Ana M Rojas

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone ). The tweet reads: "RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research. ALZHEIMERS. One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today. He’s not interested. He’s a nasty piece of work."

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.

Friday SCOOP: DOGE is now at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where a DOGE operative appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency's systems, among other proposals. If you're a gov/tech worker and want to talk, I'm on Signal at vittoria89.82

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💡Curious about intrinsically disordered regions in your proteins? Jalview's got answers - FOUR of them, infact!

Many disease-associated proteins, including those involved in neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's and Parkinson's) and cancer, contain IDRs.

Science Under Threat in the United States: How to make science more efficient DOGE needs to completely rethink its efforts to increase the efficiency of the federal agencies that fund research in the US.

“Virtually no one thinks that we are making the best use of scientists’ time.”

DOGE, however, isn’t fixing that—it’s cancelling grants, firing scientists, and causing chaos. If efficiency were the goal, we wouldn’t be here, argues @stuartbuck.bsky.social.
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This is unconscionable! Subjecting eminent scientists to this uncertainty is crazy!!!

How can DOGE with their ‘coding errors’ be in charge of the US economy?! I hope each of these actions will be the subject of a punitive lawsuit collectively and individually

The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.

"more than 100 million people have died of tuberculosis because the drugs are not widely available in many parts of the world. The most proximate cause of contemporary tuberculosis deaths is not M. tuberculosis, but Homo sapiens." 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Add: the mass extinction of species, including key species, which could lead to extinction of the human species.

No amount of survivalist training will make up for lack of resources. No billions of dollars can rewild a key species if it has no habitat. We can adapt, but we have our limits.

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Samuel Frederick Edwards: Founder of modern polymer and soft matter theory | PNAS Samuel Frederick Edwards: Founder of modern polymer and soft matter theory

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My obituary for Sam Edwards, published in PNAS is open access

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A puntito de empezar la 2da Asamblea de la Conexión @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social !!!! Nos esperan 3 días intensos de encuentros, ciencia y planes para una Biología Computacional y Bioinformática en expansión!! @csic.es @csic-vaact.bsky.social

Second meeting for the @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social starts with an introduction by @anaconesa.bsky.social. Three wonderful days in front of us to enhance the wonderful #bioinformatics and #computational_biology community at @csic.es.

Kickking off the second day our @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social meeting with scientific sesions with Victor Sánchez Gaya, presenting POSTRE, a tool to predict the funcional impact of pstructural variants @hitseq.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social

Next, Ana Martinez and Carmen Gil from @cib-csic.bsky.social presenting how to use a consortium
of AI tools for drug design, with múltiple applicatons in the clínic @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub

Patricia Mingo, from
INIA-CSIC now explaining their lipidomics and transcriptomics work to find new treatments to combat West Nilo Virus, a growing threat in Spain. @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @i2sysbio.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub

Enjoing the next talk by
@ramalok.bsky.social from
@ICMCSIC exploring the diversity of sea microorganism at Mediterranean trajectories by metagenomics-based population genomics @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @hitseq.bsky.social @longtrec.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social

insightful talk by Juan Fdez Recio: “using molecular dynamics is better than static models to predict the impact of mutations on Protein Protein Interactions” @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub

The picture of the @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social, the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology family of @csic.es @csic-vaact.bsky.social @i2sysbio.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social @iscb.bsky.social

I love this talk by Alejandro Dominguez from @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social who explains how to predict microbial metabolite -host protein interactions @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social

YouTube video by Conexión CSIC BCB ¿Quieres conocer al Grupo de Nutrigenómica del IATS?

¿Aún no conoces al Grupo de Nutrigenómica del IATS del CSIC? Te invitamos a conocerles en nuestro Canal de YouTube youtu.be/S9VsVHHDsys

Followed by Javier de las Rivas (IBMCC) describing in detail his approach to single cell and deconvolution in cancer samples.

Daniel Rico (CABIMER) shows a very nice introduction to epigenetics landscapes in cancer cells with focus on cell identity.

TADs, BCB.hub tools

Second day of the second BCB.hub meeting. A very intense day full of interesting stuff.
First in the morning Victor Sanchez from IBBTEC showcasing the performance of their POSTRE tool to diagnose TAD-related disease.

The last session started with (Gonzalo Colmenarejo, IMDEA FOOD) about computational design of metabolites to create new drugs

then the (online) description of approaching food allergens by Mónica Carrera (IIM).

And the closing talk by Arnau Montagud (I2SYSBIO) describing how multi-scale approach modeling can lead to understand complex biological processes.

The flashtalks sessions provide an interesting overview of very interesting approaches to a variety of topics.

Summary: #2ndBCB.HUB meeting, a great day full of nice scientific presentations with lots of interactions and networking. A picture of the big computational biology community at CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social, and the Executive board of the Hub.

Rise your hand if this has happened to you! 🙋🏻‍♀️

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

Hearing from a source:

"A friend at NCI lost 3 outstanding staff (their words) and tweeted about it. She was suspended for 2 days. No idea how her tweet was flagged."

This is for all the people asking us why it's hard to tell what's happening at NIH. Retaliation is real.

That’s censorship 2.0