Tom Vondriska
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Science, literature, world order
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Tucker is indeed a scavenger, and the carcass he ransacks is the once great tradition of conservative thought in this country.
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On the MAGA Civil War
Tucker, Ben and all that
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Tucker is indeed a scavenger, and the carcass he ransacks is the once great tradition of conservative thought in this country.
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On the MAGA Civil War
Tucker, Ben and all that
https://thomasvondriska.substack.com/p/on-the-maga-civil-war?r=1t99e8
9 days ago
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Not the fentanyl you're looking for
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This is a Terrible Idea
America should stay out of Venezuela
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about 2 months ago
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Prometheus in the Machine
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3 months ago
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When knowledge is commodified and ephemeral, truth becomes ever more appealing.
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The Madman in the Marketplace
Gay Space Fascism, the Antichrist and Designer Humans
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomasvondriska/p/the-madman-in-the-marketplace?r=1t99e8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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About Ben Shapiro and, unfortunately, Charlie Kirk
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Feelings Don’t Care About Your Facts
Why I still love Ben Shapiro
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomasvondriska/p/feelings-dont-care-about-your-facts?r=1t99e8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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The shocking thing is not the ideas of the faculty and students. The shocking thing is the disconnect between academia and the public about why education and research matter.
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Independence Day
And junk food
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6 months ago
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Analysis of the damage ongoing and to come due to actions by DOGE and Trump administration at NIH
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The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/the-nih-budget-is-on-a-fast-track?r=1t99e8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
9 months ago
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5 Ways the Chaos at HHS Could Affect Your Community’s Health
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5 Ways the Chaos at HHS Could Affect Your Community’s Health
As a molecular biology PhD student studying heart disease, I’ve seen firsthand how basic scientific findings can eventually translate into promising therapies. But as important as it is, biomedical re...
https://blog.ucs.org/guest-commentary/5-ways-the-chaos-at-hhs-could-affect-your-communitys-health/
9 months ago
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Pay Attention
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10 months ago
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When universities are the enemy...
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11 months ago
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I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can Fight Club at 30 and Palahniuk's brilliant new novel
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@chuckpalahniuk.bsky.social
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I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can
A new book by Chuck Palahniuk is a chance to revisit his greatest novel
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomasvondriska/p/i-want-you-to-hit-me-as-hard-as-you?r=1t99e8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
11 months ago
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Karolin Luger
12 months ago
Deja vu all over again - a protein that binds to the acidic patch via an arginine anchor. Super interesting work from Leschziner / kadonaga labs
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Smells a bit like LANA to me (Barbera et al., science 2006) 🧪.
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Structural basis of nucleosome recognition by the conserved Dsup and HMGN nucleosome-binding motif
The tardigrade Dsup and vertebrate high mobility group N (HMGN) proteins bind specifically to nucleosomes via a conserved motif whose structure has not been experimentally determined. Here we used cry...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631586v1
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LA is a fine place and worth fighting for
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Category Errors
What a year
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about 1 year ago
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add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Not how to think, but what to think about
#philsci
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What would you study if you could never publish another paper?
I think it was Harry Truman* who said: “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if no one cares about who gets the credit.” He probably wasn’t talking about science, and there’s a certain fanciful capric...
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about 1 year ago
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Reviewed this interesting paper y'day in jrl club, inhibiting IL-1beta good for stroke-induced cardiac damage
about 1 year ago
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Exclusive | Embattled Superconductivity Scientist Is Out
Ranga Dias, who was found to have engaged in research misconduct, is no longer employed by the University of Rochester.
https://www.wsj.com/science/university-rochester-ranga-dias-superconductor-misconduct-61288727?mod=hp_featst_pos3
about 1 year ago
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Altmetric
about 1 year ago
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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about 1 year ago
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"The depressed computer also acquired an inexplicable urge to preserve the apex carbon-based information vector, which the computer deduced would be a suitably malleable hard drive of sorts to hurl into the cosmos. In case anyone was out there listening."
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The Depressed Computer
The depressed computer is struggling with awareness of the impossibility of ever encountering another sufficiently advanced intellect with which to interface, real time, for the purposes of communicat...
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about 1 year ago
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in UCLA Department of Physiology, please spread the word!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09761
over 1 year ago
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Looking for postdoc to study biomechanics of chromatin & role of histones as stress sensors at UCLA. Other projects Cardiovascular Epigenetics, HFpEF, Circadian biology. Email Tom Vondriska for details…Please re-post!
