so if Interview with the Vampire is canonically set in our universe, you're telling us there's a chance that Lestat de Lioncourt *did* visit The Museum of English Rural Life
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Cell biologist and a cat person. I mainly study CDK8/19, cell cycle regulation, and new anti-cancer drug candidates. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-5683
NEW: For more than a decade, Red Bull waged a global campaign that used flawed science to downplay the risks of mixing energy drinks and alcohol. Our new @theexamination.org investigation, with an all-star team of media partners across the world, is out
Is it safe to drink Red Bull and vodka? Dubious research tied to the company has shaped energy drink policy.
The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.
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Years ago, I reviewed a paper that had interesting data but was not put well together at all. Badly organized figures, convoluted text. I was getting annoyed and then saw the asterisk in the (short) author list. The first author had written their first ever ms after their PI had suddenly died 🥺.
New blog post: New popular science book from me is happening! 🧪 skullsinthestars.com/2026/07/24/n...
New popular science book from me is happening!
A bit of personal news: I’ve signed a contract for my next popular science book with the University of Chicago Press! My tentative title — subject to change — is “Booms, Bee…
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These backronyms need to STOP (Seriously this isn'T funny Or apPropriate)
Штош, моя книга «Шаман и звезды» вышла в издательстве АСТ. В чем особенности нового издания: текст расширили и обновили, добавили больше лора и новых глав. Бонусом — главы из продолжения. Книгу уже можно заказать, список маркетплейсов тут: t.me/novafiction/...
Our paper on FlaPro tool for quantifying flagellin diversity in the human gut microbiome is out now! bit.ly/4wLPxuH @anya-bogdanova.bsky.social @microbiome.bsky.social
Human gut flagellome profiling using FlaPro reveals TLR5-related phenotype-specific alterations in IBD
Flagellin, the structural protein of bacterial flagella, activates the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). However, the ability of different flagellins to bind and stimulate TLR5 va...
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hey, so there's this amazing puppy called Sevo that I've fostered for a few days and he's looking for a permanent home! we reside in Armenia but we can transport him anywhere in the world. I would really appreciate some shares, I really really want for him to find his forever family
The summer bounty has started coming. There is two full boxes. Send help.
Malaria elimination succeeded in much of the world, including Europe, North America, Australia, and much of Asia…
This revised Reviewed Preprint provides a fundamental finding regarding the context-dependent roles of the JAK-STAT pathway (JSP) across different cellular compartments within the breast cancer microenvironment, supported by convincing evidence.
JAK-STAT Pathway Heterogeneity Governs Immunotherapy Response in Breast Cancer
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Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo. www.wired.com/story/ebola-...
The Most Promising Ebola Vaccine Has Been Sitting on the Shelf for 15 Years
Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.
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That's why I love biology :) (and cells in particular!)
Sasha | Kai Dao 🔬@kaidaoscience.bsky.social · 2mo ago8 hours. That’s all fish need to heal wounds 🐟⏱️ Why are they so fast compared to humans? I break down the science of rapid regeneration in a microscopy story 🔬 Watch here: youtu.be/Mt9f61adaP0 #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
I've been watching Babylon 5 (along with @merrittk.com) and it's striking how almost every episode is criticizing a) fascism, b) xenophobia/racism, c) homophobia, d) theocratic conservatism. @straczynski.bsky.social wrote that shit woker than The Pitt S2. No way an exec would greenlight it today.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo agoKnow what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.
NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet
Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
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There is a wonderful Russian expression "A mark is not a mammoth, a mark will not go extinct"
rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 2mo agothis is, in a very real sense, the most correct post of all time, insofar as it captures the full essence of Officially Sanctioned Reality
Listen to me and @jkass99.bsky.social talk about Armenia's elections with my on the ground observations on @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/161332...
*UNLOCKED* The History of Armenia: 2026 Election Roundup | Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
It's a slight departure from the usual schedule, because Ani was in Armenia for the recent elections and took copious notes. Go beyond the (
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There is now an industry to insert promotions into LLM outputs, and research shows that it's trivially easy to do. Like, one reddit comment easy. www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop. 1/
LIVE NOW: Worlds Beyond Number: The Official Graphic Novel Kickstarter is here! Experience the hit fantasy podcast, @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social, like never before in the first ever graphic novel adaptation from @planetx.bsky.social & @sarahwebb.bsky.social.
A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8196081...
I'm launching a new history deep dive podcast BEFORECAST! Starting with a series on Machiavelli. Hopefully launching in July; you can subscribe here! www.patreon.com/adapalmer/po...
New "BEFORECAST" Launching | Ada Palmer
New "BEFORECAST" Launching by Ada Palmer on Patreon. Join Ada Palmer's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Guys, what sites do you read regularly? Blogs, news, journals. I'm reestablishing my RSS feeds to counter algorithms and finding stuff only through social media (using Inoreader as my RSS service). Really enjoying it. But I want to read more cool stuff.