I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Awesome new tool from the Steinegger lab 🚨 A real time saver if you want to find phylogenetic variants of an RNA of interest! Check it out!

Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦@martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 4d ago

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

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

🎉 Happy #RNADay!  Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @rnasociety.bsky.social RNA Day Art & Baking Contests! Special thanks to Lexogen, the exclusive industry sponsor of the 2026 RNA Society RNA Day Art & Baking Contests, for supporting this initiative.

It's an RNA World. We just live in it. Happy World RNA Day!

This kind of harassment is not accidental. There are no consequences for the perpetrators. There is no restorative justice for the victims. Defund and abolish ICE. It's un-American.

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 4d ago

🚨 ABC News: The Johns Hopkins University researcher released after being detained by ICE at Maryland airport: Fatima Ameaka was held at a facility in Louisiana, according to her lawyer. The ICE kidnappings must stop. abcnews.com/US/johns-hop...

🚨 ABC News: The Johns Hopkins University researcher released after being detained by ICE at Maryland airport: Fatima Ameaka was held at a facility in Louisiana, according to her lawyer. The ICE kidnappings must stop. abcnews.com/US/johns-hop...

Johns Hopkins researcher released after being detained by ICE at Maryland airport

A Johns Hopkins University researcher, originally from Cameroon, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers earlier this week.

abcnews.com

Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

August as an academic

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looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."

The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

publicnotice.co

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ An asteroid crater in Arizona. Dramatic enough you might think, but look how close it came to hitting the Visitor Centre 😱

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One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.

This is a generalization of course, but I suspect the high # of violent incidents with right-wingers is due to frustration with not having the tools to deal with life on an intellectual level.

The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.

California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.

The doctor who originally said we should wash our hands before performing medical procedures was thrown in an insane asylum after being stripped of his credentials. After his death, he was proven correct and vindicated. *looks at the news* Shame shit, different century.

In 2020, a new plague swept across the Earth, killing millions. Before that year was even over, wizards working in an invisible world had devised a shield that everybody could use. The result wasn't a new era of scientific appreciation but of preening frauds lying more shamelessly than ever before.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

TUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can

A wonderful week at the Gordon Research Conference on Post-Transcriptional Regulation in Maine — brilliant RNA & splicing science by day, lobster bakes and good company by evening. So grateful for this community. 🦞🧬

New standard for genetic pedigrees: Kahlo format display

Billionaire logic is that it makes more sense to terraform Mars rather than to stop venusifying Earth, and that it is a better strategy to build underground bunkers than to make the whole planet a better place to live for everyone.

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism

"Computational Approaches to RNA Structure and Function" Thank you all for a great meeting We'll meet again July 2028

Benasque RNA 2026 was easily the best meeting I’ve ever been to. Grateful for the connections I made & the collaborations that were started. Going home was bittersweet. 🧬⛰️

With 57% of its electricity now coming from renewables, including 22% from solar & 21% from wind, Spain built one of Europe's most impressive electricity systems. Solar is now the country's fastest-growing source of power & has helped drive some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe.

Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit

Government-promoted anti-intellectualism is a common feature of fascist states, with “intellectualism” coded as feminine and/or Jewish/leftist.

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

Federal law does not allow the “terminations of awards based on new program goals or agency priorities that an agency identifies after granting the award,” the court concluded

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

Judge rules OMB can’t retroactively nix grants based on new rules