Fucking modern snowflakes...😡

"Spanish Flu" says hi.

If everyone has that attitude, nothing will ever happen?

The real joke is the electoral college: a useless hangover from the days before the reliable telegraph!!

great article in @quantamagazine.bsky.social by natalie wolchover on the bacterial flagellum and proton motive force. alas, I missed this great model on what happens to the stators during gear-shifting. see it in STC:
smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
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I do try 😎

Sure they didn’t - but enough did to enable The Orange Moron and his alcoholic sidekicks to do what they’re doing. The fact that efforts to stop the stupidity seem not to be working is also an indictment of your political system. Stop the reflex jingoism, maybe?

Really pushing this single ***** thing, eh, Wordle 1,767 4/6? 😎

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Smart fella, that Holmes!

Indeed!!

I have not! Thanks.

In a nutshell. 😊

Expanding insights into plant rhabdovirus diversity through the discovery of viruses representing 32 putative novel species
April 2026 Archives of Virology 171(5)
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-026-06609-1
Ioannis Tzanetakis's Lab
38 authors - new paper, a must-read, virology at its very best!

In collaboration with Nicola Muller, and led by @lambod50.bsky.social, we have a new preprint out that's all about reassortment! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Using TargetedBeast, we built massive (9000 tips!) Bayesian phylogenies of North American H5Nx viruses, and inferred the host...

And organised animal husbandry!

Ziggy does not approve of this clean look.

Don’t bother - except to repost what you post here, and guide people to the platform!

Anyone wearing maks there?

Many paths, similar destinations: viruses and bacterial microcompartments form polyhedra inside cells | Journal of Virology Icosahedral proteinaceous shells are important containers for many biological functions. These shells are capable of self-directed assembly from one or a few subunits, are relatively optimal in surface to volume ratio, and are inherently stable and robust to protect their internal cargo. Understanding shell properties is crucial for a number of disciplines. In virology, many capsids are icosahedral and protect the genetic cargo from environmental onslaughts and host defense mechanisms. Understanding the structure and assembly pathways of viral shells can guide rational drug design, vaccine development, receptor or immune-antibody-binding studies, etc. (1, 2). For bacterial microcompartments (BMCs), these shells both cluster and protect segments of both anabolic (carboxysome) and catabolic (metabolosome) pathways. BMC shells also provide selective permeability for the exchange of metabolites with the bulk environment. Encapsulins are classified as bacterial nanocompartments and are distinct from BMCs. Encapsulins serve diverse functions, with roles in stress response, iron storage, and detoxification, to name a few (3, 4). Understanding BMC and encapsulin structures can inform us about the diverse functions of these shells in nature, and this knowledge can be used to guide the design of synthetic BMCs for bioengineering (5) and biomedical (6) applications.

Many paths, similar destinations: viruses and bacterial microcompartments form polyhedra inside cells journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Fuckwit attack!!

And he plays guitar. I hate him…😩

Identification of hot spring Obelisk-like RNA replicons and expanded diversity of the Obelisk superfamily

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It is a very fine journal 😁

This is not acceptable!! Consult others!!!

A Most Bit­ter En­emy by Mechas — Uncovering the diversity of bacterial defenses against their most abundant enemies.

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"Theirs was a bitter and ancient enmity, spanning, lo, billenia!!"

The Man Who Called Himself Jesus YouTube video by The Strawbs - Topic

There's a song for that!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMKO...

Every virus family we thought to be mammalian is found in lower vertebrates (eg, jawless fish)