@paulturnerlab.bsky.social and I wrote a perspective on the need and recently developed approaches to study individual virus traits in the most numerous viruses on our planet (phages).
Let's move beyond measuring the mean #phagesky
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#microsky #virology #microscopy
npj Viruses - Rage against the mean: a perspective on measuring fitness of individual phage particles
It’s official: Greatest band in the history of music.
genestogenomes.org/microbial-mo...
Jyot Antani
Interesting! In a study now under review, we surveyed self-ID'ed math profs and asked where they'd publish, and then gave them a sequence of pairwise comparisons. This produces a preference/status hierarchy of math venue preferences...
PNAS comes out slightly above the middle of the rankings... 1/
A study I regularly circle back 2 from Dr. Pablo Cardenas-Ramirez, PI of @mseelab.org. Just now making use of the amazing computational tool (Opqua) that it introduces.
With it, 1 can model fitness landscape scale ?s (e.g. valley crossing) @ the host-parasite scale
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
My take, given the data: PNAS doesn't publish serious pure math anymore because math profs don't want to send their best work to PNAS. They prefer to send it elsewhere.
But why did the emergent consensus change? No idea...
Preprint here if interested: arxiv.org/abs/2603.00807
2/2: Amongst other things, I mention my participation in the @opentodebate.bsky.social Hopkins Forum: "Is the Scientific Enterprise Too Risk Averse?" (May 5, 2026; Info below).
Very grateful to the organizers, participants, attendees.
opentodebate.substack.com/p/the-hopkin...
genestogenomes.org
On scientific laws, classic dances, and a new study about molecular evolution…in reverse.
1/2: New for @undark.org : "Risk Aversion in Science Stifles Innovation"
"Risk is rather simple: a willingness to reflect on the processes, rituals, and incentives of science; evaluate them; and change them if we agree that they do not work."
undark.org/2026/06/04/o...
arxiv.org
Academic publishing requires solving a collective coordination problem: among thousands of possible publication venues, which deserve a community's attention? A clear consensus helps scholars allocate...
This debate was produced in partnership with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, as part of The Hopkins Forum series.
The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals.
The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%.
For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.
jamanetwork.com
This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...
