'US science is suffering a destruction from within.'
Andrea Sella explains why he returned the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday prize over their inaction regarding Elon Musk’s membership. #ChemSky #SciSky #ScienceSky

The UK government has announced an £86 billion boost to research and innovation funding over the next four years to help fund new drug treatments, longer-lasting batteries and new breakthroughs in AI.

Can we predict a crystal structure from first principles? This feature explores how computational chemistry is tackling one of materials science’s most complex problems — and where the limits still lie.

The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today. It was an act of delicate diplomacy, which delivered peace and security to a part of our country where those qualities had long been absent. Those achievements should never be taken for granted.

Margaret Dayhoff, bioinformatics pioneer and creator of protein and nucleic acid databases, was born #OTD in 1925. She also produced the one-letter codes for amino acids that are still used today.

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During the first Trump administration, Congress repeatedly stepped in to prevent significant cuts to key research agencies like the NSF and the NIH. But this time around, don't bet on history repeating.
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Brexit was pushed through by lies. The Sun lied about benefits tourism. Later, it printed this pathetically small apology.

The government should force all news media to print apologies for falsehoods in a form that makes them as visible to the public as the original lie.

⚠️WORST FLU SEASON ever since 2002-2003 when we began to track flu. Worst hit this year are children ages 0-4 and 5-17. ▶️We also have significantly LOWER flu vaccine uptake this year, one of the lowest flu vaccine coverages.

Woof

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Will AI revolutionise drug design and discovery? Not the parts that count, says @dereklowe.bsky.social. Biology doesn’t care whether a drug was designed by a human or an algorithm, and there is no AI yet that can competently predict clinical trial outcomes.
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