This is unexpected.... Feel like it has @hitenmadhani.bsky.social 's lab written all over it 😀 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42550921/

The spliceosome's secret life: PRP8 silences transposons through 3D chromatin organization - PubMed

The spliceosome's secret life: PRP8 silences transposons through 3D chromatin organization

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

DRAGON'S LAIR (1983, Don Bluth)

she’s so fine there’s no telling where the money went

which one of you FREAKS impregnated Burger King

Dearest all: I am looking for a queer-owned store that would sell rolls of stickers (or something as in tens of them) with pronouns for handing them out upon registration at the German Fish Meeting. Any pointer/s and RT appreciated! 🧪🐟

The latest from Ken Hughes is delightful: Which words are common, and which are very rare, in the scientific papers he's read lately? And what's with the occurrence of "popcorn" in oceanography?

Popcorn and cigarettes: unexpected words I’ve found in scientific papers

If you knew no English but were to memorise five specific words—the, of, and, a, and to—you’d be able to recognise 14% of all written English words. Then you could learn the next five most co…

brushingupscience.com

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

and when Dora saw the breadth of her domain she wept, for there were no more worlds to explorer

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

This is the best film complaint I’ve ever seen

leaning back in my chair, running a hand over my chin, tapping on the desk for a minute, then clicking "interested"

Grover and unwell Kermit Watercolour on Yupo paper

I am in the funniest possible situation I am trying to go see The Odyssey but may not get there because of transportation delays

Next summer's Epigenetics GRC (I'm co-chairing with Deborah Bouch'is) is shaping up nicely with an all-star lineup of speakers working on a broad range of organisms and systems and everything from molecular mechanisms to new phenomena. Apply and put it on your calendar! www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... how cool!

Intestinal stem cells count self-renewal divisions to switch multipotency - Nature

In Drosophila, cell fate switching in adult intestinal stem cells is determined through an epigenetic mechanism in which these cells count divisions, switching from producing enterocytes to producing ...

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Very interested in seeing this film called Wicker, about an ostracised woman who commissions a basket maker to make her a husband (An idea I should consider!)

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

They stopped making ghosts just after the civil war. You’ll never see a ghost with a man bun or hitting a juul

when my child misbehaves i make him go stare at the old Hardee’s fry statue

I laughed

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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“Happens to the best of us” does not explain why it’s happening to me

Fernando Arrigorriaga wildlife photographer Three-wattled bellbird

I have to admit that I didn’t know, and I even thought the Spanish player Cucurella’s look was quite original, when it comes to his hair, but I was unaware of this: If he let his hair grow , it’s so that his autistic son can easily recognize him when he watches him on TV. Truly, this Spanish team ❤️

Algorithm update. Bunch of people have been doing this exact kind of thing to get around TikTok censorship and it’s wild. Feels like an analogue horror series