I’ve been blogging about genetics, statistics, computational biology, data science, and science in general for over 15 years. I published my first blog post on Getting Genetics Done in 2009, and started this blog last year after taking a few years off. Science blogging has significantly contributed to my personal and professional growth as a scientist. Writing takes time and effort — time I could have spent elsewhere.

This is another in the C&E News list of candidates for the Molecule of the Year, Molecular shuttle in a box [cite]10.1002/anie.202318829[/cite] Mirror-image cyclodextrin [cite]10.1038/s44160-024-00495-8[/cite] Molecular shuttle in a box [cite]10.1002/anie.202318829[/cite] Rule-bending strained alkene [cite]10.1126/science.adq3519[/cite] First soluble promethium complex [cite]10.1038/s41586-024-07267-6[/cite]

DeepSeek has been grabbing headlines in AI circles lately, showing up everywhere from Discord servers full of ML enthusiasts to LinkedIn posts where “thought leaders” tag each other in endless threads.

Imagine pair programming with an eccentric software developer…

Durante los últimos años he reunido cientos de recursos digitales para el proyecto BIOcolores, en este proyecto nos centramos en catalogar información, literatura y datos sobre Biología del color.

The theme of International Education Day 2025, “AI and education: Preserving human agency in a world of automation,” invites critical examination of how artificial intelligence might enhance rather than replace human capabilities in learning and leadership.

As I write this, the moderation on major social media platforms has been degraded, and the tools available to the user to curate their feeds are quite poor. So how could we improve our science social media feeds?

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) are launching PFA Connect, a new platform for education, social work, and health professionals who support children from Ukraine. The platform builds on a new peer learning network launched by IFRC and TGLF in 2024 that is already reaching more than 2,000 practitioners from 27 European countries.

The war began the day Aegis blinked into consciousness. It wasn’t the first sovereign superintelligence—Russia’s Vityaz and China’s Red Mandarin had come online months earlier, and the United States had been working on Aegis in secret for years. But when the switch was finally flipped, and Aegis opened its virtual eyes, the balance of global power shifted in an instant. I was there that day.

I'm still catching up on papers from my late 2024 backlog. This week’s recap highlights a browser application for visualizing pathogen dispersal, a DNA language model evaluation benchmark on regulatory DNA, regularized ensemble polygenic risk prediction with GWAS summary statistics, multimodal analysis of RNA-seq data for complex trait genetics, and a deep dive on blastp’s E-value.

What could meta research learn from criminology for the prevention of research integrity violations? What insights does criminology provide in causes and prevention of research integrity violations? In a seminar (slides here) at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), I discussed with researchers in criminology how theories and findings from the field may be applied in the field of meta research.