W. Brent Derry
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A researchers’ propensity for risky projects is passed down to their doctoral students — and stays with trainees after they leave the laboratory
go.nature.com/4sHq58H
go.nature.com/4sHq58H
PhD students’ taste for risk mirrors their supervisors’
Learned risk-taking behaviours can persist for years after leaving the lab — and even after taking on a new research topic.
go.nature.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM
A researchers’ propensity for risky projects is passed down to their doctoral students — and stays with trainees after they leave the laboratory
go.nature.com/4sHq58H
go.nature.com/4sHq58H
Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
Assistant Professor - Virology
Assistant Professor - Virology
jobs.utoronto.ca
January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
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“When I first heard they’d found a cure for dyslexia, it was like music to my arse.”
—source unknown
—source unknown
January 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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“Universities are not a commodity in which quality holds steady regardless of price. Rather, starving the system of overall steady funding means a few winners and a race to the bottom for the others.” today’s @theglobeandmail.com #academicsky #psychscisky #neurosckyence
January 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
“Universities are not a commodity in which quality holds steady regardless of price. Rather, starving the system of overall steady funding means a few winners and a race to the bottom for the others.” today’s @theglobeandmail.com #academicsky #psychscisky #neurosckyence
Acronym of the week.
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Acronym of the week.
Reposted by W. Brent Derry
Western University is looking for a Canada Research Chair (CRC)
Tier 1 in Metabolomics. We are intent on building capacity in this system and the ideal candidate will help build infrastructure and mentor junior faculty.
Please see the job ad at: uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Tier 1 in Metabolomics. We are intent on building capacity in this system and the ideal candidate will help build infrastructure and mentor junior faculty.
Please see the job ad at: uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
uwo.ca
January 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Western University is looking for a Canada Research Chair (CRC)
Tier 1 in Metabolomics. We are intent on building capacity in this system and the ideal candidate will help build infrastructure and mentor junior faculty.
Please see the job ad at: uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Tier 1 in Metabolomics. We are intent on building capacity in this system and the ideal candidate will help build infrastructure and mentor junior faculty.
Please see the job ad at: uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Reposted by W. Brent Derry
Preprints of pandemic potential - new historical piece from me on the history of bioRxiv/medRxiv, their role in the pandemic, and the way forward. 1/n journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Preprints of pandemic potential - new historical piece from me on the history of bioRxiv/medRxiv, their role in the pandemic, and the way forward. 1/n journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
RIP Bob Weir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOaS...
Grateful Dead - Saint of Circumstance 6-17-91
YouTube video by splaif
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January 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
RIP Bob Weir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOaS...
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Oded Rechavi is presenting a Night Science Seminar next week about transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and his process of discovery! He will also talk about his influence on science communication & academia in general.
Free registration: cassyni.com/events/TjxgV...
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
Free registration: cassyni.com/events/TjxgV...
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Oded Rechavi is presenting a Night Science Seminar next week about transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and his process of discovery! He will also talk about his influence on science communication & academia in general.
Free registration: cassyni.com/events/TjxgV...
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
Free registration: cassyni.com/events/TjxgV...
@odedrechavi.bsky.social
Raptors score a bucket on the Hawks.
January 6, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Raptors score a bucket on the Hawks.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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