Dennis Hazelett

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

The Nobel Peace Committee sent a clear message to someone else in awarding the Prize to Ms. Machado:
”But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, …is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.” 👏

Today in our @cedarssinai.bsky.social PhD program, I am lecturing about the history of #epigenomics. We cover seminal experiments by the labs of Allfrey, Kornberg, Allis & Grunstein, ending with ENCODE, Kellis and the histone code. Such an amazing field and a beautiful, revolutionary story!

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Come do neuroscience in Oregon! 🌲🧠 @uoregon.bsky.social University of Oregon has 3 TTF neuro positions open across departments, with applications due around mid-October.

#UOResearch #Neuroskyence #academicsky

The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer Genome sequencing results and single-cell transcriptomics continue to produce findings that challenge the idea that cancer is purely a ‘genetic disease’. This Essay delves into cancer omics data that ...

I really enjoyed this perspective on Cancer journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

MS Word let no one accuse you of lacking a sense of humor... #spellcheck

A rude awakening Just breathe.

A fun #scifi piece looking at timely issues at the intersection between #AI and Biology by my colleague Patrick Martin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well, I'm just gonna change topics and note that my expensive new ASUS router is bathing my house in so much WiFi that I just got a tan and the cat is losing her fur

Flyer from United Academics of University of Oregon: Get the latest information about faculty layoffs, which departments might get cuts, and what we can do about it. QR code links to StrengthenUO dot org.

Visit the Strengthen UO dot org site to find out more and for links to petition, pre-filled letter to UO administrators (all very highly paid), and links to contact state legislators about this undermining of University goals and state well-being.

No-boundary thinking in bioinformatics research - BioData Mining Currently there are definitions from many agencies and research societies defining “bioinformatics” as deriving knowledge from computational analysis of large volumes of biological and biomedical data...

No Boundary Thinking (NBT) emphasizes the need for training in #MachineLearning and #ArtificialIntelligence across disciplines, not just in Computer Science and Math. We must build a Human Infrastructure to address this need #NationalAICampus biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I will be sleeping like a baby 😴

Cedars-Sinai’s PhD in Health AI Program Earns Accreditation The newly established PhD in Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) program in Cedars-Sinai’s Health Sciences University has earned accreditation from the Senior College and University Commission of the ...

Did you know the Cedars-Sinai’s New PhD in Health AI Program earned accreditation earlier this year? www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced... #artificialintelligence #healthAI #healthIT #bioinformatics #phd #gradschool #compsci

this reminds me of a scene from inglorious basterds

UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures” “The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

The war on knowledge doth continue

As a researcher it is important to record your thoughts in real time. You don't have to be right, you can change your mind. You just need to be actively thinking, and in #science and #STEM and pretty much everything else, #writingisthinking.

POV: your kids loaded their own dishes.

This was 2003. Since 2013 there’s been no excuse… www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...

Nature

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

The Far Side. We shall never see its like again

Living with a dog is 90%
following each other around, watching each other go potty, and wondering what the other has in their mouth.

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Monarch butterflies’ mass die off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested

#ResistanceEarth
#BlueEarth

Pesticide exposure was the likely cause of the mass die-off of monarch butterflies in 2024.

By killing our pollinators, we're killing ourselves.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Room full of classic Macs. I have an SE and a Classic II. #vcfwest #mac

"I asked the AI" is not research You can't reliably fact-check or research obscure topics by asking an AI. It may know less about the topic than you do.

"I asked the AI" is not research.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/i-asked-th...

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

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