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Chris Mungall @cmungall.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Excited to partner with Anthropic on using AI for #RareDisease, and grateful for support on building the @monarchinitiative.bsky.social DisMech pathomechanism knowledge base! #MedSky #GeneSky

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Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) @bosc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Attending #ISMB2026? Check out the #BOSC2026 keynotes and panels: Keynote 1: Maryam Zaringhalam Keynote 2: Eric Green Panel 1: Policies and Strategies for Resilient Open Science Panel 2: Open Source in the Age of AI More info: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

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BOSC 2026

Since 2000, BOSC has covered all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science. BOSC 2026, the 27th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, will take place July 14-15 in Washington, DC,...

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Chris Mungall @cmungall.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If you are attending #ISMB2026 you can hear @severaltimes.bsky.social's presentation at the Function COSI on our use of agentic AI to do this!

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

'Phil was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology, where he created the beloved Ten Simple Rules series. He was so prolific in the series that the meta-article “Ten Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules Article” literally includes, as Rule 4: “Be Philip E. Bourne.”

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Remembering Phil Bourne

Personal reflections on a legendary scientist, leader, builder, and mentor

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J. Harry Caufield @severaltimes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Music for today is Greg Haines - Slumber Tides open.spotify.com/album/7cpUOM...

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Slumber Tides

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Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Whenever I see variations of the "Dependency" comic by xkcd (xkcd.com/2347/), I always feel it's actually more like this:

An edit of the xkcd comic "Dependency". In this version, it's just a heap of collapsed blocks scattered everywhere. Also everything is on fire

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J. Harry Caufield @severaltimes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

What is that rule about questions in headlines and how they can nearly always be answered with "No"? Or is that the entire rule? generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google...

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J. Harry Caufield @severaltimes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A use case for Vibrio phages? That is, if we aren't worried about seeding the oceans with exogenous viruses

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"The suspended NSF grants, a list of which Science obtained from an agency source, span work from computer science and plasma physics to the measurement of volatile compounds created by this year’s Los Angeles fires." By @dangaristo.bsky.social in @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA

Move follows Trump administration finding that school didn’t effectively combat antisemitism

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I can’t begin to enumerate the ways the Corporation for Public Broadcasting made my life better, literally from my earliest memories until today. This is gut wrenching.

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J. Harry Caufield @severaltimes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

If you work in the sciences and are hesitant about using generative AI, let me suggest this minimal application: please please use it to make a unique, searchable name for your next project

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.

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J. Harry Caufield @severaltimes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Amos Bairoch keynote at #ismb2025 - biocuration is still very relevant, though it's unfortunate that it's still so necessary

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 31/12/2024

Japanese fireworks catalogue circa 1880

color illustration of exploding fireworks shells

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Indiana University, home of one of the best cognitive science programs in the world, appears to be cancelling its undergrad cog sci program. Fascist ghouls continuing their horrid torrent of destruction.

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J. Harry Caufield @severaltimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today, I'm back to thinking about generative AI as a spooky technology

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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/05/2025

Free expression is a hallmark of the First Amendment. All our rights are in jeopardy when trans peoples’ freedom to exist is undermined.

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J. Harry Caufield @severaltimes.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Time to bring back Asimov's laws of robotics I guess

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

U.S. attorney demands scientific journal explain how it ensures 'viewpoint diversity' Letter raised concerns it was designed to suppress academic and scientific freedom. @evanbush.bsky.social reports @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

NEW: The entire NIH payment system is currently frozen for all grantees. This is tied to DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” caper, reported in today’s Post, which has already led to payment cutoffs to doctors and health workers at hospitals treating the poor.

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J. Harry Caufield @severaltimes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I want to know why my country is operating a concentration camp

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Sue @modcur.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

HC: Need to avoid the rocky shoals of hallucinations and confabulations. Test run looking at GO LLMS completely fail making up IDs and terms #Biocuration2025

A man stands on a stage next to a slide showing a large sail boat under stormy skies

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Sue @modcur.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Harry Caufield - Building the Lighthouse: Guiding LLM-Powered Biocuration with Domain Knowledge and Context Navigating the stormy seas of LLM hallucinations #Biocuration2025

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Sue @modcur.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

NM: We need a Car Talk for AI to help users/tinkerers explain what is wrong with their models. We need a safe space to help us cross the digital divide. People need access. #Biocuration2025

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merritt @merrittk.com · 04/04/2025

moose time

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

So they say research ethics are DEI…remember the thing that’s supposed to keep the Tuskegee experiment from ever happening again? Multiple reports that CITI training modules now contain a disclaimer that says content is “subject to review” due to recent EOs. www.reddit.com/r/Professors...

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

HHS blocked posting indefinitely. Not enough press is being given to this back door approach to blocking NIH grants. If and when it is lifted will still be 35 days before study sections can be held

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Justin Bollinger @bollinger.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.

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