thehill.com/blogs/in-the... #NoKings ❌👑

Can I interest you in a moist owlette as a timeline cleanse? This is Sassafras the Eastern Screech Owl from the Cincinnati Zoo (@cincinnatizoo.bsky.social, but via their FB) and I love him very much. Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are native to eastern North America.

Market in Barcelona!

Doing a thing before GRC

Kew Gardens recording 35.1ºC today breaks its previous May record in 1922 before this spell by NEARLY 5ºC and breaks its June maximum temperature record set in 1976 by 0.5ºC - this also beats the previous May UK maximum record by OVER 2ºC (32.8ºC, 1922/44). An incredible anomaly

On the grounds that there’s no bad time to share this video of a squirrel having a jolly good go, here’s this video of a squirrel having a jolly good go

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this is priceless. you can already see who might be out next. And who's Daddy's favorite and gets to go on big trips with him. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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"how important they are!" ah, yes! therefore their name 'chaperone': taking care that proteins obey the etiquette, victorian era style. they are very ancient in evolutionary terms – see DnaK/Hsp70 – but it still baffles me how they were able to evolve in the first place.

total(itarian) normal stuff

New to the ICE Warehouse Tracker: a comprehensive list of all 137 WEXMAC TITUS contractors — the Navy contracting channel ICE is using to fast-track its detention buildout. See who's been pre-qualified to potentially staff, build, and run facilities. Confirmed ICE awards highlighted in green.

How do sperm and egg fuse? Surprisingly, we still don’t fully know… Our field has uncovered many pieces of the fertilization puzzle, but not how they fit together. We identify ✨ SPARK ✨ - a conserved sperm complex that couples sperm-egg binding to fusion. tinyurl.com/34cm4xat Read on! 🧵👇

curious to see whether they can find any one even more imcompetent.

This is a great statement from a great president.

i think everybody needs to take a minute and breathe.

The lesson I would take from this is that solidarity across ranks and including students works.

Will I just keep reposting this until next week? Yes. I will.

Congratulations to our newest PhD. Dr. Sashi Weerawarana. Totally knocked it out of the park. Two done, one to go for this summer. We are on a roll!

Out today - structure of the human HIRA histone chaperone complex bound to nucleosomes. Ever wondered how nucleosomes are assembled in the wake of transcription? It takes a 'hulk of a protein complex'. Work by the amazing Wei Tian weetian558.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

(Homer voice) mmmmmm…. illegal sandwiches….

just submitted a paper today and strongly resisting the urge to check status. @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social will go live soon though, so stay tuned! Its a very cool story!

College move out day is the worst. Glad we live nearby and can store things until fall. The amount of waste that is generated is sickening. I feel for uni staff....

Dune Cat Budget Version

Amazing stuff. petapixel.com/2026/05/08/p...

Nothing like a threat to throw out tubes from then -70 freezer to bring the lab together. Found a box labeled 2005.

Dr. Donnelly of JAC fame describes common perception of reviewers in medical publishing. @bsacandjac.bsky.social #IDsky

Yes, there are several related contaminant lists that are mostly aimed at crystallography. The original is ContaMiner (strube.cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/contaminer/c...) and there are lists underlying SIMBAD in CCP4 and, recently, phasertng.changeling (Phenix, soon CCP4). A list for cryoEM would be great!

these people are idiots. contact your reps and vote!

Nice ! @leslievosshall.bsky.social is giving background on the fascinating Mr. Howard Hughes whose endowment funds us fortunate [email protected]

Beautiful day @hhmi-science.bsky.social HQ

Breaking: Congress is pushing back on the Trump administration's termination of National Science Board members, with the House calling for their reinstatement and the Senate asking pointed questions about OMB's political interference. My reporting for @science.org:

With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

fantastic! great job team NucEvo @sashiw.bsky.social Alejandro Villalta, Nate Hamel, and Michael Nosella!

🎉 Now online! The Annual Review of Biophysics is now online. The most read article is "The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms" by Villalta et. arevie.ws/3R2CANN @sashiw.bsky.social @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social

Please re-circulate. New postdoc position available to study organ positioning in the flower at the University of Sydney. Cell polarity, auxin etc etc! Join our multidisciplinary RESYDE (www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/) team! Apply here: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

it is truly ridiculous how long it takes me to build a new talk, for the upcoming @hhmi-science.bsky.social meeting on tuesday. Excited to present a new story!

Pierre Chambon was a great scientist. And a good man too. He alone opposed to leading British embryologists during the evaluation of a case of scientific misconduct more than 40 years ago, to defend young scientists against an establishment to which he belonged. An unforgettable lesson. RIP Pierre 💐

Sad news - he certainly was a towering figure with many influential discoveries - see below. Why he was never awarded the 'big' prize is truly baffling, but his many contributions to science will be remembered much longer than any prize. Thank you @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr for putting this together.

When the NIH abruptly terminated thousands of research grants last year, the fallout wasn’t distributed equitably. A new analysis suggests the cuts disproportionately hit women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ investigators. My latest for @nature.com

better late than never #snowday in Boulder. boyo, we needed the moisture but our poor trees....

This is beautiful architecture! Museum in Kiel

good news... i think???

Omg I totally forgot! Thank you for reminding us all that today is #nucleosome day

Amazing event @vilcekfoundation.bsky.social. so honored to be a part of this fantastic group of artists and scientists!

Sad #amoeba at @moma.bsky.social

We did a thing today on Broadway. Fantastic as always #hamilton