there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it
this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive
These people are dumb enough that I would believe they just hadn't thought of it.
New paper alert! Outstanding work by PhD candidate Nathan Roberge, great collab with the Ellison and Maxwell labs. #Pseudomonas #phage DMS3 encodes Aqs1, an inhibitor of #T4P assembly ATPase PilB, but how it binds and leads to loss of function was unknown. @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social
Someone should have told this boy to spit out his gum.
Following along with the lawsuits against DOGE. So, a 21-year-old dropout, paid 120K to terminate federal grants for which he has no subject-matter expertise, on the grounds of DEI, understands DEI as "decisions not based on merit". Right...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5_...
To all my friends reading their e-mail this morning, may I introduce the term "Malicious compliance"?
Malicious compliance is the act of deliberately following instructions or rules exactly as written, while knowing that doing so will produce negative, counterproductive, or inefficient results
Gacy?
As promised, if there is enough interest, I will organize the meeting. If you are interested, fill out your info here (please share): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Truly bizarre story from @retractionwatch.com. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...
New job posting just dropped!
Full info here: csmb-scbm.ca/lecturer-imm...
#Research #CanadaJobs
Not restricted to Canadians!
Alright, now that CIHR is done, who is in for the Great Canadian virtual worm meeting? (Early August maybe?)
We have started a project trying to predic the interactions/structures of all yeast protein pairs using an AlphaFold pooling approach. We are making the current dataset open and we welcome collaborations.
www.evocellnet.com/2026/03/mapp...
With the response to reviewer pages, you can now reply with "Yes, but we can't experiment on people"
The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is seeking to recruit up to 16 new research-intensive faculty as part of a major strategic investment in neurosciences. Faculty will be housed in a brand new research facility at the heart of campus, which is scheduled for completion this summer.
I say big shots, but really it's anyone who isn't physically in Canada at the moment of application
It's even more extensive than that. Even when it is only one person being recruited, the university is expected to put up additional funds and resources. So it ends up costing the university a lot to get these big shots.
Now that CIHR is done, I am onto my letter writing/complaining. #2 on the list is CIRC. Am I the only one who feels mocked that we've gone from CERC to CIRC?
I like to imagine a world where that money went into tricouncil open competition pots.
If it's the panel I am thinking of, there are/were two outstanding worm people on it who offered really excellent feedback (even though the grant wasn't funded)
I really despise the idea that we should use the number of awards as a criterion for winning more awards.
Not Genetics?
Oh I know THAT reviewer. (figuratively, not literally)
I think my grant is getting worse.
This is actually the second time I got "but this would be more interesting". Clearly this is my fault.
ugh.
