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interesting: zeynep tufekci wrote a piece for the The New York Times that makes several of the same points I just made in Substack. Her piece: nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opi… and mine: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/virologists-…. I assume this is just 'great minds think alike' and that she didn't read my piece

looks like Meta/Facebook pirated millions of books and papers to train its AI, as reported by @theatlantic: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…. I searched the dataset and found that Meta stole 30 of my papers too - maybe I should sue 🤣

See our new paper on discovering extensive conservation of human introns across hundreds of other mammals, with Ilia Minkin academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Unbelievable incompetence: Defense Dept leaders accidentally included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, in a live Signal discussion about bombing Yemen, including detailed plans for the strike

Check out this explainer thread from Dr. Jean Fan, on a new preprint that shows the errors caused by off-target probe binding from a major commercial gene expression kit. With Caleb Hallinan and Hayden Ji

The virologists are still at it: new gain-of-function research creating flu viruses in mice that can then kill dogs. Would these viruses kill people? I hope we don't ever find out. Oh, and why is JVirology Editors publishing this dangerous work?

Very pleased to see that the BME (Johns Hopkins BME) and Biostatistics Departments (jhubiostat) at Johns Hopkins University, both of which I hold appointments in, are once again both ranked #1 in the US: usnews.com/best-graduate-… and usnews.com/best-graduate-…

Congrats to my colleague and collaborator @BenLangmead–our 2012 paper on Bowtie2, nature.com/articles/nmeth…, ranks 29th on the most-cited papers of the 21st century nature.com/articles/d4158…

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on

Just wow. And it's only 124 light years away! Quite nearby, galactically speaking. I hope this result holds up washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

My latest take on #covid19 and the role that gain-of-function research might have played–and how NIH ignored the alarm bells from many scientists: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/we-warned-ab…

#NIH will stop funding any research outside the US nature.com/articles/d4158…

looking forward to visiting and speaking at the Donnelly Centre at the Univ of Toronto University of Toronto in a couple of weeks!

Bioinformatics folks: check out our bioRxiv on a new, very efficient and accurate system for automated genome annotation, EviAnn, led by Aleksey Zimin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Water is natural! – but that's not enough for French regulators, who want to sicken Perrier's customers with whatever bacteria or other contaminants might leech into the spring water

I'm done with US Open Tennis events after this "innovation" that basically destroys the mixed doubles event. The new format is 2 4-game sets, no-ad scoring, and a tiebreak if the mini-sets are split. The whole match might last 30 min! Ridiculous usopen.org/en_US/news/art…

NIH cuts are threatening life-changing research for families affected by SYNGAP1, a rare disorder that impacts brain development. At Johns Hopkins, scientists are closing in on a treatment. Parents are hoping for a future with fewer seizures, fewer medications, and more answers.