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North America Has Lost a Quarter of Its Birds in 50 Years
Though the continent has lost 3 billion birds since 1970, those losses are hard to glean because it’s the commonest species that have been hit hardest.
Keynote: Founders Panel
During the Founders Panel you will find out why a set of globally dispersed individuals came together to form a Foundation. What motivates them to this day t...
Why You Shouldn’t Criticize Yourself in Front of Your Kids
The things you hate about yourself will become the things they hate about themselves
Practice with Purpose
What does it mean to practice with purpose? Why do we practice with purpose? How does this manifest when designing?
Identification of spatial compartments in tissue from in situ sequencing data
Spatial organization of tissue characterizes biological function, and spatially resolved gene expression has the power to reveal variations of features with high resolution. Here, we propose a novel graph-based in situ sequencing decoding approach...
Precision calcium imaging of dense neural populations via a cell body-targeted calcium indicator
Methods for one-photon fluorescent imaging of calcium dynamics in vivo are popular due to their ability to simultaneously capture the dynamics of hundreds of neurons across large fields of view, at a low equipment complexity and cost. In contrast to...
Brave Tech Workers Were Locked Out Of A WeWork Office By An Umbrella
“The umbrella has turned our office into an unmanned panic room.”
Innovation and National Security: Keeping Our Edge
The world as we know it is changing faster than ever. Just consider what the world looked like over the past decade from a few popular…
The Problem with Sugar-Daddy Science
The pursuit of money from wealthy donors distorts the research process—and yields flashy projects that don’t help and don’t work.
Unionizing Workers Just Accused Kickstarter of Retaliatory Firings in a Federal Complaint
The union effort at the crowdfunding company went public in March.
Giant Honeybees Use Shimmering 'Mexican Waves' To Repel Predatory Wasps
Researchers report the finding that shimmering -- a remarkable capacity of rapid communication in giant honeybees -- acts as a defensive mechanism, which repels predatory hornets, forcing them to hunt free-flying bees, further afield, rather than...
EU fears Brexit reality has dawned too late for Boris Johnson
Officials have become increasingly pessimistic about the prospects of a deal with the UK’s prime minister
Single Cell Expression Atlas < EMBL-EBI
EMBL-EBI Single Cell Expression Atlas, an open public repository of single cell gene expression data
The (Messy) Shift to Starting Together
Writing on all things product by John Cutler (@johncutlefish).
UC Pilots protocols.io to Benefit Research and Education
Having a clear and detailed methods section in research journal articles is one the most effective approaches to improve research reproducibility. Reproducibility is a focus of open research as a…
Richard Stallman resigns from MIT over Epstein comments
The free software campaigner blamed ‘a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations’
San Diego Streetlights Target Mosques and Communities of Color in Unprecedented use of Technology in the United States
Over the last eighteen years the American Muslim community has faced the largest counter intelligence program in the history of the United…
Illustrate: Software for Biomolecular Illustration
The small program Illustrate generates non-photorealistic images of biological molecules
for use in dissemination, outreach, and education. Insights from 20 years of application
of the program at the RCSB Protein Data Bank are presented, and the...
Denise Mueller-Korenek is the Fastest Person on a Bike EVER
It’s a feat inconceivable to most sound-minded mortals: This past Sunday, Denise Mueller-Korenek rode a bicycle more than 180 mph—183.93 to be exact, which i...