Majumdar Lab. Fun with B cells and RNA. Here to help anyone doing science.
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
Mar 21
I'm not referring to any particular tool. I'm referring to how scientists are presenting their science and that of others. It's getting so bad that it's impossible for any non-domain expert to believe anything anyone claims. This is extremely troubling for credibility of science.
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
12 Jul 2025
Excellent example of the core issue I was trying to get at wrt "virtual cells" - optimizing a prediction objective will not necessarily provide an accurate representation of physical or biological phenomena. It's extremely important to be very clear about this. 1/
11 Jul 2025
Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model?
What would that even mean?
Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions
One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵
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13 Oct 2024
It was a dark time in the pre-Benchling era in my "ecosystem." Worth noting that people who say this exist. Long live @benchling and props to their VCs.
10 Oct 2024
Huge respect and admiration for Benchling, but I cant take one more vc telling me about their “strategy” of being free for academics and then selling to them once in industry. That was a mistake! Later re-packaged into a cute story that is very hurtful to our ecosystem.
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
24 Sep 2024
TIL the best way to spread misinformation is by presenting it in LaTeX
24 Sep 2024
There was a study where they put EDM DJs on anti-alzheimers drugs and within 14 days all 29 participants didn’t want to be DJs anymore
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
21 Sep 2024
✅ @Harraz_Lab has an open lab technician position ✅
Highly motivated individuals with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.
uvmjobs.com/postings/75843
📢 We explore brain blood flow, physiology and pathophysiology of ion channels. Learn more harrazlab.com
Plz RT
ALT view from the lab!
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
17 Sep 2024
NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B).
New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M / year for *hosting*.
16 Sep 2024
WHAT. DOES. ORACLE. DO???????
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
17 Aug 2024
Fascinating study @NatureComms from @RohacsTibor showing that phosphatidic acid can regulate PIEZO2, the mechanosensitive ion channel — and so glad to see yet another application “in the wild” of optoPLD, @ReikaTei’s optogenetic membrane editor for phosphatidic acid! #lipidtime
16 Aug 2024
I always had a hunch that phosphatidic acid regulates ion channel function. This paper from @RohacsTibor and colleagues shows this nicely.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
#IonChannels
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17 Jul 2024
The best clickbait is google images molecular clickbait. How else do you read a calcium signaling paper with a "Parabolic Flight Experimental Design" methods section. mdpi.com/2227-9059/10/1/138
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
15 Jul 2024
Tried to express and purify your own Tn5 transposase only to run into stability or activity issues? Our new @biorxiv preprint describes OpenTn5: a robust, high-yield protocol for producing a stable pG-Tn5 transposase fusion. Spearheaded by @Jan_Soro.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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20 Jun 2024
Incredibly cool. And now all I can think about is making homemade flag M2 antibody...
18 Jun 2024
Our paper @MFPronker @JWBglnk on the structure of anti-FLAG-M2 in complex with the FLAG-peptide (DYKDDDDK) is now peer reviewed @JMolBiol 🎉
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
3 Jun 2024
We posted a new preprint (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…). We've been thinking about how to characterize TF function. One challenge is that function and occupancy are difficult to disentangle. We use a simple model and a simple system to test how promoter features change function.
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Dev Majumdar retweeted
28 May 2024
We are looking for postdocs interested in working on this project to engineer polyclonal vectored antibody delivery!
28 May 2024
Ragon faculty member Alejandro Balazs, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious Avant-Garde Award for HIV and Substance Use Disorder Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
#HIV #Research #NIDA #NIH #Award
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10 May 2024
I think this is my new favorite African livestream. Currently two lions playing as a rhino dozes nearby. youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6mUUZJ…
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15 Nov 2023
I love it. If we can agree Zirp was necessary & sufficient for the onset of the trend, is Zirp required for sustained maintenance?
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8 Nov 2023
While I have fallen in love with a livestream of a watering hole in Namibia today, it is the comments I will be coming back for.
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