Steven Salzberg
@stevensalzberg.bsky.social
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostats at Johns Hopkins Univ., tennis player, @StevenSalzberg1 on Twitter, lab: salzberg-lab.org, Substack blog: stevensalzberg.substack.com
no, go ahead and call him an idiot, it's well-deserved 😆
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
no, go ahead and call him an idiot, it's well-deserved 😆
thanks @arking.bsky.social - did you have direct experience with this? I know the rules are still in place, but I'm wondering if anyone has experienced it for their own grants
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
thanks @arking.bsky.social - did you have direct experience with this? I know the rules are still in place, but I'm wondering if anyone has experienced it for their own grants
actually it reminds me more of finding 1000s of human contaminants annotated as proteins within draft bacterial genomes in GenBank, which we published in 2018 (and @aphillippy.bsky.social knows this work): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31064768/
Human contamination in bacterial genomes has created thousands of spurious proteins - PubMed
Contaminant sequences that appear in published genomes can cause numerous problems for downstream analyses, particularly for evolutionary studies and metagenomics projects. Our large-scale scan of com...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
actually it reminds me more of finding 1000s of human contaminants annotated as proteins within draft bacterial genomes in GenBank, which we published in 2018 (and @aphillippy.bsky.social knows this work): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31064768/
this is hilarious. AI fails again 🤣
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
this is hilarious. AI fails again 🤣
Reposted by Steven Salzberg
We also see the same patterns in other datasets:
📊 PCAWG
📊 TCGA - Cleaner signals produced by a fantastic paper today from Peter Ge, @stevensalzberg.bsky.social & team)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
📊 PCAWG
📊 TCGA - Cleaner signals produced by a fantastic paper today from Peter Ge, @stevensalzberg.bsky.social & team)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Comprehensive analysis of microbial content in whole-genome sequencing samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas project
An analysis of TCGA whole-genome sequencing samples yields a comprehensive resource for investigating the role of microbes in cancer.
www.science.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We also see the same patterns in other datasets:
📊 PCAWG
📊 TCGA - Cleaner signals produced by a fantastic paper today from Peter Ge, @stevensalzberg.bsky.social & team)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
📊 PCAWG
📊 TCGA - Cleaner signals produced by a fantastic paper today from Peter Ge, @stevensalzberg.bsky.social & team)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congrats @kuanhaochao.bsky.social ! It's been great having you in the lab, and I can't wait to see what you do next!
August 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Congrats @kuanhaochao.bsky.social ! It's been great having you in the lab, and I can't wait to see what you do next!
I agree that it's clearly illegal to put all grant funding under the absolute control of OMB and Russell Vought. But did anyone notice that NIH has not issued a single new R01 award (or competing renewal) since Aug 1? So the halt last week, which was supposedly overruled, seems to have happened?
August 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I agree that it's clearly illegal to put all grant funding under the absolute control of OMB and Russell Vought. But did anyone notice that NIH has not issued a single new R01 award (or competing renewal) since Aug 1? So the halt last week, which was supposedly overruled, seems to have happened?
Truly awful behavior by OMB and Vought. And in case no one has noticed, NIH has issued zero new R01s or competing renewal R01s since August 1. So it seems they did in fact pause all funding last week, despite reports to the contrary.
August 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Truly awful behavior by OMB and Vought. And in case no one has noticed, NIH has issued zero new R01s or competing renewal R01s since August 1. So it seems they did in fact pause all funding last week, despite reports to the contrary.