Way behind on promoting work from folks in the group… not sure I ever plugged Autumn’s work on selective phosphorylation of small molecule substrates with the kinase PsiK. Great collaboration with Graham Cooks’ group at Purdue and Ryan Phelan at AbbVie: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

so close, yet so, so far away. an edit striking a few unnecessary details: But life properly lived is dangerous. It’s dangerous to people who refuse to hate those they are told to hate, to people who refuse to oppress, to conquer, to exploit. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

i still enjoy watching music videos

Excellent article on the importance of US academic research for US private enterprise, and in particular for Silicon Valley. open.substack.com/pub/theahura...

downloaded for the name, but it is quite good! nerv.app/en/about.html

america is already great folks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/d...

fam has had an awesome start to our visit to japan, this pic was preceded by a great time in harajuku before the rain, and i had no clue there was a roland store here, apparently the only one in japan, but the rain was the perfect setting for finding that the store was… closed on tuesdays! so close!

This is utterly brilliant - Macintosh System Software 1.0, all the way to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, all with emulations of the software that actually work!! Incredible. aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

had to say goodbye to Panda today. seventeen great years with this crazy border collie.

arnold group alums out in force at tom ward’s repartzymes (repurposed and artificial metalloenzymes) conference. great science and awesome community!

Exciting news from the IU Biology Greenhouse! Wally, our corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), is officially preparing to bloom! 🪴🌸 🎥You can watch the livestream: go.iu.edu/8tM8 📷: Jessica L. Hooten, Department of Biology

publican and smart bar are two of my favorite places in chicago. this bathroom in basel looks like the child of their bathrooms’ pagan union.

i was initially put off by alchemist in basel because the glassware was not properly assembled, but i found out i could order absinthe feuerzangenbowle-style. and that you get forceps and a mortar/pestle at table… also the food was excellent. shared pak choi, spätzli, lamb shank, and pork belly.

having a great time in basel. plattfon record store is a strong recommend.

wording makes it sound like this could affect grad students also, but i didn’t read the bill text…

The International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC) is taking place in Long Beach, CA from July 28 - Aug 1! There is still time to register and submit an abstract! www.icbic21.org

Courthouse Square, Bloomington, Indiana #nokings

i am somewhere between embarrassed (how could i not know about this band?), shocked (seriously, how???), and excited (a whole catalogue of new (to me) music!) that i was completely unfamiliar with The Young Gods before this article. great stuff.

🌮🌮🌮 www.politico.com/news/2025/06... bc

can’t wait to hear the expert advice from this group… (nice summary of “credentials“) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

but more importantly…

christ man, what’s going on…

i loved this tape when i was little, and i was psyched to find the record @landlockedmusic.com

Breaking News: Brian Wilson has died

saw this ad online. another effort to divert funding for and even the meaning of STEM to other fields. there are good reasons why the acronym STEAM emerged and why the A stands for Arts and not Accounting… but these people just don’t care. www.politico.com/sponsored/20...

this guy clearly has no idea what an R1 institution is… or just doesn’t care: “One of the things that we wanted was a guarantee that you would have every professor teaching at least 12 credits, so 12 hours in the classroom for a full-time job, and they just couldn't get there."

apparently darrell issa is going to review all research grants in CA? “Come to me with the grant and the justification, and I’ll advocate for that.”

🌮🌮🌮 www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

woooooooooow… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

the Inhuman League

this looks so much more complex than what we actually do… maybe AI is right about radiating lines around a nucleophile? and the numbers definitely look sophisticated. and leavin3groung… yes.

The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

TACO

The U.S. Deported This Chinese Scientist, in a Decision That Changed World History www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Something spicy & delicious as a taco has gotten under Trumplestiltkin's thin tangerine skin. Seems the master of mean, juvenile nicknames can dish them out but when directed towards him, he can't take it, angrily calling it "nasty."🤣 Good to know. (you know what to do!) 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮

awesome story… and a other example of “wasteful research” turning out to be a big deal.

really can’t stand this piece of shit… so sorry for the students. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

gotta be honest… “bauhaus blast” is a big part of why i maintain a social media presence.

#BREAKING: HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

must have been a cool station back in the day. i have bought several records from a local store with their call letters. www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/WQAX

good thing the US is supporting the students who will make these advances and the academic institutions that train them…

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.

huh. was taking a quick break from working on a nih proposal. not sure why i thought a quick look here would be helpful…

“Economists have extensively studied the effects of eliminating OPT: It would cause permanent losses to US innovation, productivity, economic growth, and job opportunities for both less-educated native workers and more educated native workers.”

revisiting fahrenheit 451. found this where i left off last. didn’t make it too far.

sights and sounds from my hammock… before the pesky tornado siren ruined things.

The article includes this beautiful photo of the baby looking up at one of the doctors who saved his life. This extraordinary, life saving research is exactly how I want my tax dollars spent. “KJ is now well enough for the team to start planning to discharge him from the hospital and live at home”

rogue one is my favorite episode in the star wars saga. second season andor is now the runner up. these are one and two only because they set up the original trilogy, so kind of carpet bagging, but the setup is just so good. and k2so is the second best droid.