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I created a #StarterPack for #SelfDrivingLabs. Please comment if you would like to be added: go.bsky.app/Jq7EKC2 Looking forward to the discussions!

KEGG for characterizing genomes and pathways in the biosphere academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs

Oh this is neat. ETH is assumed to be true in a bunch of theoretical CS work, so there's quite a lot of opportunities to revisit priors and maybe have a few faster foundational algorithms down the road openai.com/index/buildi...

Perovskite solar cells made with a lithium-removal process retained 95% of their initial efficiency after 1,000 hours at 85°C and 85% relative humidity. doi.org/hcpzv2

50 years after the publication of The Selfish Gene, it's time for books that capture the complexity of life to take centre stage go.nature.com/4z8IeyO

Future generations will never know the experience of going on stack overflow and have someone be extremely helpful in the most hostile possible way. All their answers will come from a pleasant bot.

Despite the significant investments ploughed into artificial intelligence it has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of technology, according to Apollo's Chief Economist Torsten Slok. Read more: bloom.bg/3UO2c30 📷: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

🌍 Most #Yeast genetic tools were built for lab strains. New protocol extends HTP barcoding & pooled mating to natural diploid isolates, enabling fitness profiling across diverse genetic backgrounds without automated liquid handling 🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD 🔬 www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42% arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

This is a truly startling paper. It shows that mRNA can perform regulatory functions *in addition to* its role in encoding a protein. In other words, the distinction between protein-coding RNA and noncoding regulatory RNA is fuzzy. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One of the big positives of DevOps was devs suddenly started to care about the system breaking because they got woken up Before it was Ops and so reliability seemed like a distant concept that was someone else’s problem than who built the system

Zinc-air batteries completed up to 500 charge–discharge cycles in experiments with a long-lasting catalyst. Reliable operation hinges on a stable contact area inside the cell. doi.org/hcm566

Software Foundations in Lean This repository contains the sources for the Software Foundations in Lean textbook series #LeanLang github.com/plclub/sf-in...

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Damn. What an icon. RIP

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

We are all proud of our director, @aspuru.bsky.social. C&EN’s Trailblazers profile captures his prioneering work across chemistry, AI and robotics, but also the mentor who has welcomed hundreds of scientists to The Matter Lab. cen.acs.org/physical-che...

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”

For Alán Aspuru-Guzik, boundaries between chemistry, AI, and robotics do not exist The 2024 Trailblazers guest editor gives chemists the tools to accelerate their science. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #HispanicHeritageMonth #chemsky 🧪

Rosalind Franklin had it in photograph 49, two images before the famous 51: “She recognized it, suggested a helical structure and used it to calculate…the length of each turn in the spiral…and the number of bases “per turn of helix (if there is a helix)”” www.science.org/content/arti...

Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

The AC is training today’s talent with the skills in AI, automation and ethics needed to advance accelerated discovery. From self-driving lab 101 workshops to a $1M+ national training initiative, learn more about how the AC is building capacity in our latest impact report: shorturl.at/hVBsI

Engineering photosynthesis into bacteria to help them synthesize chemicals @science.org #ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

DESeq2 is the default for RNA-seq differential expression. It's also the wrong tool for a surprising number of experiments. Here's when NOT to use it.

Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

Many in this field had begun to wonder if the Nobel committee would ever call go.nature.com/4dkOqLx

Trade-off between flux efficiency and metabolic control shapes enzyme allocation doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Responsible solutions help define the AC's research excellence. Learn how the AC puts responsible discovery into action in our latest impact report: shorturl.at/hVBsI

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/

The presentation by Luke Khoury at #SCP2026 is on YouTube: Single-cell proteomics reveals cell-type-specific functional coordination in PBMCs youtu.be/J_N2M7o7Dq0?...

New tools enable new discoveries. We examined one of the most frequently analyzed biological samples and uncovered molecular coordination missed even by the most sensitive single-cell RNA sequencing.

AC-U of T startup converts organic waste into high-value bioproducts 🔗 uofteng.ca/dytpvo (via @accelerationc.bsky.social)

#ICYMI: Tomorrow, Thursday September 24th from 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, #ArtemMishchenko of Google Deep Mind will be at #UofT for an #ACseminar. Join Artem as he explores how experimental data is shaping the next frontier of AI for materials science. Register: acceleration.utoronto.ca/events/ac-se...

Come work for @thematterlab.bsky.social with @variniabernales.bsky.social ! See below!

Apply: forms.zohopublic.com/matterlab/fo... ⚠️ NOTE: In the application form, under "Who referred you for this position?", please enter the following text to help us filter: Electronic Structure - El Agente. ⚠️ Please do not DM us; apply only through the appropriate website.

The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to several projects, including El Agente, with potential research directions in: ⚛️ Advanced electronic-structure & quantum-chemistry methods 🔬 Reproducible scientific software & method benchmarking 📈 Quantum algorithms for molecular & materials simulations

🧑‍🔬⚛️We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow at the Matter Lab, University of Toronto. We seek expertise in electronic-structure theory and computational chemistry, preferably including multireference methods and quantum computing for chemical and materials applications. Start date: as soon as possible 🕐

'Tantalizing' data could point towards Nefertiti's burial place go.nature.com/4j57Rvm

Study suggests AI-generated drug could slow aging #NBTintheNews gizmodo.com/study-sugges...

HK-listed firm-developed AI lung drug reverses aging markers in study #NBTintheNews www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/6...

Codex and Claude Code have a neat auto approve feature where 1) it doesn't ask for permissions, but 2) you get to feel safe. Well --- do you? The premise is it is asking an agent for permission. But if you don't trust the driver agent, why should you trust the review agent?