Daniel Asarnow

@BJ_Greber @allostericstate This is all they'll give you

@allostericstate Manual selection of 5.3 million particles?

@KevinKaichuang That's true. I do think journals should take my PNGs not because they're smaller but because 20 MB will hold a bigger image

@dabiophysicist All well and good until you need to show a microscopy image!

Just spent way too long getting a pdf under biorxiv's 40 mb limit

@KevinKaichuang Nicer for readers, too, they can zoom in to their heart's content

@KevinKaichuang Ah, FWIW exporting vector graphics from matplotlib and Prism, and image tracing everything appropriate really helps! It's more convenient, too, you can change plotting styles directly in your vector graphics editor.

@joelgombiner @AliNeitzelMD That's not true - the nucleic acid molecules isolated at the market are every bit as "physical" as hair or blood found at a crime scene

@AliNeitzelMD There's no physical evidence one way or another. The origin remains a mystery, with the lab leak a viable possibility

@ATinyGreenCell @gramnegativity It can't even *be* a salary in WA, not even for 3/4 of a year (there's a minimum). They should be advertising the hourly wage and maximum hours/week

@gramnegativity Bruh wtf kind of salary is that in 2024?!

@drugmonkeyblog Maybe so, but the House race in WA3 is polling as a dead heat

This is about the campaign to question the integrity of an election, not to actually change outcomes in this blue majority state.

@Irakliseesu @Der_Parrot I preferred the Nova

@Irakliseesu @Der_Parrot I sort of remember replacing her iMac once, but maybe it was a neighboring office. These were the two vehicles available to student IT support staff (same model & year anyway)

@AmandaAskell Who knows, but current LLMs still suffer from relatively flat probability landscapes for scientific-sounding "facts" that compromise outputs. Maybe we biologists don't write enough down, maybe multi-modal training is still too weak, or maybe there IS more to intelligence...

Let's grant the assumption that LLMs are only capable of pattern recognition. We see this is sufficient to solve novel problems, to generate new and useful ideas, etc. So how is pattern recognition distinct from intelligence? What does intelligence add? Sincere question.

@francoisfleuret When he says "only with the WPA...have new tables been computed" he's taking about this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathemati…

@francoisfleuret I like Feynman's explanation that it's the operations, too - something instinctually satisfying about making a group feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html

The fascinating thing is that the structure of ideas is such that they always extend *a little bit* beyond what you thought when you created them. You invent counting and then *there must be something "before zero"*

💔😢

@ATinyGreenCell In 2012 my friends traced images of several hundred schistosomula on an old IBM touchscreen AIO PC for me, so I acknowledged them

Word, what if you have a hommie who isn't in the sciences or at a uni but helped tremendously on your project in a material way but has no affil? How do you properly attribute/cite their current station or state beyond just named authorship?

As we celebrate the PDB, let's also remember the prolific but underrecognized structural biologists who contributed so much to our field, and to us personally as trainees. Scientists like @UCSF @UCSFBiophysics legend Janet Finer-Moore, with 125 depositions from 1987 to 2024! 🎉🥳

@ArmandDoma You're not wrong but IME when folks South of 16th were caught without fare on the T they were just bummed

in my experience people who cheat are always outraged when you catch them cheating

@AkiyoshiKitaoka It stops if I defocus

"Primrose field" The image appears to wave. Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2002 psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/SARMA…