Yo, biopeeps, try this instead. It be free and not whatever the actual fuck biorender decided to implement in its ToS. If we contribute to BioIcons we can be free of this IP extortion. bioicons.com

1) #TSTTPD is a piercingly vulnerable window into the 2022-2023 psyche of the biggest star in the world. It has some *really* good songs. I think it might be the most interesting lyrical product she’s ever put out. And it is, objectively, not her best album. Bear with me.

7) Fortnight is great. Down Bad is Downright Badass. Smallest Man Who Ever Lived is INTENSE. The breaths. The low register voice. Mercy. You believe her when she talks about the loss of her life. Clara Bow is clever af. Hearing there are a few even better ones coming.

the double album anthology version of ttpd has a song called cassandra!!!!!! a greek mythology reference!!!!!! sooooo let's talk about ittttttt

History made! On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department was the first album in Spotify history to have over 300M streams in a single day.

1/42 New preprint: turns out MuLTEE is not only the longest running multicellularity evolution experiment (1000 days and counting), but also the longest running polyploidy evolution experiment! It reveals how whole-genome duplication (WGD) arises and impacts long-term evolution.

can’t believe i just got a twitter ad for my own graduate advisor but hopefully i’m far away enough from research academia to say this: stay the hell away from this man. especially if you are a woman. especially if you are a POC. this man ruins careers. DM’s open.

One more reason we need proteomics - to understand the impact of genetic diversity. The transcriptome alone does not provide a full enough pictures about gene expression differences. Great colleaboration with Joseph Schacherer 's team. More to follow soonish pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Excited to announce our TIPS_SPIIE 4-year award of $21 million to build a rapid-response active learning-enhanced pipeline to accelerate #antibioticdiscovery. 15 Team members, 8 academic institutions & 12 public and private partners. More later. Faculté de médecine IRIC

In my review, I made a list of much science that happened bc AlphaFold2 code was released. I suggested that so much science will not happen if AlphaFold3 code is not released (or not with AF3 itself). We've made ~100k models with AF2 code. How could we use a server for all that?

My four Nicod lectures (from December 2023) are now online here: Lecture I: Modularity of Mind and Brain and the Case of the FFA savoirs.ens.fr/expose.php?id=… Lecture II: What Other Mental Functions get Their Own Private Patch of Real Estate in the Brain ? savoirs.ens.fr/expose.php?id=… ...

Protein structures reveal incredible mechanisms, but system-level questions were tough. How much can you generalize from one protein at a time? With AlphaFold that's changed. We predicted 11k enzymes and explore how evolution shaped them #AlphaFold tinyurl.com/mryk6app

We thought there wasn't much new to learn about the cell cycle. Turns out we were wrong! Our paper (out today nature) identifies a novel alternative cell cycle that regulates differentiation, not cell division. tinyurl.com/4a6yeuke. 1/10

OUT NOW 👉 This marine bacterium captures peptigoflycan fragments from other cells and uses them to build its own cell wall nature.com/articles/s4156…

The world has long noticed this. Which is why, painful as that is to me, fundamental physics -- theory development in particular -- has become a joke in the eyes of many. I see this every time I talk about quantum gravity or dark matter or particle physics: People think it's all

Invitamos cordialmente a las familias que viven alrededor de Ciudad Universitaria de la @UAdeC para que inscriban a sus hijas y hijos en el #Curso_Verano_Ciencia_Divertida para las y los niños de 6 a 12 años. El curso es gratuito y con cupo limitado 1/2.

Another reminder that E. coli K12 (or insert type strain of your favourite bacteria here) doesn't represent all E. coli (more on this theme from us soon). This is a really interesting study showing that Tet works differently in two strains of E. coli nature.com/articles/s4146…

New posting! I’m less than a year into my new scientific career in the #biotech/#pharma sector, and the biggest difference with #academia is already clear: it’s the money. But not, as you might think, in terms of salary…👇 totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2024/06/16/fol…

So she was first author on his key paper - in fact she's on most of his key papers, yet she didn't get the Nobel Prize, in spite of the fact they could have given 3 awards, not just 2. Explain to me how STEM is not institutionally sexist.

Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/