Here’s to 2026

Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

Little drummer boy: *drum solo* Mary, having just given birth: great

Original opinion piece in PNAS: The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

legitimately love this guy.

I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...

This entire weekend

The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...

⏳ One week left to submit your #ISMB2026 tutorial proposal! Share hands-on training that builds skills across #bioinformatics and #computationalbiology. 🗓️ Deadline: Thursday, December 18, 2025 🔗 https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/tutorials

Stowers is also hiring someone to handle scientific software installation and manage our slurm cluster! www.stowers.org/careers/scie...

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Nothing could be better than bedtools. But maybe something could be bedder…

A #Bioinformatics giant passes away. Very sad to hear this news today. Sad for Switzerland, and for the whole world. Amos Bairoch was a part of the Bioinformatics community for many decades. He will be missed. #Database #Biocuration #SwissProt #Prosite #Cellosaurus | www.sib.swiss/news/amos-ba...

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

9/ One tool could help: vaccines. After researchers in France discovered bird flu was traveling on dust and aerosols, they turned to vaccinating the country’s ducks. The results: A near-total reduction in cases. But USDA hasn't authorized their use in poultry here in the U.S.

one of the grimmest things I’ve ever read, but happily it does contain the phrase “mysterious constellation of brutal practices”

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

we've had a brother laser printer for maybe 20 years or something, what a beast.

Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever. "We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research." elifesciences.org/articles/102...

If My Bluetooth Could Talk www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...

Stowers Computational Biology Group is hiring someone to work mostly on infrastructure (pipelines, annotation, etc): www.stowers.org/careers/bioi... #bioinformatics

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

Jesus fucking Christ

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

oh no

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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PSA: There's a relatively new and super useful Gmail feature: a "Manage Subscriptions" tab in the lefthand menu under More. It instantly shows you all the email lists you're subscribed to, including spam, and allows you to unsubscribe from most with the click of a button

what else is like this

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I regret to inform you that today's apple is called the -- *makes a face like I just drank old weird milk* -- HUNNYZ You are warned.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

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I donate to them, and I think everyone who can should. donate.wikimedia.org

And away we go -- apple review number two: THE SWEETIE