1/ It is no secret that I view the unchecked rise of liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) in biology as a profound distortion of molecular biology. It conflicts with its principles, it is logically incompatible with them, and the claims made in its name have been, with rare exceptions,... –>2

The beauty of the story of the discovery of DNA is that it had a happy ending. Franklin got what really matters - a first author @Nature paper.

@arseblog.com on a scale of 1 to 10 how Spursy a game was that?

Ho Ho Ho

Why do MLB managers keep making this exact mistake? A mistake everyone knows they’re making in real time. That was the spot for Munoz. Insane that he wasn’t hot.

play for your dogs

software recommendations for screening nanopore environmental samples data for unknown animals?

I'm sure @elmcitytree.blacksky.app means well.

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

@arseblog.com EDDIE!!!!!

First they came for the Immigrants. And I wrote a memo. Then they came for trans people. And I wrote a memo. Then they came for the comedians. And I wrote a memo. Then they came for me. And there was no one to write a memo for me.

@mbeisen.bsky.social and I have already been operating without journal proxies throughout our careers and, tbh, every aspect of it is better. Both the experience of doing science and the potential outcomes for science. 5/

Thoughtful and powerful advice from @pracheeac.bsky.social and @mbeisen.bsky.social

While journal publishing has always been deeply problematic, hurting both the pace and trajectory of science, something is happening in this moment that is finally causing the system to crumble under its own weight and cost. 1/

Absolute football hilarity.

I have never wanted to be in a pub with the @arseblog.com gents more than right now.

This is for you, @benlindbergh.bsky.social

A fly that gets everyone to say "screw worms" is the perfect animal.

COYG!!!!!

Harvard never should have had these patents in the first place - nobody should be able to patent government funded work - and universities really do misuse their IP portfolios - but man this is some seriously unprincipled and incoherent bullshit.

Made my film obsessed kid a drive in theater cake featuring a full screening of their favorite film - @edgarwright.bsky.social’s Hot Fuzz.

Never Again*

this is the most insane paragraph ever written

This spot is always empty

I just took maybe my favorite wildlife photo ever

It's obviously not the case with COVID, but the apotheosis of vaccines - one that is widely deployed and highly effective with rare lethal side effects - could end up killing more people than the disease it prevents.

With inclusion efforts under threat in the US, It’s nice that France are giving worm researchers exposure to a real animal.

I went to grad school.

Some people spend their lives saying they care about others but when given an actual opportunity to, don't.

No. Starting July 1, academics can no longer be complicit in paywalling publicly funded research.

LET'S GO YOU FUCKING GUNNERS!!!!!!

The fact that Oded is still heralded as a scientific leader says all you need to know about science IMO.

GPT 4o: Yo. Who's up?

Wow. They really ARE trying to destroy science.

The most Harvard thing ever is to use this as a chance to say you went to Harvard.

How NOT to respond when science is under existential threat

COYFG!!!!

The overwhelming weight of evidence points to a raccoon dog as the source of the tariffs.

👊📉🔥

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My favorite Duke loss ever.