The Tortured Proteins Department, Episode 13

Episode 13: Long Live!

We chat about preprints, AI grad students, the diffUSE project, 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:

• diffUSE Project
• April Fools Blog

NIH News:

• Funding Curve

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

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• Apple Podcasts