Steven Salzberg
@stevensalzberg.bsky.social
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostats at Johns Hopkins Univ., tennis player, @StevenSalzberg1 on Twitter, lab: salzberg-lab.org, Substack blog: stevensalzberg.substack.com
Steven Lloyd Salzberg is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology. .. more
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Agriculture
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Making America Weak
The biggest own goal in modern history
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US science is in trouble, and it doesn't have to be
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3000 users doesn't mean it works. It just means people were curious to try it, which isn't surprising given that it's the AlphaFold people 😅
yeah but I don't believe its predictions are any good, as I explained in detail to @carlzimmer.com. See the (brief) quotes of mine in his @nytimes.com piece, although naturally we had a much longer conversation
In remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
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very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
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I strongly suspect this ranking system is driven by massive numbers of papers, not by quality. This has been widely reported over the past decade or more www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Functional Medicine Can Treat Almost Anything
Is it real or is it nonsense?
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should you see a Functional Medicine doc? Hmm... stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/functional...