Wordle really scraping the bottom of the barrel today! Wordle 1,852 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spanish tostada, a Catalan favorite, on this scorching hot Independence Day. Grate (yes, grate) a cut tomato into a bowl and heap it on a toasted baguette or crusty bread. Sprinkle salt and a generous drizzle of good olive oil. I rubbed a cut garlic clove on the bread right after toasting. #Foodsky

Falafel for dinner on a gorgeous summer evening. Served on a bed of baba ganoush and mohamarra. #foodsky

Most antibodies are rubbish. Western blots are the least productive scientific method and have shown no real advancement for decades. But now, companies charge hundreds of dollars for tiny aliquots of this garbage. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What a great idea, more of this in the US please! And yes, I was thrilled to see Freddie Mercury flash briefly on the screen. Freddie, born Farrokh Bulsara, had roots in the Parsi community of India that originally fled Iran, and came to the UK by way of Tanzania. #ImmigrationWin #FreddieForEver

Journalists have been reduced to spineless booklickers. As an ordinary person, I would never allow this level of disrespect from anyone.

Science is good. We should fund it.

Thankful for providence for gifting me with this good boy who knows exactly how to pose when not one two legged member of my family will oblige #dogs #aussie #samwise 😂

Reviewer, review thyself! Not ONE of dozens of rubbish experiments forced on us by unpaid peer reviewers of our current manuscript in revision has made an iota difference to the conclusions. But it HAS wasted 2 months of two postdocs and $$$$$ that we can't afford.

🧪Senate Agreement Reached to Restart SBIR, STTR Innovation Programs. 6 years of re-authorization and language to limit high volume SBIR "mills". Bill is not signed into law yet, but looks hopeful. www.nsbaadvocate.org/post/nsba-sb...

How did I miss this awesome tutorial on pH microdomains within organelles?! 🤩 🧪

Join us for a day long workshop on Human Organoids featuring cutting edge science, including our keynote talk by Prof. Dan Huh from U Penn. Registration is required, but free! Zoom link available on request. 🧪

Congratulations, Raghu! You will be brilliant in this role 👏

Welcoming the New Year with black eyed peas and a cheesy gratin of collard greens for good luck 🎉 Happy New Year #foodsky ! What are you celebrating with tonight?

Annual holiday tradition- Brie with caramelized mushrooms and onions, scooped up with toasted French bread #foodsky

The best part of the holidays is that I can cook to my heart's content. Cornmeal blueberry pancakes for breakfast, udon noodles in a red curry soup with cabbage and carrot dumplings for dinner. Happy cooking! #foodsky

🧪Our paper titled “The Christianson syndrome protein, sodium hydrogen exchanger isoform 6, is required for fat accumulation" was chosen by J Physiol Editor-in-Chief as the Editor’s Choice! 🥳 This is our 1st paper using a mouse model & venturing into adipocyte biology 😍 Open Access: lnkd.in/eGs6sPds

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🍼 Milk: good for babies… and organoids too? Majood & Rao argue human milk—a living fluid rich in cells, bioactive molecules, & microbiome—could transform lactation biology & contamination research. 💡It's also a vital cell source for the development of 3D mammary #organoid models. 🧪

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its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Here come the exceptions! news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs. The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible. 🧪 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I just want to leave this here, so you can block all the US.GOV accounts with a couple of clicks. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I saw a patch of evening sun on the Celosia and this good boy understood the assignment 📷🐾

Hop and Change

Remembering the NYT obit of Yvonne Brill, NASA rocket scientist, which began "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children." 🤦‍♀️

Wrapping up a great conference on acid-base regulation in Copenhagen. Beautiful venue at the Royal Danish Academy. Our Canadian and European colleagues are aghast at the rapid dismantling of science and democracy in the US.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Ladies and gentleman, this is the state of Goddard Space Flight Ctr of NASA today. Spouse just returned from a trip abroad to this 🤦‍♀️

Strawberry 🍓 crostata for 4 yo Rhys’ birthday next door 🎉

If I wrote a book on the joy of picking tomatoes, would you read it? My writing style is irreverent, self deprecating humor

Today's lesson in pointless security: Digitally signed PDFs cannot be merged w/o the signatures disappearing. Apparently, merging is a disallowed modification. How do I know this? NIH returned the merged Other Support docs on our multi-PI RPPR because the signatures had disappeared 🤡

Nature forgives. Rabbits decapitated the seedlings, bugs destroyed the zucchini and heat made the basil bolt. But we persevered - added chicken wire fencing, more compost and plenty of TLC. This was today's haul. No bushels of tomatoes this year, but a small harvest is better than no harvest. 🙏

Too many cherry tomatoes? Arrange them cut side down on parchment paper lined skillet and pour corn bread batter over it. Voila! Upside down cherry tomato corn bread. Courtesy of my daughter Anjana. #foodsky

What does he want? 😂

The hypocrisy and political pandering from the NIH leadership is deeply disturbing and cannot be good for the future of evidence based scientific research in the US. 🧪

🧪BREAKING: NIH has laid out 5 options for funding publications costs on grants (yes, FIVE!). This is hugely impactful. Make your opinions known by September 15, fellow scientists. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

One of the demands of being a 🌞morning person is a hot and savory breakfast. No cold muesli for me! By the time I’ve taken Samwise for a walk, tackled the most urgent and demanding jobs from work and checked on mom in India, I’m hungry! Thanks to Sammy 🐶 I made quick work of this pita melt #foodsky

I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op

Tell her, Hope!!

Today's experiment - bagels! Easy and deliciously chewy recipe but not a winner in the looks department 😀 Next time, I'll try rolling the dough into a rope and closing it to make the hole. Also, I forgot the second (short) rise, oops! #foodsky

Progressive purity tests is what has brought us here. I see folks on here policing how we voice our frustration in the face of tragedy. Unfortunately, everything is political now and I didn't choose for it to be this way.

The frustration I'm seeing in comments is not that anyone deserves this. But that we knew this was coming. And that it will continue to get worse. It is important to draw the connections when they are relevant and impactful.

I made Trinidadian "doubles" - channa (chickpeas) on two pieces of bara (yeasty sweetish dough, quickly fried in very hot oil). Typically served on wax paper which is swung shut and crimped at the ends (very messy!). My version is tamely served on plates. The Caribbean hot sauces make the dish!

Longevity seekers misunderstand a fundamental truth about biology You can’t program the body like a computer @alexharding7.bsky.social | @statnews.com First Opinion www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/b...

I think we need to remember this is a war on expertise at a critical moment in time when our definition of expertise was becoming more expansive and equitable. This makes the link between the attack on expertise/science and attempts to re-segregate much more clear.

Outstanding 🧵.

Bucolic sights around Les Diablerets at the Gordon Research Conference on Mechanisms of Membrane Transport. Why yes, I consider attending a conference as vacation 😎🤓