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.

Do I even have emotional states that cannot be described as "mild motivation"?

Peruvian peoples colonize the world when they invent agriculture and bring tubers to a world that only has mung beans and sprouts for low density agriculture.

LRT I am pretty sure that gnostic archons are based off roman hegemons so Mr. Beast is more of a child concept to the concept of Archon than anything

This video made me go from thinking about Mr. Beast as a shitty, self-interested businessman with a pleasant facade to something approaching a Gnostic Archon who endeavours to hide the Knowledge and Truth from people, his own ignorance blinding him to the enormity of his actions.

1/ Excited to share our preprint! 🥳

Degradation of aromatic compounds, including BTEX pollutants, requires highly endergonic aromatic ring reduction. Using #cryoEM and in situ #cryoET, we show how BCRII couples electron bifurcation modules in one giant redox machine

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to present our latest story: the BCRII complex with the Boll and @cellarchlab.com . Months of processing by @rnfr2d2.bsky.social. Also @tomaspascoa.bsky.social and @tamb-o.bsky.social managed an in-situ tour de force. And Lena Appel did amazing biochemistry. This story has it all. Enjoy it.

Always read any story with a custom-built 7-foot-long sephadex column, that's my motto.

in america, polyamorists are whispered about as unnervingly well-prepared for board games. This is just one of the many stereotypes facing our community. I hear in Poland they see polyamorists as smug bastards with houses full of working lightbulbs

The push for institutional neutrality, like the so-called “free-speech crisis,” was always a right wing ploy to get universities to stop pointing out obvious things like “fascists are ascendant” and “racism is bad.”

It is sad that so many university “leaders” took the bait.

Scheme of the experimental design.

New insights uncover broader functions of HvVRN2 in barley flowering and adaptation

Montardit-Tarda et al. @fmontardittarda.bsky.social @philippaborrill.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

You know what, the people who sculpted that Cagliostro figure I have were right, that lady would wear bloomers.

Production of skill en masse, especially with how inescapable light is is a damn hard task, akin to teaching kids to swim when the classroom is being flooded. It's more efficient to create Darkness.