OTD in 1997 Ukraine & Russia signed the RussianāUkrainian Friendship Treaty in which we promised to "respect each other's territory".
A treaty in which Russia promises not to invade you is the traditional way we announce that we one day will. So you can believe us on a peace treaty now. Lol.
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Darth Putin
ADA censors scientists at their own conference on Friday
2 (maybe more) board members resign by Monday
It shows scientists in solidarity with each other šš»
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My personal conspiracy theory: Thermo Fisher does this because they want everyone to stop doing Western blots and change to buying mass spectrometers š
One billion 3D protein structures: Should you care about ESMfold2?
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For those of you who've been hiding under a rock š
"From LLMs to scientific AI agents"
#LLMs #AI #agents #science
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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints of editorial critical of the Trump administrations's ongoing attacks on science. Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz arstechnica.com/science/2026...
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
šļø Dozens more images with duplications or painting
šØļø Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair
Russia has bombed the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra overnight, a UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in 1051 and sacred to Christians, older than Moscow. The Uspenskiy Cathedral is currently on fire. The Lavra is listed under Enhanced Protection under the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention.
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz...
New in @natgenet.nature.com: a moving obituary for Peer.
Francesca Ciccarelli, Jan Korbel & Christian von Mering reflect on his scientific vision, from protein domains and genome evolution to metagenomics, and on his generosity as a mentor and friend to so many.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times.
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Reese Richardson
www.thermofisher.com
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
šļø Dozens more images with duplications or painting
šØļø Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
