found some aurora !

They're moving in herds

New research provides a comprehensive annotation of cucumber lncRNAs using RNA-Seq data and offers insights into their potential regulatory functions in cold stress responses. #JASHS https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS05517-25#JASHS#plantscience

Plant bioengineering can be quite annoying. Look at this crap; the type of agar drastically impacts transformation efficiency. The geometric complexity of all these variables makes for one hell of a ride to find the ideal brew…for each stage of regeneration stage. Lord help us.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Happy gotcha day to the best baby boi out there, Leif Eriksson

Damn that movie was good. Exactly what I expected from @realgdt.bsky.social The soundtrack was exceptional as well

well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

Donald Trump is weak. He’s a bully. And when we won’t bow down to kings or to bullies, they start to lose their power. The American people do not bow down.

🦖 Something HUGE just hatched. Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis: • As fast as 3 day turnaround • $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry • Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample • Interactive results Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

Excited to share our new preprint! 🧬 Large-scale Phylogenomics Reveals Systematic Loss of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Genes at the Family Level in Cucurbitaceae 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A deep dive into the genomic evolution of color in cucurbits 🎃🍉 — feedback welcome! @puckerlab.bsky.social

We *may* have the first ever images of an interstellar object, taken from the surface of another world! www.iflscience.com/interstellar...

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Thrilled to share that our TEtrimmer paper has just been published in Nature Communications! A big thank you to all collaborators — the article is now online ;) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Pointing fingers is never productive especially at the level we work at in our department. This email was totally unprofessional

I saw Gojira, Born of Osiris, and Nile headline in one week. Is it normal for my ears to ring?

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

Insane that they are selling corn full of Tar Spot at my local grocery store. Should I tell them to burn it.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/h... Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by a parasite carried by insects called kissing bugs, should now be considered endemic in the US, experts say – and without recognition that it’s a constant presence in some parts of country more people will suffer.

I'm a beast at this game REVEALED: Sep 16, 2025 Arts & Culture: ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ I solved it in 0️⃣ Reveals & 0️⃣ Hints! www.britannica.com/games/revealed

We take campaign fundraising VERY seriously here.

QUEEN. ICON.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

My cat burned his tail on a candle and now my entire apartment smells like burnt hair 🤢

China has been boycotting purchases of U.S. soybeans since late May to show displeasure with President Trump’s tariffs. For the first time in many years, farmers across the U.S. are preparing to harvest their crop this fall with no purchase orders from China.

THIS CAST

As summer fades, dahlias are blooming. This graphic looks at the chemical cause of their colours and why you won't spot a blue one! www.compoundchem.com/2021/09/12/d... #ChemSky 🧪

Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”

Deleting a 600kb region in a genome? Not that crazy of an idea anymore! Papikian et al show that plants have an incredible ability to compensate for large genomic deletions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss

What is happening on this site @support.bsky.team

🚨 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce they are engaged: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨”

Genomes of brown algae with different sex determination systems show that U/V sex chromosomes evolved 450–224 million years ago and show remarkable conservation of genes within the sex-determining region, despite independent expansions of the sex locus in each lineage www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.

I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.

it has to be soooo wild to be surrounded by the horrors of the modern world but still be stupid enough to fall in love with a chat bot. just so much shit happening you can never understand. how fun is that, your life is just that willy wonka boat ride 24/7

Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out! Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Record-setting rains in Wisconsin led to life-threatening flash flooding in Milwaukee and the surrounding area overnight Saturday to Sunday, prompting widespread flood alerts and the early closure of the Wisconsin State Fair. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...