Stephanie Wankowicz
06 April 2026
tags: #podcast

Episode 13: Long Live!

We chat about preprints, AI grad students, the Prism project (then called diffUSE), an April Fools blog, NIH funding news, and the Fraser Lab “broken monitor” April Fools’ Day prank — caught live during recording!

Preprints:

• Intrinsic dataset features drive mutational effect prediction by protein language models
• Ribosome Molecular Aging Shapes Translation Dynamics

AI Grad Student Articles:

• Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
• Vibe physics: The AI grad student

Other Links:

• Prism Project
• April Fools Blog

NIH News:

• Funding Curve

• How the 2025 NIH grant terminations varied by researchers’ demographic groups

• Spotify
• Apple Podcasts

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