Ed
@edballister.bsky.social
Parent, partner, scientist, restaurant-suggester
Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
We all have that one homie who scholars theorize was not a single individual, but a collection of different authors
If you want to extend the World Cup energy a little longer, I really enjoyed this hour of “songs shaped by African football culture and its echoes in the Colombian Caribbean” from Edna Martinez on NTS www.nts.live/shows/edna-m...
Champeta w/ Edna Martinez - Stadium to Picó 14th July 2026
Playing Soukous, Champeta. DJ and curator Edna Martínez, from Cartagena de Indias, presents champeta, a genre born inside the picós, the sound systems of Colombia’s Caribbean coast where music is pres...
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I've not got a ticket to the Odyssey, but I'll keep an eye out for one.
🙋♂️ Once summer I played Too Much Civ2 and had a horrible dream where I couldn’t stop seeing the game, but also couldn’t control it. 😵💫 I took a break and haven’t really been into games since
jam@socialistboat.dad · 3w ago"Civilization was a mistake" — me when I stay up too late playing Civilization
He discovered the basis for how antibody genes recombine [V(D)J recombination] to form large repertoires from a small number of gene segments. This basic genetic process underlies antibody induction by vaccines and >100 therapeutic antibody drugs for cancer and other diseases.
Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · 3w agoMIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience
As the old saying goes: you never know which baby you bathe in a promotional photo shoot you're going to have to play in a World Cup Final.
England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup
“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely.”Churchill ‘40
The Weeknight on MS NOW@weeknightmsnow.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING: Trump's Justice Department has just subpoenaed law firms it previously cut deals with at the beginning of Trump’s second term, according to new reporting from the New York Times.
Congrats to Canada! Struck by how the SA players all freeze after the goal but the Canada players keep running to celebrate
JM =^D@jm539581.bsky.social · last mo.South Africa 0-1 Canada 90+2'- Stephen Eustáquio
Wonderful news! #VaccinesWork Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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The President was forced to resign after the Knicks won their last championship. May history repeat itself.
Microscopy nerd alert: two scopes in California can now do phase contrast cryoEM - potentially fixing the tech's very low signal/noise ratio. The phase filter they used is a laser. Which is also the brightest thing in the solar system (outside of the inside of the sun). cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
15 years, flawless mirrors, and the brightest laser in the world: How physicists brought phase contrast to cryo-EM
Phase contrast enables structures of smaller proteins, could drive in-cell proteomics
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Due to the funding situation, my position in the Arpaia and Danino labs at Columbia ends in September. Very sad to leave my projects and labmates, but eagerly (urgently!) looking for a post in academia or biotech in NYC. Cancer immunotherapy especially, but I have broad interests, background 🧬🔬🧪
@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...
Vaccines are starting to gain traction in cancer treatment. A DNA based vaccine is a potential treatment for glioblastoma. Developed by Geneos Therapeutics, it transforms “cold” tumors into “hot” tumors that can be targeted by the patient’s own immune system. 🧪 medicine.washu.edu/news/persona...
Personalized vaccine shows promise against aggressive brain cancer | WashU Medicine
A WashU Medicine-led clinical trial has found that a personalized vaccine to treat glioblastoma appears to increase recurrence-free survival in a subset of patients after surgery.
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but the coursework is in fact THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
@hels.bsky.social I enjoyed the column on Vato and Los Burritos Juarez, but no Bordertown? I haven’t had a chance to try the three new BK norteño burrito shops but hope to soon. I love that we suddenly have 3 options, and want them all to thrive. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, loving Son del North!
the body does not keep the score: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sys...
Frontiers | The Body Does Not Keep the Score: Trauma, Predictive Coding, and the Restoration of Metastability
The Body Does Not Keep the Score: Trauma, Predictive Coding, and the Restoration of Metastability By Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Glenn Fox, Karl Friston ...
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