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PhDs should adopt the same practice as the Pope and select a new name upon conferral: - Benedict, the Exhausted - Catherine, the Overcaffeinated - Pius, the Disillusioned

writing at the farmers market this morning

A McLuhan insight: as one tech environment gives way to a new one, the old environment will turn into "art." Just like the Romantics romanticized the agrarian way of life as England industrialized, we've started to romanticize the industrial and the electric analog way of life as

You care for 600 plants like a quiet forest of possibility. You measure, sample, record… until it all fits into labeled tubes. Every tube is a snapshot of a plant’s story. When you’ve touched every leaf, pipetted every drop… the data feels alive.

Interested in the science of language models but tired of neural scaling laws? Here's a new perspective: our new paper presents neural thermodynamic laws -- thermodynamic concepts and laws naturally emerge in language model training! AI is naturAl, not Artificial, after all.

"As we gain understanding, these results can become less stochastic by refining our experimental design. This isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. An updated theory of the case is science working not science breaking."

Wonderful advice from E. O. Wilson that I have tried to follow since I first read “Naturalist” in college.

feeling out of control. i must write many many many lists

The dream is ON rdcu.be/epF0N My second manuscript highlights the potential of endophytes of Sikkim, particularly actinomycetes against #MDR #MRSA & novelty #Sikkim #endophytes #actinomycetes #novelspecies

experiencing an alien Umwelt: i built a bat monitor (based on a design online) that heterodynes with a local oscillator to shift the ultrasonic pings into an audible range. It works!! I tried it last night and when a bat flew past I could hear a series of dolphin-like clicks!!

New #spotLight: Gauri Gharpure on hoverflies in the Himalayas Jonty Townson & Gauri Gharpure (National Centre for Biological Sciences) chat about about how the hoverfly Eristalis tenax tackles life across Himalayan elevations. Tune in to learn more about this fascinating work! youtu.be/WiMedwtzyus?si…

A new paper on an issue that has been discussed for more than a century -- how can fundamental biophysical constraints on nutrient transport be overcome to solve one of the most significant challenges associated with the evolution of multicellularity? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our paper on single-cell learning is now published in Current Biology! Wallace Marshall sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

i, for one, enjoy oppressive humidity. i love stepping outside & feeling like a carrot simmering in the great stew of the universe

📢#NCBS_StudentSpotlight! As part of her PhD, Shailya Verma found that compounds from pomegranate, mango & Japanese cornel dogwood may help fix faulty immune signals linked to diseases like lupus & arthritis 📹Christeen Paulson| Communications Office youtube.com/shorts/WMsL6YW…

Capitalism survives on dissatisfaction. If you woke up tomorrow and genuinely liked your face,your body, your home,your clothes the entire industries would collapse. The goal is to convince you that fulfillment is always one purchase away. Lose 10 pounds,buy this serum,get a

I love the idea of "micropublications" micropublication.org (preparing one now)

tbh this is the best article on feminism I've read in years. "Choice feminism is inherently deradicalizing — if your feminist framework uplifts all choices equally then it doesn’t really stand for anything at all." dailynexus.com/2025-04-24/put…

1/ No, you do not always need single-cell RNA-seq. Here's why bulk RNA-seq might still be the smarter move for your experiment.

I want to be a tradscientist. I just do experiments wearing old timey lab clothes and reject modern scientist roles like answering emails.