we all know I have no life, so:

The net effect being is that a pedestrian is much more likely to do an as-a-bird-flies route that a car can. So that makes even bog standard suburbia that much more livable.

So FWIW, it's not like Canadian suburbia is much better, but the one thing I've noticed across Canadian cities (and this is a provincial/city level zoning thing) is that there are far more pedestrian walkways/alleyways than I see in most American cities

The serendipity of flipping open the wrong journal in the actual physical stacks is part of the reason why I'm a scientist now.

A picture of the twins in the corridor from horror movie The Shining, with the overlaid text THE DATES 13/04 - 08/06 WHICH UNI WILL CHAMPION? LET THE GAMES BEGIN... Join our Lifeblood Team

Every year, staff and students at Australian medical schools compete in the Vampire Cup to donate the most blood and blood products over a 8 week period. And donations from family and friends count too! So, if you know a med schoolie, book yourself in for a good cause. 🩸🤗

Also, Oded, I expected a bit more of a dedicated science-punk attitude from you where the good stuff just gets done rather than bitter grad student/overly long postdoc cynicism creeps in.

Confusing results with productivity is exactly how you cultivate bullshit and busywork.

The most expensive and slow experiment you can do is the poorly planned low yield garbage to have a new gel or low N dataset so the PI doesn't shit on you at lab meeting

/end rant

I love how a lot of the responses are "'well, you'r'e not using the right model" or "the prompting wasn't done right"

Yeah, that's not a good sign when it comes to robustness or performance.

Ross Ainslie & Tim Edey - Pressed for Time YouTube video by Black Dog Radio

Always a banger @jasnah.bsky.social

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Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Mission patch painting for Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis two mission. The earth, pictured as their island, is at the bottom; a bow and arrow with the Canadian space agency coat of arms launches an arrow to circle the moon. Grandmother Moon is pictured surrounded by Anishinaabe depictions of animals in the stars.

This is Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s mission patch for the Artemis II mission, painted by Sagkeeng First Nation artist Henry Guimond. You can read more about it here. In a world full of atrocities I’m moved that Canadians are taking part in science & hope. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.

The 20,000 sailors who have become sitting ducks in the Gulf Interviews and first-hand accounts from sailors stranded in the Persian Gulf — under threat of drone attacks, missiles, and exploding boats — reveal an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis unfolding.

2,000 ships unable to move in the Strait of Hormuz, with some 20,000 seafarers on board. Who cares about those people aboard those ships, literally at the centre of a global crisis?

“Our company has no advice, for now. We just have to endure...”

#journalism

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

If I could yeet one transgene design style in to the sun, it would be the CAG promoter

The number of ways it fucks over honest scientists only rivals the number of people who can't be arsed to do their reading on cis-reg elements and how to get non-shitte expression in their system

Preparations of War, poem by the Hindi poet Kunwar Narayan. I found it in the volume "The Penguin New Writing in India" from 1992. #poetry

NIH Funding Curves (FY 2021 - 2026) – Grant Witness

Exciting News!

Grant-witness.us now has dynamic funding curves like mine for NIH available.

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Bebe Barron

Wendy Carlos

Daphne Oram

Laurie Spiegel

These remarkable women of early electronic music pushed the boundaries of technology and composition, turning circuits, sine waves, and tape loops into music. https://disc.gs/3ZWRk1U

AS one of those people who "escaped to industry" but a good chunk of all the business I do is with academic labs, the funding situation is going to eat academic labs first and in a year me too

The long-dumb-money biotechs funded by friends and neighbours of Stanford and Harvard are close behind

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

indeed, Bluesky's inherent overall hostility to AI means that the AI enthusiasts still willing to hang out here are usually far smarter and more thoughtful than the absolute dribbling freakshow AI cultists who dominate Twitter/X

Une plante qui a l'air dans un état assez peu enviable avec un panneau "I am Alive, Just Weird"

Mood

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Biochem tricks are one thing... I've got mentors who were some of the earliest recombinant DNA psuhers but they remind me that there were never "good old days" just lots of logging counts and screening clones

Being fluent in your current assembly and expression system, now that takes time and years

"'Paper mill Hairball"

Original link:

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In 2025, GISAID cut off access to many critical SARS-CoV-2 resources, incl. our outbreak.info.

A month ago, GISAID leveled accusations against us, Cov-Spectrum, Nextstrain, and members of COG-UK, which are false and misrepresent known facts.

Our joint response:

blog.outbreak.info/joint-respon...

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

JFC I didn't realise it was that bad.

Solidly good science from @merz.bsky.social et al... and the guy obviously appreciates the Canadian Clusterfolk genre, so that's a plus.

Ellison Lab Ellison Lab at University of Georgia.

There are 13 authors on this paper, including 4 undergrads, 3 grad students, research scientists… I have never had more difficulty assigning author order. But most importantly of all: this was an equal effort between my lab and Courtney Ellison's lab at U. Georgia. ellisonlab.org

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