Luis Ramirez

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

A recent M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return.

Temperature as a Driver of Phage Ecology and Evolution Bacteriophages (phages) are virtually ubiquitous and play a fundamental role in the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of their bacterial hosts. While phages are found across many thermal environmen...

Happy to see this phenomenal review led by Sam Greenrod with @kayla-king.bsky.social finally out in the world!

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Phage quest: a beginner’s guide to explore viral diversity in the prokaryotic world Abstract. The increasing interest in finding new viruses within (meta)genomic datasets has fueled the development of computational tools for virus detectio

Interesting paper on bacteriophage genomics and bioinformatics

'Phage quest: a beginner’s guide to explore viral diversity in the prokaryotic world' by @sebwielgoss.bsky.social and colleagues

academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

Introducing Ada: the new AI training assistant. Explore on-demand bioinformatics training with Ada, your training AI assistant.

Introducing Ada: the new AI assistant from EMBL-EBI Training. We created our training chatbot, Ada, to make it easier and more engaging for users to find the right on-demand training resources from our broad catalogue of training: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/ada

#AdaLovelaceDay #bioinformatics

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Two intensive sampling periods of oyster-associated vibrio and their phage, 4 years apart, and many surprises. Despite being washed by the Atlantic, wide tides, and vibrio (almost?) disappearing most of the year, we can find the exact same virulent phages 4 years later (down to 0 SNP)! preprint👇

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’ This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

At the Institut du monde arabe www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

These Bacteria Invented Their Own Vaccines—Using Viruses New research shows how microbes use napping viruses to vaccinate themselves

New research shows how microbes use napping viruses to vaccinate themselves

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

If you want to understand why 3 scientists got the Nobel Prize in Medicine today for discovering what keeps our immune systems from running amok--and how that keeps you healthy-- read this @laurenjyoung.bsky.social story:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025... #medsky 🧪

Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems far earlier than psychologists had believed.

Young children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems without any instruction, contradicting long-held assumptions about cognitive development, according to a psychologist
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Metabolic Messengers: itaconate - Nature Metabolism McGettrick et al. provide a succinct yet broad overview of the immunometabolite itaconate as an immunomodulatory molecule.

#Throwback 🧪

METABOLIC MESSENGERS | Itaconate

‪@lukeanthonyoneill.bsky.social‬ et al

#phagesky

I am looking for phages infecting Streptococcus pneumoniae to test a phenotype - does anyone have some and willing to share ?

Repost appreciated :)

Anstieg der Infektionen seit 2023: Oropouche-Virus breitet sich in Lateinamerika aus Kopf-, Muskel- und Gelenkschmerzen, Übelkeit und Durchfall – das Oropouche-Virus hat Symptome wie das Denguefieber. In Lateinamerika ist die Zahl der Erkrankungen sprunghaft angestiegen. Forschende ra...

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Rodeados de ríos, pero sin agua potable - Opinión - ABC Color
Alto Paraná es uno de los departamentos con mayor cantidad de ríos en Paraguay. Entre sus caudalosos cauces se destacan los ríos Paraná, Yguazú, Acaray, Monday y Ñacunday, entre otros.
www.abc.com.py/opini...

"In for a penny, in for a pound"
means:
c’est le jeu, ma pauvre Lucette

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

www.wired.com/story/the-wi...

Do you have any “published” E. coli phage? and willing to share for academic research?

most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.

Course at EMBL-EBI Structural bioinformatics 27 - 31 October 2025 Virtual

Would you like to know more about the commonly used methods and tools in structural bioinformatics? Then this course is for you! www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Some financial assistance is available. See course page for more info.

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Figure from a scientific paper, showing three rows of four panels each, with black background and cellular structures of blue nuclei and red, yellow, and green dots highlighting certain protein locations.

Can you spot the problems with this figure from @natcomms.nature.com ?
It took me a while!

#ImageForensics

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AI for research: the ultimate guide to choosing the right tool Nature - Curious about using artificial intelligence to boost your research? Here are the programs you shouldn’t miss.

Curious about using artificial intelligence to boost your research? Here are the programs you shouldn’t miss

https://go.nature.com/4ls2K7a

It actually makes sense.

Deezer 🇨🇵 and SoundCloud 🇩🇪 seem to be the best european options to replace them. Any other suggestion ?

Are all Rheinmetall ITAR-Free weapons, or at some point some other country could rein the metal in ?

32 BMC scientists each, holding the sign "Stand up for Science"

Yesterday, we did a quick spot check, asking our colleagues if they were concerned about current events affecting research freedom. The response was huge-most passers-by expressed their solidarity with the global scientific community 🧪 Imagine if we'd asked more...
#StandUpForScience #ScienceMatters

Kanada und die USA: Kanadas neuer Ministerpräsident - »Ein Land, dem wir nicht mehr vertrauen können« Mit seinen Zoll- und Annexionsdrohungen hat US-Präsident Donald Trump Kanadas Liberaler Partei wieder Leben eingehaucht. Das könnte deren neuem Chef Mark Carney im Wahlkampf dienlicher sein als seine Finanzkompetenz.

Mit seinen Zoll- und Annexionsdrohungen hat US-Präsident Donald Trump Kanadas Liberaler Partei wieder Leben eingehaucht. Das könnte deren neuem Chef Mark Carney im Wahlkampf dienlicher sein als seine Finanzkompetenz.

It would be nice to see the source on your posts so that we don't think you made it up.

List of oldest universities in continuous operation - Wikipedia

And the University of Bologna existed even before them. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Homepage | European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

This is a list of alternative European digital services and products. Just in case you want to b̶o̶y̶c̶o̶t̶t̶ test:
european-alternatives.eu

Tesla shares have declined every week since Elon Musk went to Washington Tesla's stock has dropped for seven straight weeks, a stretch that dates back to the beginning of Donald Trump's second term in the White House.

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/07/t...

Poland seeks access to nuclear arms and looks to build half-million-man army Already a major spender within NATO, Warsaw has massive military plans as fears grow about the reliability of the U.S. as an ally against Russia.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...