Exciting story and my first-author project! Thanks a lot to my advisor Majid Kazemian and all our collaborators @AfzaliBehdad Tilo Freiwald Daniel !

(1/n)Excited to announce new course I have been planning for 5 years BioE271: Frugal Science frugalscience.org structured as global participatory class open to all. 50% Stanford students 50% global participant. Learn how to solve serious challenges with little bit of play

Who is the best coach of all time? Not sure we provided the right answer, but at least we attempted to provide one. Take a look at the manuscript arxiv.org/abs/2012.09270 and the companion website coachscore.luddy.indiana.edu . Thanks to Şirag Erkol for creating CoachScore

In World War II, scientific advances helped determine the winning side. Nations today are again fighting with a tough enemy; this time a common one. Making sure the right science prevails in policy can help us collectively reach the winning side. [15/15]

Lastly, and maybe most intriguingly, we found that ICLR 2026 had another policy change between 2019 and 2020: it changed its review scoring from 10 to 4 points. This seemingly innocuous change likely decreased acceptance of most prestigious authors!

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#SICSSchicago starting next Monday! We are so excited to see our great participants! #SICSS

Got excellence? Mengyi Sun does. Hear him talk about his work during the 2021 SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Symposium. Talks are on Saturday 4 July, starting at 02:30 UTC (Asia) and again at 09:30 UTC (EU/Africa). Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, #SMBEv2021, #SMBE2021, Mengyi sun

On Friday, July 9th at 10:00 am we are excited to have Mengyi sun's dissertation defense: Genomic studies of gene expression errors and their evolutionary ramifications. Check your email or DM us for details. Best wishes, Mengyi!

Open postdoc position in our group ETH Zurich. Please RT. evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir…

One final alphafold thing :) - Alistair Dunham compared deep mutational scanning data with predicted changes in stability for mutations on the alphafold models (with FoldX). The correlations observed are typically as good or better than with experimentally derived structures

Mentoring lets you shape lives. For example, if you are an entrepreneur who wants to encourage others, mentor students! This study showed that students who were randomly assigned mentors who were entrepreneurs had between a 30% & 300% greater chance to become founders themselves.

Home run! First prize for evolutionary genetics!

Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. Excited to share a new paper on the roots and consequences of Zero-sum thinking with Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn Sandra.Sequeira. A summary thread🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche…

ChatGPT has been blocked in several countries including China and Russia. Do the blocks work? TLDR: no, not at all Paper led by Honglin (虹霖) Bao and Mengyi sun shows ChatGPT use in scientific writing was *higher* in countries "without" access arxiv.org/abs/2406.11583 (1/3)

ChatGPT’s access is unequal among countries – but did ChatGPT diffuse to those places without legal access? What is the benefit of scientists adopting AI tools? I'm excited to have a new preprint w/Mengyi sun and Science of Science (mostly on LinkedIn now) link arxiv.org/abs/2406.11583 A thread (1/n)

We've lost one of the best humans and scientists I've ever met way too soon. Kevin Wood was the most sincerely kind, thoughtful, and sharp colleague I had the pleasure to call a friend. If you ever met Kevin, you know exactly what I mean. gofundme.com/f/support-futu…