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broadmpg.bsky.social @broadmpg.bsky.social · 8d

The recording of "Illuminate variant impact with images" by @drannecarpenter.bsky.social‬ and Runxi Shen is now available:
youtu.be/l8y00jKXJx4 This talk is part of @broadinstitute's MPG Primer series. For more info, check out broad.io/MPGPrimer

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 11d

In Somebody’s Daughter, I wrote about a middle school teacher who was super kind to me, and how he influenced me to expand on my preoccupation with reading by encouraging me to write as well. Earlier today, at the Indiana State Library, his adult daughter was in my nonfiction writing workshop 🥹

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

Again: if you are attending a meeting and start coughing or sneezing in response to an oncoming cold, excuse yourself. Or at least wear a damned mask.

Respect your colleagues.

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

www.latimes.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15d

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

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Pearl Freier @pearlf.bsky.social · 21d

Here's the link if u want 2 attend the AI & Data Sci panel
on Fri 9/19 w/speakers incl Enoch Huang, @drannecarpenter.bsky.social
Jeremy Jenkins, Enrique Garcia-Rivera. Listed after the keynote by Vertex SVP Mark Bunnage thebiotechclub.org/career-fair cc Boston Protein Design Club & @sokrypton.org

Annual Career Fair — GSAS Harvard Biotech Club

thebiotechclub.org

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Pearl Freier @pearlf.bsky.social · 26d

Pfizer's VP Machine Learning Enoch Huang, the Broad Institute's @drannecarpenter.bsky.social
Novartis VP Jeremy Jenkins, Formation Bio's
Head of Data Science Enrique Garcia-Rivera & Vertex alum Maria E. Morales are speakers on 9/19 AI & Data Sci panel at @harvardmed.bsky.social. Link is ⬇️ #biosky

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 28d

I want to start a new global movement:
Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Sep 2

After careful consideration of the current situation and the tools at our disposal at this present time, I have made the strategic decision to Lie Down For a Bit

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Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social · Aug 30

principal investigator component analysis

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · Aug 30

I feel like I need some sort of Buzzfeed-style quiz to determine where my personal level of eccentricity falls in faculty space.

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · Aug 30

More foundations should do this:

"Funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding rescinded due to federal administrative actions"

www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research

The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.

www.rwjf.org

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Casey Greene @casey.greenelab.com · Aug 30

Happy upcoming Pioneer Award Application Day to all who celebrate. I was mentioning that the best review comment I've ever gotten came from the related DP2 (New Innovator) mechanism. Enjoy this throwback to #GrantReviewGreatstHits as the deadline gets closer! May you all do better than I've done!

Negative grant review: "This is not a research application, it's a rambling discourse about contemporary issues in bioinformatics"

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!

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Joe Lanman @joelanman.bsky.social · Aug 26

Avery Edison
@aedison
I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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ˡˡᵉʷ @llewcid.bsky.social · Aug 21

A tweet from let's try calling me ‘november' @AliceAvizandum that reads:

FRANCE: we're fancy

WORLD: ok

FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch

WORLD:

FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · Aug 19

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...

Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · Jul 15

From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Aug 18

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.

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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · Aug 13

The order to restore grants applies to 300 NSF grants, not the NIH grant suspensions

Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Aug 13

BREAKING: A San Francisco-based judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore hundreds of science research grants to UCLA, more than a third of the $584 million in funds the government has cut: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump administration must restore hundreds of UCLA research grants, federal judge rules

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Trump administration to restore hundreds of frozen National Science Foundation research grants to UCLA.

www.latimes.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Aug 10

You can tell the world has gone to shit because last time I was at the dentist the hygienist asked me if I was regularly flossing and I said that I only do it sometimes and she was like yeah that’s fine I don’t really care

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Grace @gracekind.net · Aug 10

It’s just matrix multiplication

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 9

My Oxford Year. Had to tell my kids we’re just going to pretend he’s not her teacher for the rest of the movie because that’s just icky.

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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · Aug 8

$200 million from Columbia
$500 million from Harvard
$1 BILLION from UCLA?!

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · Aug 8

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Aug 7

Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:

‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments

Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

www.businessinsider.com

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · Aug 7

A paper from the JUMP Cell Painting Consortium presents image-based phenotypic profiles for 75% of the protein coding genome of human U-2 OS cells, offering a valuable resource for exploring gene relationships. @shantanu-singh.cc @drannecarpenter.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Niranj Chandrasekaran @niranjchandrasekaran.com · Aug 7

Morph Map is now published in Nature Methods. Excited to see what the community discovers with this resource mapping ~15,000 human genes!

rdcu.be/ezGre

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