Spell-check, y'all. "Protien" and "Altenretively" are kinda distracting from your message 😬

Same vibe…

A blue Smith-Corona electric typewriter from circa 1970 sits on the uncommonly tidy desk of a middle-aged midwestern biology professor.

I still keep one in my office!

Jill wondered if maybe it’s a picture book 🤷‍♂️😬😂

Absolutely! I am working on getting the ms in final form for BioRxiv and then (probably) JBC, hopefully by early January. I’ll be in touch 👍🏻

Did my semi-annual perusal of my Facebook feed and saw an ad for books from Springer.

One of these is not like the others…

We just pulled Vps13 out of a screen for strains defective in retrograde PM to ER lyso-PC transport! So very apropos at the moment. Super interesting structure in general too, looks like a lipid slip n’ slide!

Nebraska and Iowa are both EPSCoR and INBRe states so…isn’t that already factored in? We already get a little bump relative to population size so 🤷‍♂️

I thought and thought, how do I know that name? Former student? Social media? 🤔

So I searched on here, and wouldn’t you know!?!? I knew I’d seen that name. And we don’t know each other at all, either, but that just makes it more surprising how small the world can be!

One of my kids had a band concert tonight at Lincoln Southwest HS, and as I was waiting to file into the gym, I noticed a LSW alum from 2012 who was highlighted as a Science Olympiad winner. Name was familiar…
@celestelabedz.bsky.social

I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.

A visual chemistry pun in which the letters “PhD” are attached at the 1 and 4 positions of a benzene ring, and another with crude drawings of garments one might wear on one’s lower half are attached at the 1 and 4 positions of a separate benzene ring.

Get it?

About to drive across town in a snowstorm to pick this up. Typewriter #9 for the collection, early ‘60’s Olivetti Lettera 32. Same model as the one Cormac McCarthy typed ~5 million words on.

Now I can write my own Blood Meridian! That’s how this works, right?

a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america ' ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '

Obligatory…

a man wearing a camouflage hat says so i got that going for me ALT: a man wearing a camouflage hat says so i got that going for me

I just deadlifted 350 lbs…

ASBMB must have cringed at a later date and taken that down since it now 404’s. But yeah that was a doozie.

Bakin’ bacon…

What Makes an Experiment Beautiful? A beautiful experiment is not just a reflection of human ingenuity but also efficient science.

Some nice thoughts here. Of course Meselson and Stahl (my personal favorite) make an appearance, as well as Nirenberg and Matthaei and many others. If you need inspiration today to keep plugging along (which I do!), this is for you.

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Lincoln, NE last night. 48 years old, lived my entire life in Missouri, Michigan, Colorado, and Nebraska, and that was my first time ever seeing the aurora!

Frank likes to roll around under the ottoman, and with the color and pattern of the rug, he’s pretty effectively camouflaged…

Two wiener dogs sitting in a chair, looking charismatic

A headshot of Wham from the late 80’s

My wife sent me a pic of the wiener bros and I think it would make a good album cover. Theres a vibe…

This is the line I highlight as my favorite in all of biomedical literature when I teach DNA structure in my spring Molecular Biology course. Lol…

Lucy and her mantis friend at age 5, and hissing cockroach friends at age 13… I think she may have inherited the entomologist gene from me!

The many faces of my little red weenie boy, George, who is 5 years old today!

Sometimes I wonder how all the different coat colors and patterns in, say, Dachshunds came to be. Then I see posts like the one below and it’s like “oh, yeah, one popped up in a litter randomly and was selected.”

To paraphrase Monod: What‘s true of Lima beans is true of wiener dogs…

No harm other than a strip of sod torn out, but the chunks of wheel and body panel they left in the yard after fleeing on the rim…well, we’re glad no one was hurt 😬

The person who lost control of their car and drove through my yard late Wednesday did manage to miss the 12-foot skeletons and for that, I am grateful 🙏

George Beadle is kneeling with the dog. This was just before he went to work with Ed Tatum. Charles Burnham is top left, went on to U of Minnesota and worked on cereal breeding of various sorts.

Don’t forget George Beadle and the dog (whose name I used to know but have forgotten)

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