Juliana Rolon

Esta semana visité la comunidad Embera en Calamar Guaviare para conversar un poco sobre el proyecto de @EurekaCosmos con @TeamFoldscope! Es realmente increíble escuchar hablarlos hablar de su forma de ver el mundo!

best books you won’t regret reading 📖 1. Writing Tools

10 books to become high agency: 1) The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming

Your brain doesn't form the thought until you write it down. Nature Reviews Bioengineering published the case for that claim last summer in an editorial titled "Writing is thinking." The cited evidence is a 2024 EEG study at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 36 students alternated between handwriting and typing the same words. 256-channel sensor array. Cursive on a touchscreen versus keys on a keyboard. Same words both ways. Handwriting produced widespread connectivity across parietal and central brain regions. Typing didn't. The theta and alpha frequency bands the literature ties to memory formation and encoding lit up almost exclusively when the hand was forming the letters. The motor act was producing the cognition. What the editorial extends from that finding is the more uncomfortable claim. Writing a scientific article is the mechanism by which a researcher discovers what their main message actually is. The act of constructing sentences forces the chaotic, non-linear way the mind wanders into a structured, intentional narrative. You sort years of research into a story, and in the sorting, you find out what you believe. Then the line: If writing is thinking, are we not then reading the thoughts of the LLM rather than those of the researchers behind the paper? Nature endorses LLMs for grammar, search, brainstorming, breaking through writer's block. Where the line gets drawn is outsourcing the whole writing process. Because the writing process is the thinking process. Even editing the LLM's draft is harder than writing one from scratch. To restructure someone else's reasoning you have to reconstruct it first, which means doing the cognitive work anyway, with worse leverage and more friction. The time savings on the keyboard turn out to be cognitive savings on the part of the brain you wanted to use. Your first draft was the thinking.

Incredibly proud of lead author Dr. Yanyu Zhu @YanyuZhu_Chem for this comprehensive and insightful review on CRISPR imaging of the genome. Honored to collaborate with Prof. W.E. Moerner on this. #CRISPR #GenomeDynamics #Imaging #3DGenomics #Biophysics #GeneRegulation #DNARepair #Enhancer #Promoter #Cancer #NeurologicalDisorders #Microscopy #CRISPRImaging @Stanford @bioe_stanford @Stanford_ChEMH @czbiohub @NatureRevGenet @NaturePortfolio nature.com/articles/s4157…

Guys look Claude helped me - a random guy in his basement - build a wetlab and do vibe genomics! I sequenced my whole genome despite zero lab experience, without my DNA leaving home! I put together my notes and a step by step guide here: vibe-genomics.replit.app It was a lot easier than I was expecting! Ultimately I hit ~16x coverage and compared my results against my 600k raw 23andme SNPs, and it held up!

Detection of multiple diseases via a cell-free DNA methylation blood test at low cost pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

It’s time for the annual vote for best engineered yeast bioart from the @ImperialBioeng undergrad #SynBio students. Help us decide among these beautiful final 4 with your votes. 🗳️ ⬇️

Excellent review in which Solé et al. explore how physical/mathematical constraints may determine what subset of biological systems could theoretically evolve in the universe. Link "Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems": doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2…

Paloma Valencia le dice en la cara a Oviedo que va a destrozar la JEP, que no Admite otro tipo de familia que no sea la tradicional y que hablar de genero es adoctrinamiento; y el aplaude. Me compadezco por la gente de izquierda que votó por él

Estás aburrido porque no haces misiones secundarias, hermano. La vida es más que sólo trabajar y pudrirse en la cama. Aquí hay 50 misiones secundarias para completar:

¿Cómo medir el impacto de una investigación? No solo por sus citas académicas, sino también por su influencia en políticas públicas. Nuestras investigaciones han sido citadas por la OMS. Ingresa: policyprofiles.sagepub.com Conocer más en: investigaciontau.com/cursos-online/

This guy literally explained why some people become successful while others stay average.

PhDs working at the intersection of mental breakdown and poverty

A recent study in Nature Communications reveals over 250 metabolic enzymes located directly on chromatin, a discovery that vastly expands the previously known count of only about 20. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Your life is determined by the amount of uncertainty you're willing to embrace.

Plasmids, a molecular cornerstone of antimicrobial resistance in the One Health era | Nature Reviews Microbiology (nature.com/articles/s4157…)

R.I.P Google Scholar. I'm going to share the 10 Perplexity prompts that turn research from a chore into a superpower. Copy & paste these into Perplexity right now: