Mammalian cells form hibernating disomes akin to those in bacterial cells - but connected via ribosomal RNA
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Now that my PhD is slooowly coming to an end (still 6 months left) I thought I’d come back to academic blue sky so HELLO 🥹👋
Some days I wish I was still living in denial and ignorance. Today is one such day.
Another basic income pilot focused on homelessness has released preliminary results after only 6 months because halfway through the experiment, it is already showing incredible effectiveness.
$750/mo for 6 months led to homelessness dropping to 12% versus 23% in the control group on a wait list.
Y'all been discarding rRNAs from your sequencing results. But I thought I'd address my questions as unbiased as I can be. It's all a hypothesis at the moment but rRNAs can do wild things 😳
Recovering from vitamin B12 deficiency must be one of the hardest experiences of my life.
I really thought that by doing a PhD in Cambridge I would meet other people interested in science as whole, curious, creative, eager to brainstorm and test ideas. I've never been so wrong in my life and I've been battling with ideas of quitting for over a year. Sometimes I wish I never came here.
When talking to new people I always like to ask the random question "What kind of music do you like?". As simple as this question is it also reveals a lot about the person - do they have an opinion of their own? Sadly most will reply with "anything, mostly pop". I accept any response but this..
Vitamin B12 gotta be the best preworkout 😆 forget about caffeine..
Every time I see 50+ beehives in a row my brain screams "ecological collapse" and I can't help it anymore 😭
Well... I'm glad not EVERYTHING smells in the lab
Last night I went to some sort of rap open mic here in Cambridge and I am happy to have found the rap crowd I missed so much. It's also so interesting to just listen to the stories random people rap about.
Right on time for invertefest
Maybe it's regional? In Greece they used to hate it until around 2018. I haven't used citronella since then. Same with lemon grass. As a kid I used to rub it all over the skin and they wouldn't approach
Kraken2 is my go-to tool for genus level classification. Species level becomes tricky tbh
Is it just me or has it become increasingly difficult to find meaningful rap? Or is it that I grew up listening to rap touching on sociopolitical issues and personal struggles? You can still find some gems but they've become sooo rare.
Current situation. #MoonPhotos
I thought I was sleeping fine until I tried magnesium before bed and honestly it is wild
We're going to end up renaming the Kessler Effect the Musk Effect. Every time I read something like this I am filled with the dread that this reckless fucking idiot is going to kill space exploration as we know it because his junk machines are going to go haywire and trigger a cascade
what if we all loved and supported each other with radical kindness and radical honesty instead of constantly feeling the need to be pitted against each other
Science and animal nerds: check out this fun game! Every day, a new mystery animal is posted. You have 20 guesses to narrow down which species it is. (Phylogenetic trees are HARD, y'all.)
metazooa.com/game
Here are my results from yesterday.
I'd go with this bad boy
Yes, specifically at the moment I'm studying a non-pathogenic symbiont called Snodgrassella alvi
EXCLUSIVE: The failed SpaceX launch left acres of damage that had US wildlife officials and biologists in disbelief, documents seen by Bloomberg show
How microbes communicate with honey bees
Location over anything
If anyone's wondering my success rate has been LOW.
I never thought I'd do over 300 PCRs in 2 weeks but here we are.
Thanks 🐝
That's great!!
