DOGE tech bro admits that he wrongly assumed the government had lots of fraud because the big private sector companies he comes from “have lots of people sitting around doing nothing” but that it wasn’t true of government workers. Makes you think!

Final version of our paper on scaling in SLiM now published in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution) ! We’ve added some new results comparing coalescence, linkage disequilibrium, and background selection in various scaled simulations. Jazlyn Mooney, PhD Xinjun Zhang Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/ev…

I am not that happy with those who are going to do things that support the attacks on science in a hope that their long running complaints will finally be addressed.

“Far from being broken, New York is fundamentally a miracle, offering daily testimony to our ability to overcome the worst impulses of human nature and live together in something that reasonably approximates harmony.”

Hodgkin’s lymphoma had a 56% survival in the 1970s. Today, survival rate is 87%. Thanks to: Chemotherapies Scientific research Biopharmaceutical therapies Evidence-based medicine Not: "Alternative" treatments Wellness grifting Defunding research Undermining oncologists 1/

just released v0.1.7 of discoal -- a coalescent simulator that specialized in of models selective sweeps. huge performance gains here, but transitional as I will fully integrate tskit goodness soon github.com/kr-colab/disco…

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Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - ranging from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. riken.jp/en/careers/res… Lab page: speidellab.github.io

Really excited about our lab's latest paper led by Kevin Korfmann. Here, Kevin has developed a deep, transformer-based language model for population genetics for inferring coalescent times (times of common ancestry) along recombining chromosomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/spr… This is crazy…!😂 Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Elisabeth Bik

"Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented" (Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor, writer, Peace Nobel Prize laureate who passed away #OnThisDay in 2016)

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in Science Advances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/44IwG8L

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

"People will die" The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research are causing unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, which has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades. Me + Arthur Allen cnn.com/2025/07/08/hea…

New ARC Prize 2025 High Score 19.0% by Giotto. ai (Aldo Podestà)

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

V. Putin: "Do not believe those who scare you with Russia, shouting that other regions will follow Crimea" 18.3.2014 A. Hitler: "This is the last territorial demand I make of Europe" 26.9.1938

I have read a lot of stupid tweets but this one just might take the cake. All you editors out there, imagine the outcome if you started inviting science journalists to review for you!