BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has

Our October #EngBio newsletter is out! This month, we highlight the many ways in which to get involved in the #EngineeringBiology community in Cambridge. We also have an explainer of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Read it here 👉🏼 bit.ly/newsletter-oct…

FOOD BIOTECH: Probiotics bacteria found in foods don’t just aid digestion—they also help fight harmful free radicals. These natural antioxidants could protect health & replace artificial additives. Get healthier and read doi.org/10.1111/1751-7…

PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here: open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p/b…

I’ll be starting a lab as an Assistant Professor Cornell Engineering Cornell CBE in 2026! We’ll combine synthetic biology and materials science to engineer microbes into living materials & therapies. Recruiting PhD students & postdocs - please get in touch! 🔗harimotolab.com

This article in nature reinforced my long-held belief that when it comes to supervising PhD students, we in India need to deviate from our traditional approach to education and knowledge transfer. Supervising is not teaching. PhD students need to be treated as colleagues and

Ladies if you go to his apartment and his fridge is full of sequencing primers for his plasmid collection you DO NOT date him you deserve a man who does whole plasmid sequencing

Many articles reported using an antibody ... that didn’t even bind the key protein in Laflamme’s testing. Those articles had been cited over 3,000 times. A key question is: ◼️ 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲

#Internship 📢We are excited to announce the call for the NCBS Winter Research Program! 🥼This 8-10 week research internship program offers students a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research at NCBS. Apply now! forms.gle/etVPa2Sj47RNh4… Deadline: 15th November 2025

Thanks for commenting positively and negatively on our recent tool, GScholarLens. Let me try to say a few thing: 1. We are not extracting authorship from text mining from full paper text; it is really tough as diverse journals have diverse ways of depiction. Therefore, the first

The truth is out there

There is sometimes confusion about what a PhD is. The main signal that you should derive from the fact that someone has a PhD is that they are well suited to the university campus environment. Having a PhD is not overly uncommon. Over 3% of the population in a country like

This is some next level cake making !! Congratulations ⁦Niharika Loomba (she/her)⁩

Bacteria as living biosensors for DNA doi.org/10.1038/s44222…

Hyun Min and Cindy's paper chosen as the Nature Synthesis journal cover paper. Congrats! nature.com/articles/s4416…

That actually happened to me a few times even when talking with Harvard students 🤣🤣💀❤️ They meant well though , it’s just so engrained it can be hard to be self aware.

I feel like crap. I didn’t get any grants this year, so I had to let go of my super talented postdoc—someone with a doctorate who’s now unemployed, without benefits or retirement, and still grinding away on a paper... Postdocs are the most unappreciated and undervalued positions

arXiv has banned reviews in computer science. Should research journals do the same? 📍For arXiv, the reason is obvious: 1. Citations = money, funding, awards. Unethical scientists want more citations. Some of them ‘order’ citations from the paper mills that produce reviews

There was a meeting with Duke med school leadership and they allowed anonymous questions to be submitted by faculty. One question was, given all the budget cuts and layoffs why are there so many vice deans and what exactly do they do? Awkward. But apparently many faculty members

Postdoc time is often harder than PhD. You have little time. Competition is higher. And you MUST stand out. + Your contract may end any moment. + Your salary is often low (for your age/education). + You’ve just relocated and prepare to relocate again. No wonder that Max