Someone sends fake emails that look like they are from Hiroaki Kitano (president of the International Society for Systems Biology) asking for help with travel refunds. SPAM gets more sophisticated now with LLMs... I guess it goes to everyone in the field?
![A black-and-white historical photograph of Dr. Maud Leonora Menten (1879–1960), the Canadian physician and biochemist who co-developed the Michaelis–Menten equation for enzyme kinetics. Taken in her laboratory (likely at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1910s–1920s), she stands with a serious, focused expression—lips closed, eyes direct and thoughtful—against a backdrop of wooden shelves filled with glass bottles, jars, scientific equipment, and a wire-mesh enclosure. She wears a dark dress with a lace collar, a string of beads, and her hair styled in a neat bun. Superimposed on the image is the Michaelis–Menten equation in white text:v=Vmax[S]Km+[S]v = \frac{V_{\max} [S]}{K_m + [S]}v = \frac{V_{\max} [S]}{K_m + [S]}
This iconic portrait captures Menten during her groundbreaking research in biochemistry and histochemistry, where she helped establish the foundational mathematical model of enzyme-substrate reactions still used today, while overcoming significant gender barriers as one of the first women in Canada to earn both an M.D. and a Ph.D.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2xisupj43xdq7uvffzigis5p/bafkreihpw72tjmrypo7d5tc2fv5kzpsmsc7kglj4n3ekw22e2ys4gg6nti)
![Foto of an email: Dear Professor [Last Name], I hope you are well...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sygptg3ye5eh7rxh3vr3mvnc/bafkreiciiwxovkhcl5fysmnn36qrjbmnpktvjxy4tlnib7euq24rmnze6q)
