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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 14h

Students don't pay top £$€ for "information" they pay to get an education which is eons far from getting an answer to a question, it is learning how to *give* answers to a very diverse set of questions, so GO home ChatGPT, you are not a teacher!

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 20h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · 20h

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 18h

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look!

www.arcadiascience.com/careers

Careers | Arcadia Science

Evolve with Arcadia.

www.arcadiascience.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20h

A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards

Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024)

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a dog is sitting on a rug in front of a brick wall and a plant .

ALT: a dog is sitting on a rug in front of a brick wall and a plant .

media.tenor.com

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

👏 👏 👏

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Department of Chemistry, Stanford University @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrate National Chemistry Week with Professor Richard Zare’s talk, “Spice is Nice: Exploring the Chemistry of Nature’s Culinary Marvels,” on Oct 16 at 3PM in STLC 114! Discover how plant defenses became sources of flavor chemistry.stanford.edu/events/spice...

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Bryan Dickinson @chembiobryan.bsky.social · 1d

Our latest work seeks to answer a longstanding question: why is discovering new protein binders seemingly unpredictable – and can we better quantify and understand the de novo binder discover process? 1/12

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mapping the diverse topologies of protein-protein interaction fitness landscapes

De novo binder discovery is unpredictable and inefficient due to a lack of quantitative understanding of protein-protein interaction (PPI) sequence-function landscapes. Here, we use our PANCS-Binder t...

www.biorxiv.org

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 1d

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

Nice perspective on the SynLlama paper by @thglab.bsky.social and coworkers recently published in ACS Cent Sci!

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 1d

An LLM-based chemical compound generator prompts some thoughts about what these might be good for:

The Latest in Automated Analog Generation

www.science.org

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

Congratulations! Excited to try this with our next manuscript 🙏

Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 1d

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

#glycotime!

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 2d

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!

apply.interfolio.com/174756

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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 2d

Applications are due tomorrow! Apply to come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social -- it's a truly wonderful place to launch a career in interdisciplinary molecular research.

Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa

Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor

Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation.

Click the link above to learn more & apply!

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

“American higher education has more women enrolled than ever before. More people of color than ever before. An educated populace is a civically engaged populace, a populace capable of critical thinking…that success threatens the wealth and power of those orchestrating these attacks.”

Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 2d

Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack www.commondreams.org/opinion/univ...

Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack | Common Dreams

Universities need to recognize that they are being targeted because of what they represent, not because of what they've failed to do, and resist accordingly.

www.commondreams.org

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 2d

Yes!! @stanfordaaup.bsky.social

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3d

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

stanforddaily.com

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 2d

President Roth of Wesleyan Univ is once again right on point

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

With its "Compact for Excellence in Higher Education," the government is, as in so many other areas of life, saying that if you want preferential funding treatment, you join the Loyalty Club.

Remember when conservatives were against that sort of thing?

What’s a College President to Do in the Trump Era?

Not going on bended knee to Washington would be a good start.

www.thebulwark.com

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HHMI @hhmi.org · 3d

🎉Congrats to Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award! His research will explore how sense of touch contributes to communal behaviors.

Congratulations
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Image of Ishmail in his lab

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Nature Metabolism @natmetabolism.nature.com · 4d

#Throwback 🧪

REVIEW | Cellular and organismal function of choline metabolism

M Abu-Remaileh, K Birsoy et al.

Cellular and organismal function of choline metabolism - Nature Metabolism

Kenny and Scharenberg et al. provide a broad overview of the fundamental aspects of choline metabolism and cellular handling, and how it impacts physiology and pathology.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 4d

I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

We have significant concerns, however, about any compact or policy that could damage or depart from our nations competitive merit base system for research grant funding. That system has been the foundation for science and and innovation for decades. Since World War II that special partnership among the federal government, industry, and research universities has fueled tremendous growth in our economy and educated the next generation of highly skilled American workforce contributed to the health of our people and made our nation more safe and secure.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

Great piece by Joachim Frank, a Nobel laureate at Columbia from Germany who has been standing up for science and democracy throughout this year.

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

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www.usnews.com

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 4d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 5d

It was a typo at first but I like it too 😂

Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 5d

Then we talked about why the algorithm didn’t cast her as the professor and him as the diner /fin

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 5d

Second prompt: “Eating at Shake Shack” 4/n

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