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Postdoc @fraserlab @willowcoyote at UCSF, messing around with proteins. Sentimental empiricist.
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submitted 3 days ago • 201 comments

Here’s the latest in the Continuing Crisis series - there will, unfortunately, be more:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Our Evolution of Evolvability work is finally* out! *technically it has been out for a bit, but all of ~this~ bullshit was happening www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I wish you could still get posters like this.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

in positive news, I've discovered that calculus of variations makes a lot more sense with just a smidge of differential geometry...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Heterologous protein over-expression in E. coli is now woke because of 'inclusion bodies'

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

That one does seem to have vanished! There is still a diversity/inclusion page up for ACS Publications, though - is that coming down next? What’s going on, ACS? researcher-resources.acs.org/publish/dive...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

This is part of my effort of rewriting all materials for my UT Austin dataviz class in Quarto. It's going very well. Most importantly, I now have live exercises integrated into the site, thanks to Quarto live. Check it out here: wilkelab.org/SDS366/

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

The only reason passports include sex markers AT ALL was because of a previous moral panic over gender.

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

It's a Pizza Hut that turned into a Pizza Hut

submitted 16 days ago • 58 comments

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

submitted 15 days ago • 102 comments

My student's diversity F31 has been pulled from study section even though it's the SAME APPLICATION as regular F31s, normally reviewed together in the same panel. Throwing out all the applications from URMs while the ones from white/privileged students get to be reviewed is blatant discrimination.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

NIH intramural researchers are being told they're not allowed to post preprints. To raise awareness of the vast research affected, and show support for our colleagues, we're making a thread of past NIH IRP preprints. ✴️ 1 like/repost == 1 preprint ✴️ ‼️Please share‼️ https://buff.ly/3PTy6oL

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

New Phishtopher merch just dropped.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

NEW from inside NIH: I am hearing that a “young” DOGE staffer now has access to eRA, the software system used to track/administer all NIH grants.

submitted 17 days ago • 43 comments

Hey scientists: Were you planning to submit an NIH grant today? How's it going? C&EN wants to know your story. DMs are open, or reach me on Signal.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1328 comments