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Robert Insall

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Chemotaxis. Math. Computers. Cells. Machine learning.

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Robert Insall@robinsall.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very interesting paper. An old-fashioned concept - sadly now rare in biology - measure stuff accurately, and you can understand how it works... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Uncoupling microtubule lifetime, stability and post-translational modifications.

Microtubules (MTs) undergo continuous cycles of growth and disassembly. Because the transitions between these states are stochastic, MT age varies widely within a population. As MTs age, they are thou...

biorxiv.org

Liam Blizard@blizard.io · 4w ago

You also used to be able to to block it by inserting the word "fucking" into every question you asked google, but they seem to have fixed that now

Current Biology@currentbiology.bsky.social · 4w ago

In our recent issue we interview Susana Coelho, who uses brown algae to study evolution, development, and life-cycle complexity at the Max Planck Institute for Biology. Read the Q&A to find out more about Susana’s most important scientific influences: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Susana Coelho

Interview with Susana Coelho, who uses brown algae to study evolution, development, and life-cycle complexity at the Max Planck Institute for Biology.

cell.com

Robert Insall@robinsall.bsky.social · 4w ago

I get extraordinarily depressed by the standards of reasoning used in my field. Circular arguments everywhere. Bald statements that are plainly fallacious. Dominant active mutations used to prove something is "key". Knockouts of A used as evidence that A "controls" B. What to do? It's everywhere...

JRho@jrho.bsky.social · last mo.

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years 2023 satin ribbons After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair. Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a story in which *everyone* save some of the original investigators was operating in profound bad faith: Arday, the institutions, the racists who took up his case and made it a story, the media as a whole. Obviously the institutional failure is bigger than one tragically disturbed man.

Robert Insall@robinsall.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Showing passers-by the eclipse projected down 2x poster tubes into a slide box. Once we got past "who are these mad scientists with contraptions made from cardboard boxes and tinfoil" we had lots of takes! Especially kids. Science is always cool.

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Buzz Baum@buzzbaum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dear fellow researchers. I think we need to discuss this: www.newscientist.com/article/2532... While peer review is flawed, and while preprints are a great way to share data before publication, as a community we mustn’t trade rigour for hype. This paper was peer reviewed and rejected.

What is 'SpudCell'? Arguably the greatest bioengineering feat yet

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really a living organism – yet

newscientist.com