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1/ When should you use a package vs. solving from scratch in bioinformatics?
I get asked this all the time. Here’s my approach: 👇
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
🧪 In a key development, a House spending panel has moved to protect the NIH budget from proposed cuts. Yet, the bill also calls for a 37% cut to ARPA-H, a 19% cut to the CDC, and bans on certain pathogen and fetal tissue research. #Academicsky
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
New data on why ultra-processed food (UPF) intake should be limited. Adding protein to UPF didn't reduce overeating in a randomized, crossover study
www.nature.com/articles/s42... @naturemetabolism.bsky.social
Just so you know, up to 60,000 children go blind from measles every year
RNA xkcd.com/3056
US taxpayers funded these data. They belong to the public. The government is not empowered to arbitrarily decide whether the public has a right to it.
The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.
GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.
Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-068 Key Dates Release Date: February 7, 2025 Related Announcements None Issued by Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD) Purpose
🚨RED ALERT for 🧪:
The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities.
“Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮
Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky
A ton of NNLM webinar cancellations in my inbox this morning. These were important and relevant topics about AI, data management, and ethics. I am deeply deeply concerned
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.
No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.
And no indication how long the pause will last.
With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040
UPDATED: Trump's confirmed picks to lead US health agencies:
HHS - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
NIH - Jay Bhattacharya
CMS - Mehmet Oz
CDC - Dave Weldon
FDA - Marty Makary
Surgeon General - Janette Nesheiwat
All have spread disinformation on vaccines and public health measures.
New @statnews.bsky.social from me:
HHS' Office of Civil Rights hasn't audited HIPAA compliance since 2017.
These audits, required by the HITECH Act, are supposed to assess things like cybersecurity readiness, but even when it conducted audits, OCR only looked at 8 of 180 #HIPAA rules 😳
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What better way to broaden your horizons than to follow a bunch of scientists on Bluesky? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A thread with some new starter packs in genomics and bioinformatics 🧵 1/13...
Illustration comparing the improvement process in software writing to rock climbing.
🧵 Bioinformatics faces a critical challenge: despite its importance, software quality often falls short due to the lack of proper development practices.
In our latest paper, we advocate for improving software quality in bioinformatics through teamwork.
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
Editorial at The Lancet today on this matter
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...