Episode 17: State of Decay
We talk about a big travel month (including Stephanie winning the George Sheldrick Award for Structural Science), federal funding in light of the upcoming turnover of US political representation, pre-prints, and the use of AI with agentic workflows for science and LLMs for writing.
News Links:
- Derek Lowe’s Blog: The Assault On Science Funding Continues
- Senate votes to block rule giving White House more control over research
- Estimating global article processing charges paid to 14 publishers for open access between 2019 and 2025
Preprints/Blogs:
- Atomic modeling of radiation damage in cryoelectron microscopy datasets
- Dynamic view of an allosteric intermediate in a positively cooperative dimer
- Incidental conformational switching in an allosteric enzyme
- Anthropic Protein Design Prompts
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The Rise of Large Language Models and the Direction and Impact of US Federal Research Funding
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