I tried to "squeeze gel purify" DNA, sent it for sequencing, and it worked! ~Protocol: 1) cut out band 2) poke hold in small tube, put gel in it, put in big tube 3) Spin for 2-3 seconds 4) sequence the liquid in the bottom tube This may not always work, but cool! @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social

iGEM is not your typical scientific conference! @igemcommunity.bsky.social

“Bang-Bang optimal light control for maximum protein production in yeast” - love this title hal.science/hal-05323963...

So many beautiful pictures and I love papers that benchmark a bunch of tools.

If you want your research to sound “basic”, call it “basic research”. - I don’t think the general public will think it is very important. I like “fundamental science” better. Today I saw “frontier science”, which sounds cooler and more important.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

A paper in Nature Communication reports on a new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapeability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days. go.nature.com/4h1xv0X 🧪

🧪 I’d have never guessed it either ⬇️

@zebrafishrock.bsky.social does anyone here study age-related vision loss in fish? Or vision generally?

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Smile 😃

🧪"In doing so, Arnold has mastered the art of a good apology: one that doesn’t veer into excusing oneself; that gives context where relevant; but accepts full responsibility and moves on". www.theguardian.com/science/2020...

WAChRs are excitatory opsins sensitive to indoor lighting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Their efficacy was confirmed against LIVE viruses including Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), AND Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🧵⬇️

Got to love studies that were clearly conducted "for the love of the game" (“self-decapitating sea slugs”, “plants that see and use that for mimicry”, “worms that jump in the air”, aka papers you sometimes find in @currentbiology.bsky.social ) References to all of this bellow👇

I hope my algorithm can regenerate too

I really want to use "behooves me" in this writing (grant), but Grammarly doesn't want me to!

Lalo says happy whatever day it is

Mr Kitten says happy Saturday

What else should I record with IR?

Your gel running in the IR!

It's not too late to participate in #McClintockLetters! Check out all the resources we have available and get writing: tinyurl.com/McClintockLettersInitiative Please don't hesistate to reach out with any questions!

What a figure www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Love seeing this mCherry in sf9 cells!

How cool is it to get messages like that?! Wow! So much of the joy of science is the mentorship I get to give, its the mentees!

More reason not to use the old site: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Finally! Someone recognized my expertise in “topics”

What does this part of a cytometer do? (The clear cube part)

To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.

RFK Jr and HHS just ended all US supported mRNA vaccine development www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

kickstarter idea: tongue gene therapy for people that don’t like cilantro 🌿

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

How strange, no “mechanically separated meat”, EDTA or Whale oil?

AI "Final_final_..."

Happy Wednesday

#Theoutpost As the meteors blaze through Earth’s atmosphere at over 130,000 mph, they burn up in brilliant flashes of different colors – and those colors reveal what elements are inside. More in alt

One Section, Two Worlds: Single-Cell Integration of MALDI-MSI and Spatial Transcriptomics on the Same Single Tissue Section https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.665110v1

From @alicemalivert.bsky.social ‪@marcusghosh.bsky.social ‬ & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for navigating AI in science | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience #AI 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

I think many people would do this just for the hair. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This could be fun www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Disabled veteran. Citizen. Taken by Trump’s Gestapo. 🇺🇸

Made with love

How cool is this?! www.kickstarter.com/projects/blo...

The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

If they were planning to keep this all secret, maybe they shouldn’t have published it 🤷 So easy to 3D print a cylinder. Not sure how it is nonobvious… pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

We are finally hearing firsthand what happened at CECOT. At least 277 people illegally rendered from the US remain there, and President Trump is now talking about sending American citizens there. Do not let this slip from view.

Another plasmid I am excited about offering is this fully open source Taq polymerase expression circuit. Inducible via lactose or IPTG. Ampicillin selected. Born free. You can make your own polymerase and purification is as easy as boiling water and centrifuging. Coming soon!