📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣
We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂
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Listerine Leaves 0.1% Of Germs Alive To Spread Message Of Terror Throughout Microbial Community https://theonion.com/listerine-leaves-0-1-of-germs-alive-to-spread-message-of-terror-throughout-microbial-community/
I’m excited to share a new paper about HIV escape from broadly neutralizing antibody monotherapies! In it, we describe the most highly recurrent adaptation I have ever seen. A close collaboration with Lillian Cohn (FHCC) led jointly by Elena Romero and Abby Clyde. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth.
daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval...
On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.
Congratulations to Prof. Eva Stukenbrock on her appointment to the Leopoldina.
Her research on fungal pathogens helps us better understand evolution and protect crops.
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3882989/eva-...
#EvolutionaryBiology #Leopoldina
Best evidence yet that LLMs can match human capabilities in doing science.
I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.
I shared on LinkedIn already, but I wanted to post here as well since I've got a different audience: I will be joining the Department of Plant Pathology at the @universityofga.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor on Aug 1!! I will keep studying #Aspergillus & #Fusarium that infect plants & humans 🥰
Susan Johnston
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
This Is Just To Say
I have taken
the space
that was in
the -80
and which
you were probably
saving
for an emergency
Forgive me
it was convenient
so open
and so cold
