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Just found these in the basement. made when I was an undergrad #bacteriophages are the coolest! Also note that the duck is laying an egg (I think?). Questionable.

Are you looking for your next role in structural biology? Take a look at vacant positions through Instruct-ERIC, including the Team leader position at the cryo-EM facility of the Ernst Ruska-Centre at @fz-juelich.de! Find out more and apply here - instruct-eric.org/jobs/team-le...

Greenland has announced it will annex the United States, citing humanitarian concerns, chronic leadership instability, and an urgent need to protect valuable land from reckless mismanagement. Officials assured Americans they'll soon enjoy free healthcare, quieter politics, and less gold plating.

FEMA denies Colorado disaster declaration requests www.cpr.org/2025/12/22/f... #copolitics

In the span of four days, we’ve built a coalition of over 80 lawmakers — including several Republicans — to stop the dismantling of NCAR. I’m grateful to them for their efforts as we work to secure language protecting NCAR in the upcoming CJS appropriations bill. We will not back down! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

one of my lab members took this on friday. super scary. pre=emptive power shutdown was a good thing I guess. no major fires and fingers crossed it will stay that way. Temps in the 70ies and still windy. this is insane #dontlookup

Man Ray - Character (Seated Woman) 1939.

No power since wed 10 am. No end in sight

to this I say: this will be the new normal. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

still ferocious winds in #boulder, temps in the 60ies and bone dry. Fire crews on high alert. Please please no fires. Conditions are exactly the same as during the #marshallfire. Downed power lines everywhere. I guess good thing that much of the power is shut off across the region.

NWS in Boulder, CO has just issued a rare "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Red Flag Warning for extreme fire weather risk on Friday. Historically, PDS RFW issuances (including in California) have pinpointed days on which the most dangerous wildfires have occurred. #COwx

I cannot stress enough how much PIs appreciate hand written notes from graduating mentees. I cherish each one, & many are hanging in my office. Related, if you left a while ago & have good news, we love to get emails from former mentees! Let us celebrate with you! Today I was lucky to get both 💜

This is really cool and important.

24 hours with it power and Xcel provided their last update 17 hours ago. Nice.

🚨BREAKING: We just learned that the court in my lawsuit — Neguse et al. v. ICE — has temporarily stopped the Trump administration from blocking Members of Congress from unannounced oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The rule of law will prevail.

I can't believe this still needs to be said (and more loudly): Trans rights are human rights.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care. This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.

Glad for those old #pierone candles. 8 hours into a precautionary power outage caused by extreme wind.

Scary as all get out. #nih #standupforscience www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

after the disastrous #marshallfire in December 2021, another day of high winds, high temperatures, and extreme drought in Boulder. Xcel Energy is shutting down all power in the area tomorrow. All microscopes are going down. I'd much rather have a snow day! But better save than sorry.

'Major turning point': EVs make up over a quarter of global car sales in 2025 www.businessgreen.com/news/4523258...

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y'all this is a NICE #quilt #quiltsky. pretty pleased with how it turned out, without a lot of planning and using scraps mostly.

No student should have to worry about being a victim when pursuing education. No professor or teacher should have to navigate gun violence either (thinking of past incidents at the University of Arizona and UNC, Chapel Hill). We need change now.

Two things i dont love about this winter: 1) lack of snow (#snowdrought!!!) - its really way worse than the picture indicates.2) the fact that moths are eating my nice merinowool base layers. ONLY those. I am not good at all at darning.

As I said, a deeply sick country.

Opuntia phaeacantha, our Tulip Pricklypear cactus, blooming north of Pueblo #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 12 🌿

#ArtAdventCalendar Gel Electrophoresis in Green and Blue, watercolor, 2023 #sciart

Another baby #quilt done and gone. Used up a good amount of scraps, and first bigger project on the gracie.

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Delighted to share our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We address a longstanding question about the role of the topoisomerase reverse gyrase in hyperthermophiles. Great collaboration with Baranello and @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social groups. #Archaeasky #Microsky

Congratulations Julia!

Somebody drew a picture of me.

Martina has always been my hero. To this day!

Sophie KInsella (Madelaine Wickham) has passed at the early age of 55 and the world is poorer for it. Her books are fun amd clever reads, escapism and '#chicklit' at its best. She brought joy to hundreds of thousands of readers. RIP!

so many grand gestures welcoming US researchers - neglecting the fact that funding in Canada, Australia, Europe and China is already fiercly competitive. This is not the solution. #standupforscience

Just. Fund. Canadian. Researchers. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

You can never have to much #Fabric! #sewing #quilting

Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Its out!!!

'examailophobia' - the fear of emailing the final exam to the entire class prior to the exam.

@phoeberice.bsky.social - supercoiling police ! keeping them honest....

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

i agree tho... beware especially this time of semester! good reminder. think before clicking..

It’s escalated to the vice President of public affairs at Harvard!

i think crustmas should be a thing