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C. Brandon Ogbunu@cbo.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 "Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity" published in #G3 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) 1/2 The fitness landscape has been among the most influential instruments in evolutionary theory for nearly a century. But we often treat them as fixed and static.

Dueling reactors choose fissiles at dawn.

Scott Bagley@bagphos.bsky.social · 2d ago

Dueling metals choose phosphines at dawn

—the cul-de-sac we have managed to drive this discourse into, where higher education is wholly (or even primarily) about economic benefits that accrue to the individual student, would be unrecognizable to the architects of the public university system in any state, or indeed anywhere in the world.

Unsung and with such a musical name. Composer friends, this is a gift.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5d ago

He can properly be called "the first pediatric infectious diseases physician" & he's one of those largely unsung heroes of science & medicine who saved millions of lives with his research & advocacy. The /opposite/ of RFK, Jr., in other words.

On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵

If your form requires more pages of instructions than there are pages of form, then you have designed a bad form.

I don’t want a fucking consumer experience, I want to fill out a couple of job-required documents and email them to someone else and then be left alone to live my life

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 7d ago

Consider yourself warned: Microsoft is about to supercharge Copilot: “Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to autopilots...one super app spanning both consumer and commercial experience." Via Gizmodo

I’m not saying he lies constantly, I’m just saying that Jon Lovitz would be perfectly cast as the lead in his biopic.

Years ago, I reviewed a paper that had interesting data but was not put well together at all. Badly organized figures, convoluted text. I was getting annoyed and then saw the asterisk in the (short) author list. The first author had written their first ever ms after their PI had suddenly died 🥺.

Ruin a book by adding a word: 20,000 Pickleball Leagues Under the Seas

Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · last wk.

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Longest Yard Sale

As someone who has voted in every election, donated to numerous campaigns, and knocked on hundreds of doors, it’s really frustrating when I have to spend ten minutes a day unsubscribing to spam candidate fundraising emails I never signed up for.

So I have a different idea about how to bring science into a new "golden age"... This document is attributed to Michael Kratsios, who is the co-chair of PCAST (The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology). www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202... 1/5

President Trump Announces Appointments to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Established by

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Astrophage. He wants you to study astrophage. You know, from the centrifuge movie.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

3. I know this will strain credulity, but at times it seems as if the report's author Michael Kratsios has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. Take this statement. As a former member of a department of biological sciences and a department of life sciences, I have no idea what this means.

Middle-adjacent aged. Is that a thing?

I keep seeing "pencil slop" being said by AI people as rage bait, and I'm like damn even your insults are ungrounded shallow empty ripoffs of something that already existed.

A really interesting screen. Axon diameter is an under-appreciated parameter for axon function, and not only conduction speed.

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 2w ago

Axon diameter is important for neuronal conduction speed, but how is it regulated? This study reports a high-resolution imaging-based chemical screening pipeline for a #zebrafish #axon, identifying candidate regulators of axon diameter @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4pufQmL

I have a joke about Heraclitus but I never tell it the same way twice.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two projects diverged on a lab whiteboard and I — I took the one that nobody else was going to do if I didn’t, And that has made all the difference (Apologies to Robert Frost) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/...

Scott Bagley@bagphos.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chemistry poem challenge: Quote post with your choice for the next lines: The Route Not Taken By #ChemSky Two routes diverged on the lab white board And alas I could not work on both…

What on Earth makes you think any the wockaflockas around him will suddenly grow backbones and whatnot? If they're still in at this point their asses are ALLLLL the way in. Shit's about to get Waffle House at 2am messy. It was cute to think it couldn't happen here and whatnot.

Rick tells his ex to stick with her husband, then befriends a cop.

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3w ago

A burnt-out employee makes a rounding error.

I review a lot of applications for a lot of different things and I have one weird tip that helps for all of them: Read the instructions.

Immigration is a bureaucratic process. Enforcing a bureaucratic process does not require lethal force. Demilitarize immigration enforcement now. Disarm ICE.

In this age of excess, let’s bring back “veriest.” As in, the veriest dolt who ever lived and, the veriest scoundrel ever to hide from daylight.

Cellular biologist Marilyn Farquhar discovered critical structural components of cells, including tight junctions & desmosomes. A pioneer in electron microscopy, she served as the first female president of the American Society for Cell Biology, 1981-82. She was born #OTD in 1928. #WomenInSTEM

Please stop using US maps with states colored by count data. State populations vary up to 60-fold. Use per capita.

It’s Summer and you have time for a novel. Highly recommend James by Perceval Everett. #Reading

I did this. Took 5 minutes.

Julia MV@julialmv.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's the last week to comment on this disastrous proposal. I commented & encourage everyone to add your voice to the 49K others here by end of day July 13th: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... If you're not sure what to write, this post has helpful guidance: drruth.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...