Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Astounding % of SciFi main characters who are saved from getting eaten by a space monster by another space monster eating the first space monster. What are the odds? 000
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I appreciate the Data behind your painting 000
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"All I want is Data (points at Data) driven medical advice!" 000
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is shaping up to be batshit crazy www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cbc... 100
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Science writing with AI: How right the language and how wrong the communication. I will write a substack when I get a moment to breathe. 010
Reposted by Jason McDermottJason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is just to say... I have 'discovered' the protein that was in the phage and which you probably wanted to save for your thesis Forgive me it was uncharacterized so function and much AI 0198
Reposted by Jason McDermottLucas Moriniere @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Avery built an ML framework which can predict strain-level phage-host interactions from genome data alone, trained on public phage susceptibility datasets. Model performance matches existing species-specific models, can generalize to unseen phages and hosts, and guide phage-cocktail design. 112
Reposted by Jason McDermottVivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy to share that @averynoonan.bsky.social paper “Phylogeny-agnostic strain-level prediction of phage–host interactions from genomes using machine learning” is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🎉🎊 👉🏽 rdcu.be/nR2NizD7H5va 27028
Reposted by Jason McDermottCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 882123873
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is just to say... I have 'discovered' the protein that was in the phage and which you probably wanted to save for your thesis Forgive me it was uncharacterized so function and much AI 0198
Reposted by Jason McDermottRedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Who hasn't made this mistake at at least one conference? 2145
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 24/09/2026BioAI News! Claude discovered a protein that may or may not do something! 001
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 24/09/2026'tis the season www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its... 143
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I posted a limerick on Bluesky, but didn't know yet if it would fly, it's taken a bit, but isn't a fit, Gonna go have me a good cry 140
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 07/09/2026New uniforms for US Space Force announced 030
Reposted by Jason McDermottArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 07/09/2026New uniforms for US Space Force announced 717824
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 05/09/2026A room with a view! On my flight this evening. Surprise! 000
Reposted by Jason McDermottRedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026No cap this is a niche pun. 0115
Reposted by Jason McDermottRedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's weird to me that they are on the same street tho 185
Reposted by Jason McDermottJayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 29/08/2026Not bad. Not bad. 212317
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 29/08/2026So... a piece that was *directly* inspired by your work I drew ~5 years ago... 1132
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 28/08/2026You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(d... 110
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A new paper from me (and a bunch of others): 'Describing the persistence landscape for introducing microbes into complex communities' in Applied Environmental Microbiology out today! lnkd.in/p/gNdD-CiG 020
Reposted by Jason McDermottRedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I will say, it's soooo satisfying to see that entire day of meetings dissappear. Though as you progress in your career the meetings start coming faster and faster. Eventually they're gonna overflow to Saturday and it's game over. 0104
Reposted by Jason McDermottJason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The case for face-eating. By A. Leopard. What if - and I say this in all earnestness - face-eating is not as bad as everyone thinks? In fact face-eating might just be the thing to save our economy and civilization. In this essay I will... 011
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The case for face-eating. By A. Leopard. What if - and I say this in all earnestness - face-eating is not as bad as everyone thinks? In fact face-eating might just be the thing to save our economy and civilization. In this essay I will... 011
Reposted by Jason McDermottRedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Spiderman but make it real 073
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 22/08/2026My god we live in an incredible world. You just need to remember to open your nostrils and actually smell it once in a while. When was the last time you *smelled* the world? 000
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 19/08/2026welp - it's a good thing that they are as concious as my toaster thenstatic.klipy.com 020
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Why would they eat *MY* face tho? I clearly and specifically voted for the Leopards Eating *OTHER* people’s Faces party. 020
Reposted by Jason McDermottTravis Wheeler @wheelerlab.org · 13/08/2026See below. And if you're super nervous about contacting Jason, you can reach out to me. I promise not to tell him. 121
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I am very scary I've been told... not lately or really ever... but still. 000
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Anyone want to review a paper for our PSB (psb.stanford.edu) session on "Biological Molecular Function: Beyond Homology?" If so let me know and I can send you information. 000
Reposted by Jason McDermottGlendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 11/08/2026From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical illustration, bioart to space imagery, explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack. 150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡. (And no AI!) go.bsky.app/DygrEnH 512463
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Hi! Remember me, the journal article we asked you to review but you never responded about??? No? Well - anywaaaays - I'm due in 3 days 020
Reposted by Jason McDermottColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 351564633
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I'm at the 'My-advisor-sent-me-here-for-some-reason-hill' Ah shit. I am my advisor. FML. 020
Reposted by Jason McDermottAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Counterpoint, as a microbiologist: people using AI to create new viruses is not in the top 3,000 items on the list of things that really worry me. 252
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I guess not true for No Way Home - but that was fun because the multiverse burped up all kinds of old (mostly local) threats 010
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I'm pretty burned out on superhero movies at this point - but this was a good one and I really enjoyed it. I like the fact that Spiderman villians represent generally more local threats and it's not all about destroying the world/multiverse. To me that makes it more fun. 120
Reposted by Jason McDermottRedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026We are truly living in the future. 084
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Film you've watched more than 6 times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghiblistatic.klipy.com 110
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Nature: running massively parallel gain-of-function experiments 24/7 2157
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 28/07/2026There’s an AT&T ad that features music by The Tallest Man on Earth and it just makes me so happy (even though it’s commercial) 000
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Switching media he could be driving his new car up from the Bahamas - a Mitchin Camaro 063
Jason McDermott @biodataganache.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I volunteered to move off a flight yesterday in SLC because of this. They needed 8 people because it was too hot. 030
Reposted by Jason McDermottRedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026We call her little Polly Prompt Injection. My riff on the classic @xkcd.com comic -> xkcd.com/327/ 084