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Here's a big thank you to everyone at NIH who is trying to get everything regarding grants and reviews re-started!!!
This is absolutely disgusting and against the will of the people and of the state. We do not want forever dictators that rule as monarchs.
We must fight the current Trump regime in any capacity possible. The will of the people will always win against authoritarianism.
That's amazing!!! Congratulations Laurent!! 🥳👏🏻
New preprint from my Postdoc in Zak Swartz’s lab at the @mblscience.bsky.social, in collaboration with Carsten Wolff and @. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
RNA xkcd.com/3056
I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.
Time to call our reps! If you work where I work, come on down to L4-201 from now to 4PM and grab a Paula’s donut! We’ve got numbers and scripts to make it easy!
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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Excellent move by Cambridge/DAMTP to appoint Hannah Fry as the first ever professor for the public understanding of mathematics! www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
What would Plato say about systems biology? In his Allegory of the Cave, prisoners can only see shadows on a wall and so they have a distorted reality. Also our measurements of genes, RNAs, proteins & metabolites are the shadows, not the reality of the complex biological systems.
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities.
For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship).
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Alright, I guess someone had to do this. Let me know if I forgot you (or anyone else), I can add accounts! go.bsky.app/DRMSeby
Oh wow! Fascinating. Interesting relationship the beetles have formed with the termites.
Wow, beautiful!! Do they always hunt on termite mounds?
A macro photo taken at night of a green-glowing, bioluminescent click beetle larva, partially outside its burrow in a red-dirt termite mound. The beetle larva has sharp, wide open mandibles, ready to snap shut on any insect that ventures too close, attracted by the light.
A photo at night of a tall termite mound on a grassland. The cloudy sky is faintly blue in the background. The termite mound is dotted with a few dozen green pinpoints of light, all from tiny bioluminescent click beetle larvae living in the mound's surface, giving the termite mound the appearance of lumpy, red-dirt Christmas tree.
An amazing sight from my recent Brazil trip: bioluminescent termite mounds in Emas National Park. Tiny larvae of click beetles (Pyrearinus termitilluminans) glow steadily, hoping to attract flying insects (like winged termites & ants), which they then grab with their sharp mandibles. #insects 🐙🌿
Beautiful! 😍
Is this an immunostaining?
Geometriphylogenetics xkcd.com/3010
