I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶

Sunset in Shibuya

i’m sorry but vampire babies are just too fucking adorable

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

Monty Python understood p-hacking

😲 I saw a amazing Bookshop/Library online in china, it's out of this world. 📚 #BookSky #Library #BookShop #China

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

No One Completely Sure If The Old Mothball Factory Is Shut Down

To keep our profit margins as high as possible, we will be giving you just a little bit of chicken drugs, as a treat

I thought of *several* of you when I saw this

Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula

War ravaged Portland

this would fix me

A quick guide on "How to fall downstairs": Step 1 Step 6 Step 8, 9, 10, 11.

In all the discussion of salary equity in academia I never hear the people of Grand Rapids own up to their responsibility to use renewable energy.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

CRAB

I'm watching a commercial where a donkey rides a motorcycle and it says "professional driver. Do not attempt". Where else can I see the professional donkey drivers

At the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London, the latest in scientific innovation was presented. I present to you: George Merryweather's "TEMPEST PROGNOSTICATOR" which uses leeches to predict approaching storms. 12 leeches are arranged in pint bottles around the central pillar with a bell.

celebrities out walking characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

oh no not up the labumbum

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

See Figs 1-100 (below)

“Pull up, Maverick, pull up! You’re coming in way too fast! Christ, I don’t think he’s gonna make it. Clear the runway! Clear the runway!”

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

I have gotten a bit behind at sharing the lab’s latest work - this paper is now published - check it out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... Long story short: insulin is the major determinant of female fat storage, with a relatively minor effect on males.

I was genuinely completely emotionally invested in this entire fight

You can’t spell premeditated without me. Wink

but…but there were only four people in the room when i took these pictures

This thing here, exhibit A in "the danger of leaving our ships to melt in the hot sun", is HMS Glatton. And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...

in 2018 while on a show i was told angie tribeca was stopping by to pick up some equipment, I asked if she needed a drive on pass for the lot. that’s when I learned there was show called angie tribeca. TODAY was the day I found out what kind is show it was & I feel so absolutely cheated out of time

An apt comment from Harold Varmus in this piece: ‘Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back. You are dealing with highly trained people and projects which, when stopped for a short time, are ruined.’

The physics of this makes no sense it literally looks like when you run footage backwards. Incredible play

Getting some culture in Bahstun

One Piece flag at the Nepal Gen-Z protests.

meanwhile in London...

New online: Computational design of sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins

This is magic, just made up batshit medical magic, it’s like saying “Danny Simon can walk again because they took his pinky finger, cut it off, pointed it accusingly at a warlock, painted it red, and stuck it up his ass.” Just pure wtf Mad Libs surgical sorcery.

NOT TO BE MISSED. My awesome colleague Rob Brewster may have COMPLETELY upended our understanding of how TFs work ... a must-read for anyone who cares in the slightest about gene regulation

E. coli transcription factors regulate promoter activity by a universal, homeostatic mechanism | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Latest publication from the lab spearheaded by @shoreseashell.bsky.social & in collaboration with @zeqiraj.bsky.social is out. Using structural, biochemical & computational tools, this work sheds light on the mechanism of action of BAY-3827 in inhibiting #AMPK 1/3 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

How can we understand the earliest events in evolution of eukaryotic immunity? @yao-li.bsky.social reports incredible molecular fossils of complete bacterial-like operons in eukaryotes that illuminate how animal immunity was first acquired from anti-phage defense www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kaoru Yamada

From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination. Row after row of baby headstones.

It’s wild living in the Information Age and the Dark Age at the same time.

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.