I’m back. I’m back on Twitter (which is its only name). I have left AI in charge of the universe; you’ll notice the improvement. I’m back, with less respect for you than ever. And just like before, My nephew is my only follow. Spread the word, bastards.

Yet more evidence that OpenAI's only hope for profitability is somehow working advertising into ChatGPT outputs. The business problems are even worse than I thought... wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

It's Nobel week, so—after a break last year when this account became a Karikó stan account—I am reposting my annual plea to give Lipman and Myers a Nobel Prize for creating BLAST substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/luisp…

Sad to hear the great David Burnham died. In addition to his spectacular reporting, he founded the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, one of the first great sources of open data. A true hero. nytimes.com/2024/10/05/nyr…

Interesting take on genAI in the hands of writers newyorker.com/culture/annals…

Now there's a good application! science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

Come do a postdoc with me! aiscience.uchicago.edu

"I am particularly proud of one of my students who fired Sam Altman."

Happy 10th birthday Open Targets! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has worked to make Open Targets what it is today. Here's to the next 10! 🥂 #OpenTargetsAt10

Ed Yong has such a great heart, mind, and soul.  And he shares them so well. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/ed…

Subtle but serious damage from using AI tools. Be careful out there!

“However clever you think cells are, they are almost always far cleverer” Lewis Wolpert #CellsRUs #NotInTheGenes

Let's also give credit to Tom Koetzel who established the PDB and ran it for decades, the DOE Brookhaven Nation Laboratory that provided a home for the resource, and legendary program officer John Wooley who shepherded it through many uncertain funding cycles

"Most perpetrators of scientific misconduct... face little in the way of consequences, while those... who seek to expose it find themselves attacked online and threatened with lawsuits" 2021 #MaddoxPrize winner Elisabeth Bik for ResearchProfessional 2024 winners announced 6 Nov👇

Recognizing the women scientists who laid the groundwork for recent #AI The Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics —Helen Berman, who started the Protein Data Bank, used for #AlphaFold (Demis Hassabis and John Jumper) nature.com/articles/d4158… —Fei-Fei Li who built ImageNet, foundation

Without my abortion I wouldn't be the person, wife, mother, and physician I am today. I am voting because every woman deserves the self determination that the younger me got.

Are you a recent Ph.D. (or about to finish) interested in doing a postdoc with me at the University of Chicago? This program might be just the ticket. Applications due Dec 18. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/research/chica…

Hey Associate Deans, Please please please come to bsky!

This was a historic moment. The largest convening of #Indigenous geneticists, data scientists, physicians to include other national leaders at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's science think tank, the Banbury Institute @cshlbanbury, to discuss Indigenous reference #genomes and

Go Nell!