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Yep, better data, lower score 💩💩💩
2024: I still remember the first thing that caught my eye was “Category 6”. I was so excited, for about six seconds, as I kept reading… “unsuccessful” 💩
More than 60% of Australian medical researchers left active research roles between 2019 & 2024 because they could not make ends meet - while my costings from the PBO suggest the govt could more than double annual spending from the MRFF without any effect on its base level of funding.
And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...
RNA comes close to copying itself | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
So, so, honored by this award—it is daunting to know that my heroes have won this award! Thanks to my heroes and mentors, and my trainees, who are everything!!!!
it looks as shiny and wonderful as the day you made it!
another stunning piece by the amazing and uninimitable @bryanwelm.bsky.social . I would recognize his pieces anywhere!
No, DeepMind has not solved the protein folding problem.
#Alphafold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination.
Work hard — play hard 💪🧬🧫
Using lysine as an example, what would you consider the resolution required to establish orientation/binding partner(s)? (noting there may not be an absolute answer to this question)
Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly.
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Raven-Flóki & Eric the Red have a lot to answer regarding naming Iceland and Greenland, respectively. However, I don't they could have counted on the Chief of Vineland (Leif Eriksson's name for America) to mix them repeatedly up even if not drunk.
His work laid the foundation for quantum dot technology now used in solar panels, television screens and medical imaging.
The title of this paper is "Specificity of the stabilizing interaction between intrinsically disordered protein sequences and G-quadruplexes in RNA". We show a minimal RGG-rich peptide selectively (compared to other G-quads) stabilizes the structure of the human telomeric TERRA RNA G-quadruplex.
If you have cartoonists on your mind today, read this letter Charles Schulz wrote in 1970: "I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities."
www.kqed.org/arts/1385272...
Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
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NIH staffers protest "an organization that has lost its integrity" www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
Some people think science is just for nerds, but science is the foundation of the modern world and science is what made America great.
Even though many of us don’t work directly in space science, we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Destroying it makes zero sense.
If Martin Kettle would have read the great book Humankind by @rutgerbregman.com, this story would not have come as a surprise. Anyway, it is good he realises that journalists, including himself, are partially to blame for our skewed understanding of society.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A new #ScienceAdvances study shows that commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean over the past century reduced the genetic diversity—and possibly the evolutionary fitness—of the region’s humpback whales. https://scim.ag/4anxPpM
YUM!!!
Australians: we don't like guns. This is excellent.
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
