What is the state of academic science? It’s hard to tell with so many unobservables… so, we ran a big survey at ~150 US institutions to generate new findings about professors and their research. Our first draft is out with 7 key (preliminary) results using this new data:

Craziest freakin’ theory I’ve ever heard is that the microtubules in our brains are highly structured within pyramidal neurons And that this pyramidal chamber insulates the environment enough to support quantum coherent processes Crazy stuff I know

Would you prefer to lead a lab alone or together with a science buddy? How interesting would be a research institute where joint labs are the standard?!

An MIT professor just asked me, how can you be so confident that OpenAI isn’t very close to AGI? Here is a thread of links to a several recent observations that I think show how far we are from robust intelligence. Importantly, all of them are *known* problems, many that I

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research go.nature.com/4gclXG0

Why Many Bioinformaticians Struggle in Industry 🧵 1/ The Hardest Skill in Bioinformatics? It’s not coding. It’s not stats. A hiring manager told me their biggest challenge: finding bioinformaticians who can talk to biologists. Here’s why.👇

Want to learn how complex enzyme assemblies evolve? Read this comprehensive study from our group, available as a preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Coming soon to a journal you like! Tata Institute of Fundamental Research DBS TIFR

Why do living organisms need sleep? A new theory suggests that myelin acts as a proton capacitor, accumulating energy during sleep. 🧵1/12

10 courses to get you started with bioinformatics 🧵 Bookmark! 1/ rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/pages/harvardx… by the almighty Rafa

Using LLMs to build AI scientists is all the rage now (e.g., Google’s AI co-scientist [1] and Sakana’s Fully Automated Scientist [2]), but how much do we understand about their core scientific abilities? We know how LLMs can be vastly useful (solving complex math problems) yet

5 papers all computational biologists should read 🧵 1. A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

From roots to blooms, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research gardening team’s creativity knows no bounds! Happy Independence Day! 🫡