Tonight on Radio Free @aquariumdrunkard.com / @dublab.bsky.social — 4-6pm PST. An hour of Neil deep cuts + an hour of 1970s neo-noir grooves. Like this:

Happy to see this paper from my time with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social out in @theplantcell.bsky.social! Amanda, a fantastic PhD student with Dan, led this "phylo-functional" work & uncovered complex duplication & loss of a glucosinolate gene across the Brassicaceae affecting enantiomeric specificity

I didn't realize this until a week ago

I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A

I personally will never forgive him for saying Jews aren't fit for being in agriculture 😤

I can’t believe a Stanford dropout invented Berkeley!

can't stop thinking about the vesias. hate to say it but people need to be open to the idea that this does almost nothing in an awful time to bring them peace. still hoping it turns out okay for all

ai for good 😁

www.nytimes.com/athletic/675... 😭

is time still real I just woke up

Donald Trump wants regime change in Venezuela. The last time the US invaded a Latin American country was in Panama, in 1989, killing hundreds and displacing thousands. Even afterwards, Panama was destabilized. In today’s NYT, I argue an invasion of Venezuela would be far worse.

insanity

did somebody steal your Infinity Boss Three this weekend in Cambridge? if so it is in front of my house, come and get it!

not a dodger fan but I live here and went to 🐐 fest last night.

Here's my latest, arguing that the ever-swelling US bailout of Argentina is bad economics, bad politics, and bad diplomacy. responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-milei/

In private sector, Bessent made his money by betting that Central Banks would not be able to control their currencies. In government, he is betting that Argentina’s, of all countries, will manage to do so.

graphic design and soy are my twin passions

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Do you know ~60% of human SVs fall in ~1% of GRCh38? See our new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.23057 and the companion blog post on how we started this project and longdust: lh3.github.io/2025/09/29/o.... Work with Alvin Qin

Great news! Experimental gene therapy for Huntington’s markedly slowed disease progression in key trial www.statnews.com/2025/09/24/h... via @statnews.com

I'm hiring for some early-mid career wet lab roles in LA we're building the cattle industries top genomics lab. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... please share with socal pals! cc @nmancuso.bsky.social @docedge.bsky.social

FDA approves first human clinical trials for gene-edited pig kidney transplants www.scrippsnews.com/health/fda-a...

well, I live in g and am pretty happy.

I have seen absolutely zero mention of this on linkedin and a lot of... the other story

I have a whirleypop that I love to make popcorn with I just spent five unsuccessful minutes using it because the fan was born directly on me and the stove

In less than a month, America has gone from “All Politics is Local” to “All Politics is Sokal.”

"We are, quite suddenly, living in a world-changing moment" 380 GW of solar deployed in the first half of the year. No other technology can deliver speed to market or anchor the load growth coming the next few years. The US can add 100GW of rooftop solar+ storage in record time.

New blog post – A quick look at Roche's SBX lh3.github.io/2025/09/11/a...

#sb79 celebratory pic, here's hoping we can slap some more beautiful neighbors in this pic

be careful!

remarkable recent talk from David Baltimore, who died today, on his career and, well, the state of American science youtu.be/XqUK3XkaiNU?...

remarkable recent talk from David Baltimore, who died today, on his career and, well, the state of American science youtu.be/XqUK3XkaiNU?...

Definitely hard to measure, but here is our best attempt from a new benchmarking paper to be preprinted in the next few weeks. Element appears to be the current king of homopolymers. Illumina does worse than HiFi beyond 20 bp. (This is all measured on human DNA)

I want book of job part 7

It's a busy week for manuscripts hitting the journal. First, some nice work by colleagues at NCSU, University of Maryland, and USDA on prioritizing candidate genes associated with complex (quantitative) traits in US Holstein cattle: doi.org/10.3168/jds.....

being pregnant is terrifying. fuck these monsters

What's the difference between dominance and epistasis? Two physically distinct mutations in a gene interact such that the het is identical to one of the homozygotes. If I define the gene as a locus, we call this dominance. If I define each bp as a locus, we call this epistasis.

this chart is insane

let's use this

I'll be speaking in this webinar (go.roche.com/sbx-d) on September 10, where I'll share our benchmarks and observations for Roche's SBX sequencing instrument, as well as models developed by our team for SBX data.

The mainstreaming of crypto, the funneling of retirement money into scam assets, the disinterest in concealing direct bribery to our government leaders--these things are symptoms of a newly manic, predatory approach that will cause incredible economic damage. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...

I feel like genetics sky has gotten back to the quality of pandemic era Twitter. all a far cry from pre 2016 genetics Twitter sadly

absolute self sabotage

For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

I wrote about LA’s 23-bedroom apartments, which are legal, profitable, and spreading like crazy slate.com/business/202...

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.