Out now! In collaboration with Hiroshi Nishimasu's lab, we uncover how a dual reverse transcriptase immune system builds double-stranded DNA from both RNA and protein templates. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... Previous thread for the preprint: bsky.app/profile/ster...

Coordinated RNA- and protein-templated synthesis of double-stranded DNA by a dual reverse transcriptase immune system

Bacterial reverse transcriptases defend against viruses, yet how their DNA products stop infection remains unknown. Bacteriophage inhibition of a host recombination enzyme activates the DRT3 defense s...

cell.com

@danacorn.bsky.social Q: Why didn't Ozy get in trouble for meditating in science class? A: When the teacher asked for the units of electric resistance, he chanted Ohm

@danacorn.bsky.social Assuming Ozy and Milo put on a middle school production of Charlottes Web, does this cast list seem accurate: Ozy-Charlotte, Milo-Wilbur, Felecia-Fern, Avery-Templeton

"Millennium Actress" by Satoshi Kon is available for free on YouTube (in North America only). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqg...

There is probably decent mileage to be gotten from a greek myth inspired parody of Sk8r Boi called Satyr Boy

Libraries❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Nyan Cat with Library Card

Alt: Nyan Cat with Library Card

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I should read Walt Kelly's Pogo

@danacorn.bsky.social So is it Timulty, with his non-judgmental innocence and the high esteem (as all younger siblings have) for his big brother, who eventually "saves" Avery from himself and causes him to realize what he is looking but can't find?

@kaseygifford.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK0E...

Belgian Draft Horse - Call your Horse like a Boss :D

YouTube video by Jos Smoolenaers

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Seattle comics publisher Fantagraphics celebrates 50th anniversary

Eric Reynolds used to hand out business cards that identified him as an "official shill and paid apologist."

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Here's the article that was so important that no one read that the police were called in. Just saying.

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

diabetesjournals.org

After a month, I've finally finished my journey of voraciously reading all of Ozy and Millie by @danacorn.bsky.social. One of the best comic strips I've ever read, right up there with Calvin and Hobbes

@danacorn.bsky.social Can you tell me if this is accurate? On Corporate Pride Sponsors: Milo: "corporations are evil, smash" Ozy "Understands Milo's cynicism but appreciates what the trend means overall" Avery "brands acknowledging I'm cool for being me? This is the greatest thing ever"

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

science.org

You can't google ignore either! AI has made google susceptible to essentially a dumb natural language version of SQL injection!

Basilica di San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna, Italy The church collapsed as a result of a bombing raid in World War Two & so had to be reconstructed in the 1950s. This the remains of a 13th Century mosaic of a #unicorn ? #MosaicMonday

1/9 New preprint from the Sternberg Lab in collaboration with the Nishimasu Lab! We uncover how the DRT3 antiphage immune system pairs two reverse transcriptases, one RNA-templated and one protein-templated, to build a double-stranded DNA effector. doi.org/10.64898/202...

@danacorn.bsky.social Finally started reading O&M from the beginning. Love it, but its painfully relevant despite being from the late 90s

I came here in 1975. I'm a Nobel Prize-winning scientist born in Germany during WWII, came here in 1975 thinking there was no way fascism could take hold in this country. I was wrong. I don't not want to be book-ended by two fascist regimes. We will stand up and set things right.

Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Choice words from Dr. Szostak here. And while I am no Nobel Prize-winning scientist, I identify with the same quandary as an immigrant, moving here in 2009 and (proudly) becoming a citizen in 2023. I, too, don't recognize that country anymore 😢🇺🇸🧳🛫. newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...

The idea that ballet isn't popular is kinda silly. Demon Slayer: Infinite Castle crushed at the box off because it was a tour de force of choreographed fluid movement of human bodies to music. That is the core of ballet right there

😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!) A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭 Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍

Can you imagine if the US just gave a basic income for artists to do their thing? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I don't think we talk enough about how Redwall Abbey was a socialist commune paradise

There is no world in which I want AI to summarize my e-mails

The energy I want to bring this year 👊💥 #art

I love this webcomic and you should all give it a read

Caytlin (Tamberlane) // ⭐Read My Webcomic!⭐@caytlin.tamberlanecomic.com · 8mo ago

It is my birthday! What I would love more than anything is for folks to share or read my webcomic, leave a nice note, or even make fanart if you're feeling crazy -- although for the few kindness overachievers, I have a Throne link in my profile. Mostly I'm just looking forward to a nice day <3

Breaking news: The Supreme Court has declined to consider a challenge to its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.

Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to landmark gay marriage ruling

The announcement indicates there is not an appetite among the high court’s conservative majority to revisit one of the court’s most significant decisions in recent years.

washingtonpost.com

Good times at Vassar back in the day painting squids

1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Antiviral reverse transcriptases reveal the evolutionary origin of telomerase

Defense-associated reverse transcriptases (DRTs) employ diverse and distinctive mechanisms of cDNA synthesis to protect bacteria against viral infection. However, much of DRT family diversity remains ...

biorxiv.org

A wood panel commission for @evwaldron.bsky.social ! We both love Grograman, The Many-Colored Death, from the Neverending Story book, so he asked me for my interpretation. Whatever Grograman touches crumbles into burning multicolor sand, and he changes to the color of whatever dune he's standing on