Harmit Singh Malik

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24 September 2026 01:25

Some random thoughts: Good science doesn't always need disruptors. Often, it needs load-bearing walls. You can't pivot away from a failed multi-year experiment or "iterate" your way out of a mentee's PhD. Science needs stable foundations, not churn. Don't break the people building on top of it.

Akos Nyerges

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19 September 2026 16:51

Proud and excited to share our first preprint 🚀 in which we • create a high-fitness firewalled organism, • that stably colonizes the mouse gut for >100 days, • resists all tested phages in the gut, • and blocks horizontal gene transfer. + A new method: Chimera genomes to tailor existing synthetic

Ferric Fang, MD

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18 August 2026 22:07

I completely agree. "Society must support research in broad fields of inquiry, with a major emphasis on basic science, in order to create the fertile substrate from which tomorrow’s scientific revolutions will arise." journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦

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18 August 2026 22:07

Moreover, we cannot readily predict what science will be revolutionary. Consider the following Nobel prizes, all of them for work done to understand how yeast cells work:

Jason Nomburg

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22 July 2026 10:24

Happy to share the first preprint out of the Nomburg lab! Many aspects of cellular immunity are shared across the tree of life. Here, we show that some of these conserved aspects of cellular immunity are mirrored by conserved effectors of immune antagonism. Thread below! 1/15