Me, fixing a batch file for the sixth time: I hate phylogenetics Me, talking to literally anybody about phylogenetics: 🧪

No new PFAS restrictions in CA cookware, food packaging, dental floss, children's playpens and strollers, and other everyday products. 1/3 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration. MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Please be extra patient with your friends and colleagues in the Bay Area today. Most of us were up at 3 am for the earthquake, and to make matters worse, the Earth DIDN'T finish the job and swallow us whole

Small joys: The Campanile today, singing the song of angry men.

Last week, the EPA rolled back regulations on 4 of 6 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that were strictly regulated in drinking water under the previous administration. (1/8) 🧪 tinyurl.com/y3bdhbkz

If you give a plant some silicon...it might make a pest-killing goo? Many thanks to the experts who told me about the complex science of silica supplementation. www.sciencenews.org/article/sili... 🧪

I can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice are not TransGENDER mice

New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes. If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME. 🦀🧪🦑⚒️

If you also feel like displaying the NSF's "banned words" wherever you go, you can get them on a t-shirt, tote, or mug. The proceeds are donated to various science and research nonprofits in the US. www.bonfire.com/store/nerd-b... 🧪

So, how are we all doing? 🧪

I work in a group studying PFAS. These compounds are nearly everywhere on Earth now, are EXTREMELY hard to clean up or break down, and have been repeatedly linked to a ton of health risks--cancers, heart issues, immune/ neuro/ hormonal effects, etc. Not what you want in your water. 🧪

So, which necessary and seemingly-benign scientific entities have gradually become your sworn enemies? I'll go first: 1. Pure glycerol 2. Conda environments 3. eRA. Commons. 🧪 🦠 😒

On a dark road in Massachusetts last night. Absolutely incredible. 🧪

When someone asks me how I would describe myself 🧪

The SDS for a chemical I just received is offered in two forms of English. What are the chances that the European version lists exposure hazards entirely in Cockney rhyming slang? 🧪

Imagine if "peers" were more literal, and THIS had to be the whole jury

The lab supply chain in a nutshell: The redox reagent that was scheduled to arrive today actually arrived last week, but what did arrive today was the bicarb that I ordered 8 months ago

The Biering Lab at UCSD is now hiring! Lab Manager: employment.ucsd.edu/lab-assistan... Lab Technician: employment.ucsd.edu/sra-1-126961... Postdocs and grad students should also reach out for more info! Learn more here: bieringlab.biosci.ucsd.edu Please repost

Rapidly running out of culture(d) puns 🧪🦠

"Combining experimental and bioinformatic approaches" 🧪 🦠

POV i'm your postdoc 🧪

It's that time of year again. Halidon. Fall. Mix. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMPR... Science 🧪 + writing peeps (skeeps?), this is *elite* working music. Your copy will be cleaner, your data more significant, your self-worth higher. Treat yourself

It's September 21...can we also chase the *smoke* away? Asking for a friend. Also for myself. Also for the whole Bay Area

Freezer problem = laboratory ice fishing! Who knows what reagents lurk below 🧪

Me too, little acid. Me too 🧪

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Stopped by the library this afternoon for the serotonin. The busiest room was the one reading room where laptops are not allowed. I get the appeal.

So @jopabinia.bsky.social and I have just learned that Professor X has *checks notes* four PhDs and an MD. Deeply hoping that adjunct professorship is by choice, and not a reflection on the TT job market.