Kevin Bonham

My inbox is being flooded with fully AI-generated emails from prospective students. I tried to work out why I can't bring myself to read them, and ended up with some thoughts and advice for writing cold emails in the age of AI. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at Columbia! ✨ We study early development as a dynamic process between children & the people, places, & systems around them, integrating brain, behavior, physiology, & families’ lived experiences. Come join our vibrant lab - please share!

Come join us! This is a great department! 🧪🧪🧪

DAMN. I want whatever McSweeny's is having. 10/10, no notes.

Proudly present our fantastic collaborative effort within SFB 1535 "Microbial networking" @mibinet.bsky.social now out in The ISME Journal. "Context-dependent siderophore exploitability shapes microbial community structure" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @dfg.de

Well, this is horrifying

#JuliaLang jev client

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Another banger from @ellecordova.bsky.social - this person doesn't seem to know how to put out a bad piece of content youtube.com/shorts/kdvUJ...

My alma mater - I used to go to lectures barefoot with my wetsuit and board, and then head down to the beach. And also there's great science there 🏄

It’s Primary Day! If you’re a registered Democrat or unenrolled in MA-08, get out there and cast your ballot between 7 am and 8 pm. Details here: voteinma.com Join our coalition — let’s win this thing!

Can't make this shit up - deleting or changing data for political reasons is no longer a violation of scientific integrity 🧪

I think I've been watching too many reaction videos...

Incredibly cold take - "White Woman's Instagram" from Inside isn't (just) an indictment of said women, it's an indictment of all of us and what we give attention to -- the bridge is a tender depiction of a woman grieving her mother, but it gets zero discussion, we all just laugh at the dunks

Yet another example of management pushing reverse centaurs @doctorow.pluralistic.net Has @aaup.org taken a stance on this kind of thing? And is @aaup.org the union for adjuncts and instructors etc as well, or only tenure track folks?

WE'RE HIRING! Thanks to some recent successes with NIH funding, we're seeking two new postdoctoral scholars to join our team. See below for details. Please share widely and feel free to reach out with any questions!

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On the latest episode of @audiommunity.org, @woodrufflab.bsky.social and I once again spend the whole time on the federal government's ingenious strategy to light our nation's scientific dominance on fire 🧪 audiommunity.substack.com/p/episode-58...

Vaccines. The GOATs of medicine.

Seen at #juliacon - entirely possible I misunderstood, but is this getting us closer to Asimov 's psychohistory? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundat... 🧪

Can't *really* say this shocks me. But it is shocking. 🧪 ourworldindata.org/grapher/acad...

Idea: during summer break we invert the system and have an ‘actually in the office auto reply’

"The irony of the AI era is that as AI reduces the importance of writing code, the more vital the deeper habits of mind fostered by computer science become." #academia #ai www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer

This + the OMB rule, if implemented, will be the end of American dominance in scientific discovery and will cripple academic research for a generation or more. The latter is the point, and they are willing to endure the former to accomplish it 🧪

Very proud of this preprint out of my lab, our first (of hopefully many) host-microbe spatial transcriptomics paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing insights into P. aeruginosa biology and chronic airway disease @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

While I agree with basically all of this in principle, the productivity will never come if the present administration succeeds in its efforts to dismantle biomedical research altogether 🧪

“Practical Julia” is designed to teach scientists how to use the best language for science, with chapters on #physics, #mathematics, #biology, #statistics, and more. amzn.to/3Jn1QdR A review: lwn.net/Articles/966... #julialang

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Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

28. To everyone who should know better but is still saying "actually, I agree with this one point in the report" or "to be fair Kratsios is right about this" — I give you Derek Lowe's reponse.

THIS. SO MUCH THIS. I hate the nationalism argument for science funding. Science is global, and so is science funding. We need it everywhere. If the US stops, it’s not like other countries will now invest MORE.

Translation: we'd like to be sure we have the authority to reward our political allies in red states, sidestep universities, and make sure women and minorities are excluded as much as possible. 🧪

Happy to share the first preprint out of the Nomburg lab! Many aspects of cellular immunity are shared across the tree of life. Here, we show that some of these conserved aspects of cellular immunity are mirrored by conserved effectors of immune antagonism. Thread below! 1/15

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McSweenys had this take weeks ago www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Now or nothing 🧪

We are looking for someone to lead the new Facility for Protein Biochemistry & Biophysics at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg — please spread the word and apply if you are interested!

In which @kevinbonham.com makes repeated and effusive plugs for @edyong209.bsky.social 's book "An Immense World" app.thestorygraph.com/books/5d4a4f...

A break from politics (mostly) to talk about magnetoreception in pigeons. In macrophages! Maybe... The latest @audiommunity.org 🧪

Have you already made comments? Maybe called your reps? Great!! Now tell your friends, tell your family. Tell personal stories of what science does to help you and yours! 🧪

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It is useful to see where the rhetoric is headed. Basic science funding is that rare, long-term, bipartisan good thing™️. It's not going to be good for anyone (other than reflexively contrarian hacks) for this to be turned into a partisan issue, but here we go 🧪