaching without a script.
why oh why is there yet another new biosketch format so soon. And with no obvious place to link your My Bibliography page??
January 17, 2026 at 3:27 AM
why oh why is there yet another new biosketch format so soon. And with no obvious place to link your My Bibliography page??
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OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...
www.federalregister.gov
December 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
nothing makes me prouder and happier after a seminar than ppl sharing their appreciation for careful, rigorous science. for me, it's one of the highest compliments.
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
nothing makes me prouder and happier after a seminar than ppl sharing their appreciation for careful, rigorous science. for me, it's one of the highest compliments.
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
