Did you know tiny algae can "skate" within Arctic sea ice? ⛸️ Our new study in @pnas.org reveals the secret life of ice diatoms: they are actively gliding to navigate the ice! This adds a new dimension to the sea ice ecosystem, revealing an active, dynamic ecological niche. @prakashlab.bsky.social

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

As a former @hhmi.org Gilliam fellow, I’m deeply disappointed to see HHMI cancel the Hanna Gray this year and pause all competitions. @leslievosshall.bsky.social, Erin O’Shea — this was a moment to lead with vision, not retreat.

Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

apprendre plus sur les anthocérotes et leur importance potentielle ? #photosynthese www.pourlascience.fr/sd/biologie-... @fernway.bsky.social @tarobison.bsky.social

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

our recent hornwort phylogenomic paper (> 230 nuclear genes) will get the cover of the journal - One of these photos will be the cover and you may see them around in conferences this year !! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... - Photos by Juan Larraín, Patagonia, Chile. - Cute hornworts ;) !

No, Overleaf, I don't want to use "AI" No, Outlook, I don't want to use "AI" No, Slack, I don't want to use "AI" No, DuckDuckGo, I don't want to use "AI" No, Samsung, I don't want to use "AI" No, my *fucking oven*, I don't want to use "AI"

Another cool development in Rubisco land www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

70 year old Senator Tommy Tuberville can’t think of the word “triangle”

decided to become the weird conspiracy theory guy at work but only about harmless conspiracies i make up. told my coworker that "elephants don't even eat peanuts bro, look it up" but then i got curious and looked it up and apparently peanuts are bad for elephants. so now i don't know what to think

In case anyone was wondering why the government was so heavily invested in scientific research (pre-DOGE) here is a clear explanation from one of the workers on the chopping block:

Introducing Mpipi-Recharged🔥🔥🔥 Our Mpipi coarse-grained model for biomolecular condensates now includes a pair-specific electrostatic potential that improves its predictions, including for challenging charged systems—all while still treating solvent and ions implicitly pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Heterologous protein over-expression in E. coli is now woke because of 'inclusion bodies'

Here's Twitter's descent since 2022

"One of the United States’ leading funders of science and engineering research is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

Tim Walz privately arguing for Democrats to “be more visible on television presenting an alternate vision of governing — not just complaining about what Mr. Trump is doing.”

It's a hell of a time to be teaching a seminar on "The Long Arc of Fascism." Going to start today's class with this.

The FT reports OpenAI suspects DeepSeek of "a potential breach of intellectual property." As a columnist for NYT, which is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, and the author of nine books OpenAI apparently used to train its model, I couldn't possibly comment. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

Rubisco is slow across the tree of life doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I know that it's a crowded field, but this demon is in my opinion the most dangerous politician in the U.S.

In Nazi Germany, some citizens passed on information about their neighbours, family, and friends to the Gestapo . This was called informing. www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-r...

I don't know how much clearer it needs to be for any pro-"AI" academics than the collusion of government and tech giants announcing $500b in funding for "AI to cure cancer" while simultaneously preparing to gut the NIH: you are digging your own grave.

This is my opposition party dawg Trump’s serving a third term

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here"

To learn more, please check out my youtube tutorials at www.youtube.com/@oanegros which shows, among others, how to make this video! The data here is a dinoflagellate from Mocaer et al. 2023, hosted publicly at EMPIAR-11399 (also shown in the first post here).

Watch this movie 🔬🍀 In a sugar-deprived condition, a chloroplast bud is released. Beautifully captured using chloroplast stroma marker RBCS-GFP (magenta) and the inner envelope marker KEA1-mRFP (green) An excellent recent article published @elife.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/93232

Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

Aaron Swartz had federal prosecutors come down on him for downloading PDFs and these jokers get venerated.

Paper #2 - we generated 10 new chr-level genomes for hornworts covering all families and most genera. Also the first look into their U/V sex chromosomes! 3/4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

News flash nerds: hornworts are awesome

It's not a repost if it's a new platform, right? right?? Lattice light sheet movie of actin in mitosis. Blebby.