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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14h

This was not a sample of academics.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 16h

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...

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

I’m calling Roki Sasaki the Dodgers closer even if Dave won’t.

I have seen enough.

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Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 8d

In Berkeley for a cpl days and couldn’t resist popping into the local used book store. Great finds!

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Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 8d

In Berkeley for a cpl days and couldn’t resist popping into the local used book store. Great finds!

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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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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 14d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 15d

My forever favorite

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15d

3. Greg Graffin of 'Bad Religion'

"Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell University and has lectured courses in natural sciences at both UCLA and at Cornell."

His work was on Ordovician vertebrates.

Bad Religion has sold 5 million albums worldwide.

A new locality of fossiliferous Harding Sandstone: evidence for freshwater Ordovician vertebrates

The Ordovician Harding Sandstone has played an important role in studies of the environment of the earliest types of “ostracoderms” (armored jawless fish-like vertebrates). Such studies have conc...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15d

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown?

Have you considered becoming a rock star?

It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪

Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16d

Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year)

(Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )

A graph showing NIH grant funding for fiscal years 2015-2024 and 2025 showing that fiscal year 2025 was lagging behind the pace from other years, but has been catching up in July and August.

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Stefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 18d

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

LLM “tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity” when writing news briefs.

arstechnica.com

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Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 26d

MP for microprotein. not a typo

Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 26d

having way too much fun with MP simulations

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Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 26d

1,000 likes if i could

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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 26d

Not replying to emails and being late on everything is apparently considered quirky and charming amongst colleagues. Faculty should not laugh this behavior off, normalize it, and enable. Being inconsiderate adds work for everyone else. Pointing out the behavior shouldn’t make me the jerk.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 28d

Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays

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Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · Sep 9

Not enough cinephiles among my followers

Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · Sep 9

Very disappointed in my kid's school PTA family movie night. I thought for sure we were going to watch Boogie Nights. They're not even showing a PTA movie at all! 😡

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Matrix Science @matrixscience.bsky.social · Sep 8

Probabilistic scoring of DIA matches without spectral deconvolution? Not only is it possible, we're working on implementing it in Mascot DIA.

www.matrixscience.com/blog/probabi...

#proteomics #massspec

Illustration of a DIA MS/MS spectrum with unidentified peaks (top) and labelled peaks for two identified peptides (middle and bottom).

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Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · Sep 7

RIP

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87

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Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just registered for #Pacifichem2025! Ready to talk #microproteins in Oahu 🏝️🐠😎🎅

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Sep 2

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

nyti.ms

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Noah Camras @noahcamras.bsky.social · Aug 16

Clayton Kershaw in Year 18 for the Dodgers:

77.2 IP
3.01 ERA

He's in the 2nd percentile in fastball velocity (89 mph) and 7th percentile in strikeout percentage, but is finding new ways to dominate at age 37.

What a special player.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

The remainder is due to the hardworking NIH grants management specialists and program officers getting awards released now that they are allowed to do their jobs.

Thanks for all of their efforts.

I will continue to track this going forward...

/fin

a brown bear is standing on its hind legs in a field and says `` thank you beary much '' .

ALT: a brown bear is standing on its hind legs in a field and says `` thank you beary much '' .

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · Aug 15

‘URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees. A double standard in how scholarly productivity is rewarded is also observed, with below-average h-indexes being judged more harshly for URM faculty than for non-URM faculty.’

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour

Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...

www.nature.com

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