"An unstoppable force of nature, unfazed by headwinds, managing to will all of us onwards and upwards: this was Ben Barres." @NatureNews highlights "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist," published posthumously by The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social: stanford.io/2D0hjwZ

Bioinformatics is just writing the same script over and over again because you forgot where you put it last time you wrote it.

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

Life is to short to use dated cli tools that suck Try these instead 🧵

Activated interstitial macrophages are a predominant target of viral takeover and focus of inflammation in COVID-19 initiation in human lung biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Excited to share this recent work on vaccine design via antigen reorientation! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In some new work, we describe how generative machine learning enables the modular design of complex proteins controlled by a high-level programming language for protein design 📄Link to paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/N)

Excited to share my PhD work, out today in Cell! Thankful for a great team and my mentor Irv Weissman. A rundown of the study: "Purification and characterization of human neural stem and progenitor cells." 1/ cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Awesome computational neuroscience lecture notes from #mcn2016 #MBL #neuroscience mcn2016.wikispaces.com/Lecture+Notes+…

Biomedical/biological sciences: women earned $67,500 to men’s $77,000 Geosciences/atmospheric/ocean sciences: $65,500 for women and $71,000 for men Physics/astronomy: women earned $89,000 to men’s $100,000 Engineering:women earned $92,000 to men's $100,000 x.com/NatureNews/sta…

Very interesting. I never knew that Crick's definition of the Central Dogma was simply that information went from nucleic acids to proteins and not vice versa, rather that it was necessarily DNA -> RNA -> protein. A very interesting discussion by (((Dan Graur))) ダン דן גראור 🇮🇱🇺🇸🇺🇦✌️🖖 judgestarling.tumblr.com/post/121925270…

A pair of papers in Cell report a surprising new communication strategy among neurons. bit.ly/2mMPs9J

Looks like the classic article "The Science of Scientific Writing" has returned to American Scientist. It's the most important read to improve your scientific writing. HT DavideChicco.it americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-…

Not that anybody asked, but one-third (95 out of 289) of all American Nobel Prizes in the Sciences have been earned by Immigrants to the United States.

This is exactly how I would imagine getting a notice of grant award from the Gates Foundation…

Inducible expression of immediate early genes is regulated through dynamic chromatin association by NF45/ILF2 and NF90/ILF3 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Genome size (billions) <0.5🌾🍇🍊🍋🍉🍑🍒🍄🐞🐜🐝🦋🐡 0.5-1🥑🍌🍍🥕🍅🍁🎃🍈🥒🍎🍐🍓🌹 1🌵🍆🌺🍀🦂🕷️🐠🦆🦃🐓🕊️🦅🐦 2🌽🥝🌻🥔🍠🦗🐍🦎🐧🦉🦇 3🌶️🥜🐙🐢🐻🐶🐱🐴🐷🐪🐬🐭🐰🤸🏽‍♀️ 4🌴🦑🐨🐘🐿️🦔 5🦀🦐🦈🐸 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >30🌲🌷

It still amazes me that academic fields, connected by co-citation, are arranged in a ring. Is there a missing "dark field" in the middle that we will find someday to connect it all together well?

(1/5) I’m very happy to announce that our preprint “Molecular Architecture of the Mouse Nervous System” was just released at bioRxiv! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh….