This is incredibly depressing and why we need true change

hard to find a way to make "UFC event on the White House lawn" more embarrassing but "it's a birthday party for the President" somehow does it

This is a KILLER playlist!! (People of a certain age ALL would have had the Just Say Mao/Just Say Yes Sire records CD samplers but label much deeper than that, and shout out to the Lips Like Sugar (Echo and the Bunnymen) and Out of Hand (Might Lemon Drops) remixes on those compilations)

Benchmarking normalisation methods for differential binding analysis in CUT&RUN https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.24.727463v1

Alex Ruthenberg, you are crazy for this one (they partially purify transcription condensates to see what is in there, and they put the acronym POCEMON on the technique). I am laughing and also reading this right now!

Look at this crazy thing

My PO said I had to fill out this form for 3 of my papers for the RPPR of my NIGMS MIRA grant in February, or I could not include them in my progress report. It looks like things have gotten even worse since then.

Diana x Stan Laurel

Congratulations to Rajitha and Mengmeng and all authors. A nice study from my dear old A&M colleagues Jun-yuan Ji (now Tulane) and Keith Maggert (now Arizona). Gene regulatory circuit for developmental specification of adipose tissue

Aston Martin in F1 this year

Me preparing a new class. “95% done. Have got the syllabus. Just need, lectures, homeworks, exams”

#ComingUpOnTCM THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrew, Harold Russell Dir.: William Wyler 5:30 PM PT Three World War II veterans have trouble dealing with their return to civilian life. 2h 52m | Drama | TV-PG #TCM #TCMParty #RobertESherwood

@sickoscommittee.org clanga 👀?

Great call too

amazing

Oh here we go Indy

ABSOLUTE SCENES

Yup. Sitting on a 3% scored R01 since Jan and I still don’t know if it’s getting funded. This is just not sustainable. How is the NIH going to spend its mandated budget?!

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I Beef and sausage combo, hot giardineira, not too wet

Great economy we have. This is awful

They might have just stood up for truth and right the whole time

@sbarolo.bsky.social I just heard What a Fool Believes and Steal Away back to back

A whole new world 😭

Farewell to Rob Base, whose "It Takes Two" sounds like the greatest single ever whenever it's playing.

Suggests informatic choices could were behind negative result of PRC2 RNA binding in CLIP-type experiments

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

More on the destruction of US science. www.chronicle.com/article/they...

The majestic, ebullient outro says "Touch grass" in the nicest way possible. JAM

I just emailed all of my ThermoFisher reps about this, regardless of whether they handle antibodies or not. I think that is a reasonable thing to do because it is harder and harder to have a customer support contact. This is pretty bad!

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

A nice piece at @science.org covers the exploding field of bacterial immunity, and how it led to the understanding that components of the human immune system evolved from bacterial defenses against phage www.science.org/content/arti...

As the sun sets, its light reflects off the water of the Arctic Ocean near northwestern Alaska.

This is really amazing- analysis of ~5000 year old DNA identifies a father and son that were buried 140 miles apart. I cannot think of the odds of observing this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Any discussion of grade inflation should discuss the role of student evaluations of teaching. They can be important for flagging issues and finding improvements (but also quite biased), but if they become THE way people are evaluated for retention or promotion, it leads to strong inflation pressure

Is Lalas in a Faraday cage on the moon

@jackstripling.bsky.social interviews Dan Ariely about his years-long correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...

Excited to share our latest paper! We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. @cp-cell.bsky.social (1/7) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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BREAKING: The Senate confirmed Sheria Clarke to the District of South Carolina after she refused to say Biden won in 2020 and dodged questions about January 6. Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Hassan, Heinrich, Reed, Shaheen & Whitehouse voted to confirm her. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/eight-demo...

We got pizza for a lab thing and it arrived cold and only after delivered were we told it was DoorDash. Customers hate this! Amazing thing is corporate gave us a free pizza coupon that was not accepted by local franchise, so we haven’t ordered from them again- great job guys

just a heads up! it looks like the guidance from these FAQs supersedes the NOFO: "The only hyperlinks currently allowable are the ones generate by SciENcv for the ORCID iD and the product citations of the Biographical Sketch Common Form." I am removing the link to MyBibliography from my biosketch

We used them twice and both times they gave us better deal on used car than dealers were offering as a trade. I hope they are not evil because they made process as painless as could be

Grilled pork tenderloin sandwich with red onion jam, garlic scape chimichurri, mayo, grilled ciabatta

Out today - structure of the human HIRA histone chaperone complex bound to nucleosomes. Ever wondered how nucleosomes are assembled in the wake of transcription? It takes a 'hulk of a protein complex'. Work by the amazing Wei Tian weetian558.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Bhattacharya often mischaracterizes multiyear funding as beneficial to early career scientists. In reality, it creates a hyper-competitive, resource constrained environment. Part 2 of @27unihted.bsky.social's fact check address MYF. 27unihted.substack.com/p/fact-check...

Pity the FIFA official who is all set up to steal some funds, only to discover that another FIFA official has stolen them before him.