Shouldn’t late stage capitalism be cheaper than this?????

Nominative Determinism would be a beautiful name for a baby, depending on how their life plays out

Red Line customers 🔴🚇: Tonight after 10 p.m. and each night through Thursday, trains will single track between Friendship Heights and Van Ness-UDC stations. This allows our team to fix any tunnel leaks in this part of the system. Learn more: wmata.com/weekday

he’s thinking about kissing his son

Also DC BOE has this nifty interactive ranked choice voting simulator where you rank your favorite ice cream flavors that is an ACE explanation. www.dcboe.org/rcv

Friendly reminder to join us May 28 for Sounds Like Chicago! Not only will you hear Jim Derogatis, Rebecca Makkai, Sherman "Dilla" Thomas and Natalie Moore in conversation, you will support Chicago's independent community radio station @chirpradio.org !

My name is Jasmine Clark. I’m a lifelong Georgian, mom, PhD microbiologist, college professor, and state representative who flipped a Republican seat. I’ve been a voice of accountability in Georgia, and now I’m running to bring a science voice to Congress.

Apparently Craig Venter has passed away. At first I couldn't find verification (his Wikipedia page hasn't been updates), but found other sources : www.synbiobeta.com/read/a-synth.... I'm surprised I've not seen more coverage of this!

I love gaslighting Americans that US fast food chains change their names to sell in Europe. "Did you know that in Italy Popeyes Chicken is trying to gain a foothold so it's actually called 'Pope? Yes!' over there? It's the same Reason why Papa Johns is called Father Jonathans..."

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I'm glad I didn't chicken out of going to this show. it felt so good to be in a room of nice people (as only @joshgondelman.bsky.social fans can be) listening to these jokes!!

📃Scientific paper: Identification of volatile metabolites produced from levodopa metabolism by different bacteria strains of the gut microbiome Ref.: BioMed Central, 2024 ➡️ Continued on ES/IODE

I have to share this truly unhinged PSA from the department of health of the state of washington: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFy...

Same, girl, same. 🦟

77% of women over age 50 no longer worry about what others think of them.

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This finish from the LA marathon 💕💕 youtu.be/PQ2v6QOaKtQ

Wild!

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Introducing kuva: A scientific plotting library in rust, along with cli binary with the option to plot directly into the terminal. Feel free to drop me some feedback as an issue on the repo github.com/Psy-Fer/kuva crates.io/crates/kuva/...

New paper out! #Virosky #genomics #HPV Important work on an underserved population. Proud to contribute alongside these scientists, physicians, and community health workers. 🧬🖥️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 12th 2026 (Easy), in 05:05 🟩🟩🟡🟩 🟡🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟡🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

i don't have any words. but please share and amplify my friend's story.

Genomics Help Uncover Mysteries of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor... #Science #Animals #Wildlife #Fish #Research #Genomics #Tuna #AtlanticBluefinTuna #BluefinTuna #Biology #NOAA

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Huh. I saw one of these in my neighborhood. didn't know they were sponsored by the city or that they were working! 🆒

To my mighty few followers.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

❤️🥰 story www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

Turns out even kings had ordinary mouths. A new study of King Richard III’s dental calculus shows his oral microbiome wasn’t so different from the common folk’s, despite a royal diet and lifestyle. #AncientDNA #Microbiome #MicroSky

“We all kind of came together randomly, but we were the perfect random people to work together on this.” 51st.news/dc-authors-2...

Really excited to announce v3.0 of our #microbiome analysis app Nephele! nephele.niaid.nih.gov We released it in May, and this week presented it at the NIH Research Fest! We constantly update the pipelines, but this was a significant upgrade in the infrastructure and workflow. #microbiomesky

In 1967 a human not only wrote this song, but played it alone at a piano and sang it like this. Was never really the same after I heard this solo demo version. The composition is like a summary of classical music from the 13th century to Gershwin, it's just crazy. Surf's Up youtu.be/gcw1lfANmrc?...

Hey #microbiomesky please check out our paper on a multi-omics investigation of RAG1 mutation "boy in the bubble" syndrome. With nice analysis comparing mouse gut microbiome and intervention with human as well as IgA-seq immune signature of a leaky gut!

#microbiomesky Also, if anyone is #hiring for a microbiome researcher with experience in leading a scientific software team, let me know. I love doing this so much!

Our paper on #bacteriophages in the infant gut #microbiome came out earlier this year. This work was a long time coming, and I'm super proud to be first author alongside Suchi Hourigan and Hector Romero Soto of the Clinical Microbiome Unit at NIAID. doi.org/10.1080/2993...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 😞

*Jesus' wife throwing a picture down on the kitchen table and asking whose footprints those are*

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have to check this one out...

this just played on tv with no audio and almost killed me

Phew! It's 2020 again. Remember this? Wordle 1,350 6/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

R version 4.4.3 "Trophy Case" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.) This coincides with as-close-as-we-can-get-to 25 years since the release of R 1.0.0. #rstats

"In Texas, the student-led policy organization Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) championed additional temporary injunctions on a Texas law barring freedom of speech for minors." Don't underestimate a single victory. We'll come out bloodied, but we will win! 💪🏾 glaad.org/good-news-lg...

Weirdly, I'm actually stoked my all-time favorite band will never properly get back together. I think it's cool as shit. There's a magic in just letting things be. I love the way they broke up & how they just fuck around as pals every so often like this. It's so great www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZOg...

Does legacy media include America’s Test Kitchen?

🐷🏗️ I built a tower 🔺6.62m high! Rating: 🐽🐽➖➖➖ vole.wtf/styscraper/ This is a good time waster.

Great interview and article by Nicole Phelps at Vogue: www.vogue.com/article/inde... Accompanying podcast here: www.vogue.com/podcast/the-... (it took me a while to become a fan of nicole on the podcast, but she really is an amazing interviewer who highlights #diverse voices in art and commerce)