We’ve just finished writing the missing 15,616 Wikipedia articles to get complete coverage of all 19,255 human genes. We used PaperQA2, which has higher accuracy than existing human-written Wikipedia articles, as judged by blinded biology PhD students and postdocs. 1/5

Reminder about our call for postdocs to join our STEM ed research group Chapman University through an NSF-funded project examining office hours in STEM courses! Review will begin in a week, on 11/1. Please see Tweet below and let me know if you have any questions! apply.interfolio.com/153165

"Mundane Halloween" returns! It's that time of year again, when Japanese website デイリーポータルZ holds its annual contest to dress up as something super ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2024 contest!

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Agreed! That's why I wrote ggpubfigs, a ggplot2 extension that *only colorblind-friendly color palettes. Easily make your figures colorblind-friendly with ggpubfigs! x.com/NKWhiteman/sta…

This is the best paper written so far about the impact of AI on scientific discovery

My lab is funded exclusively by taxpayer's money. Zero product is made that is sold for profit. Particularly this time of the year when it gets cold, I think about unhoused individuals and how many people can be fed with what I expend for research. Not a minute should be wasted.

Check out one of the very first quantitative studies on science graduate student mental health. Teaching seems to help mental health. Maybe we need to re-think research fellowships that don't involve teaching. Share with your colleagues!

Let's not. Let's Make Puppets, by A.R. Philpott. Starting Point, 1972.

Professor Lara Aknin's research has been featured in an article on ways to step out of your comfort zone and refresh your life. Read about factors behind the reluctance to reconnect with old friends here: mindfood.com/article/8-ways…

The placenta is essential to a fetus’ development, but little is known about how it develops and interacts with the uterus. Dr. Alexander Beristain is using an artificial model of the placenta to better understand its role in pregnancy. More: bcchr.info/3PWJ3GE #BCCHR2024

Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship on 'Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium'. Come and work on the Sloane Herbarium! For details, see: lahp.ac.uk/prospective-st…

Are you a grad student, postdoc, staff, or faculty curious about science education research? Get your feet wet with this free online series AND if you come to 4 sessions, you get a free membership in SABER, an international biology education research society. Please share!

Please RT #GordonConference on "Histone and DNA Modifications" #epigenetics #chromatin 20-25. July 2025. Il Ciocco, Italy. Great speaker lineup. ➡️Register now grc.org/histone-and-dn… Cheryl Arrowsmith Altos Labs Zymo Research New England Biolabs Fox Chase Cancer Center Van Andel Institute (VAI)

I have a new crowd sourced project that just launched on Experiment and it is our most ambitious project based learning opportunity yet for FCS Innovation Academy biotech students. Please help us out by contributing if you can. Innovation Academy PTSO experiment.com/projects/hormo…

I'm very happy to announce that I have retired! I'm equally happy that Janet Iwasa has agreed to continue the Molecule of the Month rcsb pdb 💉🧬💻🔬💊🌱🧠🦠. Read about this at cdn.rcsb.org/rcsb-pdb/gener…

End of an era! Thank you so much for all your science and art.