Author | Lightnews

Mae Woods @maewoods.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a non paywalled version? Thanks

Reposted by Mae Woods

Tom Williams @tweethinking.bsky.social · 23d

There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)

The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

30 23

Reposted by Mae Woods

Jean-Philip Piquemal @jppiquem.bsky.social · Oct 1

#compchem #compbio Happy to be part of this new paper just published in @commsbio.nature.com : "Targeting RNA with Small Molecules using State-of-the-Art Methods Provides Highly Predictive Affinities of Riboswitch Inhibitors."
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@qubit-pharma.bsky.social

1 7 16

Mae Woods @maewoods.bsky.social · 28d

Long overdue, thank you

3

Reposted by Mae Woods

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · Sep 28

Calling early-career developmental biologists!

Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.

Application deadline: 5 December

www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

Workshop: Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Organisers: James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. 14-17 June 2026, Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK. Early-career researchers apply for funded places.

16 16

Mae Woods @maewoods.bsky.social · Sep 27

Yes! That’s a good point & thanks for the links. Long read technology is driving a new wave of discovery for genetic mutations. Any software like this requires an incredible amount of energy, innovation and precision in the backend

Mae Woods @maewoods.bsky.social · Sep 27

If your criteria is coding output, there are loads in the comp bio space. the folks who wrote scvi, pseudotime, kallisto, alevin fry, loompy…, alpha fold..

1

Reposted by Mae Woods

James @nonzerosumjames.bsky.social · Sep 27

Why am I doing this? Simon Sinek says that all good stories start with "Why" so... I had a go at starting with "Why", and it changed the way I think about #fairness and #progress.

#PersonalDevelopment #SelfHelp #Values #Ethics #WellBeing #Humanity #Collective #Individual #nonzero

FAIRNESS & PROGRESS

Exploring the relationship between fairness and progress, emphasizing non-zero-sum games as a means to enhance human well-being and collective growth.

nonzerosum.games

1 6 52

Reposted by Mae Woods

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 26

Join us next Tuesday!

simons.berkeley.edu/events/virtu...

Virtualization and the Cost of Indirection | Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture

Some types of virtualization, such as virtual memory, are implemented by providing a layer of indirection between what the program sees and what the system implements. This layer of indirection is typ...

simons.berkeley.edu

1 3

Reposted by Mae Woods

Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · Sep 18

A new paper I worked on is out in Justice Quarterly! I won't speak on the substantive nature of the paper as I worked solely as the methodologist, but I developed a new matching method not otherwise described in the literature, and I want to tell you about it!

#statssky #casualsky

The Effects of a Place-Based Intervention on Resident Reporting of Crime and Service Needs: A Frontier Matching Approach

Prior research has found that reporting of crime incidents and service needs remain low in many U.S. cities. This study employs a matching strategy using observational data from a large public repo...

doi.org

2 5 26

Reposted by Mae Woods

danihares.bsky.social @danihares.bsky.social · Mar 21

Pleasure to present the final project of my PhD research at #ConformationalDesign25!
Thank you to AstraZeneca for hosting and the organising committee for a day of engaging talks 👏

#CompChem #ChemSky

Poster titled ‘Enhancing Small Molecule Binding through Computational Analysis of Water Networks’

1 11

Reposted by Mae Woods

The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · Sep 16

In 1950, Alan Turing - while at @manchester.ac.uk - proposed a simple but profound experiment: can a machine convincingly imitate human thought?

We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻

a man wearing suspenders and a watch looks down in front of a machine

Alt: Alarn Turing looks down in front of a machine

media.tenor.com

1 4 10

Mae Woods @maewoods.bsky.social · Sep 21

Oh that’s interesting. Sorry to interrupt the thread, that’s amazing software btw!

1 1

Mae Woods @maewoods.bsky.social · Sep 21

AAV related news. Restored enzyme activity in the brain www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/preci...

Gene Therapy Can Restore Myelin in Children with Fatal Brain Disorder

MYR-101 gene therapy reduces N-acetylaspartate, increases myelin, and improves development in Canavan disease patients.

www.insideprecisionmedicine.com

4