Between alarms and sheltering, I learned last night that my postdoc mentor, Professor Atul Butte @atulbutte, has passed away, and he is only 55 years old. This is devastating news 💔. Atul was a giant in so many ways. He was a visionary leader in translational bioinformatics @Stanford who reinvented himself as a pioneer of AI in medicine @UCSF. He published hundreds of papers, founded multiple companies, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and recently to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. But Atul was much more than his achievements. He possessed something rare in science - infectious positivity. Every encounter with him, no matter how low I felt going in, I'd leave optimistic and energized to pursue my goals. After every talk he gave, students would line up to tell him how he motivated them to do something big with their lives. Another rare trait was his kindness and generosity with credit. Atul taught me: "credit is indefinitely divisible." In a field where people often take undeserved credit, this was inspiring. I will miss Atul, like so many others will. He is survived by his wife Gini and daughter Kimi, but his legacy will live on through his countless trainees and colleagues worldwide.

Biomedical researchers’ perspectives on the reproducibility of research journals.plos.org/plosbiolog… 🧬🖥️

Overlooked poor-quality patient samples in sequencing data impair reproducibility of published clinically relevant datasets genomebiology.biomedcentral.…

I told a joke about scientific publishing but three people had to secretly weigh in before anyone could decide if it was funny

Some sharing solutions: cell.com/cell-genomics/fullt…

It is bizarre that this key global infrastructure for pathogen sharing is subject to unpredictable gatekeeping with no clear policies. GISAID announced that it would set out reforms in the "coming weeks and months". That was in May: any news? [3/3] nature.com/articles/d41586-0…