Dr. Thomas Martínez

nothing makes me prouder and happier after a seminar than ppl sharing their appreciation for careful, rigorous science. for me, it's one of the highest compliments.

just found out that this garbage AI-slop paper was published in MCP...before I had even submitted my reviewer response to a DIFFERENT journal. And still has the nonsense AI figure in the MCP version! Awful.

Introducing the 𝐏𝐈-𝐚𝐭-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞! 🤯

When activated, it will auto-reply to your PI's frantic ideas for new experiments, analyses, and projects with "Great suggestion! Saving this for later" (aka: let's talk when you’re back and got some sleep)

#sfn2025 #sfn25

a man with a beard is looking at the camera with the words priorities written on the bottom ALT: a man with a beard is looking at the camera with the words priorities written on the bottom

Another new policy from the geniuses in NIH leadership.

Apparently, ~70% of grant applications for most mechanisms will not be "triaged", i.e. not discussed at study section.

This is an increase from the ~50% level that has been in place for many years.

I don't know the rationale for this

1/13

🌆

Before Bad Bunny, the World Had Juan Gabriel

OK but Juan Gabriel > Bad Bunny www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.

(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

Bluetorial-Jim Watson

I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.

What follows is my personal perspective.

1/41

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

💪💪

Aaaaaaaand here come the fireworks in LA!

Amazing 🤩🤩

a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking up at the sky in the dark . ALT: a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking up at the sky in the dark .

EXTRAS!!!

Video game break your controller nonsense. Unreal 🤯🤯

The NLCS isn’t over yet, but if it concludes in LA be on the lookout for a bunch of baseball media types that published a predictions picking the Brewers to beat the Dodgers in this series suddenly and ardently believe that it was literally impossible for 98-win MIL to compete because money.

Yes, AI can accelerate the building off discoveries but human creativity as a force of true discovery is still unmatched. Let’s acknowledge the role of others who came before us, those that still work in the ecosystem even if they do not get the accolades, and those we are training 4/

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Amazing😎

What in the AI-slop did I just have to review? Authors and editors need to do better. People are already having to wait months for papers to be reviewed and then to waste people's time on such lazy garbage is ridiculous. It severely harms science.

This was not a sample of academics.

I’m calling Roki Sasaki the Dodgers closer even if Dave won’t.

I have seen enough.

In Berkeley for a cpl days and couldn’t resist popping into the local used book store. Great finds!

In Berkeley for a cpl days and couldn’t resist popping into the local used book store. Great finds!

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit.

You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Openness means more than access.

We’re pleased to announce that we now publish Replication Studies, helping make science more reliable, transparent, and trustworthy.
buff.ly/Gebypvq

My forever favorite

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown?

Have you considered becoming a rock star?

It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪

Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

A graph showing NIH grant funding for fiscal years 2015-2024 and 2025 showing that fiscal year 2025 was lagging behind the pace from other years, but has been catching up in July and August.

Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year)

(Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )