Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 07/10/2026Congratulations Kagan and Soai, nonlinear autocatalysis wins the Nobel in chemistry! 🎉 👏 🏅 14410
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezNobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026Congratulations to our first Nobel Prize laureate of 2026 🎉 Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He seems very happy with the news! 141170136
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“It will be transformative in the way we treat pancreas cancer. It’s the biggest development we’ve had in pancreas cancer in decades,” said Andrew Ko, a medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers at UCSF. “I’m so thankful for this as an advance for our patients.”statnews.comFDA approves new pancreatic cancer drug expected to usher in new era of treatmentThe FDA has approved a life-extending treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer — the first such therapy to attack a genetic cause of the highly lethal malignancy. 1177
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezDr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Please share! What companies have folks successfully worked with to generate custom antibodies? Rough cost? We've been burned once before and want to try a different company this time around. 313
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 01/08/2026this is great! And we are big fans of the ALFA tag! 100
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Please share! What companies have folks successfully worked with to generate custom antibodies? Rough cost? We've been burned once before and want to try a different company this time around. 313
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026static.klipy.comRounders: Man Eating Oreo CookiesALT: Rounders: Man Eating Oreo Cookies 000
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026@acs.org's new website doesn't show article stats any more like views and citations. they don't even the most read list anymore. I liked to track how are articles were doing. 😮💨 nvm that the format also just looks weird now too. huge bummer. 350
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Totally fine, if they can provide a strong letter 010
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezSTAT @statnews.com · 24/07/2026‘Science: A New Golden Age’ report calls for shifting billions from universities to tech companies www.statnews.com/2026/07/24/s...statnews.comWhite House offers its science blueprint: More AI, less life sciencesThe Trump administration released its blueprint for U.S. science, calling for shifting hundreds of billions of research dollars from universities to industry. 51415
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezDr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Annnnnd my RPPR was just flagged for reporting publications with foreign collaborators. What is happening? 022
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Annnnnd my RPPR was just flagged for reporting publications with foreign collaborators. What is happening? 022
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezLuke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Excited to see this collaboration now in print. Dye chemistry meets AI-designed proteins. Three small, orthogonal tags; lifetime modulation; split versions. Request the free dyes at dyes.janelia.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgDe novo design of orthogonal far-red, orange, and green fluorophore-binding proteins for multiplexed imagingFluorescent proteins and small-molecule dyes offer complementary advantages for biological imaging: proteins are amenable to genetic tagging, whereas dyes provide superior brightness and photostabilit... 010839
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 15/07/2026i included my dog in my acknowledgements page 🙂 010
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026this one is some kind of intense inside joke must be 261
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 10/07/2026 251978566
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 10/07/2026@sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social has an easy to use web portal for submitting comments in response to proposed OMB rule change as well as contacting your representatives: fight2win.standupforscience.net?utm_source=o...fight2win.standupforscience.netStand up for ScienceStand up for Science 01315
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezBen Neely @benneely.com · 10/07/2026Evotip flow through for gDNA. Nice! But made me wonder about new hotness in other methods: what happened to nano pots where they put a tissue on the spots to do multi omics, or floating cells from @gaolab.bsky.social? I’m not in this field and this is a lazy post. (👀 @proteomicsnews.bsky.social) 141
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 29/06/2026is that what journal peer review is though? 100
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The qed score cited above is one based on AI. SolvingForScience by contrast have taken a human expert approach. Both claim to determine quality better than the current proxies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 3/nbiorxiv.orgDiscovery Stack Pilot: Feasibility and Outcomes of a Scientist-Designed Peer Review Model Separating Quality and ImpactPeer review serves as the cornerstone of scientific quality control. Yet, the current journal-centric system is hindered by long timelines, high publication costs, inconsistent review quality, systemi... 1223
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezLizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...statnews.comEli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program. 2293091974
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 23/06/2026“The whole point of AI tools is that I no longer need to retain information in my biological memory. My biological memory is for other things now. Important things. Like my Netflix password” 😂 inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...inpreparation.substack.comOpinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is DiscriminationBy Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University 99025
