1/"I have a presentation tomorrow." If you've ever collaborated with wet lab scientists as a bioinformatician… you’ve heard this. And died inside a little.

Should be a great seminar on plant synthetic biology - tools, social aspects and molecular circuits. Please share with your colleagues and networks and look forward to seeing you there!

People do just be coming on the internet and typing any old shit

ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

I just noticed that @clarivate.com has a strong statement against using Journal Impact Factor to evaluate individual articles and researchers. clarivate.com/academia-gov...

Tto be clear, if this passes in the US it's basically nail in the coffin for the free internet in the long run. Everything will want age verification, all major markets will have a law like this/online safety act, platforms will standardize, and a VPN won't save you. The end of the internet.

🚨Our new article is out in #PLOS Pathogens! What drives nestedness in phages–bacteria interactions network in an agro-ecosystem? 🌱 📖 journals.plos.org/plospathogen... #Phagesky @inrae-pv.bsky.social @phimresearch.bsky.social @phagedirectory.bsky.social (Yes, that's a phage in those kinetics!)

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

Have been thinking about the stakes of this fight, about what happens if we lose Gonna write about this at greater length later, but like..... if we lose this very specific fight, we cross a HUGE portion of the space between our society and Nazi Germany in a single bound

The principle being contended for – they're very explicit about this – is that trying to watch what the secret police does, for purposes of democratic accountability, is a capital offense Indeed, that citizen observers have no rights that the secret police is bound to respect

We love to see it! Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️ github.com/zoicware/Rem...

I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

I asked ChatGPT what will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here's what it said to me: Que sera, sera Whatever will be, will be The future's not ours to see Que sera, sera STICK YOUR HAND IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

You can say Merry Protein again

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this

There is always an XKCD

Not least because if you actually *want* more people to do high paying tertiary qualifications, you’re creating a weird situation where an electrician on a higher salary is paying less tax than an English teacher. Not clear what the value of this is.

Look, does our university fee system create an active market in higher education? No. But does it function to incentivise investment in your education and encourage aspiration? Well, also no. But at least it does fund the universities? Ha, you're not going to believe this.

Meat would be healthy, but it’s full of microplastics. Fruits and vegetables would be healthy, but they’re doused in pesticides. Play it safe with a diet of powders, potions, shakes, and sludge. The healthiest foods come from cardboard boxes. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

This Greg Bovino? The one dressed like a Mr Benn they had to take out of rotation for… reasons…

Who could have predicted thi… wait… hang on a second…

I've never read it, so you know what? I downloaded a PDF and will rectify that oversight.

🇺🇦🌊 20-meter-high Manyava waterfall completely frozen over due to frost One of the highest waterfalls in the Ukrainian Carpathians has turned into an ice sculpture.

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

Being able to move through Europe freely without a visa.

'SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES' CLOCK Huge thanks for all of yesterday's orders for our new 'Schools and Colleges' clock. Last few available in the shop for shipping in February. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com/product/scho...

🫠 This is Kapustin Yar, from where Russia launched an Oreshnik One such missile costs around $50 million. That would be enough to turn the village into a paradise. Instead, these losers are living in their own shit and trying to drag neighboring countries into their own shit too.

There is no reason why every Democrat shouldn't talk like this, maybe even be harsher. Not doing so either reveals a massive ethical flaw or incredible political ineptitude.

1/ Worth noting, I think, is that Trump/Vance/right-wing-chorus response to the murder of Renee Nicole Good is INTENTIONALLY cruel. It is a choice. A decision. I don't think anything can justify the ICE agent's actions. But, the administration could stand by the agent and make its self-defense...

happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

This says a lot about where the world is at present… www.politico.eu/article/fran...

That's a good headline, @theguardian.com

The one things he’s definitely not is injured.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

JD Vance Claims Renée Good Had No Authority To Be Alive In First Place

If you don't want to be shot to death by an officer of ICE, don't taunt them with incendiary rage-bait like, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you." Otherwise the three bullets in your face will be your own fault.

What the body cam reveals Renee Good, while calmly moving her car, seconds before her death: “I’m not mad at you” ICE agent Jonathan Ross, after shooting and killing her: “F*cking b*tch” At no time does the video show Ross was struck by the car, or needed to use deadly force Yet still they lie

There is no universe in which this doesn’t support the interpretation that the ICE individual is a murderer.

"Men fear women will laugh at them; women fear men will kill them." -- Margaret Atwood, Waterloo University, February 1982

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

Save the date for phylogenetics! RNA virus Journal Club returns ( @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) with @evogytis.bsky.social intro to his "Baltic" - python module to visualise phylogenetic trees. January 15th (Thu) - EEST Vilnius Time 3:00 PM Join slack for updates: join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...

Timeline cleanse

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

New paper up - inspired by the periodic table of the elements, we attempted to organize bacterial diversity in genome-inferred trait space academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...