My interview w/ Manu Prakash PrakashLab, a hero of mine, who I think is one the great innovators of our era. With global impact for frugal, ingenious inventions as you'll see in this thread medscape.com/viewarticle/92… Medscape w/ transcript Foldscope Stanford Engineering Stanford University

The smallest p-value that I've ever seen reported is 😱 3.6 * 10^-2382 😱 Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Sci-hub link: sci-hub.st/10.1126/scienc… If you ever see a smaller p-value, do let me know! I collect them. [1/3]

Know anyone curious about 21st century bioengineering? Prof. Jenn Brophy (Jennbrophy.bsky.social) & I are sharing ~40 videos comprising most of Stanford's introductory bioengineering course:   introbioe.stanford.edu We'll push updates; feedback welcome #bioe4all #2xplaybackftw

Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) RCB is the first national digital repository for life science data in India. It is supported by Government of India (GOI) through Department of Biotechnology. Please see the introductory video for details: youtu.be/K1DK4IV2rZs

Your academic CV is NOT linked to your ability to make big discoveries. ▫️ 1. Andre Geim, a co-discoverer of graphene, wrote in his Nobel Lecture article: - “So, at the age of 33 and with an h index of 1 (latest papers not yet published), I entered the Western job market for

Using AI to find molecules from extinct species that could have antimicrobial potential could lead to new drugs to treat human infection. #NBThighlight bit.ly/3YnHBQy

Giving State Universities (where I work myself) equitable R&D funding is a great idea (if they can put their act together), but let's not demonize IIT's for "monopolized funding". Not only IITs but National labs, IISc, TIFR deserve to be supported equally theprint.in/theprint-essen…

What ? soon no need for Mass Spec Anymore? Sequencing proteins with Nanopore ?! 🤯🤯🤯 nature.com/articles/s4159…

On the tougher days in this job, I need to remind myself that: -the self-doubt means I have ambitious career goals -the failure means I'm taking risks and trying something new -the frustration means I care and I'm passionate about my work

Today is #MahaAshtami - the most auspicious day of the five day Durga Puja festival. A unique ritual of Maha Ashtami is the Kumari Puja at the Belur Math, originally started by Swami Vivekananda. Today, we look back at its intriguing origin (1/14)

This hybrid baby monkey is made of cells from two embryos The monkey’s creation paves the way for scientists to use chimaeric primates to study human diseases go.nature.com/40uRtsS

Me watching my supervisor edit my writing in real time on google docs

Katsuhiko Hayashi created viable mouse eggs from male cells, a feat that could help to save species on the brink of extinction. Read the nature’s 10 profile. go.nature.com/48eAZaU

Bioinformatics method... I dislike: GWAS I begrudgingly respect: BLAST I think is overrated: t-SNE I think is underrated: minimizer indexing I like: anything using dynamic programming I love: Burrows-Wheeler read mapping I dream of mastering: protein LLMs

This is a Yihui Xie appreciation post #rstats, please join me in sponsoring Yihui Xie on GitHub github.com/sponsors/yihui (Context: yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye…) 1/n 🧵(or shall I say 🧶)

We are delighted to welcome Padma Shri Prof. Saroj Chooramani Gopal as Visiting Professor in BSBE. 💐 At 79yrs age, she has also joined as a full-time PhD student of BSBE, with Prof. Ashok Kumar AKBioLabs as Thesis supervisor. Pursuit of knowledge has no boundaries IIT Kanpur

Is doing science 95% failure? What is the best quality to become a scientist? Listen to Dr. Christophe Leterrier Christophe Leterrier sharing his thoughts on the traits that make scientists successful. Don't miss the full episode coming out on Monday! #science #success #scientist

Dear bioinformatics connections, do you have any methods to download data in bulk from ENCODE? looking for processed bed files for all Tf-ChIPSeq experiments. Any cool scripts or packages for this? Im aware of encodeexplorer R package, seems outdated!

The top addictions during a PhD: Data Coffee Papers Screens Noodles What did I miss?

Unfinished story: How events during development affect adult behaviour thenode.biologists.com/unfinished-sto… via the Node