Coincidental juxtaposition of SNARE with the wrong kind of SNAP in my other feed:

What an exciting week at @arcinstitute.org We started off with the release of State, our perturbation prediction (virtual cell) model, and today, we are kicking off the Virtual Cell Challenge

This was a tough one!

Maybe some more oxygen to the brain is needed before they include this word…

Someone needs to tell NYT Spelling Bee about directed evolution. Maybe @carlzimmer.com ?

Come on @nytimes.com spelling bee! Don’t you think your readers know this since COVID? You allow much more obscure words. We need more science in every day conversation, not less. 1 benefit of including words people don’t know is that they’ll look them up. That’s one reason I enjoy your word games

I think @nytimes.com Spelling Bee needs some Bio101. It also rejects intron, allele (and derivations), and actin. At least it has gene.

For the life science papers, this title structure seems more consistent with review articles or perspectives rather than research articles. Note that the authors of the study didn't take article type into account (but kudos to them for stating the limitations!).

Is this for real?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Or is it a trick to get a certain population that really wanted to believe that HCQ worked against COVID to suddenly believe in mRNA vaccines?

ADP-ribosylation of DNA and RNA has been seen before - see this review pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I thought this part really reflects survivorship bias rather than an actual "flip":

plasticlist.org/results - both interesting and scary - to use the results, you need to promise not to freak out 🫣

@arcinstitute.org is looking for new Core Investigators and Science Fellows - www.linkedin.com/posts/arc-in...