Joshua Shapiro

No AI… sorry, SI? It’s never going to work.

What if I told you that seeing a hagfish instantly produce a full bucket of slime was one of my most cherished college memories.

Somebody did this already, right?

Started my day with water pouring from the kitchen ceiling from a radiator pipe leak, which meant I had to drain the whole system to stop it. Good to happen the first day I turn the heat on rather than when it was actually cold. But how's your day been?

I don't usually repost my own stuff, but I'm still thinking about this exchange and giggling. Since the was a late Sunday evening, I want to be sure people do get the chance to see it.

I’m proud he did well, but I could not resist this reply to my son.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

What does this fortune cookie fortune mean? It can’t be good.

Just like us.

Here's the ad for the Genome Sciences faculty positions ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

As part of my new chair and centre @uofguelph.bsky.social , we are recruiting a new Assistant Professor through the Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders program: careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

the NEH is a ghost of an organization. the NEA's budget is $29 million. I'm not saying this to be pissy, but simply to say that when we rebuild - and we will rebuild - I expect solidarity from my STEM colleagues as we robustly expand research in the arts and humanities as well.

Whiteboards were the beginning of the end.

"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Only tangentially sports, but I’ll allow it.

It’s the last days of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and our fundraising with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation will soon be coming to an end. Anything from donations, to reposts, to supporting another peds cancer effort is much appreciated! www.alexslemonade.org/2026/macquar...

My son just declared the bolognese I made (with Impossible beef, as he’s vegetarian) “the best thing I’ve eaten since camp.” Which felt pretty good except that I thought I’d made a number of other pretty great meals over the last month.

Thank you @mrgan.com for the fold-mixing technique.

The Moffitt Cancer Center is looking a new faculty member in Integrated Mathematical Oncology with "a track record in developing mathematical models for cancer research, strong publications in mathematical biology or computational oncology, and success securing grant funding".

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

I see this all-time classic come around, I repost it.

“It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.” buff.ly/pykYN6f

It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.

Toward a Cure of Acute Leukemia through the Lens of Genomics: Charles Mullighan addressed this topic in a keynote lecture to open the AACR Special Conference on Bridging Discovery and Clinical Impact in Pediatric Cancer. #AACRpediatric26 @cmullighan.bsky.social

Trump announces the US is adopting SI? Oh. Never mind.

Join us here in the University of Virginia School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We're hiring a tenure track / tenured prof in LLMs (/NLP) apply.interfolio.com/191213 and data & society (social sciences, policy, humanities, law, business, etc) apply.interfolio.com/191214

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Oy

found at ucsf

BREAKING: We're suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the National Institutes of Health Director for their ideologically-driven termination and censorship of biomedical research grants. Targeting views the government disagrees with for not aligning with a political agenda is unconstitutional.

I was assigned a section of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek before my freshman year in college. I found it absolutely transfixing and immediately got myself the full book to read. It’s been a while, so I look forward to pulling it off the shelf. RIP Annie Dillard. Thank you.

Pls share: Princeton has an open rank faculty search in the areas of cancer biology, cancer prevention, and cancer-relevant computational science, including connections between cancer and immunology or metabolism. apply.interfolio.com/191852

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

A man draws a circle (for kids).

If you are thinking of applying to the @uwgenome.bsky.social PhD program this fall, we have a couple of zoom info sessions set up for Oct 6 and Oct 22. Please register at the link. Our website also has a ton of useful information about crafting your application. www.gs.washington.edu/news/graduat...