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submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Great scicomm thread!

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 364 comments

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com He’s always been this way.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Welp, it begins. Sigma Aldrich.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Good.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats to MCB's Kathy Collins on her election to the National Academy of Sciences! 👏🎉https://www.nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-election/

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I know there are more important things to worry about right now... but it really pisses me off coming across things like this in the literature. Nominally 4.8 Å map... check out Fig S1 😬 (also check out any other #cryoem paper by same group, ~all in BBRC) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 306 comments

By ratifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, the Trump peace plan undermines one of the core pillars of the post-1945 world order—nations cannot change their borders by force. This is a reward for aggression and an invitation to more aggression. bit.ly/3YhkKqZ

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

People: AI is terrible, such a huge waste of electricity Same people: wow look at me as a little toy doll ain’t it so funny 🥹 The exact same people: teehee here’s a fun game where you make up a phrase and AI gives you a definition oh ho ho what japes 😂 Like cats transfixed by laser pointers

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Chatbots are bad calculators. Calculators are good calculators.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Hi, everyone! My name is Alex. I'm a microbiologist/cell biologist/biochemist, and I'm sharing some of my career biography today for #YoungScientistNetworking. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Open access options are so complicated these days. One thing I learned today in a hard way is that the "Read and Publish agreement" does not apply for review-type articles... And Wellcome does not pay OA fee for hybrid journals any more even if they have transformative status

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

submitted 10 days ago • 559 comments

Social media has been great in helping us identify contaminants or cofactors in the past - Any ideas what this complex might be in our HEK293 FLAG pulldown? (We should put together a repository of common contaminants in different cell types)

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Chronobot: Deep learning guided time-resolved cryo-EM captures molecular choreography of RecA in homology search www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.21.649820v1 #cryoEM

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

As scientists we must be ready to communicate the importance of vaccination wherever the discussion may come up, with family, friends or at the hair dresser. Be prepared to explain in a fact-based and accessible manner.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Meta deemed my books of "of no economic value" and used them to train their AI. Perhaps they are of no value to someone of Zuck's stature but they pay annual royalties that allowed my first child to attend college and will, I hope, allow my second to do the same. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

Hopefully this will focus minds www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

1. Quick—which of these shapes is different from the others?

submitted 17 days ago • 59 comments

An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

88.4%. No doubt a mere coincidence.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Marco Rubio says that Americans living in Europe shouldn't ever have to face any ramifications for their political speech online. The chutzpah is jaw-dropping, as he is PERSONALLY trying to deport legal immigrants for their political speech in the United States.

submitted 17 days ago • 626 comments

Hi #microsky and #microbiome sky! Would anyone be willing to share their experience with storing micro / pre-clinical / clinical samples at -70C for long term storage? I know this an old discussion maybe, but wanted to check in for current practices / resources. Thanks!

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

📢 New PhD Opportunity 🧬🧪 Excited to share a fully funded PhD studentship is available in my lab @gdsc-sussex.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 2nd May 2025 👉 www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... Please share with anyone who might be interested.

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Excellent opportunity available for a motivated #postdoc to join @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social’s group investigating the roles of histones in regulating telomerase using a multi-disciplinary approach. More details: www.nature.com/naturecareer... Apply by 04 MAY #PostdocJobs #ScienceJobs

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As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us all safe and healthy

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 18 days ago • 220 comments

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

submitted 20 days ago • 138 comments

We just need to turn the negative productivity of scientists at NASA and IRS auditors that DOGE fired to gainfully making shoes in Nike factories reshored from Vietnam. This is the groundbreaking economic thinking of communist purges from Mao to Pol Pot with a sprinkle of American Exceptionalism.

submitted 20 days ago • 64 comments

Coal miners. Obviously a step up from running a lab creating a vaccine to stop metastatic pancreatic cancer

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

submitted 21 days ago • 201 comments

Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

I will be talking about our new cancer genomics toolkit DepMine at the first meeting of the @sussexcancer.org Sussex Cancer Research Centre Computational Biology Group today - new career trajectory ok so far 🤞

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Some spectacular flying to be witnessed around the house, courtesy of the Patrouille Suisse. Glad I brought proper camera gear to (hopefully) do it justice. 😉

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

New Preprint: We have solved the structure of the proteasome in complex with two different ubiquitin chains: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This work is spearheaded by PhD Student Sascha Amann Let me walk you through it 🧵 1/9

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

These “if you are powerful enough, you should be above the law”-takes must stop. Democracy ceases to function when criminals rule.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 25 days ago • 265 comments

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

submitted 26 days ago • 622 comments