Me: Ah, first day back to work, early morning sun is shining, everybody getting out the door. time for a fresh start and a new outlook. 2023! 2 year old: <pukes> not so fast, bucko

Good news to start the year! We are happy to announce that Pim Huis in 't Veld @APieFrmScratch will join the Max Perutz Labs as a new group leader later this year. Welcome to the Perutz! Universität Wien Vienna BioCenter

That DNA! MY EYES!😵

There are so many falsehoods in this tweet, I don't know where to begin. The (subscription) system was not disrupted (by OA) to provide access to lay people - it was to provide access to the many people who require access to the scientific literature who were being denied it.

Silence Therapeutics announced that AstraZeneca has nominated the 1st product candidate under our siRNA collaboration, triggering a $10 million milestone payment. Learn more: bit.ly/427gWZi #SilenceIsGOLDen $SLN

Most people don't have a problem with how much they make. They have a problem with how much they spend. From the day we are born, society bombards us with ads that make us want to spend all our money on things we think will make us look and feel good. All we do is give all our

PREACH!!

Yuck. Cold Spring Harbor Lab meeting "celebrating" 50 years of recombinant DNA is a #manel #YAMMM With a history of issues in sexism (e.g. Watson) at CSHL this is sad. And bonus featuring Lander w/ his own history of issues as session chair & panel discussion leader

We are recruiting! 2 PhD positions ERIBA to study how the inflammatory response induced by genomic instability can be used to battle cancer. Come join us! RTs are very much appreciated. Research UMCG werkenbijumcg.nl/-/vacatures/ph…

Great! Congrats!

True or false: “Stochastic” means the same thing as “random”.

I’m just grateful we have journal acceptance to tell us what to trust and who to hire

No-one has ever been able to replicate Gregor Mendel's observations of pea plants. They're a little "too perfect", lacking even random statistical noise that would have been expected from small sample sizes. Was it scientific fraud?

I often disagree with the approaches and conclusions from the Plachta lab. I usually discuss this in reviews. This paper is different though since many clinicians will read it and may adjust their practices. This could have real life consequences… 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

I keep hearing this logic, so I want to dispel it: nothing about getting a PhD makes one smart. A non-negligible number of people I know have PhDs, and I don't trust their judgement/intellect on anything remotely to do with work or daily life. 1/3

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 The Nobel Prize in Medicine bit.ly/48BswPR #nobelprize

Not to be a crankypuss, but awarding a Nobel for work that suffered from not being taken seriously for decades only *after* it proved to be of incredible value is not a triumph of prizemaking - it's a complete condemnation of it and the entire culture of modern academic science.

I look forward to a day when public attention to important discoveries in biology and medicine don't feature discussions of which journal did or didn't accept the paper describing them.

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This summarizes the concepts/challenges/processes I think about in my work. Exciting times. nature.com/articles/s4157…