Mihai Todor

AlphaFold Database welcomes community datasets Latest AlphaFold Database update adds high-value datasets for microbial and viral proteins, generated by specialist communities

The AlphaFold Database, jointly developed with Google DeepMind, now contains datasets from specialist communities.

This includes rich datasets for microbes, viruses & parasites associated with tropical diseases.

Explore the new datasets in the AlphaFold Database.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Rachell Powell.

Mindscape 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Mind, and Morality. Do social structures, like eyes and fins, arise independently from evolutionary pressures? #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Title card for podcast episode with Stewart Brand.

Mindscape 341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle. Yes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance comes up. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

It also interferes with muscle memory. The more junk I see, the harder it is to avoid second-guessing myself.

🚨Our first talk this new year would be a joint theory/experiment talk by Prof. Marino Arroyo and Prof. Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social describing some of their recent work together on active morphogenesis🧫. Sign up to our mailing list for a zoom link to this talk and other upcoming talks🚨

Stunning 4K Drone Footage Over Iceland's Mystical Landscapes and Seascapes Photographer Jan Erik Waider captures stunning 4K drone footage of Iceland's mystical landscapes and seascapes.

Stunning 4K Drone Footage Over Iceland’s Mystical Landscapes and Seascapes laughingsquid.com/iceland-4k-d...

This event was amazing! Thank you for organising it @tlmcambridge.bsky.social!

FOSDEM 2026 added a developer room for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: fosdem-bioinformatics.github.io/cfp.html 🧬

End-to-end protein design in the browser through evedesign. Generate and interactively explore designs in 2D/3D and export them as codon-optimized DNA. The underlying open source framework (released soon) is build to easily add new methods, more on that soon.
🌐 evedesign.bio

Very cool! Sounds like we're getting critical mass in Europe @hazelweakly.me :)

So nice to see you're still working on this project. Thank you for all the amazing work! ❤️

Release 15.0.0 · BurntSushi/ripgrep Sponsorship is appreciated! ripgrep 15 is a new major version release of ripgrep that mostly has bug fixes, some minor performance improvements and minor new features. In case you haven't heard of...

ripgrep 15 is out! Mostly a host of bug fixes, particularly around gitignore. Some minor perf improvements. A couple small features. And (partial) Jujutsu support for gitignore.

github.com/BurntSushi/r...

AlphaFold: AI's Biggest Breakthrough 🧪🤖 We're thrilled to welcome Dr Jennifer Fleming, Coordinator at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) le... AlphaFold: AI's Biggest Breakthrough 🧪🤖 We're thrilled to welcome Dr Jennifer Fleming, Coordinator at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) lead, for ...

My project coordinator, Jennifer Fleming, did a detailed podcast on AlphaFold: www.linkedin.com/posts/artifi...

Very insightful research into social networks

Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode on Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse.

Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Hope they step on dog poo

T-reg Cells: The 2025 Medicine Nobel

The latest in a long series of Nobels for work in immunology - and it won’t be the last (!)

If one is so fortunate
as to find a place in the world.

And another soul with whom
one's loneliness can reside.

2/2

Maybe a bit cheesy, but I really liked this dialogue from a movie called Mr Holmes:

It's us, on this side,
who are, all of us so...

Alone?

I have been alone...

all my life.

But with the compensations
of the intellect.

- And is that enough?
- It can be.

1/2

Do you study proteins?
The new PDBe entry pages make it easier to explore protein structures.

🟢 Visualise ligands & macromolecules with improved 3D viewers
🟢 Get background info from AI-based annotations
🟢 Add your own annotations to viewers without leaving the browser

@pdbeurope.bsky.social
🧬🖥️

New PDBe entry pages: Interactive, personalised, and mobile-ready Explore molecular structures with new interactive 3D viewers and AI annotations

Making structural biology data accessible to everyone — from specialists to first-time explorers.

✨ Discover the new interactive, personalised & mobile-ready PDBe Entry Pages.
📖 Read more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

🔍 Try it: www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/p...

age.apache.org perhaps. I've been meaning to play with it for a while...

Spot on and really well written!

Thanks for the visit Nobel laureate John Jumper & colleagues Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and Lindsay Willmore from Google DeepMind.

Always interesting to hear and discuss #AlphaFold and protein structure predictions.

YouTube video by RHINO Dio - Holy Diver (Official Music Video) [HD]

That Dio look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvs...

Also, I don't think the tab sprawl is really an issue for me, just an artifact of how I use the internet.

Ummmm, no thank you :) Reading a wall of AI-generated text is deeply unappealing to me. The human touch from those articles is really important and, if I discard that by passing them through AI, then my information retention goes through the floor.

But that wouldn’t really help me… I’d either just pin all of them by default or get frustrated that I lost the breadcrumbs I left for myself. Some of that does get stale after a while, but, oh well…

They're spread across about 100 windows. Most of them are minimised. The rest I can cycle through using the keyboard, since that's the stuff I should go through ASAP. Also, the tab search feature comes in handy. Browsers are pretty great at unloading tabs from memory, so they don't hog resources.

Add to that various projects left in various stages of exploration which require further investigation... Half of the work is finding relevant resources to read. Bookmarking those is extra work.