Ori Weinstock and company. My daily post on the dark site, now moved here youtu.be/PH-ijpgDZsY

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Despite all the improvements China’s winemakers have made in recent years, Chinese wines do not rank among the world’s most coveted bottles econ.st/3VOO4Ui Photo: Gilles Sabrié

Intriguing new insights on axonal TDP-43 in ALS from @labperlson.bsky.social and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.” – Akio Morita *holds doubly so for research labs! Quote via @economist.com

Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

PubMed is in trouble This is beyond bad for medical research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Neat trick if you polycolonal ab's suck. Incubate them with fixed cells with a KO of your protein of interest, then spin. Protocol here: www.med.upenn.edu/markslab/ass... I was amazed how well it worked on first try (I'm sure that I can completely eliminate unspecific bands) #WesternBlot #cellsky

“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.” – Akio Morita *holds doubly so for research labs! Quote via @economist.com

Lake Victoria may look inviting, but its waters are full of tiny parasitic worms. A new study suggests an odd way to make it safer, using catfish

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

R.I.P. Jane Goodall janegoodall.org

🧵2/2 This month we are looking for work exploring politics. For submitting info please visit: prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/

Call for submissions! PJ's submission window is now open for the month of October! We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences. 🧵1/2 #submissions #WritingCommunity

Okay, funny bookstore category

Pan Haiku Review issue 6 2025 Autumn/Winter Edition (PHR6) This is a haiku only special edition Submissions: October 1st through to 31st 2025 Send: 1 or 2 haiku of any style or approach. Submission email address: panhaikureview [at] gmail [dot] com www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...

Once again I’m reminded, trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets.

Intriguing links between autophagy and local protein synthesis at synapses! Preprint from Michael Kreutz and colleagues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sunday brunch I review the menu of safe topics #SenryuSunday #senryu

no humans left to care for the planet it blossoms and thrives #SciFaikuSaturday

It's past time for #scicomm to retire the “amazing find forces a complete rewrite of our evolution“ trope. There's now broad consensus in the field that human prehistory was complex & messy with many branches. The precise family tree is fiendishly hard to reconstruct, lots of uncertainties...2/n

“He abandoned reality a long time ago to escape to an idealised, fantasy world.” Nearly five decades alone in a tiny cell left deep scars on Hakamada Iwao’s mind. 1843 recounts an innocent man’s ordeal on death row

Termites farm fungi and take active measure to control pests on their farms www.science.org/content/arti...

New article from the Washington Post [Gift Link] wapo.st/4ngFN7u

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

Another general audience take on our recently published findings www.earth.com/news/scienti...

An EU Book Ban - or when the road to hell is paved with good intentions… scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/25/g...

Math has publication fraud, too. For a long time, mathematicians thought that as long as they keep away from predatory journals or paper mills, the problem does not affect them. This turned out to be wrong.

It stops the toxic protein that causes it from forming

U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to boost opportunities for domestic scientists by making it prohibitively expensive for universities to hire international faculty and staff. https://scim.ag/3Klmxai

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

How do neurons deal with fitting large regulatory proteins into small spaces to control plasticity and memory? By generating micropeptides via local translation of circRNAs, of course! Here’s to shedding new light on the ‘dark’ proteome in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Worth noting that El-Deiry has had about 75 of his publications flagged on PubPeer for data irregularities. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/10/w...

Spurred by their successful restoration of storm-smashed corals, Colombia’s conservationists have hatched a new plan, not to repair reefs destroyed by hurricanes, but to save corals that are dying from increasing heat

eulogy... the danger of empathy #PJJournal #senryu #poetry

Welcome to PJ's new prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning #EMPATHY (with or without the word in the poem) What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on the human Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti... #WritingCommunity #prompt 01 #PJJournal

Patrick McGovern realised that human progress was tightly tied to alcohol. But how exactly did ancient folk get tipsy? The archaeologist inspected cauldrons and jars in pursuit of the answer

Blood, sweat and beers… “…mosquitoes are drawn to those who avoid sunscreen, drink beer, and share their bed. They simply have a taste for the hedonists among us.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Book review 📚 How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do? go.nature.com/41XlKT4

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

There’s a reason no one remembers philosophers from Sparta: they had none. Athens valued ideas, Sparta only force. A 21st-century leader dreaming of a “super-Sparta” isn’t being visionary, he’s showing deeply flawed judgement. Oh, my country, what a train wreck you’ve become.

A restaurant in San Francisco offers a test

Welcome to Prune Juice's official Bluesky Account! We will be opening for submissions starting in October, and are particularly encouraging poems that engage with politics of the moment. Check out our page for more information: prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/ #senryu #poetry #WritingCommunity

Congrat's to @npanayotis.bsky.social and @philipfreund.bsky.social who have steered their ship well towards this publication!