There’s no way this will backfire

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

If you loved Tina the stoat at the Olympics, you'll love her brother, Milo! Milo was only born with one leg, so he uses his tail to help himself get around.

As a friend pointed out: honestly astonishing to think about what would have happened if trump had come in and done literally nothing on the economy

One thing that’s always been wild to me is there inability to recognize who the bad guy is. Jessup, Patrick Bateman, Jordan Belfort. These guys consistently idolize the obvious villain.

Fucking gross and disgusting

Cmon man you can’t look like all the members of Sublime were put in the machine from The Fly together and say this

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn

Had a really cool day advocating for microbiology research with @asm.org on the hill today. Staffers and the politicians I met with were very open and welcoming. I’m remain hopeful we can make a difference.

On sabotage of our young scientists, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

would be cool if we had some sort of, i dunno, nimbler platform to more quickly create flu vaccines that match circulating strains, someone should look into that

I have so many examples of students questioning whether I know enough about a topic to teach it. I asked in faculty meeting "who has been questioned whether they are qualified to teach a class?" The women raised their hands, the men didn't. It's definitely rooted in sexism and racism.

O'Neill, an investor in anti-aging technology who worked on HHS policy, would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead NSF. His background will be a 'major concern' to the science and technology community, former NSF director Neal Lane told me. @maxkozlov.bsky.social and I report:

We are using this one in my lab. Pretty handy and user-friendly!

Congratulations, @hsiehyp.bsky.social! The first paper from the newly-minted Hsieh lab at Academia Sinica.

Our story on the evolution of colistin resistance is just out on @plosbiology.org (journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Evolution doesn’t happen in isolation. We show that competing fungi can rewire the evolutionary trajectory of colistin resistance in P. aeruginosa. Great teamwork with the Ernst lab

New paper out! We sat down and compiled all viral work in marine sediments. The water column has been getting a second look for viral interactions, its time for sediment to have the same! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

If only George Washington had made clear his thoughts about “foreign entanglements” in some kind of public speech when he was alive

if there tiktok videos sending up your software, and they go uber-viral because *everyone has experienced your software doing what they're making fun of*, maybe it's, like, bad software?

Postdoc on AI/biology funded by asanger and DeepMind! www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/ne...

Navy Boilermaker Factory assembly line worker

A billion dollars a day to commit wholesale slaughter, not a single fucking penny for health care. America, 2026.

It me

is it bad coffee? yes do i love it? also yes

Yes, this I’m ride or die Dunkin’ But the coffee is not great

Just amazing what evolution can come up with. Naturally occurring nuclease deficient Cas12 family members use gRNAs to bind DNA and recruit sigmaE family members that drive txn initiation proximally. 2 papers! 1- describes 2- structure! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It really seems like anyone whose response is not “I dunno they both seem fine” in Texas is an absolute weirdo. Stop being weird about Black ladies and normal religious folks you absolute weirdos.

@jomcinerney.bsky.social proposes that genomes do not encode fixed functions but rather “probability distributions” over functional and phenotypic outcomes, and introduces “genomic perplexity” as a measure of gene-context incompatibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag041 #evobio #molbio

Loyalty oaths and political litmus tests won't lead to new discoveries, innovations, or breakthroughs. NIH, NSF, and other mission-driven agencies need to get back to their mission, free of political interference. Oversight needed yesterday, the longer this is delayed, the more damage accumulates.

Selective profiling of translationally active tRNAs and their dynamics under stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709006v1

I think data analysis and coding will be MUCH easier and standardized with AI, but it will still take knowledge and expertise to implement it properly. But expecting trainees to be able to do this without *some* training will be a mistake, so I don’t think the apprenticeship model is dead.

AI has huge promise for genomics -- but it has consistently failed at microbiome-based prediction. My new post on why simple models keep winning, where deep learning actually earns its place, and where the field is headed blekhman.substack.com/p/ai-keeps-f...

Postdoc in evolutionary genetics with @mbhufford.bsky.social isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides. NOT A JOKE

How a tiny bacterium turns itself into a “tunneling machine” http://dlvr.it/TRGZ7c http://dlvr.it/TRGZ7k

My read on the biggest issues of the modern age is that decades of people grew up too entitled to understand that these things we group under concepts like "freedom" are not guaranteed. The post-WWII world order isn't required to stick. There's this entitlement and narcissism of a whole society.

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

this is one of my all time favorite tweets and if you'll forgive me being a serious tennis nerd about it for a second, tennis is one of those sports where it's really difficult to overstate how many levels there are between you and the pros (mini thread)

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA) has been the go to program for analysis of gene expression modules for nearly two decades but it is a difficult to implement. To make it easier to use WGCNA, I used Codex to build a human in the loop agentic workflow. github.com/lowrylab/WGC...

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup. That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

And yet universities continue behaving as though a heartfelt plea to Russ Vought will convince this administration on the merits to stop impounding funds and dismantling the agencies.

For the people who might not be aware this literally happened: May 13, 1985 Rocky IV: November 21, 1985 Rocky V: November 16, 1990 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

Well I’m crews are alive, but this has to be the biggest US loss of airframes in combat in decades.

The shirt is asking a lot of questions already answered