The meltdown on X over the Hungarian election result is a sight to behold. Joyous.

I love this for both of them 🇭🇺

#orban #vance #hungarianelection

Eukaryotes didn't just arise from two partners. Phylogenomics of the LECA proteome reveals multiple waves of bacterial HGT, some predating mitochondrial endosymbiosis, plus a possible role for giant viruses.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10....

Ted Turner asks Carl Sagan if he is a socialist. YouTube video by David Grinspoon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDK2...

This is an excellent parody and worth watching and sharing the hell out of! Whoever is playing Pete Hegseth in this excellent comedic video is absolutely hilarious!l! 💙🇺🇸💙

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💔MUST WATCH - PLEASE REPOST💔
Former US counter-terrorism officer Josephine Guilbeau breaks down as she explains what terrorism really is, and how it’s being committed by the US right now. Donald Trump/Pete Hegseth gave the orders to assassinate 168 school children AND THEY KNEW IT WAS A SCHOOL.
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

#pedopresident #Pedogarchy #Pedophocracy #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #america #history #RemoveTrump #DonaldTrump #Trump #TRUMP #FuckTrump #fuckmaga #antifa #AntiTrump #stopthecoup #FightOligarchy #DefundBillionaires #TrumPedo

A figure showing a 'Simplot' which plots the similarity of a genome to other genomes across a graph, with similarity on the Y-axis and the genome position on the x-axis. Many coloured lines show the sequences being compared - those closest to the top (similarity of 1) are the closest matches in different parts of the genome.

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Introducing SimPlot-CL! 🧬
Recombination plays an important role in viral evolution. Similarity plots are a great way to visualize recombination patterns, but generating them across many genomes can be cumbersome

(Work with my student, Keno Strotjohann!)
📂 github.com/hodcroftlab/simplot-cl

When I need the advice of a half-wit I’ll contact you. Meantime, you’re blocked.

Indeed. Later on he was eaten under a different set of rules. Seems fair.

A colonial view of the law.

A scalable approach to resolving variants of uncertain significance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...

He declared Australia “terra nullis”, I’d say that was a colonial (or pre-colonial) act.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

UK leader Starmer averts a leadership challenge for now but remains damaged by Epstein fallout Keir Starmer has secured a temporary respite after fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files threatened his leadership

We live in a world where #Trump who is nose deep in the #Epstein scandal seems to get away with it.

Yet #UK PM #Starmer (who is not even mentioned once in the files) might get booted for his Epstein exposed pick.

Amazing. We are in the lamest timeline.

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#ChrisMason should share facts, which are sometimes harder to come by than his tired opinions. He is a useless reporter.

Tax is a story Shaping the narrative of what we owe one another

No-one thinks about tax and welfare as a set of net transfers between citizens and the state. We respond to a deep story of punishment and reward. If we want to solve our fiscal problems, we need to engage with those deep stories and find new ones.

howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/tax-is-a-s...

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, on January 24. DHS claims he died after an armed struggle, but videos of the incident appears to contradict that claim. Read our analysis here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

The BBC has been caught telling its staff not to say Maduro was 'kidnapped' By suppressing one word and promoting others, the BBC isn’t avoiding bias. It’s curating which reality sounds most acceptable.

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Middle-aged white guy looking worried, camera slung over his shoulder.

18 months ago I was photographing birds in a US national park when someone jumped out of a car in front of a dozen witnesses, put a Glock to my forehead, and demanded my camera.

This shot is from my first time out birding after that.

Living like this is a deliberate choice.

(Nucleotide Transformer v3) A foundational model for joint sequence-function multi-species modeling at scale for long-range genomic prediction instadeep.com/wp-content/u... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/instadeepai/... (noncommercial)

GitHub - lh3/human-asm: A collection of high-quality human genomes A collection of high-quality human genomes. Contribute to lh3/human-asm development by creating an account on GitHub.

579 high-quality human genomes from @humanpangenome.bsky.social, Arab Pangenome and individual papers (CHM13, CN1, KSA001, I002C, YAO and KOREF1). Sequences available in the AGC format (3.7GB) and FM-index in the ropebwt3 format (20.3GB). For details, see github.com/lh3/human-asm

Count the fouls....not so dirty these days

What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Apparently, it's the first document of this kind in quite a while (since 2005?). Here is the link www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/w...

This BBC News matter
is not about impartiality.
It's a plot to inject right-wing bias into the BBC to make it more like GB and Fox so-called "News".
Will the UK government defend the BBC against Trump and the Faragists?
That would take some political courage, so don't bet on it.

#BBCNews

Feasibility, acceptability and clinical outcomes of the BabyScreen+ genomic newborn screening study - Nature Medicine The BabyScreen+ study offered genomic screening to 1,000 newborns in Australia, and showed that the approach is feasible and positively received by families, leading to molecular diagnoses in 1.6% of ...

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

Amazing! Newborn genomic sequencing from Guthrie card blood spots @zornitza.bsky.social and Sebastian Lunke!