Kevin Merchant
@hisnameiskevs.bsky.social
PhD candidate working on drug discovery & development against IPF at Helmholtz Munich• Interested in comp bio, deep learning, philosophy and doctoral rep•
📍 Munich
📍 Munich
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Grab a pint & dive into science! 🍻
Pint of Science is back in Munich:
🗓️ May 19–21, 2025
🕢 19:30–22:00
#HelmholtzMunich researchers share big ideas – from AI to antibodies.
🎟️ Info & tickets: t1p.de/lvpuv
#pint25 #pint25de
Pint of Science is back in Munich:
🗓️ May 19–21, 2025
🕢 19:30–22:00
#HelmholtzMunich researchers share big ideas – from AI to antibodies.
🎟️ Info & tickets: t1p.de/lvpuv
#pint25 #pint25de
Pint of Science Munich
Explore Pint of Science Deutschland events in Munich
pintofscience.de
May 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Grab a pint & dive into science! 🍻
Pint of Science is back in Munich:
🗓️ May 19–21, 2025
🕢 19:30–22:00
#HelmholtzMunich researchers share big ideas – from AI to antibodies.
🎟️ Info & tickets: t1p.de/lvpuv
#pint25 #pint25de
Pint of Science is back in Munich:
🗓️ May 19–21, 2025
🕢 19:30–22:00
#HelmholtzMunich researchers share big ideas – from AI to antibodies.
🎟️ Info & tickets: t1p.de/lvpuv
#pint25 #pint25de
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96: Nothing you write is ever wasted. It’s all part of your training. That’s why you should never feel bad about the work you cut, or the hours you spend on work that stays unpublished. Every part of the process makes you a stronger writer.
April 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96: Nothing you write is ever wasted. It’s all part of your training. That’s why you should never feel bad about the work you cut, or the hours you spend on work that stays unpublished. Every part of the process makes you a stronger writer.
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How it started // how it's going
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How it started // how it's going
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Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
New blood test identifies hard-to-detect pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy
A new blood test could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer earlier, potentially improving survival rates for one of the deadliest cancers.
www.eurekalert.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.
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Today, President Trump ordered the firing of federal employees who are still in their probation period. "The firing of federal employees will have immediate and adverse health consequences for the American public," said ATS President Irina Petrache, MD, ATSF. Read more: shorturl.at/nNegx
American Thoracic Society | Advocacy
The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…
site.thoracic.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Today, President Trump ordered the firing of federal employees who are still in their probation period. "The firing of federal employees will have immediate and adverse health consequences for the American public," said ATS President Irina Petrache, MD, ATSF. Read more: shorturl.at/nNegx
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Here's a script: "“Hello, my name is [XX], and I live on [XX]. I am a [biomedical researcher at the State University], where I study [briefly describe your research]. This research is funded by the [NIH] and is crucial because [in one sentence explain why your research is important to the public].
@NIH’s new 15% cap on research funds threatens U.S. science. Call Congress now to oppose it! Your voice matters—act today. Find your rep’s number at govtrack.us. #SupportScience #cellbiology
February 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Here's a script: "“Hello, my name is [XX], and I live on [XX]. I am a [biomedical researcher at the State University], where I study [briefly describe your research]. This research is funded by the [NIH] and is crucial because [in one sentence explain why your research is important to the public].
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Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
February 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
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If you want me to believe a Nazi salute was just an “enthusiastic” gesture from a “genius” who, btw, vocally supports Germany’s neo-Nazis, go sell your bridge somewhere else. I’m not buying it.
January 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you want me to believe a Nazi salute was just an “enthusiastic” gesture from a “genius” who, btw, vocally supports Germany’s neo-Nazis, go sell your bridge somewhere else. I’m not buying it.
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Science publishing is about to suck even more
NEW: Springer Nature — the prestigious publisher of scientific journals like Nature and the 1845-founded magazine Scientific American — is imploring published journal authors to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" that summarize their own work.
futurism.com/springer-nat...
futurism.com/springer-nat...