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan 429139962884
Reposted by Dr. Thomas Martínezanil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 17/06/2026A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...statnews.comNIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study findsA new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D. 2192127
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezDr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Now #1 on the Biochemistry “Most Read Articles” in the last 30 days list (in only 8 days!!) pubs.acs.org/action/showM...pubs.acs.orgBiochemistry : 0112
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Now #1 on the Biochemistry “Most Read Articles” in the last 30 days list (in only 8 days!!) pubs.acs.org/action/showM...pubs.acs.orgBiochemistry : 0112
Reposted by Dr. Thomas Martínezthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time 417200833533
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026For context, this is one hundred ninety-two thousand, five-year biomedical research grants. More than five years of complete funding for the entirety of the NIH for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, blindness, epilepsy, infectious diseases, etc… An entire generation of scientists. 514192
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals. The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%. For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.jamanetwork.comTrends in NIH Investigators by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability StatusThis cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh... 5232135
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 05/06/2026We highlight key examples to explore their functions, regulation, best practices for studying their dynamic conformational ensembles, and our perspective on ways to leverage disordered microproteins as therapeutic targets. Congrats to Tianyu Chen and Kevin Cao in my group for leading the charge! 010
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Check out our new review article on intrinsically disordered #microproteins now out in @acs.org Biochemistry! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...pubs.acs.orgNo Time to Fold: Intrinsically Disordered Microproteins in ActionAdvances in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics have uncovered the existence of thousands of translated small open reading frames less than 100–150 codons in length that encode microproteins. In ... 22710
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Yeah, there we go. I'm a little obsessed with tracking ignored warnings from scientists as they are vindicated. 16805249
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...arstechnica.comProposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any timePeer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics. 718796
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Comments are now open. You can comment here: www.regulations.gov/search?filte... Note that even if the administration goes ahead with this abomination, the comments are essential to aid subsequent litigation! 2/2static.klipy.comJordy's 'Just My Two Cents' on Breakfast TVALT: Jordy's 'Just My Two Cents' on Breakfast TV 22622
Reposted by Dr. Thomas Martínezelizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...elizabethginexi.substack.comSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance RuleRussell Vought is going destroy American Science 1251397827
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 28/05/2026The leadership and clarity of @MIT President Sally Kornbluth www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/26/o...bostonglobe.comAmerica built the world’s greatest research engine. Now it’s shrinking. - The Boston GlobeAt public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed. 412855
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026So... I got more information about this plan. The most important points follow on the next posts. 1/3 77776
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3static.klipy.comHuh KermitALT: Huh Kermit 14159103
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezJason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...insidehighered.comReport: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign ScientistsThe National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports. 511472549
Reposted by Dr. Thomas Martínezjenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026no notes. 🧪 @paulnoth.bsky.social 06211
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezStephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026NEW: They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding. As the NIH bankrolls new research at a significantly slower-than-usual pace, I talked to scientists left in the lurch about the toll on their research and careers: www.chronicle.com/article/they...chronicle.comThey Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.The NIH’s spending on new medical research is significantly slower than in previous years, leaving confused scientists in the lurch. 014081
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezMatthieu Chavent @matthchavent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Very happy to share our @cbitoulouse.bsky.social perspective article with @jzanet.bsky.social team in @proteinsociety.bsky.social Protein Science: “Sketching microprotein portraits”. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... poke @johnprensner.bsky.social @thomasmartinez.bsky.social #microprotein 1104
Dr. Thomas Martínez @thomasmartinez.bsky.social · 23/05/2026this is amazing! I just shared it with my group 120
Reposted by Dr. Thomas MartínezLaura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 17/05/2025man sitting next to me at the bar doesn't have a phone, a tablet or a laptop. He's just sitting there, having a drink. Like… a psychopath 5357