Reposted by Ana M RojasGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did. 13634120812254
Reposted by Ana M RojasVittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Friday SCOOP: DOGE is now at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where a DOGE operative appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency's systems, among other proposals. If you're a gov/tech worker and want to talk, I'm on Signal at vittoria89.82 www.wired.com/story/doge-d...wired.comInside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans AffairsA DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals. 15374175
Reposted by Ana M RojasJalview @jalview.bsky.social · 04/04/2025💡Curious about intrinsically disordered regions in your proteins? Jalview's got answers - FOUR of them, infact! Many disease-associated proteins, including those involved in neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's and Parkinson's) and cancer, contain IDRs. 1135
Reposted by Ana M RojaseLife @elife.bsky.social · 04/04/2025“Virtually no one thinks that we are making the best use of scientists’ time.” DOGE, however, isn’t fixing that—it’s cancelling grants, firing scientists, and causing chaos. If efficiency were the goal, we wouldn’t be here, argues @stuartbuck.bsky.social. buff.ly/Pairzxtelifesciences.orgScience Under Threat in the United States: How to make science more efficientDOGE needs to completely rethink its efforts to increase the efficiency of the federal agencies that fund research in the US. 0125
Reposted by Ana M RojasHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 04/04/2025This is unconscionable! Subjecting eminent scientists to this uncertainty is crazy!!! How can DOGE with their ‘coding errors’ be in charge of the US economy?! I hope each of these actions will be the subject of a punitive lawsuit collectively and individually 64719
Reposted by Ana M RojasEtche_homo @etche.bsky.social · 17/03/2025"more than 100 million people have died of tuberculosis because the drugs are not widely available in many parts of the world. The most proximate cause of contemporary tuberculosis deaths is not M. tuberculosis, but Homo sapiens." 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... bookshop.org/p/books/unti...theatlantic.comThe World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get WorseBy retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again. 0148
Reposted by Ana M RojasDr. C. L. Schneider @stardusttostarfish.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Add: the mass extinction of species, including key species, which could lead to extinction of the human species. No amount of survivalist training will make up for lack of resources. No billions of dollars can rewild a key species if it has no habitat. We can adapt, but we have our limits. 🌎🧪 22711
Reposted by Ana M RojasNigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 15/03/2025🧪⚛️ My obituary for Sam Edwards, published in PNAS is open access www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....pnas.orgSamuel Frederick Edwards: Founder of modern polymer and soft matter theory | PNASSamuel Frederick Edwards: Founder of modern polymer and soft matter theory 094
Reposted by Ana M RojasAna Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025A puntito de empezar la 2da Asamblea de la Conexión @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social !!!! Nos esperan 3 días intensos de encuentros, ciencia y planes para una Biología Computacional y Bioinformática en expansión!! @csic.es @csic-vaact.bsky.social 075
Reposted by Ana M RojasAureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Second meeting for the @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social starts with an introduction by @anaconesa.bsky.social. Three wonderful days in front of us to enhance the wonderful #bioinformatics and #computational_biology community at @csic.es. 062
Reposted by Ana M RojasAna Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Kickking off the second day our @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social meeting with scientific sesions with Victor Sánchez Gaya, presenting POSTRE, a tool to predict the funcional impact of pstructural variants @hitseq.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social 033
Reposted by Ana M RojasAna Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Next, Ana Martinez and Carmen Gil from @cib-csic.bsky.social presenting how to use a consortium of AI tools for drug design, with múltiple applicatons in the clínic @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub 064
Reposted by Ana M RojasAna Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Patricia Mingo, from INIA-CSIC now explaining their lipidomics and transcriptomics work to find new treatments to combat West Nilo Virus, a growing threat in Spain. @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @i2sysbio.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub 041
Reposted by Ana M RojasAna Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Enjoing the next talk by @ramalok.bsky.social from @ICMCSIC exploring the diversity of sea microorganism at Mediterranean trajectories by metagenomics-based population genomics @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @hitseq.bsky.social @longtrec.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social 0112
Reposted by Ana M RojasAna Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025insightful talk by Juan Fdez Recio: “using molecular dynamics is better than static models to predict the impact of mutations on Protein Protein Interactions” @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub 011
Reposted by Ana M RojasAna Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The picture of the @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social, the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology family of @csic.es @csic-vaact.bsky.social @i2sysbio.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social @iscb.bsky.social 077
Reposted by Ana M RojasAna Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I love this talk by Alejandro Dominguez from @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social who explains how to predict microbial metabolite -host protein interactions @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social 031
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 12/03/2025¿Aún no conoces al Grupo de Nutrigenómica del IATS del CSIC? Te invitamos a conocerles en nuestro Canal de YouTube youtu.be/S9VsVHHDsysyoutu.be¿Quieres conocer al Grupo de Nutrigenómica del IATS?YouTube video by Conexión CSIC BCB 021
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Followed by Javier de las Rivas (IBMCC) describing in detail his approach to single cell and deconvolution in cancer samples. 021
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Daniel Rico (CABIMER) shows a very nice introduction to epigenetics landscapes in cancer cells with focus on cell identity. 121
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Second day of the second BCB.hub meeting. A very intense day full of interesting stuff. First in the morning Victor Sanchez from IBBTEC showcasing the performance of their POSTRE tool to diagnose TAD-related disease. 132