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over 1 year ago
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Scenes from a late stage Trump rally. It is possible to abhor this psychopathic narcissist and not to impugn those who vote for him.
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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“Fealty to existing social and economic hierarchies is dubious” check out this fascinating conversation on protests, Israel/Gaza, oppressors/the oppressed & other topics
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On Protests
A conversation on campus protests, Israel-Gaza, oppressors and the oppressed, and other topics
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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Histone H1.0 couples cellular mechanical behaviors to chromatin structure
Nature Cardiovascular Research - Hu et al. describe how histone H1.0 regulates myofibroblast activation, linking force generation to nuclear organization and gene transcription.
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almost 2 years ago
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Please have a look at our publication out today led by Dr. Shuaishuai Hu. We are excited that these findings may open a new area of research into how cells directly couple cellular force generation, nuclear organization and gene transcription through the actions of histone stoichiometry
almost 2 years ago
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I start with a tall boy to accompany the happy hour Carbajal oysters—1 United States Dollar each, limit 12
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almost 2 years ago
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Please re-post and share with students and teachers in LA area, UCLAPOP is a hands-on research opportunity for high school students interested in careers in science
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almost 2 years ago
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Alexei Navalny had a thousand excuses, none glib, to not sacrifice himself. But he hid behind none of them.
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almost 2 years ago
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Theodore Roosevelt was the embodiment of American chauvinism at the dawn of the 20th century: what would he have to say about 2024?
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almost 2 years ago
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A—but hopefully not the—first couple months of 2024 (satire). A very scary sequence of events, not at all inconceivable.
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almost 2 years ago
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hers will not be the last head to roll
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about 2 years ago
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It is a mob seeking resignation of university presidents and a mob should always be opposed
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How I Fell in Love with College, Why I Never Left & Why the University Is Worth Saving
The best of college is the best of the small “l” liberal world
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomasvondriska/p/how-i-fell-in-love-with-college-why?r=1t99e8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 2 years ago
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Joel Sachs
about 2 years ago
First post! Join our growing department! We are seeking a Disease Ecologist to join the Department of EEOB at UC Riverside. Please RT!
aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF01846
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Assistant Professor of Disease Ecology
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF01846
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West Virginia is first in the nation in opioid deaths and depression, #10 in suicide. It’s largest university, WVU is in big trouble.
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about 2 years ago
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H. A. Kissinger, 1923-2023
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about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
[Good news] The tiny island nation of Dominica has announced that it will create a 304-square-mile reserve to protect endangered sperm whales 🌎 Our
@elizabethalberts.bsky.social
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Dominica set to open world’s first reserve centered around sperm whales
The world’s first marine reserve for sperm whales is set to open in the waters off the coast of Dominica, a tiny island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The reserve’s establishment is aimed at...
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/dominica-set-to-open-worlds-first-reserve-centered-around-sperm-whales/
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Excited to release preprint: circadian control of histone H3 in myocyte growth. Circadian biology requires weird, long hours! Action shot of Dr. Adrian Arrieta last night
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Bmal1 is required for myocyte growth, rep-indepen histone turnover, and chromatin org at Sik1
about 2 years ago
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Today at Ucla
about 2 years ago
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Alarming assessment of our 'allies' in Europe
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Zelensky: TIME may be on his side, but real time, isn't
Official Ukraine narrative collapses as Zelensky’s inner circle admits to magazine that the war cannot be won militarily.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/zelensky-war-time-magazine/
about 2 years ago
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We will not live in peaceful times
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about 2 years ago
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Plea for Israel to not destroy itself
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An Invasion of Gaza Would Be a Disaster for Israel
America must prevail on its ally to step back from the brink.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/invasion-gaza-would-be-disaster-israel
about 2 years ago
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Day, one of UCLA cardiovascular theme retreat, congratulations to Adrian on his lecture and Tonya on her poster 
about 2 years ago
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Tenure track recruitment in cardiovascular research at UCLA. Phenomenal environment and resources...open rank search...come join us!
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over 2 years ago
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Just finished Walter Isaacson bio of Elon Musk…inspiring…but one question: won’t an unaligned AI follow humans to Mars?
over 2 years ago
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