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On the same note, because a lot of us have to up-end our lives and move every 2-4 years for a job: One of the best ways to make your new city feel like a real place is to walk a good 2-3 km every day in a neighbourhood you haven't been to yet... yes, you can always nope out of the sketchy ones

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Not my Lyft driver being like "wanna hear my band"and then playing two of the most banger tracks I've heard in ages, first time for everything

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Pest control business where a customer complains about Bugs and I show up in a van with hundreds of vials containing More Bugs

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Periodic reminder that Canadian Froot Loops, while bland in visible light, are black-light fluorescent

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I got this blast from the past thrown at me recently, and now everyone else has to see it too. #Chemsky

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(1/7) Very excited to share my first PhD preprint on the interactions of two of my favorite mobile genetic elements: phages and group II introns! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Reposting because this is a skill set probably measured in the dozens of people these days.

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typical corrupt science

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Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable. The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found': www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

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I’m old enough to remember when HHMI ran a competition for the best ideas they’d fund for the next 15 years. Some of us put huge efforts into that and went multiple rounds of review only to have the competition cancelled. Then our ideas started showing up in HHMI funded labs…

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I wrote a thing about multivariate normal sampling in #rstats, and why you would be well-advised to prefer mvtnorm::rmvnorm() over MASS::mvrnorm() Now. Let us never speak of this again

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Next: @laahrs.bsky.social shows his lab's work on spatial organisation of metabolic gene expression in P. aeruginosa macrocolonies. More beautiful images, showing division of metabolic pathways between cells in different biofilm layers #Biofilms11 #MicroSky (Image: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...)

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

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I hope my reviewers get a small, bleak chuckle out of this.

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youtu.be/CijFMKXf01Q?... Tagging: @jasnah.bsky.social for reasons

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Not into the whole "We're number 1" shtick...bc no country is...but gotta say, we freakin rock with our currency Got this twoonie after grocery shopping today, had no idea it existed, just sat there glowing in my wallet Lucky us 🥰 #BuyCanadian 🙂 #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦📢 coin info www.mint.ca/en/shop/coin...

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Comparative phylogeography and recombination patterns of SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2 related viruses. Both are derived from recent recombinations in their host bats, and then emerged in human hundreds of miles from their wild reservoirs. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Everything is shit, but I made some porcelain tile cookies🌀

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Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

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Look at this beauty 🧪⚗️#chemsky

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I think "the cloning bible" is also generally understood

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Colleagues of mine are seeking to commission a graphic novel that captures their research project's findings. Commission value £24,000, application deadline 7th May To apply: Send CV and portfolio to [email protected] Further details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/nuri-k...

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"I want Canada to remain steadfast in its commitment to the rule of law. And to never abandon democracy, for all its imperfections." This is both a sweet and insightful op-ed by freelance journalist Owen Guo

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I swear at least 10% of your population has worked in BC or Alberta as Lifties over the years. You know how it works.

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A lil doodle after an emotional night Rest up! ILU 🇨🇦

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