funded by the Templeton Foundation, I guess...

#WorldPoetryDay | 'Night Over Birkenau' by an #Auschwitz survivor, Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951, camp no. 119198 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Borowski)

15 March 1943 | The Germans began deportations of Greek Jews to #Auschwitz. On that day the first transport left Thessaloniki with 2,800 men, women and children. They train arrived at the camp on 20 March & 2,191 people were immediately murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Elisabeth Knust -- former director at the @mpi-cbg.de -- acknowledges the "priviledge to do curiosity-driven science" in her acceptance speech for the Klaus Sander lifetime award of the @gfeev.bsky.social at #gfe2026 in @unipotsdam.bsky.social. Congratulations!

If you are a primate getting old, you might start thinking on taking vitamin C www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

And immunologists did not know this? Really? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "...we unveiled a tunnel microtract (TMT) as an organ indispensable in TCPs homing in both zebrafish and mouse, positioned bilaterally beneath the fifth branchial levator muscle, connecting the thymus and kidney..."

🚨 NEW RESEARCH! ⚕️ 🩺 Fontes et al. share a case report of a glioblastoma patient's sample use in generating patient-derived zebrafish xenografts (zAvatars) and subsequent testing of therapeutic options. http://dlvr.it/TRKtHr #Glioblastoma #ZebrafishModels

From a protest

Another one bites the dust! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "Our results call for careful reinterpretation of prior studies attributing CNS phenotypes to RORγ-expressing immune cells based on RORγ–Cre–driven genetic models...

meanwhile

... smells like... Victory! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8h...

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Modeling mitochondrial inheritance enables high-precision single-cell lineage tracing in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.12.705660v1

dreamers

One limitation : The datastore includes open-access papers and cannot access paywalled ones. It may not retrieve the most relevant papers.

Karol "Just Move That Priest to Another Parish Youth Center" Wojtyla & friends www.ft.com/content/8269...

Renee Nicole - Alex Pretti

If you are looking for a distraction, this seems cool. Sticky ends++. If it works as advertised, seems like it could be a game-changer. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#BoycottUSA2026 #Boycott2026WorldCup

Boycott the World Cup www.theguardian.com/football/202....

Boycott the World Cup Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

I’ll make it clear right now that if the Middle Ages come back, I’m on the witches’ side. Clarice Lispector.

The next First Lady of USA!! Veronika is now flying to the White House, in exchange for Greenland. Another case in which wife is much more intelligent than the (future) husband. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAk4...

For NOTCH aficionados A nice paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social on how ADAM10/Kuzbanian participates in Notch activation and interacts with Delta. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... You can see a nice movie with the summary here: static-movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/source/10.12...

Probably, the peak of american (USA) civilization: 1979 - Shadows and Light Joni Mitchell + Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny,M.Brecker, Lyle Mays+Don Alias www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrAs...

📢 The Louis-Jeantet Foundation is happy to announce the 2026 #LouisJeantetPrizes, awarded to YASMINE BELKAID @pasteur.fr and to FIONA DOETSCH @doetschlab.bsky.social hlab.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch CONGRATULATIONS!!! 👉 jeantet.ch/en 👇 follow thread

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

prenhas?

It looks like the instructions given to the SS in the "good old times" of Deutschland...

Europe “must now contemplate what was unthinkable: to defend themselves against the US, in both trade and security”. I find the "unthinkable" very funny... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If your access to American-controlled cloud services was suddenly interrupted, seriously curtailed, or became prohibitively slow or expensive next week, would your school or university still be able to function? statusq.org/archives/202...

the shooter "was identified as Jakobus Onnen (1906–1943), a teacher from Tichelwarf (Germany) who had been a member of the SS since 1934.

The last jew in Vinnytsia Remember Renee Good

Ecological Realism Accelerates Epigenetic Aging in Mice onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Renee Good

The best analysis I read about the Trump/Maduro game. It is in portuguese but It is worth translating it! www.publico.pt/2026/01/07/m...

Mexico managing to have more spine than every western nation despite being in the immediate crosshairs, fuck every cowardly world leader that tries to play this safe

Already Congress is coming up with excuses not to do anything. For shame.

Oh really?

Augusto Santos SIlva critica referência de Montenegro a Ronaldo: “Se falava do Cristiano Ronaldo que foge aos impostos, viola mulheres, presta serviços ao Estado da Arábia Saudita ou é admirador confesso de Donald Trump, faço tudo para estar nos antípodas dessa imagem”

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested by UK police under the Terrorism Act at the Prisoners for Palestine lock-on protest outside the offices of Aspen Insurance in London, which insures the Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.