"Funders serious about timely, open, and equitable access to research must explicitly recognize preprint sharing as a route to Open Access compliance"
I know I'm a broken record on this but it seems so blindingly obvious... #PlanU journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
council.science/blog/open-sc...
MIT graduate student council "calls for adoption of preprints...to
accelerate communication of scientific discoveries, and restore healthy incentives" drive.google.com/file/d/1KLbj...
It's probably sciatica, had it since I was 13 yo... I have been old for a looong time 😎
He had no goals to start with, just 'a feeling' 🤢🤢🤢
This may be the most timely 'sciency pun' I have heard in a long while ✅😎🧪⤵️
"the President’s words were taken as a clear message that she believes Ireland should speak out against US actions against Iran, just a week before the Taoiseach visits president Donald Trump at the White House"
Micheál Martin is going to visit the WH for St Patrick's Day... FfS 🤢
comprehensive answer to "Is it OK to use AI?" by @gwenvarley.bsky.social
an excellent one for students and those mired in the terminological and ethical disarray to start to think more clearly
AI-designed proteins are advancing fast, but how do they perform in real biological systems? Bits to Binders found out…
Improving the immunogenicity of E. coli FimH via multivalent display on I53-50 nanoparticles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709951v1
Community perspective:
Toward a unified framework for determining conformational ensembles of disordered proteins 🍝
with framework for experimental data acquisition, computational ensemble generation & validation
Led by @hamidrgh.bsky.social, Silvio Tosatto & Alex Monzon
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
😂🤣😂🤣
Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan
Pleased to share our native glycomics workflow preserving O-acetylation, detecting this labile modification in rat (53%) and mouse (9%) serum N-glycans.
Integrally, O-acetyls are invisible under standard reductive conditions.
Now published at Molecular Omics.
Link: academic.oup.com/molecular-om...
I just published a review of article 'Discovery Stack Pilot: Feasibility and Outcomes of a Scientist-Designed Peer Review Model Separating Quality and Impact' by Maureen McGargill and colleagues.
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Review: prereview.org/reviews/1891...
@prereview.bsky.social
The Aurora Tree apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...
The unusual Earth-sky collaboration was witnessed in March of 2017 in Iceland.
“Russia is set to be a "big winner" from the oil crisis created from the Middle East war, experts say. Putin has acknowledged oil prices are rising & has promoted Russia as a "reliable supplier". He also threatened to withdraw Russian gas supply to Europe”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through their research.”
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize winner and since this year ERC Scientific Council member.
My conversation this week with the brilliant @feargalsharkey.bsky.social:
youtu.be/MPo3_0DjgyU?...
Simon Tisdall, the independent-minded journalist who was pivotal in ensuring the Guardian opposed the Iraq war of 2003, is sounding a loud alarm today…
… en route to this arresting conclusion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Now think about an EV instead. The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium. It travels 93 million miles in about eight minutes and 20 seconds (seven seconds more when our orbit takes us furthest away). Those photons then strike the silicon atoms in a photovoltaic panel, knocking loose electrons that produce a stream of direct current electricity; an inverter, now usually contained in the panel, converts that to AC power, which can be pumped directly into the battery of an EV where the motor uses electromagnetism to create a rotating magnetic field in a stator, which spins the inner rotor to propel the car. There are about 20 moving parts in the engine, and it is 80 to 90 percent efficient. There is no exhaust and almost no noise. That’s it. And if you poured those electrons into an e-bike instead of an EV, it’s even better: a penny’s worth of power is good for three miles or so. The same principles apply to electric buses, electric ferries, and so on.
"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz"
Top @billmckibben.bsky.social post here
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
I'm not having good feelings about the future. I'm hoping it's just a natural sign of getting older. I feel anger and anxiety is increasing and now this www.cbc.ca/news/science... Am I over-reacting? Is the universe simply unfolding?
Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”
Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?”
Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power”
#bbclaurak
"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man."
A photo of a young Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting with a book on her lab staring into the distance.
A photo of an older Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting at a lab bench with a microscope and dozens of glass milk bottles bunged with cotton. Lilian is in the middle of applying ether to anaesthetize a bottle of flies.
This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass.
Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination
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What inspires someone to pursue physics for life?
From discovering general relativity to the encouragement of mentors, women in our community share the moments that shaped their journeys.
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating women advancing physics and inspiring the next generation. 🌟
As a proper commemoration of #InternationalWomenDay the @royalsociety.org should start by kicking out their Fellow who makes money out of deepfake porn tool misogynistic AI trashcan (among many other dispicable actions) hiding behind "free speech" ... Then I will raise a glass with you all!
Review from Fia B. Larsen in @rhp-lab.bsky.social with everything you always wanted to know about proteasomal control of transcription factors (but were afraid to ask about)
Proteasomal control of transcription factors: mechanisms, regulation and dysregulation.
doi.org/10.1007/s000...
Constant threats and backlash undermine women's rights around the globe, but women still continue to fight against repression.
This International Women's Day, we honor the courage of those working to improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay
Supervised learning of protein variant effects across large-scale mutagenesis datasets
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@tkschulze.bsky.social, Lasse Blaabjerg, @mcagiada.bsky.social
See also: Effects of residue substitutions on the cellular abundance of proteins
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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