I hope you're all listening to The Unthanks (and friends) with the Royal Northern Sinfonia on R3 this evening.

This is very neat (and open access!). Cys and His added earlier than expected, but you'd want them if you were a self-respecting enzyme, right?

Joanna Masel@joannamasel.bsky.social · 2y ago

We identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evening.

Fascinating to hear a snippet of an interview with Alma Mahler on R3 just now. She didn't have any of Gustav's music played at her funeral, mind you.

A quick round of Name That Cathedral.

At a loose end this weekend? Why not make an e-ink digital camera? Bring your own Pi Zero, Pi Camera, e-ink display and battery. GitHub instructions included. reframe.camera

reFrame — the ePaper camera

reFrame is an experimental camera with a color ePaper display. Designed to capture and display one photo at a time, making every frame memorable.

reframe.camera

Post lunch stroll. The merest sprinkle of rain here this morning.

Acceptable plum situation from the garden this morning.

Dez Strand and I postulated reverse NDH activity in plants in our JBC paper in 2017; satisfying to see it occurring here (and thanks to the authors for the acknowledgment).

Plant Science Spotlight@plant-sci.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌱🧬Oxygenic photosynthesis can operate without photosystem I in engineered Synechocystis. PSI-deficient lineages evolved photoautotrophy via mutations in FusA and NDH-1. Reverse NDH-1 activity exploits proton motive force to produce reductant #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mahler 6 tonight; appointment radio if that's your kind of thing. i) Scherzo-Andante. ii) Cowbells > sledgehammer.

Classic album covers from the 1970s (updated).

Good evening from the old fellow.

It's not really lasagne weather, is it.

A slim volume, but succulent and potent with it. Recommended.

Afternoon.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Ripe blackberries in Cornwall #wildflowerhour

A letter arrives from my solicitor, concerning work they did some years ago, and apparently - mirabile dictu - they owe me money. Is this a first? There'll be an extra fish finger for dinner tonight.

Tom McKinney treating us to a bit of Bruckner 4 this morning. This is what the people want.* (*possibly).

@davidcollard.bsky.social From a friend visiting Zurich yesterday. I thought it might be your cup of tea.

DM me if you understand MSU governance, because I have no idea.

Jools spinning Professor Longhair on R3.

A rare dispatch from Greenland.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.

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Gresham College@greshamcollege.bsky.social · last mo.

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Stray boy Edward Fleas, who has progressed from being an absolute terror to now merely bad.

You're all too fancy to be watching 5USA, but they're currently showing the Columbo episode where (spoilers!) Leslie Nielsen is murdered by Patrick McGoohan.

Attn: @simonguy.bsky.social

Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · last mo.

A local artist here in Newfoundland creates these "portals," which are connected via an underground tube so people can talk to one another via portal. Undeniably cool.

A swan is moving its head near the camera.

Fond memories of chillier times. Shopping carts emerging from the glacier in East Lansing, MI, 2018.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Plumes of meadowsweet for #wildflowerhour. A favourite of Elizabeth I, apparently. Strongly scented; sweet and phenolic.

Nice to see Scenedesmus getting the recognition it deserves. The mitochondrial DNA of S. obliquus has non-standard coding, a useful fact if you ever need to break the ice at a party.