“The Luddites see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political project.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Getting Off with the Luddites | Sarah Thankam Mathews

They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...

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Beer In Ads #5297: Frankfurter Bürgerbräu Bock brookston.short.gy/mhcQQ6

the color of the day is orange

@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

OpenEvo: An Open-Source Platform for Automated Evolution and Analysis

Here we introduce OpenEvo, a fully open-source, low-cost turbidostat platform for automated continuous culture and directed evolution experiments. Existing tools are expensive, complex, or lack open-s...

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Medically, the beers you have while grilling don’t count. The science behind it is fascinating

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

My painting DRIFTLESS AREA

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

You should see this NYT video article on making sake at Terada Honke in Japan. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

See How a 350-Year-Old Brewery Makes Sake the Hard Way (Gift Article)

In Japan, the Terada Honke brewery holds fast to tradition: wild yeast, ancient songs, and a mixture of muscle and finesse.

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🍻🌏🍻 Beyond commercial strains: Native #Yeast species like S. cerevisiae, Brettanomyces & Torulaspora create unique flavors in #CraftBrewing. Review shows how local microorganisms enhance terroir expression while preserving biodiversity 🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Here are some nice mushrooms

This is why we love #CalciumSignaling Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !! By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;) Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format

The oldest winery in the Americas is Casa Madero in Coahuila state. It sits at 5,000 feet in elevation, on soil dotted with dinosaur bones. 🦕

🍺 Fixing brewing #Yeast! 🧬 Experimental evolution corrects mother-daughter separation defects in ale strain over 200 generations: ✅ fewer large clusters ✅ reduced foam accumulation during fermentation 🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #MoreGoodPours @micropub7n.bsky.social www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

This month’s Best Metal on Bandcamp includes black metal from the Palestinian diaspora, a dungeon-crawling symphonic black/doom epic, the highly anticipated return of metalcore legends, and much more.

The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2026

Our guide to the month’s crucial heavy LPs.

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🌿🍶 Happy World Kombucha Day! 🍶🌿 Cheers to the bacteria and yeasts that make kombucha fizzy, flavorful, and fascinating. Discover the microbial magic inside every brew: 👉 buff.ly/RMqTeAr

New episode is out, and it's a corker! Listen to The Delicious Legacy, discussing fermented dairy with Dr Simi Rezai-Ghassemi in lieu of her new book "Fermented Dairy of Central Asia" coming out this Sunday 15th! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #podcast #food #dairy #fermentation #cheese

A History of Fermented Dairy in Central Asia - From the steppe to space!

Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 12/02/2026 · 1h 2m

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast@deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This mummy was discovered in the early 21st century wearing a necklace made of ...fermented dairy. The exact type of dairy is still up for debate but it could be kefir or similar...Lets find the long history of fermented dairy in Central Asia here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Fermentation fans: help add to this collection on @semble.so! #fermentation

Semble@semble.so · 6mo ago

Ohh check out this new collection by @fermentation.computer 🫙🌱

Here is a very rough version of the For You Stats dashboard: linklonk.com/foryou It shows you 3 things: - how much you've been using For You - how many views and likes your posts got in For You - how your likes/reposts helped surface posts to other people in For You Feedback welcome

(1) this is cool (2) lol at the framing of "molecule can almost do important thing"

RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins

Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an RNA molecule that is very close to being able to do this

newscientist.com

🧬 Engineering stress-resistant #Yeast: Overexpressing PIR3 & SPI1 helps yeast tolerate high-concentration molasses stress from potassium/calcium ions. Modified strains showed significantly higher ethanol production than wt 🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #Biotechnology www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

Great to see this officially out: An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor - works in yeast & mammalian cells and is compatible with FLIM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor

Glucose is an important substrate for organisms to acquire energy needed for cellular growth. Despite the importance of this metabolite, single-cell information at a fast time-scale about the dynamics...

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More Burgh

⚡ Unconventional zinc finger binding! Newly solved structure shows #Yeast Fzf1 transcription factor uses non-canonical DNA binding strategy with its 5 zinc fingers; unusual binding pattern controls key stress response genes like SSU1 and YHB1 🧬 #YeastResearch #SGD www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

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