In 2017 I had the absolute privelege of hearing a plenary by Sean B Carroll at #Dros17. He told the story of Albert Camus and Jacques Monod. In 1940 occupied France, Monod pursued his Nobel-winning research by day & resistance by night. Read "Brave Genius": www.seanbcarroll.com/brave-genius... 1/2

Ever wondered where the C57BL/6J mouse came from? Abbie Lathrop sounds like a fascinating person! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Rapid Sex Chromosome Turnover in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus) and the Origins of New Sex Chromosomes doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Review: The maternal-to-zygotic transition: reprogramming of the cytoplasm and nucleus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-024-00792-0 (read free: https://rdcu.be/d1oTj) 🧬🖥️🧪

Such a good article! Really needed this reminder today 🤯

This was the corner of Taranaki and Courtenay, near to when the front of the hikoi was reaching Parliament

Panorama. Y'all, this stretches back at least to Willis St.

This point right here (and the whole thread too) 🤌 Social science: research shows facts alone don’t change people’s minds Scientists in audience: nope that can’t be right, I believe facts do change minds Social scientist: exactly 👀

If you don’t feel stupid doing science, you’re not trying hard enough.

Restarting a previous discussion on here: How convinced are #SingleCell people by cell-cell communication methods? I'm still at "not very" 😅 I see them used everywhere, but I don't know of any really good way to validate them... More importantly, I don't know of any *non-simulated* training data.

Happy to see the best #rstats trend has also migrated here 📊