January 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Science publishing is about to suck even more
Would be great if LinkedIn won't tell my connections every single thing I Like because I'm trying to train my algorithm to show me my domain's papers😭
Bluesky just isn't as "fun" (or receptive) as Twitter was but LinkedIn seems to come closest to peak academic Twitter for staying up to date with lit
Bluesky just isn't as "fun" (or receptive) as Twitter was but LinkedIn seems to come closest to peak academic Twitter for staying up to date with lit
January 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Would be great if LinkedIn won't tell my connections every single thing I Like because I'm trying to train my algorithm to show me my domain's papers😭
Bluesky just isn't as "fun" (or receptive) as Twitter was but LinkedIn seems to come closest to peak academic Twitter for staying up to date with lit
Bluesky just isn't as "fun" (or receptive) as Twitter was but LinkedIn seems to come closest to peak academic Twitter for staying up to date with lit
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“Collectively, we have a longer term (though not too much longer) decision to make. That decision is: Are we going to do climate change together, or separately?”
With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
Lifeboat Capitalism
Some burn, some drown, and some make money either way.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“Collectively, we have a longer term (though not too much longer) decision to make. That decision is: Are we going to do climate change together, or separately?”
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There’s an interesting story to be written about CO₂ removal and money but it’s not this one.
December 22, 2024 at 9:46 PM
There’s an interesting story to be written about CO₂ removal and money but it’s not this one.
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1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it gets taken for granted & consequently no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you will have less & less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field
December 13, 2024 at 4:21 PM
1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it gets taken for granted & consequently no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you will have less & less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field
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The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Decivilization May Already Be Under Way
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshe...
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
The warning about "decivilization" didn't come after any one of a number of school shootings. It didn't come after January 6. It was after a health insurance company CEO's shooting wasn't received with national mourning:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Now on biorxiv! The JUMP-Cell Painting Consortium’s paper:
“Morphological map of under- and over-expression of genes in human cells”
This is the genetic perturbation portion of the JUMP’s dataset; our chemical perturbation paper will come in a few months
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Morphological map of under- and over-expression of genes in human cells”
This is the genetic perturbation portion of the JUMP’s dataset; our chemical perturbation paper will come in a few months
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Morphological map of under- and over-expression of genes in human cells
Cell Painting images offer valuable insights into the state of a cell and enable many biological applications, but publicly available arrayed datasets only include hundreds of genes perturbed. The JUM...
www.biorxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Now on biorxiv! The JUMP-Cell Painting Consortium’s paper:
“Morphological map of under- and over-expression of genes in human cells”
This is the genetic perturbation portion of the JUMP’s dataset; our chemical perturbation paper will come in a few months
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Morphological map of under- and over-expression of genes in human cells”
This is the genetic perturbation portion of the JUMP’s dataset; our chemical perturbation paper will come in a few months
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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There's a new #RDKit blog post introducing some new functionality that I'm really excited about: doing efficient substructure and similarity searches in very large chemical libraries:
greglandrum.github.io/rdkit-blog/p...
#ChemSky
greglandrum.github.io/rdkit-blog/p...
#ChemSky
Introducing Synthon Searching – RDKit blog
Searching unreasonably large chemical spaces in reasonable amounts of time.
greglandrum.github.io
December 3, 2024 at 7:21 AM
There's a new #RDKit blog post introducing some new functionality that I'm really excited about: doing efficient substructure and similarity searches in very large chemical libraries:
greglandrum.github.io/rdkit-blog/p...
#ChemSky
greglandrum.github.io/rdkit-blog/p...
#ChemSky
There's no bookmark here so I guess I'll just RT so that I can find it again🤔
December 2, 2024 at 11:00 PM
There's no bookmark here so I guess I'll just RT so that I can find it again🤔
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Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de
graph-tool.skewed.de
Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
#networkscience
graph-tool.skewed.de
Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
#networkscience
December 2, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de
graph-tool.skewed.de
Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
#networkscience
graph-tool.skewed.de
Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
#networkscience
Going to uninstall Twitter and see if my brain starts recovering from the extreme conditions it has been subjected to since post-Musk era😳
day 7 of not using twitter: the brain swelling has lessened. i see visions of the future, you are in it. dolphins splashing in the horizon
November 18, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Going to uninstall Twitter and see if my brain starts recovering from the extreme conditions it has been subjected to since post-Musk era😳