Steven Salzberg 💙💛
@StevenSalzberg1
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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostats at Johns Hopkins Univ., tennis player, https://t.co/xwqVB2TYkL, @stevensalzberg.bsky.social
Maryland, USA
Joined August 2012
So now measles is spreading in S. Carolina too. Thanks RFKJr for sickening thousands more people. For years, we've been warning that the anti-vax movement would lead to this, and now it's here. I hope no one else dies
nbcnews.com
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
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Sigh. No, @washingtonpost, zinc doesn't shorten your cold. I've written about this repeatedly and reviewed the science. Your reporter just got it wrong
washingtonpost.com
It’s no cure — or even a way to prevent colds — but if taken correctly, zinc might help stop symptoms a bit earlier.
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not surprisingly, chiropractors just love RFK Jr. Note to all: chiropractic is pure nonsense. I've exposed its pseudoscientific basis (and dangers!) in multiple columns going back to 2014: https://t.co/MWZqsSMkbr
https://t.co/UQVOVf5Xsd via @politico
politico.com
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
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Kind of hard to believe that a major state university would shut down its Statistics Department. But at least they have football. Sheesh.
It's surprising and worrying that the University of Nebraska is shutting down its department of statistics Usually we think of this happening to marginal departments, but one would think that a good state university should have statistics? 1/
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"“It feels so frustrating and disheartening to watch science, public health and decades of a well-respected institution be dismantled,” the [CDC] scientist said."
washingtonpost.com
Common anti-vaccine talking points were on display as the CDC’s immunization advisers repealed a hepatitis B birth vaccine recommendation and scrutinized the childhood schedule.
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The Twitter/X algorithm is trying to suppress this story about the MAHA "summit", a festival of dubious science hosted by RFK and JD Vance and attended by the directors of NIH and FDA. Retweet and share the @Nature article as well...
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 https://t.co/4snG2ICD4M
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I can't keep quiet about what HHS @SecKennedy is doing to the CDC, FDA, and NIH. It's terribly damaging:
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How interesting that my 2016 invited talk on Open Science now has a DOI and a link to the talk (on YouTube) where anyone can watch it. Thanks to @F1000Research for making this accessible
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... I was studying machine learning at the time (LeCun and I are the same age), as illustrated by my 1985 IJCAI paper (on machine learning!) and my 1989 PhD thesis on ML. My advisor wasn't doing ML but was very flexible
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Nice profile of Yann LeCun, but I must object to this: "As a graduate student in the 1980s, Yann LeCun had trouble finding an adviser for his Ph.D. thesis on machine learning—because no one else was studying the topic, he recalled later." However, 1/2
wsj.com
Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he’s convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
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i left quantum physics, and that's a good thing. Amazing, actually https://t.co/kZN4oKVpAT via @QuantaMagazine
quantamagazine.org
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
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Very pleased to see that 4 faculty from our Center for Computational Biology @JohnsHopkins @JHUBME (incl 2 @JHU_BDPs from CCB) are listed in @Clarivate’s 2025 #HighlyCitedResearchers: @elapertea, @timp0, @mike_schatz, and me
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@CaseyMeansMD is a self-proclaimed "functional medicine" doctor. But what is that? @StevenSalzberg1 writes: “It’s the same recycled nonsense that has been called, over the past 40+ years, holistic, alternative, complementary, and integrative medicine.”
geneticliteracyproject.org
It appears that our next U.S. Surgeon General will be Casey Means, who labels herself a “functional medicine” doctor. Or maybe I should put “doctor” in
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our next Surgeon General says she does "functional medicine," a marketing term disguising various sorts of grifting. Read more in my (free) column here:
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Dis-Functional Medicine in the Surgeon General's office
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In @eLife, our OpenSpliceAI paper, led by @KuanHaoChao, is now 'official' though it's been online since July. If you want to enjoy the reviewers' comments and our responses, check it out at: https://t.co/Jv7DfmClBa
elifesciences.org
OpenSpliceAI is an open, retrainable framework for splice site prediction that enables rapid, memory-efficient, cross-species analyses at scale with accuracy comparable to SpliceAI.
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For those who don't know: Ham discovered restriction enzymes, the first known molecular "scissors" that could cut DNA precisely. He later partnered with Craig Venter to sequence the first-ever bacterial genome, and with Clyde Hutchison to create the first synthetic bacterium
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My former mentor, colleague, and friend Hamilton Smith passed away this week. He was a giant in science, a Nobel Laureate, but also one of the nicest people you could ever meet. He will be missed by many.
jcvi.org
Hamilton O. Smith August 31, 1931 – October 25, 2025 It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., a...
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Harmful pseudoscience (led by RFK Jr.) is now prompting anti-science Texas AG @KenPaxtonTX to file a completely baseless lawsuit against Tylenol. I wonder if Tylenol makers can just withdraw all business from Texas?
nytimes.com
The lawsuit follows claims by President Trump that linked acetaminophen taken by pregnant women to autism, a connection that is unproven.
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What a disaster for U.S. science. We are losing the future–and no one benefits from this, really no one. Humankind loses when we stop doing science.
an absolute shame. @harvard cutting PhD admissions "The Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department will shrink its class size by roughly 75 percent to three new Ph.D. students [...] Molecular and Cellular Biology will reduce its figure to four new students, and Chemistry and
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