#Biology

Matthew Herper

matthewherper

CDC #ACIP begins with a presentation from Michael B. Streiff from Hopkins. Was missing last time around. A clear explanation of how particular this syndrome -- clots w/ low platelets

Patrick_Leigh_Presents

PLeigh_Presents

Not sure if Q would be used for cup sizes, given how bra sizes work. This picture has plenty on the milk-producing abilities of these gals, which... yeah, ok, but,

Pablo Cárdenas R.

pcr_guy

#CRISPR interference is great because it lets you use a single dCas9 to turn off multiple loci with different gRNAs. But this has a cost: all those gRNAs compete for

Jonathan Kaplan

JonathanKaplan

A short thread on hereditarianism and ("not seeing") racism. Hereditarians do not just happen to downplay how racist our society is, and how much damage past racism did, they need

Jack Worth

worth_jack

New teacher training stats today show a massive divergence between shortage subjects and others.Despite an overall increase in secondary trainees (although target missed for 7th year running), this mis-match is

Jason Antic

citnaj

1/ Random thought: Deep Learning model development has seemed to me to be a lot like cooking. Typical example: Images looking a little strange here? Train on this other loss

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I can’t recall feeling quite this combination of sheer impotence and white rage as I do right now. NO ONE who has the slightest grasp of clinical immunology can possibly

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

Have you been following the debate on trans rights lately? I have, through @HJJoyceEcon and @janeclarejones and others. It's pretty disturbing. I am not an expert. And my sex /

rae ☀️

RDWritesThings

cr (hate reading): the last virgin standinghopefully if i suffer enough reading this i can find the motivation to read an actual good book It's the first few paragraphs and

IowaGma2

Gma2Iowa

Ferguson has record of making stupid worst-case predictions about the threat of new viruses. Bill cites “what Prof. Gold Standard said in 2005 about the projected Bird Flu death toll

Jason Sheltzer

JSheltzer

Angelika Amon passed away this morning. She was the greatest scientist I’ve ever met. This is a huge loss for her family, her friends, and for every biologist. As a

Dr. David Shiffman

WhySharksMatter

And now it’s time to grade the Mike Tyson #SharkWeek show. I expect to...not enjoy this one as much. As a reminder I grade on science/nonsense, diversity of experts featured

Heron Greenesmith, Esq.

herong

Ok there’s some stuff floating around about this piece and @BiDotOrg’s commentary on it and I HAVE A COUPLE THINGS TO SAY. Let’s start with this framework: we critique systems

Alex Rives

alexrives

1/9 Today we’re excited to release Transformer models pre-trained on evolutionary-scale protein sequence data along with a major update to our preprint from last year:Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/622803v3Models: https://

Chris Mason

mason_lab

Today we're elated to release a set of 30 papers on aerospace medicine and the biology of spaceflight; they are simultaneously featured on the covers of @CellCellPress, @CellReports, & @iScience_CP

Tony Bird

TonyBir16640145

My little sis @Sal_Robins got suspended from Twitter for 7 days yesterday for daring to call someone who IDs as transgender a “trans identified male” & pointing out the danger