Never is quite some time..

girl take us with you

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

Tom Morello opening speech in Minneapolis 🔥

Sepia-toned close-up portrait photograph of Virginia Woolf from 1927. She appears from the shoulders up against a dark studio backdrop, wearing a voluminous fluffy fur stole, with her left hand resting gently against her cheek and a ring visible on her finger. Her light hair is parted in the center and styled in soft waves, and she gazes directly at the camera with wide eyes and a subtle, closed-mouth expression.

⚠️ CW: Comments may contain discussion of suicide.

English writer Virginia Woolf died #OTD in 1941. She was 59.

Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. #literature #litsky #booksky

ChromSMF preprint is out!🚀
tinyurl.com/ChromSMF

We often piece together chromatin regulation layer by layer from separate assays. But this can be limiting!

In @arnaudkr.bsky.social's lab, we developed a method to directly study multiple layers on the same DNA molecule! 🧬

What does this unlock? ⬇️

Congrats, it is so cool!👍🏽👍🏽

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to UNDETECTABLE levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll

She was born on March 20th, 1915

SOFIA ISELLA - Crowd Caffeine (Lyric Video) YouTube video by SOFIA ISELLA

youtube.com/watch?v=iyn0... Did not know Sofia Isella's music until a few weeks ago. Just wow. #MusicSky

He's being honest.. OpenAI is not there to help people per se, but to make money. The costs on the society for them to do so are huge. This is allowed in capitalism.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Amazingggggg

Piogge tossiche, aria irrespirabile.

Teheran è avvolta e sovrastata dai fumi tossici prodotti dagli incendi dei deposti di petrolio della città. Le riserve sono state bombardate dalle forze israeliane (come ufficialmente dichiarato). 1/6

Reminding myself that the ability to still be shocked - for our hearts to continue to recoil and break anew - is a good thing.

May we never, ever get used to this, until the day we don’t have to.

Moments of beauty in a rotten world: peach flowers
#gardening #SpringIsComing

Next step is LLM reviewers rejecting papers written by the same LLMs 👍🏽

📣 We are looking for new colleagues 🔬🧬🧪

The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London @ucllifesciences.bsky.social are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.

Out of the way it's a busy day
I've got things in my mind
☮️🌈
#PinkFloyd #UsAndThem

C’è una guerra che proprio non vogliamo combattere: quella al cambiamento climatico.

Verrà il giorno giorno in cui sarà troppo tardi.

Nel frattempo fioccano bombe e muoiono innocenti, mentre la scienza viene brutalizzata e il potere è sempre più concentrato nelle mani di pochi.

Sono tempi bui.

Holy moly, I might as well ask my mum or just roll a die

A warm, color portrait photograph of Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude B. Elion in her later years, taken in a laboratory setting. She is an older woman with short, curly reddish-gray hair, fair skin with freckles, and a gentle, warm smile as she looks directly at the camera with kind, thoughtful eyes. She wears a white lab coat over a light beige blouse and a soft beige scarf draped around her neck, along with small gold earrings. Behind her are scientific instruments, glassware, a large metal vat or reactor, and lab equipment, evoking her groundbreaking work developing life-saving drugs like those for leukemia, gout, and organ transplant rejection. The image captures her dignified, approachable presence and enduring legacy as a pioneer in drug discovery who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The extraordinary biochemist & pharmacologist Gertrude Elion died #OTD in 1999.

Elion won the 1988 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (w/2 others) for her pioneering "rational drug design." Her work saved countless lives...(👇 1/2) #WomenInSTEM

Rome citizen here: we won't even talk if US keeps putting pineapple on pizza

Congrats! Retrotransposons never cease to amaze

Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres - Nature Evolutionarily related ‘proto-point’ centromeres providing resolution to the evolutionary origins of point centromeres are identified in yeast, and comparison shows they evolved in an ancestor with re...

Our paper is now out in Nature:

“Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres.

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Alex Karp, CEO di Palantir: "A volte uccidiamo gente". Il genere umano non finirà bene.

Black-and-white photograph of Vera Menchik, the pioneering first Women's World Chess Champion, seated at a chessboard in deep concentration during a game or study session. She rests her chin on her clasped hands, elbows on the table, gazing intently downward at the board with a calm, focused expression. Menchik has dark hair pulled back and wears a long-sleeved cardigan or sweater. The chessboard in the foreground displays a mid-game position with black and white pieces in play, including prominent kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks, and pawns. Behind her, heavy dark curtains frame a bright window letting in natural light.

In 1927, Vera Menchik became the first Women's World Chess Champion at age 21 & is the longest-reigning women's champion in #chess history.

She defended the title 7 times, held it undisputed until her tragic death in 1944 at age 38 in a V-1 rocket bombing during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1906.

A diagram explaining the impacts of climate change on health.

The scientific evidence is clear. #ClimateChange poses serious risks to human health. To understand how climate change affects human health, and why limiting fossil fuel emissions is important, see:

royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...