C. Brandon Ogbunu
@big_data_kane
Scientist + Humanist + Pugilist. 70% Smoke. 30% Stack.
From our lab to yours! 🤓✨ Kinbiont combines dynamical models with explainable machine learning to streamline data analysis and support theoretical formulation in microbiology Out now in @NatureComms: nature.com/articles/s4146… with @Anga_F, @UltimoPer, Edgar, @humantechnopole
Finally out! 🎉 Our first work at @humantechnopole is published in @NatureComms: "Translating microbial kinetics into quantitative responses and testable hypotheses using Kinbiont" 📄 nature.com/articles/s4146…
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 1) I said it: my 2025 AOTY front runner 2) My favorite @ApolloBrown project since ‘Anchovies’ 3) That’s saying a lot; Apollo Brown has been in many AOTY top 5 races for a decade or so
☠️…”FUNERAL FOR A DREAM” is OUT NOW on DSPs everywhere! Go run it up! *Limited Vinyl, CDs, Cassettes, & Tees drop @ 10am EST on EscapismRecordings.com! Get’em while they last! 🚀 LET’S GO! 🔗 All Links in Bio! @ApolloBrown @BronzeNazareth @EscapismRecordings @BlackDayInJuly
New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
bioRxiv has a dedicated section for negative results. Use it. Share negative results. Your colleagues will appreciate it.
Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD apps this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out w/ any questions!
There used to be two sources of traffic on the web: search and social. Social disappeared as social networks mutated into TV channels and discouraged links. Now search is on the decline because of AI. AI is swallowing search traffic, but it is different from search in one…
If you want to know more, at the end of the article there is a link to a MicroTalk that yours truly had with @realKarlKlose on Vibrio vulnificus.
Vibrio vulnificus, a so-called “flesh-eating bacterium,” causes severe wound infections. What are the mechanisms behind its ability to destroy host tissues—and why does it destroy them at all? asm.social/2vq
I am happy to share that I’ve been awarded tenure here at Columbia University. Alhamdulillah. I thank my wife, parents, mentors, colleagues, friends, & family. I thank my lab members, present and past, for entrusting their careers in my hands and making this a thrilling journey.
Everyone loves the idea of hiring purely on merit until they're in charge of hiring.
NEW: The NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take roles on panels that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and to expect placements by political appointees. nature.com/articles/d4158…
One of my favorite categories of thing is "guy decides to spend decades on an insane, idiosyncratic, solo art project of staggering scope". Other entries include the Watts Towers, Coral Castle, Forestiere Underground Gardens, Le Palais Ideal
this guy spent 21 years building a miniature version of nyc consisting of almost a million buildings, the full model is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he first announced it on tiktok like this:
MF DOOM would have turned 54 today. Forever the villain.
Rafael Perez. Denzel Washington. (Alonzo Harris) Los Angeles, 1990s & 2001. The inspiration behind Training Day. Thread Below @_ValTown_
Milton Friedman was wrong about almost everything. So why is his zombie economics still running the world? newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
The greatest SP of my life, ranked: 1. Randy 2. Pedro 3. Maddux 4. Clemens 5. Kershaw 6. Verlander 7. Scherzer 8. Schilling 9. Halladay 10. Smoltz 11. Greinke 12. Sabathia 13. Mussina 14. deGrom 15. Johan 16. Sale 17. Félix 18. Glavine 19. Pettitte 20. Cone/Brown
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at @GeorgiaTech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
This week in academia, a not so short🧵... 1. Staff reductions and other cost cutting measures coming to Brown University highereddive.com/news/brown-uni…
Really excited about our lab's latest paper led by @KevinKorfmann. Here, Kevin has developed a deep, transformer-based language model for population genetics for inferring coalescent times (times of common ancestry) along recombining chromosomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
🚨 Two new papers from us @NPLab_ offer a deep dive into the topological and higher-order structure of brain function. Together, they chart a unified view of how the brain encodes identity and computation beyond pairwise interactions.
SFI’s Anthony Eagan reviews "The Philosophy of Ted Chiang." He praises it as a rare, thoughtful look at how Chiang’s sci-fi raises deep philosophical questions, not by design, but as a natural part of his creative process, exploring time, consciousness, and agency. Read the…
I am deeply grateful for the incredible honor and privilege of serving as one of your Commencement Speakers. It was truly inspiring to share this momentous occasion with the extraordinary Class of 2025—a class of resilience, brilliance, and unstoppable determination. @ucdavis