Greg Gloor
@ggloor.bsky.social
biochemist, computational biologist, synbio and my dogs. I care about stuff at the margins. It’s likely we’re all doing it wrong!
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My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
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Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
NYT obituary of Jim Watson.
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
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This is a total outrage and has crippled SARS-CoV-2 variant tracking and evolutionary analysis.
Updating a file and giving access to Nextstrain & Cov-Spectrum does not require extensive resources, so the official justification is a lie. There has to be an ulterior motive here.
Updating a file and giving access to Nextstrain & Cov-Spectrum does not require extensive resources, so the official justification is a lie. There has to be an ulterior motive here.
Nextstrain's daily-updated tree of SARS-CoV-2 genomes was my gateway into the world of viral phylogenetics in early 2020, and Nextstrain's beautiful interactive tree display is crucial to making usher.bio results usable. GISAID cutting off data harms global surveillance efforts. 🧵👇
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is a total outrage and has crippled SARS-CoV-2 variant tracking and evolutionary analysis.
Updating a file and giving access to Nextstrain & Cov-Spectrum does not require extensive resources, so the official justification is a lie. There has to be an ulterior motive here.
Updating a file and giving access to Nextstrain & Cov-Spectrum does not require extensive resources, so the official justification is a lie. There has to be an ulterior motive here.
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Has anyone started a company called openai 2 yet using their theory of intellectual property
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Has anyone started a company called openai 2 yet using their theory of intellectual property
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And just when you thought things were settling down, the enigmatic Asgard archaea have another surprise in store! Cell cycle/life cycle stage-specific internal compartments with almost no eukaryote-derived clues as to how they might function.
Beautiful tomography and microscopy - congrats all 🤩
Beautiful tomography and microscopy - congrats all 🤩
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
And just when you thought things were settling down, the enigmatic Asgard archaea have another surprise in store! Cell cycle/life cycle stage-specific internal compartments with almost no eukaryote-derived clues as to how they might function.
Beautiful tomography and microscopy - congrats all 🤩
Beautiful tomography and microscopy - congrats all 🤩
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The Canadian Justice system loses $20 billion year.
The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.
Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.
Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.
The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.
Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.
Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The Canadian Justice system loses $20 billion year.
The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.
Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.
Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.
The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.
Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.
Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.
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If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...
Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Schwarzman College of Computing - cee.mit.edu
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), together with the Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge MA, seeks candidate...
cee.mit.edu
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...
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Some of the cooler things I think are going on in higher education these days.
Utrecht, Georgetown, Manchester | HESA
I’ve been poking around a lot of university websites from around the globe recently – mainly but not exclusively because I’m putting the finishing touches to The World of Higher Education – Year in Re...
higheredstrategy.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Some of the cooler things I think are going on in higher education these days.
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"One could hardly design a more fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theories than social media."
"The algorithms ... which operate on the principle that rage is engaging, have turned into radicalization machines."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1... by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
"The algorithms ... which operate on the principle that rage is engaging, have turned into radicalization machines."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1... by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist
A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same fantasies that have been spreading for hundreds of years.
www.technologyreview.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"One could hardly design a more fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theories than social media."
"The algorithms ... which operate on the principle that rage is engaging, have turned into radicalization machines."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1... by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
"The algorithms ... which operate on the principle that rage is engaging, have turned into radicalization machines."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1... by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
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When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
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Shattered.
But the #BlueJays are one hell of a team.
Thanks for a hell of a ride, gentlemen.
#WorldSeries #Game7 #BlueJays #Toronto
But the #BlueJays are one hell of a team.
Thanks for a hell of a ride, gentlemen.
#WorldSeries #Game7 #BlueJays #Toronto
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Shattered.
But the #BlueJays are one hell of a team.
Thanks for a hell of a ride, gentlemen.
#WorldSeries #Game7 #BlueJays #Toronto
But the #BlueJays are one hell of a team.
Thanks for a hell of a ride, gentlemen.
#WorldSeries #Game7 #BlueJays #Toronto
364 days a year “don’t take candy from strangers “. today “take as much candy as possible from strangers “ 🤣
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
364 days a year “don’t take candy from strangers “. today “take as much candy as possible from strangers “ 🤣
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Radboud researchers René Aquarius @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and Kim Wever were about to embark on a literature review project when they noticed several odd things that made them stop in their tracks, then change the course of their study entirely.
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Radboud researchers René Aquarius @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and Kim Wever were about to embark on a literature review project when they noticed several odd things that made them stop in their tracks, then change the course of their study entirely.
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There are lots of professional data repositories to share your data (see www.re3data.org) - if you want to share the code as well you can push to github and archive it on zenodo with a DOI.
Home | re3data.org
www.re3data.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
There are lots of professional data repositories to share your data (see www.re3data.org) - if you want to share the code as well you can push to github and archive it on zenodo with a DOI.
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When he's finally gone, there is going to be this flood of books and tell all interviews from Republicans about how hard it was to be a Republican in Washington during this time and I am going to be galatically furious about it.
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
When he's finally gone, there is going to be this flood of books and tell all interviews from Republicans about how hard it was to be a Republican in Washington during this time and I am going to be galatically furious about it.
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the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
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A lifehack for turning "non-significant" results into pure gold?
(ICYMI)
statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple...
(ICYMI)
statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple...
One simple trick that statisticians hate
If you don't like the results, just ignore the control group
statsepi.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A lifehack for turning "non-significant" results into pure gold?
(ICYMI)
statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple...
(ICYMI)
statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple...
I can’t be the only person who wishes that Melissa would take a hard west turn
October 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I can’t be the only person who wishes that Melissa would take a hard west turn
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Pretty much every free online service was built on the understanding that it was provided at the pleasure of the provider, that it was paid for by advertising, and if the revenue dropped service would degrade. This was literally all any tech critics talked about for like ten years between 2000-2010.
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Pretty much every free online service was built on the understanding that it was provided at the pleasure of the provider, that it was paid for by advertising, and if the revenue dropped service would degrade. This was literally all any tech critics talked about for like ten years between 2000-2010.
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TRAINS. I love trains!
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
TRAINS. I love trains!
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Sample swaps are the silent killer in bioinformatics.
Your results look clean—but are you sure you're analyzing the right samples?
Your results look clean—but are you sure you're analyzing the right samples?
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Sample swaps are the silent killer in bioinformatics.
Your results look clean—but are you sure you're analyzing the right samples?
Your results look clean—but are you sure you're analyzing the right samples?
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Come join us at Rutgers Ecology and Evolution! We are hiring an Endowed Chair position in Watershed Ecology. Please pass it on….
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/261...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/261...
Johnson Family Chair in Water Resources and Watershed Ecology (Tenured)
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Rutgers University-New Brunswick invite applications for the Johnson Famil...
jobs.rutgers.edu
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Come join us at Rutgers Ecology and Evolution! We are hiring an Endowed Chair position in Watershed Ecology. Please pass it on….
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/261...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/261...
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“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
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I've never experienced anything like this in my life, where people keep telling me that "we have to use AI or else we'll be left behind" but they don't actually tell me exactly what problem they are hoping to solve with the "AI" or how we would know it was useful. But we must use it! Apparently.
March 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I've never experienced anything like this in my life, where people keep telling me that "we have to use AI or else we'll be left behind" but they don't actually tell me exactly what problem they are hoping to solve with the "AI" or how we would know it was useful. But we must use it! Apparently.
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PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...