What are they even doing in the Senate?

Some close encounters with Jim Watson: www.genengnews.com/topics/omics...

Someone needs his phone taken away.

As someone who worked with and around Jim Watson for seven years at Cold Spring Harbor and whose professional career is built on opportunities he provided me, it's been a struggle for me to rationalize the man. I'm grateful to Jeremy for taking the time to do that so thoughtfully here.

Cheers to our scientific mentors!

Wow, first my PhD advisor and now Jim Watson, who gave me my first professional job (at Cold Spring Harbor). Quite a week.

My thesis advisor Mike Chamberlin passed away last week at his home in Berkeley. I've reflected on what I learned from him and how it has served me for over forty years. Thanks to @lifescivc.bsky.social for hosting the post on his Life Sci VC site.

So many sandwich jokes in my feed.

Is this real life?

Thanks to RFK each of us will lose … <subtract 3, carry the 1> … One third of one pound over the next year. Twelve pack abs, here we come.

This is just gross.

At least he'd heard about it. That's an improvement.

Yeesh

This pic.

This morning's soundtrack.

Patriots are 7-2? That has to be Fake News.

In case of interest...

Jays!

Got distracted by baseball and forgot to post last night's cocktails. It's a short list. We've got a classic Whiskey Sour and a new one for me, a Pink Lady - gin, apple brandy, grenadine, lemon. And, of course, egg white for both. Cheers, everyone. Enjoy that stupid extra hour this weekend.

We have a snazzy new refrigerator that is internet-connected but has no shelves that can accommodate an upright bottle of wine. Such is the relentless march of progress.

Well, this is getting deliciously nasty.

The will to live - or have fun trying.

Well said, my friend.

Let's help Clay out here with some math. The $4200/yr. is for a household. Average SNAP household has 1.9 people. So that's $2210/person. $2210/year is $184/month, and that's a little over $6. per day. Clay, let's see you stockpile groceries on $6/day. Hell, let's see you eat on $6/day.

Um, go Jays?

NETs (neutrophil extracellular traps) have been one of my favorite bits of wacky biology since we worked on them at Padlock a decade ago. Definitely overlooked as a source of inflammatory fuel in multiple disease settings. Good luck to these guys.

Wondered when this was going to happen.

New office mate.

Novartis set to announce $10bn plus Avidity Biosciences purchase on.ft.com/430uWGR

Who else thinks that Updike looks like Brad Marchand? (Asking for a friend.)

Fired up for 🇨🇦 vs 🇺🇸 World Series. My wife is from LA. Will be a stressful time chez Gilman.

Cheers to the weekend. I will have no further comments at this time.

The crowd's reception for Marchand and his for the crowd is quite moving. (Still think he's a rat.)

In a lifetime of fortune cookie fortunes, I have not had one more useless.

Eleven years ago today, or so an app on my phone tells me, I was at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. This may be a surprising take from me, but that place was great - literally worth a trip to Milwaukee. Now I'm going back to work.

I track many health metrics. But I think this is where I stop.

These signs are so great. Be sure to look at all forty.

The Naked & Famous was created by Joaquín Simó at the legendary NY bar Death & Co. He described it as the love child "of an illicit Oaxacan love affair" between the Last Word and the Paper Plane. Equal parts mezcal, Aperol, Yellow Chartreuse, lime juice.

That Trump airplane video is … something.

A propos of nothing important in this world, I would like to go on record as saying that the person recapping Task on the Vulture recaps site isn't even watching the show. The latest episode (6) is one of the most riveting hours of TV I've watched in a while.

He’s come a long way. We all have.

You may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

I've probably posted this before, but I'm sharing again because it is a KILLER Sidebar spec. 1.5 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac 1 oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao 0.75 oz lemon juice 1 tsp simple syrup orange twist

Quick tour of this evening’s output at Bar Gilman. For me, the first Vieux Carré of the season. More properly served up, I think. But I prefer it on a rock.

World may be going to hell in a handbasket. But I got some new glasseware!

Always figured it would take A LOT for me to get behind John Bolton. But, my friends, I am there. It is a very weird world.

"Too high to calculate."

So much good stuff in the third and final installment of Bruce Booth's look-back on 20 years of venture investing. Must read.

This is fantastic.