Nick Doiron

In ~11 years the "Founding Fathers" had a lot of churn. Only 7 signers of the Declaration were at the Constitutional Convention. One said no! It's sort of a micro-generation gap.

A near-complete chromosome from a bacterial pathogen integrated into the genome of its arthropod vector https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.16.751987v1

BOTANIC-1: a series of long-context plant genomic foundation models in the agentic era https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.04.749355v1

OpenAI staff replay the HuggingFace hack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy... More Black Hat videos are here: www.youtube.com/@BlackHatOff... I'm surprised they're online so early, since it usually takes months for BlackHat to release this stuff

Endangered and extinct species getting a boost from Museum DNA #museomics youtu.be/0hgO30GTZ9E

Today we're introducing a preview of TutorMoments, a framework that measures whether AI tutors can make one of the hardest calls in teaching: when to step in and help a student, & when to hold back and let them do the heavy thinking. 🧵

Cincinnati has developed a Climate Migration Readiness Plan to absorb as many as 525,000 newcomers by 2050. It calls for building much denser housing, expanding public transit and decreasing the city’s reliance on fossil fuels.

First prion dataset on HF: huggingface.co/datasets/sca... Step 2: demo protein folding Step 3: alternate folds or splicing Step 4: benchmark?

It says "museum-grade" but they bought the bees on Amazon! You can just go online and order bees not yet sequenced by biologists, wild.

How to visit **my photo panel** at the Smithsonian: Air & Space Museum (free, timed tickets) Go to "Living in the Space Age" opened July 1st Open this book on the Digital Divide Leave it open to my page on OLPC 🇲🇭 📖👍

Spotted this Coinbase ad / food truck / anti-phishing marketing? At GWU

Lots of Indian Ocean species going into a future video on Museomics (genetic studies with museum samples)

A blanket of fog descended over Chicago. I can hear many people sending their fireworks into the blank void.

Excellent podcast episode about the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum's 50th anniversary (President Ford and director Michael Collins opened the museum just ahead of the bicentennial) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

Instead of following those engagement bait alt gov accounts, follow and support @climate.us instead.

no shit www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

RBG Kew has now digitised all 7.4 million of its specimens, including those collected by Charles Darwin, and made them freely available online. Next up: genome sequencing? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The viruses we found infect bacteria more than any other host. Also, a lot of novel plant viruses. Probably no new mammalian viruses, but there were many eukaryote-infecting viruses that were so unique that we couldn’t predict the host kingdom, so who knows. 9/

A mirage over the lake horizon

On this day, in 1961, two articles appeared in Nature announcing the isolation of messenger RNA (mRNA) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

How a weird Long Island City rock became a new park! From an idea in 2006 to reality youtu.be/silN0vAh25A

OneGenomeRice (OGR): A Genomic Foundation Model for Rice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.21.719822v1

For when you need travel assistance on the quantum level ⚛️ (note: traveling salesman joke would be funnier but isn't BQP)

Researching Google Flu Trends as a prequel to a wastewater sampling story... And was surprised! There is a 2019 study claiming that they could have corrected the errors.

Someone just reached out to me about purchasing Jira tickets from a joke project, now it's a trend?

The Cesar Chavez Post Office is getting a new name after the famed farmworkers’ rights activist was accused of sexually abusing women. blockclubchi.co/4dBBpOu

I'm both excited and a little terrified. It feels like a wave of AI-assisted tool rewrites is coming to bioinformatics whether we like it or not. We figured that the best we can do is to try to get ahead of it, so we wrote down some principles for doing it responsibly: rewrites.bio

How diverse is bacterial immunity ? We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems. 👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie... Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...

A couple months ago the @nytimes.com asked me to review a book for them. It turned out to be one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. Today, they published my review: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...

This is not at all equivalent to the JCPOA. The previous nuclear deal did allow enrichment (with many provisions, but sunsetting over time), did not close or decommission the Bushehr power plant. That deal also did not cover missiles, regional arms control, or proxy financing

bulgogi and pierogi (both from Whole Foods) www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9UB...

#notGDC 2026 is a free, online game dev non-conference for everyone! This year it runs from March 9–13, the same time as that other conf. Have some gamedev knowledge you want to share with the world? Slides, articles, videos are welcome, and submissions are now open! For more info: notgdc.io

Preview of landing page for Chenopodium genome browser (yes I'm giving my 2024 projects a second look)

A little from Dayton 🇺🇸🇧🇦

Oh hey!! A Billy Penn article all about the Native Plant project is OUT! Featuring interviews from me, @zajic.com @megstampede.bsky.social and @the666cat.bsky.social! Check it out! billypenn.com/2026/02/24/s...

Snapshots from Dayton: Wright Flyer statue, high wheeler themed bike rack, and exhibit on Bosnia

A small thread about this Mexican monument that commemorates the most significant single event in the history of the planet (plus, the surrounding area - and criticism of Werner Herzog (sorry)) 🧵 1/

Anthropic have been positioning themselves as the ethical AI company, what with their constitution and all. So it will be interesting to see how they respond to this story. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Be on the lookout for AI infographics: - recent advances by Google and Qwen (pictured) - will look like it came out of a textbook or a travel brochure - answers a question exactly (a little too convenient) - any individual component would be strange in isolation

It is very hard to get accurate numbers of the number of “non-coding genes” – the amount of DNA that encodes truly functional ncRNAs. But it seems very likely that these genes outnumber our protein-coding genes. /8

You're looking at what's likely the first record in Nigeria of Dintelmann's Reed Frog (Hyperolius dintelmanni)! 📷 abubakaringim on iNaturalist 📍 Nigeria 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Holy hell, what an obituary

💥🧬 Why sequence ALL insect genomes? Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍 Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity. #InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers

In 1900s Milwaukee, Melissa Russell committed multiple bizarre crimes to the point the newspaper says she's "well-known to many of our readers"

Nuuk, Greenland, 2017 🇬🇱

Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother. gofund.me/9e987aead

✨ Updated preprint ✨ Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