Excited to share our new preprint on rhizobacterial biosensors mapping sucrose exudation 🌱
Work spanning my TomKat postdoc in @josedinneny.bsky.social's lab to my own lab at @universityofga.bsky.social; co-first with my PhD student Gretchen Brinkman: 🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries
He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination
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Five black-necked stilts flying
Two black-necked stilts landing in a marsh
Four black-necked stilts wading in water
Just now in Big Marsh Park, I saw five black-necked stilts — a species I’ve never seen before! They’re hanging out near the park’s southeast corner.
Welcome home, Sweet Prince 🤍 – Imani has also returned to Montrose! 🤍⭐️
The boys are back in town. Let's go!!!
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani and Pippin, Montrose Protected Beach, April 13, 2026)
THE BOYS ARE BACK
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
I REPEAT:
THE BOYS
ARE BACK
A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place.
This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.
Here's why.
So Trump's response to failing to enter into a joint toll booth venture w/Iran in Hormuz is to declare that it will blockade Iran's blockade?
An image of Westerbork camp - a wide road with barracks standing in two lines on both sides. A lot of people visible in the background.
12 April 1945 | Canadian soldiers liberated the transit camp Westerbork in the German-occupied Netherlands, from where Jews were taken mainly to #Auschwitz and Sobibor. 876 prisoners were liberated.
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📖 Jews deported from the occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
New Substack Post.
These Republican-leaving States Went Big on Minimum Wages.
Here's What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.
Agree on all points.
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.
Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
This is a *terrific* piece which drives home two key points:
People with special needs often have special skills, so hiring them isn't some noble sacrifice you're making but a savvy investment.
Accommodations for people with special needs almost always wind up benefiting everyone else too.
Vivian Maier 'Twins in Easter Bonnets', 1950s
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Easter Sunday in Harlem, New York, 1947
A photograph of Bevis Marks synagogue in the City of London, built in 1701. The photograph shows a close up of a brown-red brick building, with a grand wooden front door with a gas lamp, large windows, and a clock and a sign with some hebrew characters above the door. The image comes from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bevis_Marks_Synagogue_P6110044.JPG
📢 NEW WILL OF THE MONTH POST 📢
📜 March's post explores the will of David de Crasto, the hazzan of the Bevis Marks synagogue.
De Crasto left a bequest of 'all my Hebrew Books in my Desk at the Synagogue', as well as charitable bequests to the congregation 📖
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
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Demonstrators march in the loop during a “No Kings” rally Saturday in Chicago
Ice agents
1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.
In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Poster that says No Kings. Hands Off Chicago. Organized by ACLU of Illinois, Chicago Federation of Labor, Equality Illinois, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Indivisible Chicago Alliance, Personal PAC, Sierra Club Illinois. Saturday, March 28, 1:30 pm. Butler Field at Grant Park. Thank you to all our partner organizations.
❌👑 3/28: Let's rise up & say NO THRONES - NO CROWNS - NO KINGS!
📅📍 Sat. March 28, 1:30 pm, Butler Field/Grant Park
ℹ️ bit.ly/NoKingsChiMarch28
✊ Chicago organizing partners: ACLU of IL, chicagolabor.bsky.social, Equality IL, ICIRR, Indivisible Chicago, Personal PAC, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club IL
Sounded like it just happened again?
Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court.
DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses!
DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations."
DOJ blames ICE (page 2)
Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.
Heard them go by, didn't see them
Judge says, ok, so if Anthropic asks annoying questions they can be designated as a supply chain risk?
just a breathtaking self-own here from Ted Cruz
16 years ago today, Barack Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act, without which I would not be alive to teach health policy. Bringing the uninsured rate to a historic low, it was, to quote Joe Biden, a BFD.
It is crucial that this law continue to be strengthened, not quietly defanged.
I think people need to understand that when you're quibbling over Graham Platner, coming up with hypothetical scenarios where voting for him is a lesser evil, or worse, defending him outright, you're literally asking what level of Nazism is OK in American politics.
The only answer is none.
A brief nontechnical primer on what the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) achieved, what it didn't and what has changed since 2015 is useful to understanding how we got to where we are now.
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