PLOS Biology

plosbiology.org

18 October 2026 14:26

The ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous DNA substitutions (dN/dS) encodes information about selection pressures. This study develops a model of dN/dS in recombining bacterial populations, offering insights on how horizontal gene transfer shapes the genome. 🧪 #AcademicSky #evolution plos.io/3Wcy9lT

Harmit Singh Malik

harmitmalik.bsky.social

18 October 2026 07:36

Have been very tempted to send in the following review: “This paper does a lot and reports a lot for the benefit of future LLM analyses. But it does not find anything. If they did, they don’t tell us what they found, why it’s new, or why it’s important. I refuse to play “Where’s Waldo” sorry.”

Terence Tao

teorth.bsky.social

07 October 2026 08:28

I came across this parody of a rumored upcoming press release by OpenAI: "OpenAI Releases the Final Ten Minutes of 500 Previously Unreleased Films, Ushering in a New Era of Movie Watching" : x.com/Endings500/s...

Anton Goloborodko

golobor.bsky.social

01 October 2026 15:57

...yet another illustration why explicit, thoughtful modeling is still worth the time, as compared to using heuristics #methodsmatter

Daan de Groot

dhdegroot.bsky.social

01 October 2026 14:48

Update to @golobor.bsky.social message: distortion-free Bonsai trees >> umaps > quick trees Picture shows realistic simulated scRNA-seq data and how well Bonsai represents its structure, while another tree-representation does not. It shows that a tree is not all you need. You actually have to