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The Age of Aquaticus Podcast-Folge · Radiolab · 25.04.2025 · 43 Min.

If you have people in your life who could use examples for why we all benefit from basic research, Radiolab has a nice episode out :

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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Bhattacharya yesterday: "cuts to DEI grants have been misunderstood... The term does not apply to studying disease in minority populations, which “are a central focus of the NIH”

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Short n' sweet YouTube video by Daniel Stark - Topic

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Coast Salish family dressed in traditional garb.

A collection of Coast Salish weavings. They have geometric patterns.

Before Europeans landed in North America, the Pacific Northwest was populated by the Coast Salish people, who had been here for thousands of years. During the 19th century, many made a living by selling woven blankets to traders. The blankets typically featured geometric designs.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Science Education in an Age of Misinformation

At the risk of adding something constructive to this thread, we need to quit it with the naive folk-Popperian caricature of science as an exercise of pure reason unconnected to human motives and start teaching the social process of science in high school if not sooner.

sciedandmisinfo.stanford.edu

Writing a literature review is thinking. It is reading, choosing, summarizing, cross pollinating ideas and building the foundations for your own research. Every part of that process is necessary to do on your own--offloading any of that onto LLMs is a sign of a crappy academic.

Something to remember is that the Techbro billionaire class were rarely the actual tech pioneers. They're the ones who bankrolled it, or engineered a controlling share interest.

They're just Railway Robber Barons 2.0.

It's why they're crap at actual tech. Their 'skill' was money, timing or theft.

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Zuck and his cronies make clear how easy it is for privileged men to cosplay as feminists while promoting patriarchy and harboring sexist views.

Ahead of season 2 of How to Talk About Health, I'm sharing episodes from season 1 you may have missed. First, Dr. Alice Cheng gives a masterclass on ways to talk about difficult topics in clear and empathetic ways. how-to-talk-about-health-with-krista-lamb.simplecast.com/episodes/eff...

Goodbye to my lovely plants that got me through 5 Quebec winters! 😢

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

New starter pack focussed on Biomedical Scientists at Canadian universities and research institutes. Please reach out if I missed you or one of your colleagues!
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How Adani's Indictment Rocked His Empire and What Comes Next US Justice Department bribery charges against the Indian tycoon have sent his conglomerate’s stocks and bonds tumbling. The implications for US-India relations stretch much further.

NEW: US Justice Department bribery charges against the Indian tycoon Gautam Adani have sent his conglomerate’s stocks and bonds tumbling.

The implications for US-India relations stretch much further. Read The Big Take for more ⤵️

New episode of Sandy @sandela.bsky.social & Nora @nolore.bsky.social is here 👇.
This week, they talk about this place. As people flock to #Bluesky to be on a social platform that allows us to interact with other humans again, they remind us of an important fact: for-profit tech will not save us.

How does PRC1 counteract transcription?

See this preview from @adrianbracken.bsky.social and I on an exciting new study from @robklose.bsky.social lab where they show ncPRC1 blocks the early stages of transcription.

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@conwayer1.bsky.social for title inspo!

miss my tomato plants.

Read–write mechanisms of H2A ubiquitination by Polycomb repressive complex 1 Nature - Cryo-electron microscopy and biochemical studies elucidate the read–write mechanisms of non-canonical PRC1-containing RYBP in histone H2A lysine 119 monoubiquitination and their...

Please see our paper in Nature on read-write mechanisms of H2AK119 ubiquitination by Polycomb repressive complex I. Congrats to the whole team, especially Victoria and huge thanks to our collaborator JP Armache! Also big thanks to Mark Foundation for Cancer Research for the support! rdcu.be/dZ5HZ

Migrating my Twitter posts to Bsky | The Doctor I joined twitter all the way back in 2010, and it helped me make friends in a new city. It helped me create a surrogate family of people I like while I was pursuing my PhD, and more than anything the ...

wrote the blog post here - and parked my tweets on @tweet.lucidillusions.in XD

does have obvious limitations, but definitely a thing to do cause it was not all shitepost :P

Calling all #urban ecologists, wildlife biologists, conservation scis and socScis and anyone else who wants to join the nature party happening in our cities!
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Just waiting for the menswearguy to move onto bsky cause his knowledge is so fascinating but then he'll not be able to roast people on here as much

Putting together packs of transcription and Chromatin people - Nominate others to add! go.bsky.app/5zgpZfg