Angel Olsen: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7NapIZ1xGE&si=8QuFKjhwzbFQ-IJp ❤️‍🔥 #AngelOlson #indie #folk

New tool! https://keiran-rowell.github.io/assets/interactive/codon-rarity-viewer/ I vibe coded a web app version of my Rare Codon Table #python script🧬 🧮 maps rare codons onto a PDB structure. I originally wrote a script to find protein codon rarity […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

https://youtu.be/waEoKZIa0S4?si=JX92p0Wlz_a-fUFn Written in Perth on some mis-tuned gear. How the mighty have fallen and others thrive.

And here is @HRBridges magic explained in a flow chart. ✨ For more info, consult the preprint's methods section and the case study in the CryoSPARC Guide. This is a compact view of the process, showing what worked best. The map we deposited had job number J8039! 😵‍💫 3/5

As promised, here is a summary of this new preprint on the ALC1-nucleosome complex. 🧵 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.10.687450 First, a reminder of some structural features of the #nucleosome. Histones H2A and H2B form a negatively charged cleft exposed […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

New post! https://keiran-rowell.github.io/sulfur/2026-01-18-fire-and-brimstone/ Sulfur exacts a brutal toll for its extraction, but guides the electricity that drives all life. 🟡 🌋 🔥 🦠 #sulfur #science #chemistry #volcanoes #abiogenesis #mafia #oil #biochemistry #scicomm #histsci

Soccer Mommy - lucy (Official Audio) https://youtube.com/watch?v=acRDJTYHWIo&si=27hIyzINxpfXFmsJ "The face of an angel and the heart of something less nice" #soccermommy #indie #grunge #pop #colortheory

Glad to see an outpouring of support at #lifebloodau Sydney ❤️‍🩹

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/12/10/driving-hpc-performance-up-is-easier-than-keeping-the-spending-constant/ #hpc #gpu #supercomputing #teraflops

#huntersandcollectors rate with #midnightoil for #aussie rock legends IMO. Mark Seymour is a pub rock laureate https://youtu.be/p-ZY1gJ_H3A?si=EsRrQxKMBrL-QEoY "She said to me: 'Boy!, you're so hard – you're so ANGRY You're just a child like everyone else Why don't ya' take five and _forget […]

Bunch of awesome #postrock shows coming up across Melbourne Brisbane and Sydney over the next 2 weeks! https://mailchi.mp/c8fcd5d8f06b/birdsrobenewsletter-6795395?e=12b3ca6a39

How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSP A nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #royalinstitution #chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography

The store for decorating your /home #linux #tux #istanbul

New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour💜 https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/ This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow […]

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ld-Ba46CM&si=Jtbm34ryTQttrc_5 Stay tuned to colour radio 🌈📻 New broadcast out soon 👾 #bbc #synth #radiophonic

Hegseth’s first dismissal with a chosen successor - POLITICO https://share.google/UzcjqzJK4xZrEGI9c "Since taking the reins of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired his top military adviser, nearly his entire roster of civilian aides and all of his senior legal officers." 😬 […]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0xgXejAa8&si=PZV_3VncfG9CMtjO How quickly is the greenback going to speedrun its loss of place as the world's reserve currency? Will we see GPGPU capacity going for cents on the dollar to meet creditor claims during startup liquidation because #gpu rental ROI […]

The lethal trifecta for #ai #agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/ #llms #mcp #datasecurity

I'm at the Library of Celsus, the third largest in the ancient world after Alexandria and Pergamon, in the ancient Anatolian city of #ephesus

I saw Zultanite, a rare mineral in #Turkiye that undergoes the #Alexandrite #colour changing effect: Our cones are not created equal; the short 'blue' wavelength sensor is well separated from the similar 'green' & 'red' curves 👁️ Alexandrite cuts off blue […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Oh this is *well* cool, The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms https://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf So elegant the title says everything - the oldest algorithm in history for the greatest common divisor covers most #rhythm lines in the world […]

Holy hell how haven't I heard of #strudel before? https://youtu.be/HkgV_-nJOuE?si=FVXdYUh3I_9xYOjM #synth #programming in a web browser #repl :O #haskell #tidalcycles #javascript #musictheory #midi #music #acidhouse

How #container Filesystem Works: Building a #docker like Container From Scratch https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-filesystem-from-scratch #linux #hpc #podman #runc

Two 80s historical songs I've had stuck in my head 🌋 #pompeii #souxsieandthebanshees https://youtube.com/watch?v=wsOHvP1XnRg&si=X7YsZ9GeWf0NE_6U 📜 #mesopotamia #b52s https://youtu.be/0FyLcHxbSRk?si=ATwuVMXvx4npCrbz

Incredible trio of artists: Reiko Azuma, Sally Mowbray, and Samantha Tidbeck at #chrissiecotter #australian #art #gallery today. I an amazing chance talk in depth with them, and they're talking at the gallery 13 September, 3 pm.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pKh5fNuj2-w&si=_VwuOZ51zGxbe80m A horror story of #uni #enterprise data loss due to replacement parts installed by incident engineers before the org had applied a week old firmware patche #datarecovery

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WcnDsTpO-CY&si=4n3HlEUBZdmPHJkY #throwingmuses are coming to Sydney. Can't wait to see the most slept in band of the 90s. Everyone was prodigiously talented. They started at 14! Tanya is a multi-act genius, and Kristin a savant. They're still going and we're in too […]

I've been playing with #claude .ai Sonnet 4 over the weekend 😲 It's astounding how gracefully it pivots on two word prompts toying with '#machinelearning' https://claude.ai/share/3276ab06-be41-458e-b9b7-c501114dc45b Sure it locks into context heavily in order to generate plausible responses […]

My copy of 'All Hell' by #LosCampesinos arrived from overseas. Complete with moon speckle vinyl 🌑🩸🤡 Many years of purple lyrics and gut-wrenching breakup songs. Gareth can still lay down a line: "Parasocial puppet master Every sucker in between Sacrificial […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5WIpUu5iIIs&si=qdm_CKILfxu98uRo I've been getting into #nin more recently, especially their genius record #thefragile. I've stumbled upon rehearsal footage of 'Just Like You Imagined' and it's incredible seeing Trent Reznor work his compositional magic live in […]

Hyperscalers will decide Australia's data centre future, not the renewable energy sector | RenewEconomy https://share.google/YZVWmknjqMTKUvjz3 #hpc #aus #ai #Energygrid #renewables

https://youtube.com/watch?v=B8O_08ZBrSg #helium's 2 records & "Ends with And" oddities retrospective are some favourite records in my collection. Mary Timony is a guitar wiz & biting lyricist: first EP full of feminist fury, Helium's some gorgeous #altrock, then her solo work went Renfaire […]

Structure of an archaeal ribosome reveals a divergent active site and hibernation factor | Nature Micro https://rdcu.be/ewZ3S "Ribosomes translate mRNA into protein. Despite divergence in ribosome structure over the course of evolution, the catalytic site, known as the peptidyl transferase […]

I may as well inaugurate my mastodon profile with my post on the crazy history behind #nitrogen N≡N — the wars fought ⛷️, poo mined 🐦 , and science pioneered 🔎 in the quest to sequester it from air to soil: https://keiran-rowell.github.io/nitrogen-fixation/2023-06-14-nitrogen-fixation/ […]