Jill Townley

Trump will flinch before the end of March. He will declare victory and withdraw the carrier groups so he can go invade Cuba next. Will be interesting to see how much damage Iran can inflict before then.

Only question now is how large the attack and response will be. Will Trump bomb the same nuclear sites and Iran responds with missiles aimed at remote area of US base, and it's all over by Monday? Or does Iran respond by hitting higher value targets on a ship or base?

Iran has 3000 ballistic missiles at most. Is that enough to take out an aircraft carrier or inflict deadly damage at Al Udeid? Or do the U.S. fleet/bases in the region have sufficient anti-aircraft munitions to neutralize the Iranian missiles?

No more tax break for data centers in Oregon! Enough already! They need to pay property tax like everyone else. It's bad enough that they are driving up electricity costs for residents.

The construction employees who are afraid to come to work, do they have documentation? I bet they do. I'm hearing a lot of stories of documented workers being detained and deporrted.

MAGA people I know want all brown and black people gone, legal or not. They want a white country.

Great work by Philipp Holliger's group at Cambridge. More and more evidence that RNA likely was the origins of life.

This is a ridiculous idea. Buses are only 1% of the traffic on SE 82nd. Increase the speed limit to 40 MPH instead.

I gave Google access to my science docs/sheets for AI training because they have been the least evil of the big tech, they give me awesome software and storage for free, and I hate X/Grok with a passion. Musk destroyed the science community on X.

Congressional investigation will start in 2027 after Democrats are voted into the majority in the House. The Trump White House is filthy with corruption. Trump doesn't care because he is above prosecution. Could part of the 2.5B be seized during a corporate prosecution?

Uh huh. Same as Putin has been seriously talking with Witkoff for 10 months now. Iran will make some promise to Trump and then not keep it. Adversaries have figured out how to play Trump. Just give him sound bites for the base.

"Bloody mist" is a pretty impressive rhyme with Minneapolis.

I THOUGHT WE WERE INVADING CUBA NEXT

I THOUGHT WE WERE INVADING CUBA NEXT

Why are young people drinking less? Is it because they are using marijuana products instead? Happy to see people drinking and eating less. Hopefully we are exiting the age of gluttony.

A President Vance probably would be even worse. Investigations are the answer, not impeachment.

There is an Apple credit card?

Because impeachment has worked so well the last six years. No thanks. Investigations and public hearings after the Dems take the House will be much more effective.

I would have to think that the generals are obliged to honor the NATO treaty.

The generals are bound to abide by the NATO treaty. There is no way to rationalize invading Greenland. What crazy reasons will Miller/Rubio give?

If Trump wants more military bases in Greenland, then talk to Denmark and Greenland about building a new base.

OLE RNA from Clostridium botulinum (pdb_00009lcr) is shown in pink on the left. ROOL RNAs can form cages built from 6 (right, top, pdb_00009j6y) or 8 (right, bottom, pdb_00009mds) subunits.

Large and intricate naturally occurring structures composed exclusively of RNA... ROOL!
More at Molecule of the Month: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...

So much coastal property for building hotels. Trump probably already has identified sites he wants to develop in Cuba, and the Trump administration will pay to build his hotels by claiming the money is infrastructure investment.

Does Rubio set his sights on Cuba next?

I look forward to reading about RNAPro. Using templates to predict novel 3D structure when no template exists is a bit confusing.

Is RNAPro pseudoknot aware, I assume? VFold has two versions and the pseudoknot aware version takes significantly longer to execute.

There’s something oddly comforting about watching a man who believes he can out-argue biology discover that time does not negotiate. You can deny reality, but you can’t filibuster death.

Please wait until 2029 to bleed out. We don't need Vance ensconcing himself as the new leader of MAGA.

Metabolite-responsive scaffold RNAs for dynamic CRISPR transcriptional regulation Abstract. CRISPR activation is a powerful tool to upregulate a vast array of genes in many different contexts. However, there are few dynamic CRISPR transc

RNA switches designed by @eternagame.org players not only are highly efficient in vitro, they also work in cells! This is so cool! 🧪
@narjournal.bsky.social @markblenner.bsky.social

Metabolite-responsive scaffold RNAs for dynamic CRISPR transcriptional regulation: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Micro1 might have a few legit jobs that pay, but they mostly are taking advantage of job seekers to train their job interview AI models. I had a sketchy experience with them after they attempted to poach players off the game I help manage.

Great BBQ does not exist in Portland.

How many directors are left at NIH at this point?