If you thought you understood how one cell becomes two (and imagined studying the problem using an organism that lives in deep sea volcanic vents was impossible), read Florian’s paper and think again!

Florian Mayer@florianmayer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Excited to share our preprint on Ignicoccus cell divison: only the inner membrane divides, progeny cells accumulate in cell clusters and pop-out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work with the labs: @buzzbaum.bsky.social @curiousdina.bsky.social @anja1.bsky.social @tbharat-lab.bsky.social

As highly recommended as possible! Alex and her lab are brilliant. Plus, you would be our neighbour! 😀

Alex Radzisheuskaya@a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social · 2d ago

We’re hiring! 🧬 We're looking for a Postdoctoral Training Fellow to join our group at the ICR in London and work on chromatin biology, transcription regulation and AML. Curious about how histone modifications shape gene regulation and cell identity? Come join us! jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

September 11th

🦠 Highly cited in Viruses: “The Influenza A Virus Replication Cycle: A Comprehensive Review” summarises the replication cycle of influenza A virus and highlights stages that may serve as new antiviral targets beyond current therapies. 👉More: www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16... #Influenza #Flu #Virology

No offense, Paul, but we didnt really need any more validation on this: 'In one stroke, Trump has just validated everything the Latin American left has ever said about U.S. imperialism. And we’ll be paying for that, diplomatically and strategically, for decades to come.'

The Plot to Steal Venezuela’s Oil

A scam that is both vile and deeply stupid

paulkrugman.substack.com

Alpha-Gal syndrome is a tick bite-associated allergy characterized by reactions to alpha-Gal found in red meat doi.org/10.1172/JCI1... Peter D. Crompton & team show the potential of alpha-Gal-specific mAbs to prevent the allergy by blocking IgE binding to alpha-Gal. @the-asci.org

UNC's football program, now in disgrace, rivals the Trump Administration in its neoptism. The coaching staff includes 2 sons of Coach Bill Belichick, Steve & Brian, & Matt Lombardi, the son of former General Manager (after resignation this week) Michael Lombardi. Let's look at their salaries 1/n

'As late as 1973 Lisbon still ruled vast African territories — some of them rich in natural resources — with many times the home country’s population. It was also the poorest nation in Western Europe, its resources drained by the endless wars it fought in an attempt to keep its colonies subjugated'

The Plot to Steal Venezuela’s Oil

A scam that is both vile and deeply stupid

paulkrugman.substack.com

Semeamos ignorância, colhemos ódio

Semeamos ignorância, colhemos ódio

É sem dúvida fundamental e urgente condenar moralmente o discurso xenófobo, mas isso por si só não basta. É preciso atacar a raiz. É preciso devolver ao Estado Social e à escola pública o investimento que lhes foi sistematicamente negado em nome de argumentos economicistas.

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Studies show that watching a beaver eating cabbage lowers stress levels by 15% so enjoy 😊

In this Review, James Conway @jrwconway.bsky.social discusses how integrin function is dynamically shaped by post-translational modifications. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Oh, this seems horribly plausible!

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · last wk.

I think tech's plan for the bubble bursting is to say it's happening bc they are throwing the brakes on a bunch of AI things in order to protect humanity, and therefore deserve to be bailed out, bc it's a cooperative act and they are the future, and I think both Republicans and Dems will comply.

If Hitchcock made films today.

Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya defends measles on Fox News and condemns Gov. Shapiro for "playing this out over the airwaves for political purposes, just like what happened during covid. And this is why there's such deep distrust in public health."

Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...

DoD has its own research agency DARPA, which receives -5 billion in funding. A ten year contract to shift NIH funds to DoD is simply a budget cut to NIH. It’s also another example of how this Admin does policymaking by other means.

Nature@nature.com · last wk.

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense. go.nature.com/4ycEbk8

Blessings on all of the neighbors and customers!!

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny!@malena.bsky.social · last wk.

𝐈𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬🚨 Of course personal safety is vitally important, but it's good to see people stand up against #ICELawlessness. Americans all need to put their foot down like these brave Texans! We need accountability. We've had enough of the abuse & injustice.

🦘 Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences. Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840. [Source]

Our pleas were totally misunderstood. We said, “Eat shit and die,” not “dye”! 🤣

CINEMA PARADISO (1988)

He will continue to do more & more authoritarianism, of both the dumb & evil variety, because he does not follow laws, court orders, the Constitution, treaties, or norms. Any expectation he will now is delusional foolishness. There is only one solution. We all know this. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.

Everything is just impossibly dumb

Writing a letter. About mid-20th century, Japan.

Interested in a deep dive of Gleevac? Check out our substack post, written by SUFS's science advisor, Jeremy Berg at buff.ly/WOErt8I

Why does therapeutic development take so long? the Philadelphia chromosomes and protein Kinases: Gleevec (part 2)

By Jeremy M. Berg, PhD, Stand Up for Science Advisor

substack.com

This Philly discovery paved the way for the impossible. Time to learn about one of the most important breakthroughs in modern medicine 🧪 🧵 #science #news #education #health #research

Sequence and epigenetic characterization of chromosome 21 centromeres in a family with recurrent Trisomy 21 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.31.748295v1

Lmao

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.

Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:

why do they all have butthole logos

Pop Base@popbase.tv · last wk.

ChatGPT, Claude & Grok are currently down, according to users.

Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000 for developing conductive polymers, died at a hospital in Yokohama on Aug. 24. He was 90.

Nobel-winning Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa dies at 90

Shirakawa, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000 for developing conductive polymers, a key component of modern touch screens, died late last month.

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Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code. go.nature.com/4rbHdmN

Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows surprising effects — and the limits of AI

Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.

go.nature.com