Kevin Gardner

I love AlphaFold—but please include PAE (Predicted Aligned Error) plots for every “interaction.” Pretty PDBs ≠ proof. If the PAE doesn’t show an interface, it ain’t one. Show the plots. Structural biology's reputation is on the line.

Oooh, nice tern of phrase

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get The new Trump administration multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped National Cancer Institute grant funding rates from one in 10 applicants to one in 25.

One of the more in-depth pieces I've seen on how the abrupt switch to multi year funding is harming biomedical research. Luckily, the proposed FY26 Senate appropriations bill has protections against this. Just another reason why we can't have a CR that's a blank check.

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

💰 Science is the smartest investment 💰

Nobel-winning research confirms it: science drives innovation & long-term economic growth.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

CA & TX already reap financial rewards from state-backed biomedical research institutes.

Let’s build one for NY. Join → www.nycures.org

Damn good games ... would just be better with SFG or NYY still in!

Picture of dozens of full coffee cups with each cup saying “You can do it.”

We got this. But it is going to take a lot of coffee.

That’s where I’m leaning. Anyone has a more informed opinion, I’m all ears

Get 2500 acres protected for 323 acres in use? Looks like a win from here

Research Faculty 1 – Biological Solid-State NMR, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory @nationalmaglab.bsky.social Job ID 61319 Tallahassee, FL jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psc/sprdhr_e...
#NMRjobs 🧲

2025 Nobel winner Philippe Aghion:

'The key factor of economic power is technological leadership'

#ASBMB26 is where connections spark breakthroughs. With a program that highlights the broad scope of the molecular life sciences, you are invited to dive deeper into your specific area of research or explore beyond.

Submit your abstract by Nov. 17.
www.asbmb.org/annual...
#MakeItPossible

Nominations for the Laukien prize are open until Oct 31.
www.enc-conference.org/Gunther-Lauk...

Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.

PREACH!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Society journals rock – and here's 120 years' track record of great science to prove it! Working out of the ASBMB offices for Public Affairs Advisory Committee through tomorrow, will get a look myself –

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

photo taken on Sept. 28, 2025 shows the superconducting magnet developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. (Xinhua/Wu Huijun)

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics (Hefei) announced on Sunday that they have successfully generated a steady magnetic field of 35.1 Tesla with a fully superconducting magnet, setting a new world record english.news.cn/20250928/a00... #NMRnews #NMRchat 🧲

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

We are planning more action to urge NSF support those excluded students. www.science.org/content/arti...

A paper describing the performance of our new TWT powered 263 GHz pulse EPR spectrometer is now available as a preprint

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Glad to be part of the movement!

That is the way.

UK’s most powerful NMR Facility to open at the University of Birmingham The University has received a 1.2 Gigahertz NMR spectrometer, one of only two in the UK, to enable groundbreaking research in biomolecular mechanisms.

UK’s most powerful NMR Facility to open at the University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social The University has received a 1.2 Gigahertz NMR spectrometer, one of only two in the UK, to enable groundbreaking research in biomolecular mechanisms www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/uk... #NMRchat 🧲

Painting of two identical birthday cakes, one in front of the other, with "Happy Birthday" written on both

Wayne Thiebaud, Happy Birthday, 1962

For many of the JFK terminals, that is a high point, yes. Refresh your senses at the TWA Hotel if you have time

How the US became a science superpower America's leadership "isn't some fixed, unchanging feature of the scientific landscape," says one UC historian.

"I think the consensus that #science was a route to national #well-being and #prosperity was widely shared by people across the political spectrum until very recently. It’s only been the past few years that we’ve seen a rising lack of trust in #scientists." 🧪

Photo of various sizes and shapes of tomatoes laid out in a colour gradient style mosaic on a wood background.

Tomato Nation, 2025.

Scientists who revolutionized cystic fibrosis treatment win prestigious Lasker Award Three scientists who revolutionized the treatment of cystic fibrosis and prolonged the lifespan of patients with the deadly disease have won the Lasker Award.

www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/l... 🧪
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#cysticfibrosis #Lasker2025 #LaskerAward