Ken Hallenbeck
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Ken Hallenbeck
@khallenbeck.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Assoc. Principal Scientist at Merck in NJ, USA.

I use molecular biology to discover molecules to treat human disease.

None of my work is publishable in […]

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Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post)

Amazing work by the team 🎉

Expect a blog post with all the […]

[Original post on oisaur.com]
August 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Reposted by Ken Hallenbeck
One of the most difficult human impulses to overcome as a scientist is that once you have decided something is true it becomes increasingly difficult to see evidence to the contrary.
July 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it
Telltale signs of chatbot use are scattered through the scholarly literature — and, in some cases, have disappeared without a trace.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @elisabethbik.bsky.social
Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it
Telltale signs of chatbot use are scattered through the scholarly literature — and, in some cases, have disappeared without a trace.
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
March 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Excited to share the first paper from my team at Merck. Sometimes, in vitro translation systems like mRNA display make mistakes - but does it happen often enough to matter?

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.202500083

Yes, it does. We describe how you can […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
March 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Started up an account on @pixelfed

Interested to see if it can replace insta or not! I have gained back countless hours after uninstalling all algo-driven apps on my phone and am rooting for the decentralized social internet.

#fediverse
February 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reposted by Ken Hallenbeck
patents are a small part of the big pharma machine, but I would add staffing changes at USPTO to the list of things pharma/biotech should be concerned about

it’s been crickets there, too
Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late.

Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.
Stand Up And Be Counted
www.science.org
February 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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My little science game released today! This is a small contribution to making what we do in pharma & biotech seem less foreign and more fun, in a time when making life-saving drugs is increasingly maligned in the public square.

Give it a download if you can […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
February 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Reposted by Ken Hallenbeck
The Internet is mostly shit these days, but every once in a great while I stumble across an incredible, passion-project website.

This one is hand-animated weird art and it is worth your time as a fun decompressing thing in between your doomscrolling sessions.

https://floor796.com

I don't […]
Original post on dice.camp
dice.camp
February 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Fun to see some YouTube footage start to appear! A full playthrough of the intro level of Research Rush:

https://youtu.be/7YLUYxjcoOk
February 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
My little science game released today! This is a small contribution to making what we do in pharma & biotech seem less foreign and more fun, in a time when making life-saving drugs is increasingly maligned in the public square.

Give it a download if you can […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
February 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Reposted by Ken Hallenbeck
Please share: Our Max Planck Institute recently left X and is present here on Mastodon. Give them a follow! Beautiful pictures from the science of light!

#mastodon #physics #science #light #quantum #optics #photonics #pictures

@maxplanckgesellschaft

From: @MPI_ScienceOfLight […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Updating PAIR with some astonishing new entries. Here is one:

"During the preparation of this work the author(s) used ChatGPT from OpenAI in order to generate a first draft out of bullet points."

😬😬😬

https://peeraireview.com/search

#science #publishing #ai #genai #chatgpt #peerreview
December 28, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Reposted by Ken Hallenbeck
Here are some games for iPhone and iPad :cat_hug_triangle: Android coming soon (and MacOS and Windows)

- Free
- No subscriptions
- No in-app purchases
- No ads
- No track

Yes it's possible in 2024(2025)

https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/stuxhost/id966927599
‎Stuxhost Apps on the App Store
‎Download apps by Stuxhost, including Pocket Runner, Pocket FPS — Zombies, A Cat's Tale, and many more.
apps.apple.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Found a Research Rush bug where I used Time.time without fully appreciating the difference from Time.timeSinceLevelLoad 😅

It made it all the way into production (open beta) since it is totally invisible in short playtests, especially in the editor. I only found it because I wanted to expose […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
December 21, 2024 at 5:57 PM
If you are looking for a last-minute gift for the history buff or spy movie aficionado in your life, consider The Estonian Spy:

https://www.amazon.com/Estonian-Spy-Resistance-Russian-Oppression/dp/B0C6P2PHBT

Of course I am a bit biased, I wrote it 😀
#history #giftideas #merrychristmas […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
December 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Lots of exciting progress on Research Rush!

Here's a teaser from the trailer we're cooking up:

#gamedev #solodev #science
December 17, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Lighting glowup, before/after

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev #science #gaming
November 25, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Reposted by Ken Hallenbeck
Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.
November 18, 2024 at 3:17 PM
I am adding "events" to Research Rush and having lots of fun with it. Here are a few... anyone have an idea or a quippy title for one?

#gamedev #solodev #indiedev #science
November 19, 2024 at 2:27 AM
A cyclic peptide for an intracellular target! A rare sighting:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c01639

The authors don't claim passive permeability - and rightfully so since this is a 1900 Da behemoth of a bicycle. But, they do show have the trio of internalization, cell activity […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
November 18, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Happy to start bridging to Bluesky. ActivityPub ftw!

Make an account where you want, talk to whoever you want.

Feels like how the Internet should be.
November 18, 2024 at 6:04 AM