www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 I get excited when T2T sequences come out.

Near telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Near telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

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In the tropics & subtropics, drought-deciduous flowering trees are especially showy because they flower before the leaves emerge, i.e., they are protoanthous. Here’s Jacaranda mimosifolia. 📷: John CCBYSA2 #protoanthy #Bignoniaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Wang et al. unveil RegVelo, linking gene regulatory networks to RNA velocity, enhancing predictions of cell fate by identifying key regulators. #RNAvelocity #RegVelo PMID:42276033, Cell 2026, @Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S009286742600588X #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

These moths smell with their wings | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

These moths smell with their wings

Never-before-seen ability may allow the insects to home in on their favorite plants

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This 1899 clip of a little girl and her cat is the oldest surviving cat footage on film, just 4 years after the Lumiere brothers invented cinema. Now colorized and speed corrected.

Love Stephen King even more now :0)

Stephen King@stephenking.bsky.social · 5d ago

STEVE'S RECIPE FOR PERFECT MICROWAVE BACON: 4 slices wrapped in paper towels. Cook like you cook popcorn, only you can't listen for popping. Set TIME COOK for 4 minutes. Stop after 2. Check. Microwaves vary. Mine does crispy (not burned) 4 in 4 minutes. MOLLY THE THING OF EVIL APPROVED THIS RECIPE

The train T.E. Lawrence ambushed in 1917 still lying in the Arabian desert 109yrs on.

A small act of kindness toward someone vulnerable just went viral, proof that you do not need grand gestures to make a real difference. Sharing food, helping a hurt animal, aiding a stranger, this is

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) — Corfu, The Terrace, 1909.

#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it -Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

A camera trap caught a jaguar scanning the ocean in Costa Rica, where only 50-60 of these big cats remain, hunting sea turtles and crabs along the Pacific coast.

Since we're celebrating Norway, well feast yourselves on Fridtjof Nansen the godfather of Arctic exploration.

Agree!!! Don't! I love the original and don't want to see a remake. Lambert, Connery, Brown all ridiculous and brilliant :0)

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Don’t remake Highlander!’ Highlander is so perfectly awful it’s impossible to remake. It’s not so bad that it’s good. It’s so bad it’s great. There’s no way to capture the demented bombast and po-faced lunacy of the original. So don’t try. There can be only one! In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Wow!

NASA | ESA Space Updates@nasaupdates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet for "black hole stars!" Data from a "little red dot" named GLIMPSE-17775 suggests it's a supermassive black hole enshrouded in a dense, hot cocoon of gas. 🔴✨ #JWST #Astronomy #SpaceNews 1/3

😅 you're gonna break it! That station is broadcasting from a $5/mo box!

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com@revkin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Via a listserv of early-days Internet mavens, I've dived into @terrygodier.com's world - the un-enshittified Internet hiding behind the surface we live on (and are coopted by). This essay: www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i... and his "radio station" below...

William Butler Yeats, “Where My Books Go”

Aligning #scRNAseq datasets along a shared temporal axis across studies, species & systems is hard. This study uses meta-analytic models to develop a #transcriptomic measure of #neurodevelopmental timing that is applicable to different organisms & tissue types @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ch0XiX

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

The Prime Minister of Spain: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost… The government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”

Even as They Praise Iran Cease-Fire, World Leaders Are Whipsawed by Trump

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✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com

Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

N London charity shop: complete 24-volume 1920’s edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Perfect for interior design project”🤨

This is JWST's NIRCam image of MoM-z14, the most distant galaxy detected so far. science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/c... It has a redshift of z=14.44, meaning it formed extremely early at just 280 million years after the Big Bang (13.53 Gya), and is 33.8 billion lightyears away from us.

Lichenomphalia umbellifera on an algae-covered stick. This species of mushroom is a basidiolichen lichen. Fungal hyphae integrate with algal cells, using the food produced by the algae through photosynthesis. Newfoundland. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #algae Largest shroom ~ 4cm high.

Last week we released dplyr 1.2.0, but we left off something VERY important 🙂 `dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are now up to 30x faster and use 10x less memory! We dive into how we achieved these numbers in this new #rstats post! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

`dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are up to 30x faster

dplyr 1.2.0 comes with much faster and more memory efficient `if_else()` and `case_when()` functions!

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Hubble has captured a new view of the Egg Nebula 🥚 the first, youngest, and closest pre-planetary nebula ever discovered! Discover more about the light show around this rapidly dying star 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

dplyr 1.2.0

dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

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Big New Project Release! 📣 I'm very excited to share this long-form highly interactive data (visualization)-driven article on Neglected Tropical Diseases that I worked on for The END Fund. It takes a deep dive into NTDs and the millions of people affected every day 👉 endfund.org/visualizing-...

Week in wildlife: monkey spa day, a frisky kākāpō and a camouflaged owl

Week in wildlife: monkey spa day, a frisky kākāpō and a camouflaged owl

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

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