comparing literal apples and oranges is a more useful activity than whatever this is

Post Office
Lisbon, IA

🍻🌏🍻 Beyond commercial strains: Native #Yeast species like S. cerevisiae, Brettanomyces & Torulaspora create unique flavors in #CraftBrewing. Review shows how local microorganisms enhance terroir expression while preserving biodiversity
🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Dozens of blue and silver turkey tail mushrooms grow along the side and top of a fallen log like solar panels arranged along a hillside. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

This is why we love #CalciumSignaling

Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !!
By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;)

Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format

The oldest winery in the Americas is Casa Madero in Coahuila state. It sits at 5,000 feet in elevation, on soil dotted with dinosaur bones. 🦕

🍺 Fixing brewing #Yeast! 🧬 Experimental evolution corrects mother-daughter separation defects in ale strain over 200 generations:
✅ fewer large clusters
✅ reduced foam accumulation during fermentation
🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #MoreGoodPours @micropub7n.bsky.social
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2026 Our guide to the month’s crucial heavy LPs.

This month’s Best Metal on Bandcamp includes black metal from the Palestinian diaspora, a dungeon-crawling symphonic black/doom epic, the highly anticipated return of metalcore legends, and much more.

🌿🍶 Happy World Kombucha Day! 🍶🌿

Cheers to the bacteria and yeasts that make kombucha fizzy, flavorful, and fascinating.

Discover the microbial magic inside every brew:
👉 buff.ly/RMqTeAr

beautiful shots! what kind of tree did you plant?

New episode is out, and it's a corker!
Listen to The Delicious Legacy, discussing fermented dairy with Dr Simi Rezai-Ghassemi in lieu of her new book "Fermented Dairy of Central Asia" coming out this Sunday 15th!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

#podcast #food #dairy #fermentation #cheese

Fermentation fans: help add to this collection on @semble.so!

#fermentation

Here is a very rough version of the For You Stats dashboard: linklonk.com/foryou

It shows you 3 things:
- how much you've been using For You
- how many views and likes your posts got in For You
- how your likes/reposts helped surface posts to other people in For You

Feedback welcome

RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an RNA molecule that is very close to being able to do this

(1) this is cool (2) lol at the framing of "molecule can almost do important thing"

🧬 Engineering stress-resistant #Yeast: Overexpressing PIR3 & SPI1 helps yeast tolerate high-concentration molasses stress from potassium/calcium ions. Modified strains showed significantly higher ethanol production than wt
🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #Biotechnology
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor Glucose is an important substrate for organisms to acquire energy needed for cellular growth. Despite the importance of this metabolite, single-cell information at a fast time-scale about the dynamics...

Great to see this officially out: An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor - works in yeast & mammalian cells and is compatible with FLIM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Ink drawing, Edinburgh old town-inspired architecture

More Burgh

⚡ Unconventional zinc finger binding! Newly solved structure shows #Yeast Fzf1 transcription factor uses non-canonical DNA binding strategy with its 5 zinc fingers; unusual binding pattern controls key stress response genes like SSU1 and YHB1
🧬 #YeastResearch #SGD
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Cat in snow

Gérard DuBois

tinned food with various designs,some very simple other more complex

'1970s canned goods label designs, from The Art of the Label by Robert Opie.'

your calm moment

Drawing of the artist in a sweater at a desk, scowling at an empty sketchbook page. TEXT: “Maybe the REAL problem is I don’t have the right system of little notebooks…”

2-minute comic

The importance of being malted: making malt and malt sugars from cereals in the Palaeolithic. The Shanidar Cave: one of the places where the ancient magic of malt was first discovered. (image: Wikimedia)  I should have presented this...

🏺How was #malt discovered? I should've presented this at the World Neolithic Congress last year but was not able to. So I submitted it to PAST, the newsletter of The Prehistoric Society. It was published last month in the November issue. It should be online soon!
merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-...

a square filled in with strong orange color #f47c10.

#F47C10

"The Hidden Power of Microorganisms: No microbes, no life…”

“Self-portrait of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.”

“Circles of Life: Microbes in Motion.”

The 2025 Agar Art Contest winners have been selected! This year’s theme, “Microbes Make the World Go Round,” inspired 557 global entries—from food fermentation to antibiotic production. See the masterpieces and finalists! asm.org/press-releas... #agarart

A rectangular box labeled “Semi-circles and Quadrants,” containing a variety of them.

A rectangular box labeled “Gothic Percent Marks, wide and narrow,” containing a variety of them.

A rectangular box labeled “Spartan Medium Fractions,” containing a variety of them.

A rectangular box labeled “Heavy Round Corners,” containing a variety of them.

Trade catalog images
American Type Founders Co.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
1950

Images: Type, Typewriter and Typography Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/ATF1...