Nathan Gamarra Ph.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts!

careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...

Where should SocArXiv draw the AI line? A case that helps sort out the questions for an AI policy at SocArXiv.

Where do we draw the line in AI use for manuscript writing? 🧪 socopen.org/2026/02/22/w...

“In 1 of the simulations, 8x out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appt she would not live to see… Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care.”

“40 million+ people reportedly ask ChatGPT for health-related advice every day”🧪

The Constructor Theory of Life Why Intelligent Design is wrong and how life constructs itself

🧪 Please check out my new article titled- The Constructor Theory of Life- Why Intelligent Design is wrong and how life builds itself.
It's on Medium, access using the link below:
medium.com/science-spec...

#science #philsky #philosophy #biology

Complex Peaks #Chemsky #ChemChat 🧪

The spice must flow!

In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms Glimmer sparked by electrical fields detected in nature for the first time

“The researchers caught a twinkling surrounding the tips of leaves at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths. They hope the work will shed light on how thunderstorms electrify the landscape and produce lightning.”

#scicomm

www.science.org/content/arti...
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I wonder if there could have been hybrid sterility for XX due to disordered meiosis as well or instead? Pretty common in hybrids.

In Evolution, a lot of stuff gets thrown at the wall and the diversity we detect is what happens to stick. 🧪

Below is the response to my question. The funny part of his response is that my research needed a control arm. My study actually did have a control arm (about 80% of the sample never reported discrimination).

So the answer itself makes me even more confused.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate - Nature The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on environmental condi...

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Just published: chemotactic sperm cells become phototactic 💡- by loading photo-activatable second messengers. This allows to "reverse-engineer" chemotactic signaling dynamics and expose cells to signals they would never see in the wild. Honoured to be part of this collaboration with the Kaupp lab.

We made FLIP2, a protein fitness benchmark spanning seven new datasets, including enzymes, protein-protein interactions, and light-sensitive proteins, as well as splits that measure generalization relevant to real-world protein engineering campaigns.

4-panel comic. (1) [Person with white hat talking to another person.] PERSON 1 with white hat: As Sherlock Holmes said, When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (2) PERSON 2: What about the possibility that you forgot to eliminate a possibility? Or that you eliminated one incorrectly? Both of those remain, too. (3) PERSON 1: You’re being pedantic. It’s just a general rule for deduction. PERSON 2: But it’s a *bad rule*. (4) PERSON 2: How often have you thought, “I can’t find this thing, and I’ve searched the whole house. The only place I haven’t looked is the car, so it *must* be there.” PERSON 2: ...And then it’s never in the car. PERSON 1: *It’s never in the car!*

Eliminating the Impossible

xkcd.com/3210/

If progress is not to falter, students must be trained in open research The how and why of conducting transparent, rigorous, ethical research must be explicitly taught, say Madeleine Pownall, Charlotte Pennington and Flavio Azevedo

“Open research is about more than the tightening of analytical and methodological standards. The movement also invites us to reconsider how, and by whom, knowledge is created, shared and evaluated”

By @maddipow.bsky.social, @drcpennington.bsky.social, & @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

#MetaSci #OpenSci

a screen that says time paradox and says continue and exit Alt: Time Paradox screen that appears in the Metal Gear Solid prequels when a character dies who appeared in a game that was released earlier but set chronologically later.

dammit Snake knock that off

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya talks 'replication crisis' at Duke panel, omits funding cuts Throughout the second Trump administration, the NIH has frozen billions of dollars in research funding to universities. Those cuts were not the topic of discussion at a Duke Clinical Research Institut...

“I want the NIH to be a central driver of the MAHA agenda,” Bhattacharya said. “Essentially, it's kind of the research arm of MAHA.”

NIH is not an ideological toy or 'arm'. We must insist on its scientific independence, especially if its Director will not.

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www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

YouTube video by Austech 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒 - 𝟒𝐊 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 #talkingheads #stopmakingsense

"Life During Wartime" (1979) - Talking Heads - Live performance "Stop Making Sense" (1984) 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...

This one might be even better @barrlab.bsky.social

Fascism in America will never hold.

We will win.

Minnesota just showed us how.

Luchador wearing a San Jose sharks jersey in the audience at sap center

Multi exposure image of overtime written over a Jumbotron on top of a face off at center ice

Multiple exposure of sharks Jumbotron saying MAKE NOISE over center ice face off 📸🎞️ TMax P3200 35mm

📸🎞️ Kodak TMax p3200 35mm

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Hockey players in multiple exposure 🎞️Kodak TMax P3200

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Multiple exposures of the SAP center scoreboard camera saying yeet cam. The score is 6 sharks 4 ducks.

Color photograph of Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Gertrude B. Elion in a laboratory setting at Burroughs Wellcome (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). She is an older woman with short hair neatly styled, wearing a white lab coat over a polka-dot blouse or patterned top, and small earrings. She stands smiling warmly at the camera, holding a colorful molecular model in both hands at chest level. The background shows a detailed research lab bench cluttered with scientific equipment: shelves of reagent bottles and jars (including Fisher and Wellcome brands), plastic storage boxes, pipettes, beakers, flasks, a sink with faucet, a fume hood or ventilation setup, graph paper with handwritten notes or data plots, a blue lab mat, and various glassware and instruments. A prominent Wellcome logo patch is visible on her lab coat sleeve, emphasizing her long career there developing groundbreaking drugs through rational design.

The extraordinary biochemist & pharmacologist Gertrude Elion was born #OTD in 1918.

Elion won the 1988 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (w/2 others) for her pioneering "rational drug design." Her work saved countless lives...(👇 1/2) #WomenInSTEM

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this