Burying beetles are very exciting (also from an immunological point of view) as they have their offspring in the most inhospitable of environments: the carcasses of dead mice. They manage to turn this environment into a place where insect development can take place. How?👇
youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE
Somatic mutations in microglia brain cells (the same mutations as seen in cancer) are enriched in and may drive the neuroinflammation of Alzheimer's disease
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
JUST IN! 'The Complete 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia' by Kenny Dorham
Collection of live performances captured at a legendary New York venue from the jazz trumpeter.
www.normanrecords.com/records/2147...
Σε τοπικές εξάρσεις μιας μολυσματικής ασθένειας (ανθρώπων, ζώων δεν έχει σημασία) ο εμβολιασμός είναι μονόδρομος. Αυτό που συμβαίνει τώρα είναι μια μέγιστη βαρβαρότητα αλλά και μια τόσο πρόχειρη αντιμετώπιση που οδηγεί σε επιτάχυνση της διασποράς (και) λόγω της προχειρότητας της ταφής των ζώων.
Amazing!
Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment.
So here's a 🧵. /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very sorry to hear these sad news. She was an incredible scientist with contributions that I greatly admired. Deepest condolences to you and the entire family.
Εν κατακλείδι: «Για κάθε Έλληνα που λιώνει κάνοντας την έρευνά του σε ένα εργαστήριο του εξωτερικού, αυτή η υπόθεση δεν είναι παρά μια ακόμα θλιβερή υπενθύμιση για τον λόγο για τον οποίο δεν θα επιστρέψει ποτέ στη χώρα του.» www.lifo.gr/stiles/optik...
“It is certainly a great pleasure to publish in Development, a journal that I have been publishing in throughout my career (from PhD to postdoc to group leader) and consider one of the major journals in the field. The Read & Publish agreement with Oxford is a huge help and speaks to the high esteem that the journals of The Company of Biologists are held.”
Thank you @petrosligoxygakis.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @dev-journal.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @ox.ac.uk @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Read Petros’ paper bit.ly/48LOBgl
Check if your institution is also participating: bit.ly/3O7BxGi
Remembering Pete Shelley on his birthday. Here are Buzzcocks performing Love You More at Manchester's Free Trade Hall in 1978
What a song!
A scientist drills a skull in search of ancient human DNA
Until now, scientists have identified only a few dozen variants that went through natural selection in humans in the past 10,000 years. A new study claims to find hundreds--maybe thousands. Here's my story on the provocative research, and the mixed reception it's getting. Gift link: nyti.ms/4tSJH9G
‘People living in the 20% most deprived areas in England are almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital due to infectious diseases than the least deprived.’
Health inequalities are structural and interlinked with social factors such as poverty, housing and employment
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That there are pushbacks of migrants by Greek police we knew (despite the near blanket ban on reporting by Greek Media). Here is elaboration on some of the methods. Greek police using masked migrants to forcibly push other migrants back across border www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🚨 New lab preprint alert! 🚨
A study 6 years in the making, made possible by @simonsfoundation.org support : "A multi-omic atlas in the African turquoise killifish reveals increased glucocorticoid signaling as a hallmark of brain aging" now on #biorXiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A 🧵 1/11 🧪🖥️🧬
Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak “This country has given me endless opportunities…: The America we inhabit today bears almost no resemblance to the country I chose all those years ago” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...
Stunning illustration of how advances in cellular genomics can disentangle links between gene variants & clinical outcomes. Here, saturation editing revealed distinct neurodevelopmental disorders involving the same non-protein-coding gene. 🙌 @nickywhiffin.bsky.social @gregfindlay.bsky.social & co🧬🔬🧪
Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post
New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...
This week @hugorifkind.bsky.social joins @aiannucci.bsky.social to chat about religious language in politics. What is Trump's favourite bible passage? Why did the Pope rebuke Hegseth? And we ponder the age-old question—which Easter has been best, militarily?
opiniontoday.substack.com/i/193667505/...
![Los Four Star - Volando En Las Nubes [Peru, Psychedelic Garage Surf Rock] (1970)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wv2gr2o7ax7r3ns5yjcyckgm/bafkreiamtnlkccekkfreeozvhtrpqjvskr3ikhuafvyvkh2rf3zpozvguy)
Los Four Star - Volando En Las Nubes [Peru, Psychedelic Garage Surf Rock] (1970)
https://redd.it/ux18v5
https://youtu.be/Qb_imsWf1DU
In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19.
The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I:
pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995
🧪 #covidorigin
Some very cool biology right here 👇
You’ve never seen the Moon like this before
*Artemis II
This is what happens when 77 million people take leave of their senses and put a manifestly unqualified, unfit, mentally ill narcissistic man-child in charge of the country and the world's most powerful. military. This is what happens when the media 'bothsides' election coverage.
Well, horses / courses. This nice man seems to have enjoyed himself, a couple of stops I would recommend to visitors, a couple of others - not so much. But many exceptional places within a few yards of this route got overlooked. Spoiler; he didn’t find London’s best store.
youtu.be/7Lxt62qtPYM?...
Which is? (Asking for a friend…)
[being lazy I always tend to gravitate towards Reckless and Sounds of the Universe].
