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yeah, especially given that the bulk of that is supposedly Anthropic which is just paper gains that could evaporate when traded publicly. everyone's a genius in a bull market, my f…

Well right now this would be highly implausible (still possible though). But what I garner is that AI/robotics led wet lab work is in progress. And hacking the AI running the wet l…

impressive to me, but sadly i feel a little misleading since this is only the data-science part of life sciences. every few weeks though i test claude and chatgpt on their scientif…

i'm very late but i just wanted to give you kudos for a succinct yet spot-on comment on the state of funding. you captured everything i've been trying to put into words and failing…

the recent drama about science funding to me highlights one of the main problems with our grant-based distribution system: which is that it is unsurprisingly very frail to fast-mov…

The stem cell field is also quirky. IMO it is one of the most cutthroat, competitive, ruthless fields of life sciences that is new enough in history to still have a bunch of pionee…

> They're in a sticky spot where their most successful customer is one that they will never see another dime from, and there's not really a way around it. naive question: why has n…

sadly no, this is not a thing and it's critically needed. top on my list of things to do if i were a billionaire: launch an institute for the sole purpose of reproducing other's fi…

the problem is two-fold in my opinion. firstly, there are basically no legal repercussions for scientific misconduct (e.g. falsifying data, fake images, etc.). most individuals who…

sadly it looks like seanhunter was correct, shame.

every few months i like to ask chatgpt to do the "thinking" part of my job (scientist) and see how the responses stack up. at the beginning 2022 it was useless because the output w…

i am very glad to see others (presumably non-scientists) in this thread dunking on the false paradigm that "peer review = true". anyone who peddles this notion is naive or a moron.…

some added context (both my parents are/were in the Foreign Service): your location is assigned based on a competitive bidding system where you select from a list of cities to do y…

the small molecule is SW033291, papers are required to publish this specific detail but second order news sources tend to avoid the technical details.

at the dissolution and decentralization of empires feudalism in it's many forms historically seems to be the most common outcome. i would say that we firmly live in the American Em…

my own institution launched an internal investigation into a professor who i know for a fact committed fraud and was "unable to prove intentional wrongdoing". academic institutions…

the greatest travesty of modern science is that fraud is not illegal. in every other industry that i can imagine, purposely committing fraud has been made illegal. this is not the …

I think about this quite a lot. I’ve come to the conclusion that in the past acting with integrity was rewarded and lacking integrity was punished. In 2025 it seems integrity is me…

chatgpt making targeted "recommendations" (read ads) is a nightmare. especially if it's subtle and not disclosed.

My portfolio was +94% in 2024 and +52% in the past 6 months (I took a massive haircut thanks to April's tariff saga and by having biblical levels of greed...lesson learned). How do…

yup, anecdotally the majority of postdocs these days are internationals who are willing to work 60+ hour weeks on $50k a year, for the infinitesimal chance to land a R1 tenure-trac…

Painkillers like ibuprofen are NSAIDs which inhibit the enzyme COX1/2, reducing prostaglandin production. Prostaglandins are an inflammatory hormone that do a variety of things, bu…

I've always thought of these VC fueled expeditions to nowhere as the opposite. Wealth transfer from the owning class to the middle class seeing as a lot of these ventures crash and…

I’m sorry who is who in this analogy. Because if internet/tech is the gun then the clear solution is “not giving your children guns”. Bad modern parents just give their kids an iPa…

On the topic of hammers: "if you don't hold the hammer at exactly 2.6cm from the end of the handle and strike the nail with 6N of force at an angle of 58 degrees then of course you…