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nicholasgladman.bsky.social
Plant science and sorghum. https://www.sorghumbase.org/. Molecular biology, genetics, and genomics. USDA-ARS Scientist out of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Posts don't necessarily reflect the positions of the USDA. Also chess.
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I guess it depends on people's areas of usage, but in terms of coding and data work, LLMs have been extremely useful.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Good day from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The Pro-Constipation League's fundraiser was successful.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Reading to my kid a Disney short story book that features a bunch of different princesses facing adversity, which is almost always some environmental disaster. Basically it's like Moby Dick but the princess does in fact win in the struggle against nature.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

financial advice in a weird time: -- develop a plan -- find friends who support you -- preferably 10 of them -- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand -- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos -- get your wife back -- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw simple

submitted 25 days ago • 152 comments

Heads up: new version of "The Scorpion and the Frog" parable just dropped.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

“I would not have become the scientist I am today were it not for my time at Cold Spring Harbor,” says @annechurchland.bsky.social, 2025 NAS Pradel Research Award recipient. So inspired by her time at CSHL, Anne has decided to donate her entire $50,000 award to next generation CSHL neuroscientists.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

MUUMI: an R package for statistical and network-based meta-analysis for MUlti-omics data Integration www.biorxiv.org/content/10....

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot agree with this enough. Try asking ChatGPT a specific question in which you have expertise and see how many errors it generates or important concepts it omits.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

submitted 48 days ago • 55 comments

Graduate students nowadays are just absolutely amazing. Far more talented than I was the same stage. It really underlines just how far science has come in just 15 years and what resources upcoming generations have at their fingertips; a happy notion that should always remain in a sticking place.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

ENTER NEW PASSWORD: chicken PASSWORD MUST CONTAIN A CAPITAL: chickenkiev

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Mentoring graduate students is one of the most rewarding things I never thought I'd get a chance to do. These young scientists are so impressive and talented--way better than I was at the same point in their careers. Genuinely inspiring and gives me hope.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Similar for scientists progressing in their careers: if they establish their own lab, eventually they'll spend less time at the bench or analyzing data and spend more in finding then delegating to trusted individuals. Most of us like experimentation and analyzing data so the transition can be hard.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Writing a figure caption and the auto-correct changed "trace element" to "treacle element" and I might just leave that in.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

I lost several colleagues this week due to the reduction in force actions by the current administration. Every person that I personally knew were thoughtful, hard working, and genuinely believed in the work they were doing to advance agriculture as part of the USDA. (1/2)

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

Today I want to share the history of one of my favorite scientific figures: Nikolai Vavilov. What he stood for, what he helped to build, and the heroic actions of his colleagues make me proud to work in plant biology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai...

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments