Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, September 1979, an image used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #WomensArt

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

The origins of how America became a global leader in science and innovation. It’s a quick read, and worth your time.

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.

"Taken together, our results suggest that the genome-wide genetic architecture of gene expression involves fewer regulators for each gene but implicates the same regulators more often across genes (i.e., is less polygenic and more pleiotropic) than previously anticipated."

Released 40 years ago today. Still the greatest day off.

Inflation has surged to its highest level in more than three years since the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran, triggering a surge in gasoline prices. n.pr/4oiHyCt

What an incredible photo of the scorekeeper for the Durham Bulls.

He actually posted this. Please NASA, fly him yo the Moon and get him to take his helmet off!

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

(if you follow the sky marchini account this crisis should not have been a surprise)

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

We have been holding vigils outside of the NIH for a year now. It's been a privilege to commune with such a kind, thoughtful and brilliant group of people. Together we push ourselves to fight for science, health and good governance. Happy anniversary, @nihvigils.bsky.social 🧁🎂🍰🥳🍾🍻🎉🎊

HAPPENING NOW: Tim Heidecker delivers an update on the future of InfoWars and takes calls from viewers including President Donald J. Trump.

Microsoft finally opened the vault: the original DOS 1.00 source code is on GitHub, offering a raw, unfiltered look at computing history.

Spike Lee at the Knicks game at MSG. #spikelee #popeleo #knicks #madisonsquaregarden

@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits Stable, sustained support can transform your career: Senior Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

What's the physiological relevance?

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Throw the Editors of the NYT into the Gulf of America.

A few thoughts ahead of the President’s speech tonight.

The US needs to rebuild the train networks we used to have. No, we aren't the Netherlands, but this isn't about coast-to-coast trips. It's about connecting local neighborhoods, cities, and regions to help eliminate forced car dependency.

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

Maggie Rogers, Joan Baez, and Tom Morello performing “The Times They Are A-Changin'”

Gotta love San Francisco folks showing up in Ocean Beach for No Kings! Awesome! 🔥

Omar: Just a couple of weeks ago, they told us that they blew up a drug trafficking camp in Ecuador and it turned out to be a dairy farm.

Just a guy out walking his turtles.

The Genome Technology Development Webinar Series. 👉 www.jax.org/GenomeTechDev26 👈 Three webinars featuring leading scientists discussing current capabilities, ongoing challenges, and future opportunities in genome technology innovation. Roundtable discussion following the presentations 🧪🧬💻👩‍🔬 #edusky

"This discovery demonstrates that sexual reproduction is indispensable for the long-term survival of mammalian species, the study said." 🧪

viking drive-in theater sign, darker sky, route 29, anderson, south carolina, 1988

A new mechanism for “RNA memory”! This time in Planaria! (Here's a video of a Planarian with mulitple heads, one of the heritable phenotypes we studied). This work summarizes >10 years of research and is an amazing collaboration with the labs of Jochen Rink and Omri Wurtzel labs. Read thrad below👇

A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.

Bazookasaurus xkcd.com/3216/

Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

XPG's interaction with TFIIH's p62 & XPD through its spacer region is key for completing UV and chemo-induced DNA repair. Essential NER insight! PMID:41641700, Nucleic Acids Res 2026, @NAR_Open https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkag078 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day! She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome. Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽 #WomenInScience

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

Re-upping this post from a year ago. To invest in basic research is to invest in a better future for everyone. You know, everyone deserves a better future, not just billionaires or whoever owns stocks of AI companies.

“Academics tend to have this way of interacting with people that works really well when there is mutual good faith,” Aaronson says. “But it breaks down when that doesn’t exist. And I think a lot of academics were just not prepared to deal with someone like him.” www.science.org/content/arti...

My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts! careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...

Where do we draw the line in AI use for manuscript writing? 🧪 socopen.org/2026/02/22/w...

“In 1 of the simulations, 8x out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appt she would not live to see… Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care.” “40 million+ people reportedly ask ChatGPT for health-related advice every day”🧪

🧪 Please check out my new article titled- The Constructor Theory of Life- Why Intelligent Design is wrong and how life builds itself. It's on Medium, access using the link below: medium.com/science-spec... #science #philsky #philosophy #biology

Complex Peaks #Chemsky #ChemChat 🧪