Michael Zanis
@zanism.bsky.social
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Microscopy Bat signal!
I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n
I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Microscopy Bat signal!
I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n
I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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While this is so deeply beautiful and moving about the important place of art in society and I'm so glad Dr. Baum shared this with us, I'm sad Stoppard never knew.
Please tell people how much their work impacts you. Write to a playwright, academic, artist, etc and let them know how they moved you.
Please tell people how much their work impacts you. Write to a playwright, academic, artist, etc and let them know how they moved you.
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
While this is so deeply beautiful and moving about the important place of art in society and I'm so glad Dr. Baum shared this with us, I'm sad Stoppard never knew.
Please tell people how much their work impacts you. Write to a playwright, academic, artist, etc and let them know how they moved you.
Please tell people how much their work impacts you. Write to a playwright, academic, artist, etc and let them know how they moved you.
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The late Miocene possibly had lower athmospheric pCO2 than we have right now (but higher than pre-industrial), but that was enough for there not to be permafrost in North Greenland.
Once a local threshold is reached, that is enough sometimes. 🧪
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Once a local threshold is reached, that is enough sometimes. 🧪
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The late Miocene possibly had lower athmospheric pCO2 than we have right now (but higher than pre-industrial), but that was enough for there not to be permafrost in North Greenland.
Once a local threshold is reached, that is enough sometimes. 🧪
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Once a local threshold is reached, that is enough sometimes. 🧪
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
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When does sloppiness become misconduct?
What level of manipulation becomes fabrication?
If authors say it is an error, should we trust them?
If raw data is missing, is there any justification for proceeding?
Should you report to the institution?
#AIMOS2025
What level of manipulation becomes fabrication?
If authors say it is an error, should we trust them?
If raw data is missing, is there any justification for proceeding?
Should you report to the institution?
#AIMOS2025
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
When does sloppiness become misconduct?
What level of manipulation becomes fabrication?
If authors say it is an error, should we trust them?
If raw data is missing, is there any justification for proceeding?
Should you report to the institution?
#AIMOS2025
What level of manipulation becomes fabrication?
If authors say it is an error, should we trust them?
If raw data is missing, is there any justification for proceeding?
Should you report to the institution?
#AIMOS2025
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Q: Why is international collaboration essential for advancing research?
A: Understand global initiatives
No: It promotes shared standards
#AIMOS2025
A: Understand global initiatives
No: It promotes shared standards
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Q: Why is international collaboration essential for advancing research?
A: Understand global initiatives
No: It promotes shared standards
#AIMOS2025
A: Understand global initiatives
No: It promotes shared standards
#AIMOS2025
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Now attending the Hackaton "Hacking the system: improving research assessment by stealth"
DORA: Valuing academics by a wider range of scholarly products (wider than number of publications/citations), such as sharing datasets, protocols, software.
sfdora.org
#AIMOS2025
DORA: Valuing academics by a wider range of scholarly products (wider than number of publications/citations), such as sharing datasets, protocols, software.
sfdora.org
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Now attending the Hackaton "Hacking the system: improving research assessment by stealth"
DORA: Valuing academics by a wider range of scholarly products (wider than number of publications/citations), such as sharing datasets, protocols, software.
sfdora.org
#AIMOS2025
DORA: Valuing academics by a wider range of scholarly products (wider than number of publications/citations), such as sharing datasets, protocols, software.
sfdora.org
#AIMOS2025
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1. Madeleen van der Merwe: Statistical Errors in Health Journal Articles. A systematic review.
We looked at 53 articles - identified 940 statistical errors
#AIMOS2025
We looked at 53 articles - identified 940 statistical errors
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
1. Madeleen van der Merwe: Statistical Errors in Health Journal Articles. A systematic review.
We looked at 53 articles - identified 940 statistical errors
#AIMOS2025
We looked at 53 articles - identified 940 statistical errors
#AIMOS2025
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Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:
NIH grant cuts have disrupted hundreds of clinical trials, study finds
The second Trump administration has been defined by widespread cuts to federal spending, including at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | The second Trump administration has been defined by wid...
www.fiercebiotech.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
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Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/post-...
Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy
After I wrote this “status interview” piece on Tuesday, I heard from...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/post-...
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how the cave generator i'm working on works!
this uses patches (see rainbows, beginning of each run) with distinct cellular automata assigned to them.
patches which are along edges are given a chance of becoming a wall, which chews up edges and makes it less rectangular.
then it will connect up
this uses patches (see rainbows, beginning of each run) with distinct cellular automata assigned to them.
patches which are along edges are given a chance of becoming a wall, which chews up edges and makes it less rectangular.
then it will connect up
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
how the cave generator i'm working on works!
this uses patches (see rainbows, beginning of each run) with distinct cellular automata assigned to them.
patches which are along edges are given a chance of becoming a wall, which chews up edges and makes it less rectangular.
then it will connect up
this uses patches (see rainbows, beginning of each run) with distinct cellular automata assigned to them.
patches which are along edges are given a chance of becoming a wall, which chews up edges and makes it less rectangular.
then it will connect up
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weird js bug. does anyone know how an undefined is creeping into this iteration over an array with no undefined in it? chrome, windows if it's implementation specific.
i have tested a number of times and it seems not to happen in windows firefox.
i have tested a number of times and it seems not to happen in windows firefox.
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
weird js bug. does anyone know how an undefined is creeping into this iteration over an array with no undefined in it? chrome, windows if it's implementation specific.
i have tested a number of times and it seems not to happen in windows firefox.
i have tested a number of times and it seems not to happen in windows firefox.
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
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I'm gonna keep quoting myself until this crime against civilization starts getting serious notice.
The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I'm gonna keep quoting myself until this crime against civilization starts getting serious notice.
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Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Exciting day for the lab: our 1rst paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳 Wonderful collaboration wt @gautamdey.bsky.social showing how Cryo-ExM achieves consistent immunostaining in diverse diatoms, from the lab and the natural environment 1/n
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
#ProtistsOnSky
tinyurl.com/2zxaund7
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🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny.
#ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Chinook salmon have returned to the Klamath River in Oregon after being absent for more than a century. The announcement came roughly a year after the last of four major hydroelectric dams on the river was demolished.
A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back
The fish had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final dam, they’ve returned.
nyti.ms
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Chinook salmon have returned to the Klamath River in Oregon after being absent for more than a century. The announcement came roughly a year after the last of four major hydroelectric dams on the river was demolished.
Reposted by Michael Zanis
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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So I've been paying $1200 a month this year for an ACA plan.
2026 preview site from the regime just went up.
This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.
I'm beside myself.
2026 preview site from the regime just went up.
This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.
I'm beside myself.
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
So I've been paying $1200 a month this year for an ACA plan.
2026 preview site from the regime just went up.
This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.
I'm beside myself.
2026 preview site from the regime just went up.
This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.
I'm beside myself.
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One example of the price increases on the horizon. People are literally about to be priced out in the same way landlords price people out of apartments. It won’t stop here either
How many of us have already put off going to the doctor/dentist, simply because we can’t afford it? This is unacceptable
How many of us have already put off going to the doctor/dentist, simply because we can’t afford it? This is unacceptable
So I've been paying $1200 a month this year for an ACA plan.
2026 preview site from the regime just went up.
This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.
I'm beside myself.
2026 preview site from the regime just went up.
This is what the exact same plan will cost me per month in 2026.
I'm beside myself.
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
One example of the price increases on the horizon. People are literally about to be priced out in the same way landlords price people out of apartments. It won’t stop here either
How many of us have already put off going to the doctor/dentist, simply because we can’t afford it? This is unacceptable
How many of us have already put off going to the doctor/dentist, simply because we can’t afford it? This is unacceptable