Academics don't like being told that they live in an Ivory Tower, but I have to say, only people who have spent practically their whole life within the security of tenured employment could come up with such a cruel solution. There are more equitable ways to solve the low success rate problem.
Lazy use of AI by half-ass researchers is putting digital asbestos everywhere, which will be a huge pain in the ass to clean up.
Just do your damn job as a scholar or let someone else with more integrity and competence have your position.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-"
Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪
My first PhD student‘s, Kavan Gor, paper on 5-color single-molecule imaging of co-transcriptional RNA folding is out in @science.org Advances!
He finds how RNA modification enzymes, antisense oligonucleotides and ribosomal proteins re-route nascent RNA folding.
See more details in EMBL post below!
As a kid, watching Walker, Texas Ranger taught me that many problems in life can be solved by a well-timed roundhouse kick, a lesson that has served me well in academia
Timely reminder that a few years ago we named the Norris1 lncRNA, which remains quite enigmatic, but, fittingly for Chuck, is expressed primarily in the testis pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Pilar is an amazing person and great scientist! It's a lot of fun to work with her! Well deserved PhD! Congratulations! 🥳
One of the many, many things genAI destroys is human collaboration.
It actively creates loners, guys spinning off into the deep end with literally no one around them to go "hey what the fuck are you talking about" or "hey this sounds like the thing I've been working on" or "check out this book"
The DGfB Molecular Biophysics meeting in Hünfeld is always such a great experience! 🔬⚗️
A lot of opportunities to talk & brainstorm with others in a friendly and relaxed environment. 🧠🌩️
This time, I was recognized with the poster prize, which was a nice cherry on top! 🍒
Congratulations to Lukas @pekarekl.bsky.social for winning the poster prize at the DGfB Molecular Biophysics meeting in Hünfeld last week 🏆 - it was a fantastic meeting with lots of interesting talks & great to catch up with colleagues and sad that we missed out on many of our Israeli colleagues.
Do you ever watch a bird making a nest and they move one twig from one side to the other and then back and you’re like haha how silly and inefficient what is that accomplishing
But then I am working on my slide deck and suddenly it me
Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New research group at the CRTD @tudresden.bsky.social !🎉🔬
Supported by the ERC Starting Grant, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social is launching a new group to study the sense of gravity and #regeneration in the inner ear in axolotl.
Read more ➡️ tud.link/buva24
#CMCBnews
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
I was asked this week who are my ecologist heroes
I said no one. Academia does not need heroes
It needs collaborative, systematic, and non-hierarchical working
Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
When I was growing up, many songs played over the airwaves in Puerto Rico were in English. I did not understand most of the words. I have to be frank, for many I still don’t. But, I enjoyed them and don’t remember complaining about it. I think that is the case for most of the World.
AI writes papers, AI reviews, AI replies to decision letter, AI makes decision, AI reads papers, AI writes papers...
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
Picture of two pens. The first is an ordinary ballpoint pen, with the caption “how work feels doing it alone”. The second is a picture of one of those novelty pens with ten colours that you had when you were thirteen, with the caption, “how work feels worh an AI employee”. At their bottom it says “hire an AI employee for $0.97/day”.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
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🚨Last chance to apply for two PhD projects in my lab, applying structural biology and single molecule biophysics to investigate gene expression in RNA viruses: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
🚨Attention prospective PhD students🚨
Are you interested in molecular mechanisms, RNA viruses, structural biology or biophysics? 🧬🦠🧪
We have THREE fully-funded PhD projects available for October 2026 entry:
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The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤
If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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My first invitation to a predatory journal contribution <3
What an honour!
So happy and proud that my great supervisor and mentor Marcus Jahnel is one of those 13 scientists! Congratulations! 🥳
The academic publishing system is so rotten, it must be completely dismantled. Not partially, and not improved. Dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
When I tell non-academic friends how it all works they stare at me in disbelief. Not only that it exists, but that we still allow it to.
Always shocking to see these kinds of data collected together. "[publishers made]US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024" - That's $12 billion diverted away from actual research or materially supporting the community - these are disgusting numbers.