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Disaster averted!

🙃 And in a week we'll learn this letter was sent by mistake.

Thank goodness other countries do not use a weighted electoral college scheme for determining the outcome of presidential elections!

In tonight's presidential elections in Romania, Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan advanced to the #2 position and will challenge far-right Simion in the 2nd round to be held on May 18. It's still shocking that 40% of Romanian voters have voted for the far right, pro Trump, anti-EU candidate. 😱 May 18! 🤞🏻

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

The timing of this decision amounts to clear interference in the Romanian elections. But I'm pretty sure it will backfire. www.reuters.com/world/us-rev...

The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Lolz...🫠

Like what happened in Germany...🫠

Do y’all remember when, in 2022-23, American businesses claimed organized retail crime was forcing them to jack up prices? And how that was largely bullshit to justify price gouging? My prediction: it’s gonna get real hard to tell which prices are high because tariffs, and which because fuckery

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Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

Well this kind of worked. The auto exposure and tracking freaked out a bit around totality, but mostly it was better than I expected. #seestars50 #seestar #astrophotography #eclipse #lunareclipse

Awful

Romania bans Georgescu from presidential election https://www.ft.com/content/dad829ce-3988-430b-b009-88a727a4d28d

RNA xkcd.com/3056

NEW: I just asked Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett if she had a message to Elon Musk. What would she say to him? Here was her answer: “Fuck off.”

You first.

Oh Texas. Are you waiting for a waiver that excludes you from all of this?

In California NIH FUNDING: $5.31 B JOBS SUPPORTED: 55,949 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $13.55 B KEEP IT GOING

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

Youch

Another cool one in NComms. They're using nitrogen vacancy centers in diamonds to detect NMR signal on cameras for WF imaging www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There it is. NTSB only sending info out via X now. Expect the same from CDC FDA etc. soon.

The only Pittsburgh Pirate to hit 40+ home runs in any one of the last 73 MLB seasons is Willie Stargell.

Spain is one of many European countries where public anger is mounting over the difficulty of finding affordable housing, as property prices soar and construction lags far behind demand. www.ft.com/content/8e2e...

3,089 ICHIRO HITS IN 11 SECONDS MY GOODNESS

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Resharing my profile of Zoran Milanović following his (unsurprising) victory in today's presidential election in Croatia.

AAVone: A Cost-Effective, Single-Plasmid Solution for Efficient AAV Production with Reduced DNA Impurities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.07.631712v1

It’s never a good sign when I have an opportunity to post this exceptional public health graphic.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Zooming in on high-res photos of the atomic bombs from World War II really emphasizes how artisanal and "hand made" they were. The welds, the cables, the irregularities, etc.

40 years ago all of Genbank was published in print form by NAR. The same format today would require over 4 light seconds of shelf space. To a year of progress in 2025.

Genetically-targeted photocatalytic organic dyes for spatiotemporally controlled organic synthesis directed by specific living cells Authors: Spencer Zhao, Kang Yong Loh, Jonathan Tyson, Chandan Kadur, Carolyn Bertozzi, Karl Deisseroth, Zhenan Bao DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-k3074

Merry Christmas

🎁 Early Xmas present from your friends at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk