Pinball model of development and reprogramming. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

This is pretty amazing. 🤩

Respect to those who got here first.

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

As if I needed another reason to dislike Dawkins.

Don't forget Thai, and whatever New Zealand's got to offer. Club D ftw!

"That relaxed attitude about bodily autonomy comes as something of a surprise, given the state’s six-week abortion ban, but this is America, where you can do anything with your body unless there’s a uterus in it."

I worked for a big tech company that had a search feature. They developed a new feature that would autosuggest the top few results as you typed, and it was wildly successful. Being able to jump to the thing you're searching for, and skip a separate search results page was exactly what users wanted.

“The first tsunami wave is forecast to reach Hawaii just after 7:15 p.m. local time, which is 1:15 a.m. ET.” Be safe, everyone abcnews.go.com/US/tsunami-w...

Please pray for my family

Obligatory "computer algorithms aren't going to save us!" youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44?... Access to advanced algorithms (for virtually any social problem) just makes it easier to shove through whatever agenda you have, and makes it easier to hide that you had the agenda in the first place.

Can't wait to see the upcoming paper on conifer carcinisation.

Unique higher ed program is helping Columbus residents: columbusunderground.com/columbus-pro...

I find very little to be proud of today, but the struggle of the oppressed in spite of overwhelming odds is certainly one of America's greatest traits through history and today. poets.org/poem/let-ame...

"O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!" Starting the day sharing my favorite Langston Hughes poem in the family group chat before doing my own reading poets.org/poem/let-ame...

They're aiming for the 1950s but they're gonna overshoot and wind up in the 1890s.

Trump knows exactly what's in his bill. It's malicious and he's laundering lies about it to patch up his approval rating and convince Congress to pass it.

I have very little hope he'll change his vote since the first time it passed the house, but I told my rep (OH-15) to vote No anyway. It took like 60 seconds.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!

As an Ohio resident, I would have elected a literal chunk of granite over Moreno, but here we are...

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

"Julius Caesar's penchant for wearing his triumphal regalia "wherever and whenever" was taken as one among many signs of monarchical intentions..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_t...

🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access: 1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... 2. Contact your elected officials www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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The Four Towers

@thebookloft.bsky.social you have plans for expansion? 👀

It's really interesting to see how the responses to Trump's international policies have driven political changes outside the US.

Posting this today for no particular reason, except to say if we do honor another Italian, please don't do it on Indigenous People's Day theoatmeal.com/comics/colum...

To the surprise of absolutely no one, politicizing the state university system drives students away.

Thousands of protestors gathered at the Ohio Statehouse today to protest the policies of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance and the rest of the current administration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Hu...

Good teachers aren't just fonts of knowledge. They can understand each student individually and deliver information to them in a way that connects with the student. Not to mention empathizing, processing the student's emotional state, helping other teachers and parents, and a variety of other tasks.

Wherever happened to all the "but... her emails" people.

I don't think I ever thought a thread about hippo testicles would be a positive distraction from the pandemonium of my timeline, but here we are!

Nice tree of life! It's so neat and tidy! Be a shame if endosymbiosis fu... OH NOOO!

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

I applied to 8 programs in biology and computational biology in December. I've gotten 6 Nos and 2 have yet to reply. None of them have given any feedback whatsoever about my suitability as an applicant or how the funding issues impacted their decision.

💉POLIO VACCINE SUCCESS💉 The use of the polio vaccine has prevented millions of cases of paralysis and death worldwide.

Barbara A. Williams, radio #astronomer 1st African-American woman to earn PhD in astronomy @UofMaryland in 1981 expanded our knowledge of compact #galaxy clusters, galactic evolution #BlackHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #histsci #radioastronomy #astrophysics 🍎

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

If you think the proposed cuts to American science are because science is unpopular, this are wrong. DON'T BELIEVE THEM. 1. 76% of Americans express trust in scientists, more than for police officers and school principals (Pew). 2. 80% say federal funding of science is vital to our nation (STAC)

“The Kansas governor was banned from closing down businesses during public health emergencies in 2021. And the legislature forbade state and county public health officials from mandating tests, isolation and closures due to infectious disease in 2023.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is how we get through it!

Pssst. Black History is American History…Pass it on.

I applied to 8 biology PhD programs in December. So far I've gotten 4 No's and 4 haven't replied. I don't know to what extent the funding freezes chaos has impacted the programs I applied to, but I'm sure even if I was admitted the funding might be more volatile than it would have been.

4 planets visible after dusk tonight. Venus and the moon pictured. Saturn was below Venus, but dim. Jupiter overhead and bright, and Mars on the other side of the sky from the moon.