“The Man In The White Coat” (Hachette Livre), is a stunning 1st novel by an accomplished biologist analogizing their struggles in a magic realistic manner via a lab mouse struggling through scientific experiments. Things take a turn for the strange as the mouse begins writing its own text.
"The selfish ribosome" paper is now published in @plosbiology.org . Have a look! Many thanks to the editors and reviewers!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Momentarily blanking on the phrase "erectile dysfunction" and coming up with "executive dysfunction of the penis".
Not only will heat harm crop plants, but farmers and livestock (animals) and fish too.
I know you know, but articles like this help raise awareness of the coming challenges and why it's imperative that we act yesterday, today, and tomorrow to prepare.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Why is it always me when something needs to be done? Are there other people on this planet willing to work a bit? Oh, yeah, Cat and Naomi, that's alright then!
I am really sorry to hear about yourself being suicidal, but I don't plan to have our planet destroyed without at least giving a fight.
You are saying that like it doesn't negatively affect you.
I think that a lot of discussions about morality is due to the word "moris" being ethymologically opaque to english speakers in the way "нравственность" isn't for russian speakers.
Born OTD, one of the most badass scientists ever born. Neuroscientist and developmental biologist, Rita Levi-Montalcini discovered growth factors and studied how the nervous system develops. The poem she chose for her autobiography "In Praise of Imperfection" is still one of my faves 🧪
Giving a talk about importance of oil spill cleanup and getting referred as "the girl and her Anapa". Yeah folks of course it is "mine" when you gotta do something, alright.
We still haven’t finished oil cleanup in Anapa and now this.
impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community
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When I was a little girl I saw an adjective "япомский" as a typo and never got over it
Oh my god the gay vampires arrived and it’s just so amazing
13th century art of a slave market in Yemen
Let's do another "historical anthropology applied to worldbuilding thread"
Yes, I said no more threads, but there's something I promised to do a thread on a bit back: the subject of slavery, that most ubiquitous of crimes against humanity.
Why do we do this to other human beings? Why so *often?*
kamome shirahama went bonkers mode for this one
Here's a movie singing praise of importance of such people
youtu.be/Glle7qNMxCE
Soviet Union had this resolved by making the most annoying, introverted, unsociable, marginalized people in charge of making standards and construction bureaus.
It's an important point that is seen regardless of whether the society is actually organized based on empirical data and rational principles: the exact same normalfags that sing praise to Trump in the USA will be CCP members in China.
It's the marginals that you should listen to.
Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!
“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.”
OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.)
NSF at -42%!
I just write my lab notes in a conlang on a piece of paper.
seeing ppl talking about passkeys & i just wonder if the risk of you getting your device snatched from hand by the gestapo thug - which is increasingly real in the west(tm) and not just a thing for inferior collectivists in the totalitarian east who won't rise up for freedom - is addressed anywhere
In a less paranoid world it would have been a very nice bit to do a "Can a biologist make High Enriched Uranium?" stream. @poppyhaze.bsky.social @atinygreencell.bsky.social @lowrhoufo.bsky.social
Electrophoretic separation of Li-6&Li-7 and B-10&B-11 in "Электрофоретическое разделение близких по химическим свойствам ионов, включая изотопические, в препаративных и аналитических целях", Москвин и др., 2023
DOI: 10/q3tk
If KAngel and audience are truly separate is yet to be seen. See this conspect of Dugin's lecture on anthropology and ontology of the theater.
"who's smerdyakov" a good question. is smerdyakov kangel or is smerdyakov the audience.
for needy girl overdose: would one contemplate that of the three karamazovs, nechika = mitya, michica = vanya, & purple lollipop = alyosha
Materials science folks really think that they deserve to live, huh.