Two preprints up in the same week! This one was from work I finished in 2014, my PhD work! FINALLY. It describes the biochemistry of the yeast glucokinase, which is in the actin family, and forms ATP/ADP-regulated glucose-6-phosphate filaments! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Glk1p is an actin fold metabolic enzyme whose polymerization is sensitive to nucleotide state

The actin fold is present in enzymes ranging from sugar kinases to chaperones. Previous work on the actin fold metabolic enzyme, glucokinase (Glk1p) in S. cerevisiae found it could form filaments in r...

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OooooopenEvo! What a journey building this @atinygreencell.bsky.social , our baby is born! We hope this serves as a nice research tool as well as a teaching tool for biology, electronics and more!

Sebastian S. Cocioba@atinygreencell.bsky.social · 4w ago

@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Peacock spiders are only 4mm long, but their courtship dance rivals any bird of paradise. Australia has over 90 species of these tiny, ultra-colorful performers.

Is this cool or gross? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Hours-Long Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel - Nature Communications

A wearable diving suit enables terrestrial cyborg cockroaches to maintain respiration and locomotion underwater for up to 3 hours. This biohybrid system facilitates sustained exploration through hybri...

nature.com

I thought maybe I invented this term, but its already a thing! Its better than PCR, GCR! “Gratitude Chain Reaction uses the psychological ripple effect of appreciation to inspire a cycle of reciprocal kindness”

I made a webpage to try SpliceCraft out directly in your browser in a little sandbox. No download or install needed to try it. Gonna make a tutorial mode to walk people through the features soon. Enjoy! splicecraft.bio

Make some noise about this 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

President Trump seeks control of science funding

The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.

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WHY?

SPLICECRAFT v1.0 IS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! Open your terminal and type in "pipx install splicecraft" if you want to try it out, then spam "splicecraft update" often as I push updates frequently. A labor of love for the community I adore. Enjoy! 💚

Exam question idea: give a question with AI answering it. The student needs to explain what is wrong with the AI answering.

Night market in Santa Clara this weekend!!! www.santaclaraca.gov/recreation-c...

Evolution of my print. Printing TPU 85a is way harder than I expected.

I accidentally made a better stirring system

Much needed good news www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Suddenly, the US manufactures a ton of grid batteries

Energy storage is surging on the U.S. grid — and now the country has more than enough battery-making factories to meet that booming demand.

canarymedia.com

Either I like to eat scorpions or I don’t…

Claude is way better anyway

Phil Kyriakakis@breakliquid.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mass surveillance and killer robots are not for me.

Mass surveillance and killer robots are not for me.

My new cup holders, which change color when heated.

🔭🛰️🧪

Alex Turnbull@alejandroturnbull.space · 5mo ago

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Exciting! Stanford researchers have developed a UNIVERSAL INTRANASAL vaccine. A study in mouse models shows that vaccinated mice were protected against Covid & other coronaviruses. Still a long way to humans. This study was #NIH funded. A potential game changer. 🧪 med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

One vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergens

Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.

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The system acts as near-permanent archival storage for backup of critical data. It stores 4.8 terabytes, the equivalent of around 2 million printed books Data survives for 10,000 years at a temperature of 290ºC and much longer at room temperature. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts for millennia

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.

nature.com

I suspect one reason science social media has done reasonably well post-Twitter is that it didn't get (too badly) scattered. There's a viable population on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Here's one (opt-in) way of of connecting those two populations to make sciencesky even bigger. 🧪

Tapani Hopkins@tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Haven't advertised this for a while: If you follow @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky, your posts will show up on Mastodon too, and Mastodon users's replies to you will show up on Bluesky. Good way for connecting with people whichever place, Mastodon/Bluesky, they happen to be on.

🧪⚛️ Ever wondered what would happen if you thrashed around in a water tank, creating a blob of turbulence, and then watched it spread and gradually dissipate energy? So did we. But we did the experiment, now out in PNAS and on the cover! It only took us 7 years ... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Why is Windows do this every time my computer updates?

Okay, but for #BlueSky to gain a fraction of the value in networking that we once enjoyed over at #Twitter, we all need to be reposting pretty much everything we see. Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Glen Dunlap@glendunlap.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hi @banditelli.org!

Another cool pipette rack pattern!

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

science.org

Another 3d printed pipette rack

My new pipette holder