Keith Robison

Computational biologist in drug discovery since '96.

[Antoun Nabhan @AntounNabhan]

@HoodBiology Yes, it's incredibly important, and you'll see that I'm a strong advocate of restoring NIH funding to its pre-DOGE levels.

However, in terms of absolute dollars it is just incorrect to say "the government funds drug development" and therefore imply Pharma is a grift. Not true.

[Charles Brenner, PhD @CharlesMBrenner]

here's the notice i got that said my R01 cannot be reviewed because it investigates 6-methyl nicotine (note that 6-methyl nicotine has been in tobacco for time immemorial)

[Benjamin Mazer @BenMazer]

Amazing thing to post just weeks after the UK’s negative GRAIL RCT results.

[Frederik Schulz @frederikschu]

DNA foundation models can be organized into a taxonomy spanning self-supervised genomic language models, evolution-aware models, generative genome models, and supervised sequence-to-function predictors. https://t.co/QxsyiDzQAw

[Brooks Payne @brooksbos]

Cameroun, the official FIFA photographer, Ghana, and Argentina are represented at the 2026 World Cup in Boston's Copley Square this afternoon! (Clockwise) 😀⚽️👍👏🙏

[K9Cognoscente @K9Cognoscente]

Giving it about 48 hours until all the new experts on medical imaging and Bayes theorem move on to being experts on whatever Elon tweets positively about next.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map shows Switzerland’s four national languages without the uninhabited high mountain areas. Suddenly the country’s linguistic geography makes more sense: German dominates the north and centre, French the west, Italian the south, and Romansh survives in pockets of the east. Source: https://t.co/Q2sC2yIBye

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Daddy longlegs are not true spiders.

They are spider-LIKE arachnids that belong to their own distinct order and are actually more closely related to scorpions.

Happy Father’s Day.

[Aaron Blotnick @AaronBlotnick]

Fetal Bovine Serum is one of those products people try not to think about. It rests in the methods sections of Nature publications and in the hefty Quartzy bill associated with running a lab.

It has been the bedrock of our field since 1958, when Theodore Puck formalized it as the essential, undefined part of a universal media.

[Dr. Christian Casteel @DrCasteelEM]

These ppl truly do not know what they do not know. I’m an ER doctor. All we do is CT and US people all day every damn day 365 days a year. We identify incidental masses/cysts/lesions/calcification every day (multiple times a shift) and tell patients about them. It’s a routine daily aspect of our job. If we were legally scared of finding incidentals we wouldn’t scan anybody. Yet we scan ppl in the US far more than anywhere else in the world.

I’m convinced these people could be on a crashing airplane and believe they could save the plane better than the pilots.

[Ah-Ram Kim @ahramkim1128]

Engineering a light-responsive, orthogonal Lon protease in E. coli for targeted protein degradation
https://t.co/GsIJFVRBP4

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

1) The remains of this 35-year-old man from the 1st-2nd century AD reveal a remarkable story of disability and resilience in the ancient world. When his skeleton was unearthed near Ostia in 2008, experts were astounded to find that..

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms.

‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

[Kartik Sunagar @venomdetective]

🚨 Hiring a Postdoc in AI/ML

Can AI help design next-gen snakebite therapeutics?

We are recruiting a postdoc at @LabVenomics, @iiscbangalore, to develop AI-driven approaches for discovering high-affinity binders and small-molecule inhibitors against venom toxins 🐍💊💉🇮🇳 🧵👇

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Goldman Sachs is now saying the AI race has become a $5.3T capital-spending cycle.

with that figure covering expected hyperscaler spending on AI and data centers from 2025 through 2030.

AI infrastructure is starting to strain normal financing channels, because the same few hyperscalers cannot endlessly push debt into public bond markets without investors worrying about issuer concentration.

A data center is not one asset, because it combines land, power access, network links, buildings, cooling, and AI servers, so the financing naturally spills across infrastructure funds, real estate funds, private credit, and corporate bonds.

Goldman signals that AI capex estimates are rising faster than actual data center construction, which means the bottleneck may shift from model demand to financing capacity, power availability, and project execution.

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

What does this even mean? You’re going to every lab in America to confirm they don’t have proto-SARS2 in their freezers? When you’ve wasted millions in taxpayer money on your political witch hunt with nothing to show, will you tell the American people the full truth?

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

This is such an old dynamic it's wild to watch it play out over and over again when you can just read about it in any book about the history of science and/or technology.

Just FYI, doctors mostly aren’t saying “DON'T DO THIS.” They’re saying “screening is complicated.” They've seen exciting new techniques fail to improve outcomes tons of times. They take a whole oath about not doing harm and their field is filled with moments when doctors haven't waited for good evidence...and real harm gets done.

This happens with experts all the time...they see something new and there's skepticism...sometimes warranted, sometimes unwarranted.

Regardless, any amount of informed skepticism is extremely easy to re-package as “The old guard doesn’t want the future.”

That repackaging has been used by industrialists for as long as industrialists have existed...they turn every request for evidence into proof that the incumbents are scared.

The thing is there are a lot of Vioxx's and Theranos's and "radium therapy"s in the past proving that well-informed people who say, "Actually, that's not gonna work" are actually very often right.

And there's also tons of examples of industrialists being like "This is the future" and being correct while saying "you can't regulate us, that will stand in the way of the future" as steam boilers explode and human beings along with them.

But I guess we're just gonna keep having the same goddamn fights forever!

[Michael Baym @baym]

@SynBio1 I for one an thrilled to have medical imaging by a proprietary algorithm from a company whose whole product to this point was fabricating convincing images

[Vega Shah @dr_alphalyrae]

I was asked a ‘weird fact’ from my life at a social event. After i defended my phd i took a break from academia and worked as a table tennis coach/pro at Spin. Afterwards when I went back for a postdoc I took a massive pay cut from my ping pong job. And that should tell you everything about doing a postdoc

[Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero]

When I move to America, I was astonished by yeast variety. I had never considered other nations don’t have all-powerful yeast monopolies imposing one yeast upon the people.