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A chatbot trained on Twitter threads is more ethical.

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As part of the UW RISE-THRIVE faculty hiring initiative, our college is advertising three tenure-track positions focused on immunology, aging, and health span. Please share! rise.wisc.edu/rise-thrive/ #ttjobs

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Came in this morning (my 40th birthday) to see my office and our lab thematically decorated with parasites! Dune vibes. The spice must flow, but ideally not past 50 µM.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Numbers continue to grow. (5x speed)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Strutting with the confidence of $7 eggs.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The emerging genre of performative centrist introspection. Spend years crafting sophisticated language for tech reactionaries to find common cause with garden variety bigots, only to express shock at the totally predictable outcome.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

It’s now known that many university leaders will sacrifice students and institutional integrity to preserve the husk of academia. Less known is how quickly some STEM faculty will bargain away humanities and social sciences to protect their grants. I hope I’m wrong.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

submitted 44 days ago • 275 comments

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

submitted 54 days ago • 33 comments

"biology tends to quickly humble the computer people" www.wired.com/story/openwo...

submitted 51 days ago • 10 comments

Lakeshore path.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

US labs have an ethical duty to warn international students and scholars that they lack speech rights and risk removal for opposing this administration and its policies. That their devices can be searched and that universities are more likely to cooperate with authorities than protect them.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Fancy new wrmXpress GUI led by @wheelerlab.bio undergrads and a significantly updated backend (v2).

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.

submitted 72 days ago • 5 comments

Credit: ovjphotography #madisonwi

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Stand up for science in Madison. standupforscience2025.org/madison-wi/

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

White to play and mate in 12. Beautiful puzzle.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

submitted 100 days ago • 82 comments

Welcome Dr. Nita Ahuja to UW-Madison! Thrilled to have you lead the School of Medicine and Public Health at this pivotal moment. news.wisc.edu/dr-nita-ahuj...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

You are choosing to proactively undermine your mission on theoretical grounds. Even in the worst-case, you will be stronger with your integrity intact.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

These days, Darth Vader feels like middle management.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

An assault on institutions requires a forceful public response. University leaders have spent the last two years refashioning themselves non-political actors to avoid legislative scrutiny, readily retreating on key principles to appease malicious actors working to undermine the American university.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

The incredible success of the NIH model stems from it not being a company.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Clair Henthorn! Her dissertation is a whirlwind of significant contributions to the fundamental questions that motivate our lab. Her talents and creativity will enrich whatever environment or goal she chooses next. #proudPI

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

The foxes of Lake Mendota.

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

Starting a new lab?! The most important factors for choosing the university/institute/company are: the colleagues, students & postdocs, the leadership, equipment, the lab space and start-up funds; IN THAT ORDER.

submitted 134 days ago • 7 comments

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 135 days ago • 35 comments

I hate the direction lab equipment design has gone in recent years. I don't want touchscreens, I don't want wifi integration, I don't want centrifuges demanding to know what time zone they're in. I just want reliable instruments - with physical buttons - that do the one task they were made for.

submitted 137 days ago • 153 comments

Productive start to the new year.

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Jimmy Carter: underrated President, our best ex-President, and a person of extraordinary integrity. wapo.st/3VYcU4C

submitted 141 days ago • 20 comments

Unsuccessfully trying to find his ornament on the Capitol tree.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Watched the Bob Dylan biopic. After it ended, a guy a few seats down casually walks over and says, “I wrestled Bob Dylan in the UW wrestling room back in 96”. Sir, that’s not a fun fact—that’s the plot of a better movie.

submitted 144 days ago • 2 comments

Love many Wisconsin traditions but E. coli on rye is hard pass.

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

I don't buy into this kind of quantification but if you insist on ranking a trainee in the "top 1%", make sure the denominator isn’t single digits—it’s math, not improv.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Dommaraju Gukesh, an 18-year-old Indian grandmaster, won the World Chess Championship in Singapore on Thursday. In so doing, Gukesh became the 18th and youngest undisputed world champion in history.

submitted 158 days ago • 5 comments

UW-Madison Scientists starter pack go.bsky.app/TEnn93j

submitted 183 days ago • 5 comments

New preprint on modifying benzodiazepines to treat schistosomiases but not put people to sleep! t.co/A0SoOcfME4

submitted 476 days ago • 0 comments

Are we still doing this here? Check out our latest work investigating Zika virus evolutionary dynamics in Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes. Thought this work might never happen because it was totally disrupted by COVID shutdowns. Extra happy it is out. journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

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An example of a "cryptic Nobel", where a somewhat rare external event (a global pandemic) needed to occur within a scientist's lifetime for the impact of the work to be expressed and appreciated.

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