I am finalizing my classes for next week and I am, again, grateful to the incomparable Karen Ernst for helping me make this slide.
Karolin Luger
@nucleosomepolice.bsky.social
Chromatin and cryoEM afficionada. Still a fan of crystallography. Avid Colorado hiker. Will call out ugly nucleosome cartoons. Scrappy quilter. Come for the science, stay for the mountains, quilts, and snark. Opinions and snark are my own.
A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
accomplishment of the morning: just ended a mosquito that has been pestering me for the past two days. i feel vindicated. it seriously had it coming.
Austin Powers: Yeah, Baby!! YEAH!
ALT: Austin Powers: Yeah, Baby!! YEAH!
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I can't even. they all have to be voted out. please go VOTE EVERY SINGLE TIME!
Fantastic work! Congratulations all
🚀 My first Cryo-EM structures are OUT on the PDB! 🎉Super excited about this milestone as PhD, it’s been a journey, and I’m grateful to finally have these as my first Cryo-EM structures! 🙌 🔁Thank you for sharing!❤️ Read @daaninthelab.bsky.social et. al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ⬇️ 2nd video
🚀 My first Cryo-EM structures are OUT on the PDB! 🎉Super excited about this milestone as PhD, it’s been a journey, and I’m grateful to finally have these as my first Cryo-EM structures! 🙌 🔁Thank you for sharing!❤️ Read @daaninthelab.bsky.social et. al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ⬇️ 2nd video
I think y'all need to add this to your browser quicklinks bar www.thefarside.com
The Far Side Comic Strip by Gary Larson - Official Website | TheFarSide.com
Visit the official online home of The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson for your daily dose of Gary’s classic cartoons.
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if you have a hard time with your grocery bills, skip a meal and read this instead. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Let Them Eat Gold
Taxpayers are now financing President Trump’s love of anything gilded.
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💡💡💡💡I figured out how to make the mouse cursor bigger and my life will never be the same (i have a VERY large monitor)
Very sad to learn of the death of Ralf Seidel. He was a superb single molecule biophysicist--especially in studies of nucleic acid/protein complexes. www.physes.uni-leipzig.de/pdi/profil/n...
Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Ralf Seidel
Mit tiefer Trauer nehmen wir Abschied von unserem Kollegen Professor Ralf Seidel. Er ist am 17. Juli 2026 plötzlich und völlig unerwartet verstorben. Sein Tod hinterlässt eine große Lücke. Wir vermiss...
physes.uni-leipzig.de
#quiltsky anyone know where to find this quilt pattern? google image search doesnt lead to a link with a pattern...
Never shared a pic of one of my older quilts, indeed plagiarized from the artist Edward Ruscha. Fits with the general mood
In 2017, most of the revenue President Trump’s businesses generated came from his domestic golf and real estate portfolio. By the first year of his second term, his business holdings had transformed and expanded in areas where he wields immense power. Take a closer look. trib.al/313eKiF
There will be a new baby girl on the horizon, so I am taking the occasion to decimate my pink fabric stash that I was gifted (not a huge fan of pink otherwise) #quiltsky
"Hey Jess, why do you spend so much of the classroom time of your genetics course talking about ethics?"
What a harrowing story and an incredible work of #scicomm in the reporting. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
The ASV VIRO committee is pleased to host Temple Grandin for a workshop on neurodiversity in science. Please note a small correction from the official program: registration is NOT required and dinner will be served! #asv2026
University of Colorado Boulder is hiring: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Complex Demographic Processes in Mountain Environments #postdoc #ecology
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u... i think scientists agree with some of the dem. lawmakers that this is a terrible idea. 🧵
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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This 2012 electron microscope video is from James Tyrwhitt-Drake, a scientist at University of Victoria’s Advanced Microscopy Facility. In order, you're looking at: An amphipod (~5 mm = 5000 microns) A diatom (50 microns) A bacteria (1 micron). Life at every scale! (📷: James Tyrwhitt-Drake)
rainbow over niagara falls. Also, got totally soaked by the spray.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u... because, of course! these programs WORK! OF COURSE they have to break it. Preaching abstinence and teen marriage instead is just insanity.
Government Overhauls Teen Pregnancy Program to Focus on Marriage and Starting Families (Gift Article)
The administration canceled federal grants to organizations across the country, accusing them of encouraging premarital sex. New criteria say programs should stress abstinence.
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