Jan

Your lab scissors are actually a parafilmase - a highly specialized enzyme that catalyzes the precise cutting of parafilm through a metal-dependent mechanism

you give "consent" to a third party service like this when you click the massive "accept terms of service" button, create an account, and continue using the service

every time you interact with it, you give consent — that's why TOS exists

terms of service are also a thing

bsky users have trouble understanding terms of service when they sign up for a service like this

I wish bsky had a way to bookmark tweets so I have a way to never come back to them

don't tell bsky users that all of their posts are public... that everything on bsky is publicly accessible and is probably already used for training AI as we speak

Great review by @pinholab.bsky.social and Simon Foster on the current knowledge regarding growth, elongation and division of Staphylococcus aureus www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Hello 🦋 #protein / #microbio / #BioML community! We are excited to release Gaia🌎, a context-aware protein search tool, extending protein search and discovery capabilities beyond sequence and structure, to include *genomic context*. Search your favorite protein sequences with on gaia.tatta.bio

That's really cool!
I like how they share the papers with an image. I'll figure out how to do that (pun intended)

I can ask if they'll mirror the posts here — or maybe I could try to do that

Had to update my CV today...

so ofc instead of actually working on it, I built an app to update my resume/cv, and it saves/loads/syncs to my Google Sheets

using a schema makes it easy to move sections around, add new publications, etc.

lmk if you want this!

oh that's interesting, are you just using Google Alerts?

ok it's officially alive!

Pubmed is a firehose of papers (at least 18 phage papers published in last 3 days).

Should Phage Papers cover all the papers? A random selection? A quality filter?

Or should I try to filter for "quality"?
Curating manually is too hard, and I'm not sure AI does it better?

That's a good idea!

Google Scholar is quite aggressive in blocking bots, but tools like Firecrawl can overcome it.

Pubmed is already a firehose of papers ("phage" returns 48 papers in just the last few days)

Should I try to capture ALL papers since then? What's a "good" or a "useful" paper?

I'm helping @jamesgurney.bsky.social restart @phagepapers.bsky.social

I just wrote some code that once a day:

1. Searches some Pubmed keywords and adds the results to Google sheets
2. Posts a random link from the Sheets to Bluesky

Would anyone like a writeup?
Or expand beyond just phage papers?

Why a good lab website matters - Nature Metabolism

Why a good lab website matters

DOI: 10.1038/s42255-023-00797-9

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-023-00797-9

I'm curious how to set up notification bots / alerts on Bsky too!

I just realized AT Protocol, the system behind Bluesky, can be used for science:

DOI — as a DOI system for papers, datasets, anything

Publishing — you can publish long-form posts on your own servers

Lab websites — hosted by your lab

Peer Review — can be built on top of the reply mechanism

i’m not confident we’ll necessarily want to build this directly into the product (tradeoffs to consider) but the fact that it can be done in the ecosystem is awesome. let the ecosystem cook

Remember when people posted food on Twitter? This is my chicken skewer + cauliflower rice and beans. Cooked in a reduced Thai chili sauce for extra flavor. Better than rice and beans!

Messina has the best gelato!!

Wait how do you connect your own domain here? And does Baku have an API?! One that’s better than twitters?!

Anyone else feel this place is sacred and are afraid to post spicy takes here?!

Would be cool if they just kept it barebones and allowed others to build on top of it like the original Twitter was meant to do

Hello world! Does bsky have a web app? I hate typing on my tiny iPhone lol