Barak Rotblat
You're twisting my melon man
Opinions will change over time
PI Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
barakrotblat.wixsite.com/rotblatlab
Conferences can be like this youtu.be/n8S13FQ8g0o?si=6wzd…
- MYC 3' utr is essential for myc-dependent tumor cells how cool is that!👇
- Does the noncoding genome actually carry more genetic information than coding seqs? Motivated by this question we mutated every bp in the 10kb MYC locus. Results are even more exciting: Decoding the MYC locus reveals a druggable ultraconserved RNA element www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- fun fact: protein biosynthesis is by far the largest consumer of energy during cellular proliferation
- Reposted by Barak RotblatGood Sunday, all! Here is the curated weekly collection of papers in #cancermetabolism and #mitochondrialbiology. Don't miss it; find it here: biomed.news/bims-camemi/... Biomed News #keepreading "It's very simple to be happy. But it's very difficult to be simple." - Rabindranath Tagore
- Reposted by Barak RotblatJob alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
- Reposted by Barak RotblatPolyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- ai pre 2022 = road accidents pre cars
- Reposted by Barak RotblatThere is nothing more frustrating than writing feedback on a paper you are 95% sure was AI generated.
- Entrap is the new sponge very cool work👇
- emotions are the output of the brain reflecting it's estimate of how close or far we're from reaching it's goals
- Reposted by Barak RotblatHere’s a new compilation of papers about cancer metabolism published last month MetaboList - December 2025 Special section about diet and cancer metabolist.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/m...
- beautiful concept, morphology indicated cell state👇
- 🚀 New preprint! Meet ORIGAMI: Mapping cancer cell state heterogeneity and plasticity, predicting and steering therapy-induced trajectories to rationalize genotype-agnostic combination strategies with only two physical metrics (cell surface area and volume) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
- Reposted by Barak RotblatThe lysosomal KICSTOR-GATOR1-SAMTOR nutrient-sensing supercomplex.
- who is citing ai written papers? 🤷🏽♀️
- went climbing in timna with my friends 🧗♀️I feel much better 🕺
- reviewing grant applications and making good decisions is hard. the reward function and path of list resistance of grant admis leads to giving more money to ppl who already scored big grants, are in famous institutions and published in glam journals. cheep signals for scientific "excellence"👇
- tag with caution👇
- This is important for 🧪🔬 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
- building with ai is more fun www.anthropic.com/research/pro...
- listened the the oral habit ep and I love it♥️ it's got the mc5 and velvet underground vibe but it's from now "love is easy like the coast" open.spotify.com/album/5Nb55U...
- ai peer review: "The problem is that the fun ends when you need to publish it and go through the [review] process.” @OdedRechavi @qedscience.bsky.social www.the-scientist.com/q-e-d-an-ai-...
- a religion where the answer is in our DNA sequence www.amazon.com/Genluminati-...
- Reposted by Barak RotblatInternational scientists constitute the engine of much of the most exciting US science. My friend Sonali Majumdar has written precisely the kind of guide that international scientists crave in order succeed as resilient and brilliant scientists. Check it out! @sonali-m-19.bsky.social
- like the universe we also first grow then shrink
- "The paper is likely to be greeted with heavy scepticism, but with the influential DESI consortium independently reaching a similar conclusion earlier this year, a fierce debate is opening up in cosmology over the nature of dark energy and the probable fate of the universe." #Cosmology 🧪
- Reposted by Barak RotblatNew Yorkers! Come to my talk at Rockefeller University on Friday if you're interested in the mechanisms of adaptive genome regulation.
- Reposted by Barak RotblatExcited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
- Reposted by Barak RotblatIT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
- something new, preprint + ai review ✅
- Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
- best warm award🪱? at our annual ypi Crete conference @wbderry.bsky.social 🥇
- lunch at our annual Crete meeting, everyone is super nice :-)
- social activities at our annual Crete meeting
- starting our annual Crete meeting with @bjornschumacher.bsky.social group 🪱
- big if true
- I used qed ai review to get feedback on a drafty draft and it did a great job and helped improve my paper. thanks oded and the team for putting this together🙏 we use journals as a proxy for science quality because review is really hard. qed may help correct this soul draining abomination
- Reposted by Barak RotblatIt was great fun speaking with Debbie Toiber and @barakrotblat.bsky.social on my path to science and why studying aging is so important to me. open.spotify.com/episode/2brg...
- A fantastic podcast with @bjornschumacher.bsky.social 🙏and Debbie Toiber about Bjorn's scientific path through the science of aging open.spotify.com/episode/2brg... Part of our undergrad course 'biology for non biologists'
- Reposted by Barak RotblatGot to love studies that were clearly conducted "for the love of the game" (“self-decapitating sea slugs”, “plants that see and use that for mimicry”, “worms that jump in the air”, aka papers you sometimes find in @currentbiology.bsky.social ) References to all of this bellow👇
- A fantastic podcast with @bjornschumacher.bsky.social 🙏and Debbie Toiber about Bjorn's scientific path through the science of aging open.spotify.com/episode/2brg... Part of our undergrad course 'biology for non biologists'
- shana tova to all my friends and family here and all over the world🍯🍎 may the new year be better then the last🙏
- Reposted by Barak RotblatLink to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...
- HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- first riboSEQ🔥
