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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Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
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Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
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it's not just that they have a record of publishing GoF - twice now they have published editorials, signed by a large group of virologists including their EiC, that defended GoF as critical work that has led to all sorts of breakthroughs. In other words, they doubled down on GoF
Don't trust the CDC while RFK Jr. is in charge
The HHS secretary, a notorious anti-vaxxer, is now posting his crank views on CDC's website
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I can't stay quiet about what RFK jr is doing to the CDC and FDA:
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yes, this looks like straight-up gain-of-function research in bat coronaviruses. Creating new recombinant viruses with potentially greater pathogenicity, and doing this under BSL-2 conditions which are not at all strict. And the Journal of Virology published it, unsurprising given their record
Slide: Open source, open access, and open data: why science moves faster in an open world has been published by F1000Research.
Read this work by Salzberg SL, at F1000Research.
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How interesting that my 2016 invited talk on Open Science now has a DOI and a link to the talk (on YouTube) where anyone can watch it. If you or your students are interested, check it out - and thanks to F1000Research for making this accessible f1000research.com/slides/5-1701
no, go ahead and call him an idiot, it's well-deserved 😆
thanks @arking.bsky.social - did you have direct experience with this? I know the rules are still in place, but I'm wondering if anyone has experienced it for their own grants
does anyone have experience yet of whether NIH is permitting the standard 25% carry-over on grants from one year to the next? (Eg if <25% of budget is unspent in year N, this automatically gets carried over to year N+1.) Or do we need to spend 100% of our budget each year to avoid losing it?
Very pleased to see that 4 faculty from our Center for Computational Biology (incl 2 @jhu-bdps.bsky.social) are listed in @clarivateag.bsky.social 2025 #HighlyCitedResearchers: Mihaela Pertea, @mikeschatz.bsky.social, @timp0.bsky.social, and me clarivate.com/highly-cited...