Any old school molbio people have a copy of the 1987 paper from BMBiochemica on using Bailey’s as a blocking agent for colony hybridization?
This is appalling from ADA but Kahn is a fucking hypocrite, having called for the imposition of “guidelines governing ethical publishing of science and medicine free of divisive political opinion" and leading a boycott of The Lancet and Elsevier for publishing an editorial critical of Israel.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2mo agoA real headline in the United States today
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any tropical entomology people know who this is (from Tiputini)
@arseblog.com @gunnerblog.bsky.social is the 2026-27 St. Totteringham’s Day the day Spurs are relegated or the day the season begins?
So glad you spoke up now before he could cause any harm.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo agoI have a male friend who spent some time in Axel's lab. About the 3rd conversation he had with Axel, Axel broke the ice with "So, have you fucked [a female postdoc in the lab] yet?" My friend was horrified...
This is absolutely disgraceful. The scientific societies and universities that are members of this organization should either unambiguously condemn genuflecting to a president whose budget would have gutted research, and whose broader actions grow ever more repellent on a daily basis.
Science & Technology Action Committee@scitechaction.bsky.social · 6mo agoSTAC Statement Thanking President Donald Trump for Signing the Senate Amendment to H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act
I agree that the biggest jolt to NIH-funded science system been administrative/political rather than budgetary - but it's worth noting that US science's political strategy has for decades focused exclusively on budgets, while ignoring widespread administrative dysfunction and its consequences.
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 7mo agoYes. Important in the context of the release of the NIH budget bill today. NIH has been dismantled this year, and it’s NOT because of a Congressional budget cut. It’s b/c of Project 2025/Russell Vought reaching into NIH in an unprecedented way and screwing up how it’s run. The budget bill does…
Ironically you need AI to disentangle this human generated slop from @science.org, a mix of absurd self-promotion & antaidiluvian rant that is a fitting death rattle for and org who has willingly sabotaged science by placing their interests over actual progress. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Resisting AI slop
It’s hard to talk about any topic in science or education today without the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) coming up—whether large language models should be allowed to aid in searching for a ...
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Hey @maureenbug.bsky.social or other nudibranchophiles - is this a nudi? (From near shore reef in Moorea)
The beauty of the story of the discovery of DNA is that it had a happy ending. Franklin got what really matters - a first author @Nature paper.