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Hey search committees, requiring letters of recommendation prior to an interview is wasteful. The competitive job market means applying to 30+ jobs. It’s not fair to my LORs, especially if you aren’t serious about hiring me. Continued in comments

The single greatest misunderstanding about science by the public is that scientists solve problems; in reality, scientists are primarily concerned with creating them.

I am appalled by Hebrew University 's decision to slash salaries of its T.A.s by hundreds of dollars (without reducing workload). The lack of warning (or negotiation) adds insult to injury. This damages education, research, and mental health. I'll explain how. 1/5

🦠 What I wish I'd known in year 1 about keeping track of samples in the lab: A thread about what has actually worked for me 🧵 (works for phages, bacteria, plasmids, any pesky shape-shifting biological entities!)

This is great! NIAID News have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) bioart.niaid.nih.gov

⚠️Here’s yet another option other than BioRender! ⚠️ 📢 SciDraw is a free repository of high quality drawings of animals, scientific setups, and anything that might be useful for scientific presentations and posters. 🔁❤️Free Science! RIP BioRender!!

My guidelines for exploratory data analysis

A new biopolymer-based, reusable, and biodegradable foam absorbed microplastics in water with an efficiency of up to 99.9% in its first use, researchers report in Science Advances. bit.ly/3Z72n7J

"That got me hooked on computers and AI for the rest of my life." 2024 chemistry laureate Demis Hassabis describes how playing chess competitively at the age of four led him to becoming an AI programmer. From there he went on to solve big problems in biology, developing an AI

The gut microbiome signature from different diets in >20,000 individuals. Red meat intake correlated with reduced cardiometabolic health; the opposite for plant-based foods or in omnivores with enriched plant-based intake nature.com/articles/s4156… Nature Microbiology Nicola Segata

"an atmosphere of enthusiasm, lucid criticism, nonconformism, and friendship" ❤️

🔥New Night Science paper!! Discovery happens when your initial plans fall apart but it requires you to have a particular mindset: it's not extraverted, orderly, neurotic or agreeable that's the most important – discovery requires an OPENNESS to new ideas and unexpected insights.

Narcissistic leaders are more appealing to young people with low self-esteem. When we’re insecure, we often gravitate to big egos to fill the void. Supporting them makes us feel special—and makes them feel less threatened. It's time to stop mistaking confidence for competence.

World IBD Day, May 19th!

#PostDoc Thinking about which impactful directions would be exciting to go next, I feel the challenge of reaching out to PIs, to discuss science first. Emails without a prior connection feel clumsy and often do not work. It would be nice to have a platform for this...

Why not have more of this? I don't see the reason to calcify press. Press should be at the service of its content not vice versa...

How a great and revolutionary conference can start 🧗🏼and end 🪄 Thanks to the team of instigators and coordinators ❤️

I am surprised AI is not mentioned in this article, but maybe it's in the making.. I recently answered to a Springer Nature survey on the use of AI in reviewing... What this article hints to though is that the review system we have been using is quite outdated.