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Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Riboseek is a fast RNA/DNA search. More sensitive than nhmmer at 250x speed. Structure-aware realignment produces MSAs approaching rMSA quality. Plus 1.7M precomputed RNA MSAs, and an API to search your own 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💾 github.com/steineggerla... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek

folks, breaking news for #RNAday! a central plot device in the spiderman movie is a gizmo that injects siRNA! (but boo, many errors in describing how RNAi works). also, its not advanced science fiction concepts, i literally teach this to high school kids...

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Federal prosecutors admitted that they don’t have evidence to prove the Reflecting Pool was vandalized by the former Olympian David Hearn—undermining everything that Trump has been saying about the pool’s damage, @mviser.bsky.social reports.

How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Fell Apart

Federal prosecutors searched for evidence and found that “a botched installation” was to blame.

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"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

for those who celebrate, today is the day! #AUG1 #RNA

🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ is moving to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case and is admitting the damage was the result of a flawed, botched installation job, not vandalism.

DOJ Seeks to Dismiss Charges Against Olympian It Indicted for "Vandalizing" the Lincoln Memorial.

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i ❤️ wayne thiebaud 🍰

shuffalo is my favorite amongst all the "word puzzle" games, but occasionally frustrating like this

Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.

What an amazing lineup 🥳🎉 #Dros27

Genetics Society of America@genetics-gsa.bsky.social · last wk.

Meet three of our #Dros27 plenary speakers! 🧠 Vanessa Auld 🪰 @nabroderick.bsy.social 🧬 Don Fox From glial biology to host-microbe interactions to genome stability and regeneration, they'll bring exciting science to Philadelphia. 🔗https://buff.ly/7IBPyFM

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

in NYC, you are legally obligated to have these cutouts so anyone can check what's going on in the construction site. i love that behind some of them, you can find ginormous plants taking over the concrete jungle.

The US will try anything but gun control

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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The most amazing thing about the #Drosophila #community is how eagerly we all share resources with each other. I needed an antibody and we reached out to a colleague on Friday and they already shipped it out this morning. Couldn't be more grateful 😊🥹 👩🏽‍🔬🪰

lazy sunday bbq in brooklyn, but then surprise guests surya botofasina and swiss chris showed up to jam!! (fun facts: surya plays jazz/avant-spiritual keys inspired from growing up in alice coltrane's ashram, and chris was john legend's drummer for many years, also elton john, gloria gaynor etc.) 🎹🥁

i am totally going to ask this fella how much for his license plate! IYKYK ☢️

Got the chance to see these talented players in action today! It was great having the @wnba.com at Home Court at the Obama Presidential Center for All-Star Weekend. 🏀

about the Odyssey movie, perhaps surprising is how short many of the mythic encounters are in text. out of 350 pg, many are just a few pages long. the Laistrygones (the giants) incident is not even a page and a half. ps anyone else mentally think "run away! run away!" (a la monty python holy grail)

At about the same time Bhattacharya is talking about multi-year funding and MIRA grants, and starts babbling about how MYF can help with an ambitious Aim 1. MIRA grants do not have Specific Aims. Once again, Bhattacharya is not merely malevolent. He is ignorant.

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS@tyk314.net · 2w ago

Scroll to about 4 hours and 35 minutes. Dr. Manly comes in with a great question. Our director gaslights her and the entire #NIH community. Pass this around. It is public. Don't let this continue. Hold Dr. Bhattacharya accountable.

love it when a grant referee writes "i want to raise a weakness about blah blah approach they are using. but i should mention that they later addressed my concern, as they propose an orthogonal approach, which they already validated works in their hands. so it's not really a weakness". 😦 1/2

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

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scientific claim of the form “X causes Y” have the burden of proof, not “X does not cause Y,” for the obvious reason that non-causes of Y vastly outnumber causes, particularly proximate ones “I left bread in the toaster too long, causing it to burn” versus every other explanation (mermaids, voodoo)

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry what

Congratulations to Professor Wang on winning the Fields Medal (Nobel Prize for Math). Only the 3rd woman in history to win. And she won for a preprint article! We have some ways to go in biology before preprints receive this level of impact and recognition.

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2w ago

Hong Wang, who proved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture, has just won the Fields Medal, making her the third woman in the award’s 90-year history to receive math’s highest honor. Read our profile: www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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one of the wonderful things about my spouse is that she drops random stuff like this into my bag from time to time. thanks sweetie!!

sometimes i wonder if it was a good idea to build @rockefeller.edu university all perched out on a few skinny stilts over the highway, but no one asked me