First day of 21st grade today

if someone has the attitude of "i suffered so you must suffer", red flag i've managed to avoid toxic ppl in my career by not working with this archetype of academic

I went to a talk during MIT’s career fair week circa 2017 where the speaker strongly made the case that over the next decade we would see an extreme oversupply of people with CS backgrounds but an extreme undersupply in domain experts with CS skills.

I love that I work in a lab that cites papers from 1934. Latest from Page Lab Whitehead Institute wi.mit.edu/news/establish…

We made the cover of Genome Research! Check out our latest paper on DDX3X and DDX3Y - the first X-Y gene pair with cross regulatory capabilities (genome.cshlp.org/content/35/1/2…).

realest sign MIT is back in session

Back tweeting to say: I heard there was a biotech that made skis/parts out of algae? True? If I didn’t hallucinate this can someone lmk

Our story “A torpor-like state in mice (TLS) slows blood epigenetic aging and prolongs healthspan” is now out: nature.com/articles/s4358… Big congrats to Lorna Jayne, Aurora Lavin-Peter, and Julian Roessler, and thanks to Prof Steve Horvath, Vijay Sankaran, Vadim Gladyshev, and others.

Long layover in London otw to Poland next week would love to meet folks in tech/biotech :) — dm me

The Volkswagen Foundation has a new "Night Science" funding mechanism (!) for "teams of 2 researchers who inspire, complement and challenge each other. The aim is to create a space in which new approaches can emerge - without the pressure to produce immediate results." AMAZING!

If 350 donors give to the School of Science today, MIT Biology alumna Dyann Wirth, PhD ’78, will make a $100,000 gift. Help us secure the future of fundamental discovery today!

Check out the latest work led by Matthew Hall in the Bartel lab! Matt solved a long-standing mystery about miRNA targeting, and drove the story to impressive mechanistic detail (1/2)

New review out today in Nature Biotech on nanopore-based protein sequencing. Feels... like... something... coming... soon... 👀

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Spending hours tweaking aspect ratios on a ggplot is the next billion dollar problem

Check out Whitehead Institute's symposium – AI: Advancing Foundational Biology – today (Tuesday, April 8), from 2-5:00 p.m., followed by a poster session and reception at 5 p.m. Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Director Caroline Uhler will be keynoting at 2:15 p.m. Learn more: calendar.mit.edu/event/ai-advan…

More exciting results for AI binder design 🧬 New work from the Ovchinnikov Lab at MIT builds on the open-source Boltz1 structure prediction model (from another MIT lab) for in silico design of a wide variety of binders. For computational benchmarks, appears to outperform

The people rejoicing the downfall of academia don’t understand how screwed we are going to be if it actually crumbles

You’re in great hands America! Here are the 2025 Harvard/MIT MD-PhD graduates who have dedicated their lives to providing the best care to your families & delivering you medical cures from their groundbreaking science. NIH Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD HHS.gov Secretary Kennedy Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

We need experimental abundance in bioengineering. So much of biological science is trying to squeeze as much learning as possible out of a very small amount of raw experimental data -- because making that data is insanely expensive. We're hitting the limits of that approach --