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The last session started with (Gonzalo Colmenarejo, IMDEA FOOD) about computational design of metabolites to create new drugs 121
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025then the (online) description of approaching food allergens by Mónica Carrera (IIM). 121
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025And the closing talk by Arnau Montagud (I2SYSBIO) describing how multi-scale approach modeling can lead to understand complex biological processes. 021
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The flashtalks sessions provide an interesting overview of very interesting approaches to a variety of topics. 121
Reposted by Ana M RojasBCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Summary: #2ndBCB.HUB meeting, a great day full of nice scientific presentations with lots of interactions and networking. A picture of the big computational biology community at CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social, and the Executive board of the Hub. 085
Reposted by Ana M RojasDavid A Knowles @davidaknowles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F. 21513215
Reposted by Ana M RojasAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Hearing from a source: "A friend at NCI lost 3 outstanding staff (their words) and tweeted about it. She was suspended for 2 days. No idea how her tweet was flagged." This is for all the people asking us why it's hard to tell what's happening at NIH. Retaliation is real. 14445901343
Reposted by Ana M RojasRoland Dunbrack 🏳️🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025This is what NCI scientists now have to face approval and probably censorship for by the DOGE twinks if they want to publish. www.propublica.org/article/nati... 3104
Reposted by Ana M RojasThiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025'What those of us not cocooned in our corner offices see is that Musk let a bunch of Dunning-Kruger kids — too incompetent to realize that they’re incompetent — loose on federal agencies, where they began firing workers without trying to understand what these workers do' @pkrugman.bsky.social 054
Reposted by Ana M RojasAnonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Have FUN!!!!! #Anonymous 608152095871
Reposted by Ana M RojasMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired. 785216004826
Reposted by Ana M RojasAlfonso Valencia @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Sobre el delicado momento de la conservación de los datos biomedicos en tiempos inciertos "Es imperativo completar los sistemas y procesos que eviten dependencias críticas, adoptando tecnologías que permitan la creación de entornos colaborativos y descentralizados" elpais.com/ciencia/2025...elpais.comLa fragilidad de la información científica en la incierta situación actualLa descentralización de los datos emerge como un elemento crucial en el panorama internacional actual, marcado por la incertidumbre y la volatilidad 052
Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025 Check it out! The #TED functional domains are now at @pdbeurope.bsky.social , ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u..., @nbordin.bsky.socialebi.ac.ukQuality and function at a glance: The role of TED in the AlphaFold DatabaseThe AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED), a resource designed to systematically identify and classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predic... 062
Reposted by Ana M RojasFurqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Imposter Syndrome & The Perfectionist Trap 🎭 More in Alt Text. #ImposterSyndrome #Perfectionism #PhDLife #AcademicWriting #Research #Productivity #WorkSmart #MindsetMatters #GradSchool #ScienceCommunication 🧪 23712
Reposted by Ana M RojasTorsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Looking for a PhD fellowship at one of the leading life science research institutions of the world? The Biozentrum provides a stimulating and inspiring research experience for experimental and computational life scientists. #lifesciences 🧪 #switzerland #basel 132
Reposted by Ana M RojasDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In case you were wondering, ASM did NOT sign, AISES and SACNAS did sign. Disappointed , not surprised 🧪🦠 38425
Reposted by Ana M RojasMagdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science by John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin - if you’re not going to read the book that highlights how women have been considered unsuitable as researchers for reasons other than their ability then read this book review 🧪 #WomeninSTEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comAgainst the odds: 12 women who beat bias to succeed in scienceA book deftly highlights how women have been considered unsuitable as researchers for reasons other than their ability and commitment. 24616
Reposted by Ana M RojasJeffrey Townsend @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social · 03/03/2025www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...theatlantic.comInside the Collapse at the NIHAdministration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now. 031
Reposted by Ana M RojasVerónica Lloréns-Rico @verollorens.bsky.social · 28/02/2025We are hiring! Our lab is recruiting a bioinformatician with experience in microbiome data analysis. More details here: jobrxiv.org/job/centro-d... Deadline for applications is April 1st. Please share!jobrxiv.orgBioinformatician / microbiome data analystPost a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv! 032
Reposted by Ana M RojasTom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 02/03/2025absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...absolutelymaybe.plos.orgWhat if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely MaybePubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications… 194
Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The ~100 NIH study sections cancelled so far. Musk, Milei et al. We are witnessing a scary global trend: a war declaration to Science. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.com2025 Study section tracking 211
Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025#yeah!!! This great lab keep on delivering tools for the plp. Thx!! t.co/XB2M1voL3at.cohttps://github.com/RosettaCommons/RFantibody 001
Reposted by Ana M RojasERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2025🦋 The #genome of Coenonympha oedippus, the false ringlet butterfly, is here! This new reference genome provides crucial insights into ecological adaptation and conservation of this #endangered species. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Genomics #Biodiversity @biogeneurope.bsky.social 0115
Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025¿Quién fue Margaret O Dayhoff? En el centenario de su nacimiento, recupero una pieza que escribí hace unos años sobre ella. www.upo.es/diario/11-fe...upo.esMargaret O. Dayhoff: pionera de la Biología Computacional – DUPO – Diario de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide 000