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triggerloop.bsky.social
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. RNA polymerase II mechanism, classic films, #classiccountdown once in awhile
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Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Also note that the bluesky @nwspittsburgh.bsky.social mirror doesn’t seem to be active for the past 6 days. Also did not receive any alert to phone

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An announcement went out of all three channels that NWS Pittsburgh has issued a tornado warning for west central Allegheny County until 4:30pm

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it’s been a long, strange spell undercover, but when Richelieu shows up at the tournament, D’Artagnan will be ready

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An absolutely delightful color

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The patient and disease advocacy groups are the most powerful voices and the most important (because so many impacted) advocates we have

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You know I am going to look to see if the bar with the plane sticking out of the side is still there!!! 😢

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I was among a few people at Columbia interviewed by Chemical and Engineering News (this is one of my faculty colleagues on the cover): cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

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Different name but still there!

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Women in workshop ignore background drama: Arachne has angered Minerva, and is about to be turned into a spider. Will spin thread forever. Alas! By Diego Velazquez, 1657. It's been his day.

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Some proposed NIH institute budgets that delineate also the consolidation of institutes and their new names or homes. Am too depressed to read right now officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/insti_center...

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Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

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Excited to unveil Boltz-2, our new model capable not only of predicting structures but also binding affinities! Boltz-2 is the first AI model to approach the performance of FEP simulations while being more than 1000x faster! All open-sourced under MIT license! A thread… 🤗🚀

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NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

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Kinetic control of mammalian transcription elongation cc @triggerloop.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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🖤🖤🖤RIP Enzo Staiola (1939-2025)🖤🖤🖤

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