Ben Kuznets-Speck
@benkuznetsspeck
ML/Genomics @yogeshgoyallab, Northwestern; @UCB_Biophysics; @PhysicsCWRU. Stat-mech, biology, evolution, and noisy spaces between them. (he/him) 🏳️🌈+
New preprint with Yogesh Goyal and friends! With CIPHER we use statistical physics to predict transcriptome-wide responses to perturbation by harnessing the information hidden in gene fluctuations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Dear NeurIPS reviewers, please be reminded to delete the GPT prompts next time :)
How challenging is the prediction of transcriptional responses to CRISPR gene perturbations ? A simple model, just scaling RNA correlation vectors, results in accurate predictions for many perturbations. The model is intuitive & grounded in a simple approximation. 1/2
I imagine that the Nazis literally put out nearly identical press to this.
FAKE NEWS! Any claim that there is a lack of food or subprime conditions at ICE detention centers are FALSE. All detainees are provided with proper meals, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers. Meals are certified by…
Hmmm sounds familiar 🤔….oh just like the one in Florida
I feel like it’s kind of obvious which side you’d rather err on?
Wow. Justice Sotomayor wrote a chilling dissent: “When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.” We should all be alarmed.
NEW: A group of independent experts appointed by the United Nations says that the Trump regime's mass deportations without due process is “enforced disappearance” which is "state-sponsored abductions that are banned under international law." nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/…
This is Horrifying these Alleged ICE agents showed up at this families home & when they asked them to ID themselves they started breaking down the door & smashing the windows! They had their weapons out ready to shoot in front of young kids.This ended up being the wrong address.
🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles. The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
A US Citizen A US Veteran. Disappeared.
Reporter: We met a sister and a wife of a man who works as a security guard, he is a disabled US veteran. He is a US citizen. They are desperately looking for him. They say he was taken in the raid
The longer I work in corporate, the more I realize.., Micromanaging is just insecurity dressed up as leadership
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
Our recent work (elifesciences.org/articles/104276) combines theory and experiments (by Alex Papagiannakis and @JacobsWagnerLab) to understand how chromosome segregation is coupled to growth in E coli. We demonstrate that the nonequilibrium dynamics of polysomes may play a key role.
It's monstrous that there is no provision in immigration law allowing someone who has lived in the United States with legal status for 25 years to stay.
NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
📣 Looking for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills! Be our go-to person for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rhythms: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization! More info👇
Garcia is back in the States and can speak. And, because of his testimony, it's clear that CECOT is torturing inmates. In 2025, the American President is disappearing immigrants to concentration camps in El Salvador to be tortured until they die. This cannot be who we are.
ICE officers stopped by our farm yesterday. “We need to inspect your property for illegal aliens,” one of them said. I replied, “Alright, but whatever you do, don’t go into that field over there.” The officer in charge exploded. “Mister, I have the authority of the federal…