The Tortured Proteins Department, Episode 5: NIH Ghosting, Open Access Policies, and Scientists' Interaction with LLMs

The fifth episode of The Tortured Proteins Department is out now!

We chatted about the latest news, including the new NIH open access policy, trends observed with scientists using LLMs, and the Montpelier Mile race.

“The new Administration began weaponizing what should not be weaponized - the health of all Americans…creating chaos and promoting an…unreasoned agenda of blacklisting certain topics, that…has absolutely nothing to do with the promotion of science.” — Judge William Young (reported by Max Kozlov, Nature News)

Preprints discussed in this episode:

• An Evaluation of Biomolecular Energetics Learned by AlphaFold

• Product-stabilized filamentation by human glutamine synthetase allosterically tunes metabolic activity

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