Looks like I've got myself a new project tomorrow!

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Study Finds Each Protein in the Epigenome Produces a Different Pattern of Gene Expression A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a gene on or off.

We've known that the proteins in the epigenome control DNA expression, but we thought they were just on-off switches.
They're not. They're more.

This is pretty remarkable.
🧪🔬🧬

news.ncsu.edu/2026/04/each...

Played Ada’s Dream this weekend. It’s a heavy board game that inhabits the world of Ada Lovelace.

You can give lectures at the Royal Astronomical Society and the door even looks familiar.

Such a love letter to the history of science.

🔭🧪⚛️

Image: Meeple Mountain

Highlighted: “They didn’t present to me as something that was going to be any bigger than filling a 1000-seat venue, any bigger than the entirety of the career of Mudhoney,” he added, referring to another Seattle grunge band." In fact, Jacobs said, he thought Nirvana would not be as successful as Mudhoney. “Mudhoney’s first EP is the gold standard for grunge,” Jacobs said.

Also some of the quotes here really hit me in the #Xennial. On Nirvana:

A Chicago Man’s 10,000 Concerts on Tape Are Becoming Digital History

This is a really lovely story of #archivism in #music - i.e. what we know about really only scratches the surface of what was there. It's like digging up the ruins of Pompeii except it's 30 years ago instead of 2,000. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/a...

I know that guy!

Writing a YouTube script and thankful for everyone fighting for open access to be affordable for scientists 🧪

I have no official institutional affiliation and being able to read these papers fully (not just abstracts) is tangibly enhancing my understanding and, thus, the quality of my pitch/product

Jury Finds Live Nation Acts as a Monopoly in a Victory for States

This feels like it could be a pretty big thing. Ticket prices have been astronomical since COVID. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...

That game was leftover salmon

Apple Jacks Commercial 1994 YouTube video by 90s Commercials

uh-oh! a psyop!

And Ted (like we are buddies) makes a great point about ppl like me saying "see! I didn't like them, they were no good!" superiority. There's plenty of stuff that was dropped in my lap by the algorithm that I like just fine and I am not mad at it for that.

Of course Ted Leo has a great perspective on this, and his point is well taken. The "marketing" worked insomuch as I Iistened to one of their songs twice, which is a lot for something I didn't like the first time.

listening to Your Favorite Songs 2023, Part 1 Every year inevitably ends, and I realize that, as much music I listened to, there was so much more that I just totally missed out on. So for this blog, rather than share my own "top" music or "best" ...

You Will Never Regret Asking Other People Who Are Alive And Actually Exist For Their Music Recommendations

www.ienjoymusic.net/your-favorit...

Hands on a piano keyboard Credit: Unsplash/Jordan Whitfield.

Why Your Brain Already Understands Complex Music Theory Without Ever Taking a Single Piano Lesson

Our brains master complex musical rules just through listening.

Listeners Systematically Integrate Hierarchical Tonal Context, Regardless of Musical Training🏺🧪
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sensational headline aside, an interesting dive on what it takes to go viral, and how it’s not that hard if you have the labor power to do it. (I never liked them anyway)

Ok this is the part that’s fascinating to me. I wonder how much knowing this information changes people’s perceptions (it didn’t yours, but how many might say “I never liked them anyway”)

It doesn’t affect how I regard the band (which I like!) but does make it clear how hard it is for unfunded acts to break into the mainstream, and how folks with money to spend can manipulate the digital cesspool

Many such cases ofc

For sure—but the evolution of what “PR things” entails is worth explaining, especially as those same things (namely, creating fake accounts to drive messaging and manipulate algos) are used to drive agendas around trials, crises, campaigns, controversies etc

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - What We Did on Our Summer Vacation

Hierarchy of Fundamental Evolved Motives

The hierarchy of fundamental evolved motives. It essentially shows the sequence of the assembly of the conditional operators of complex social creatures.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 #EvoBio

US Grid scale storage increased from 1 GW in 2016 to 65 GW in 2026 YTD and is expected to reach 88 GW by 2027.

The US added ~8GW of storage per year on average over the past decade. And that rate is increasing with time. The percent change for the projected increase from 1 GW to 88GW in 2027 works out to: 100*(88-1)/1 = 8700% 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Thanks to this thread, I made a video on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=51sj...

A drawing of a guitar player with thought bubbles around them displaying other tools of art.

Today, the first episode of Taste the Music, an interview show about how musicians, writers, and artists of all kinds choose to create, and sometimes why they choose not to: TasteTheMusic.org #Podcast

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Area Man Just Wants To Throw One Good Punch In His Life

Area Man Just Wants To Throw One Good Punch In His Life theonion.com/area-man-just-wants-to-t...

Love this album! Holds up, too.

The funniest part about yesterday's SCOWIS election results is that Chris Taylor got more votes than Maria Lazar in Chippewa County. Why is that funny? Because Susan Crawford lost to Brad Schimel in Chippewa County in 2025.

And we grew up in Chippewa Falls!! 😆

A super-simple voting guide to today’s 2026 Spring Election On Tuesday, April 7, Wisconsin will vote in the 2026 Spring Election. It’s super important and individual votes matter.

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