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"There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
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A bow on the gift to China that has already been packaged and wrapped
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I am hearing from gov employees who got the OPM email but won't open it because it seems so shady. Things are going great.
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All true.
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Bertil is now retired and doing lots of hiking, but he spent his entire faculty career at a public university (UW), where the late Bill Catterall, also referenced here, also spent most of his career. The overwhelmingly most important funding source for both: The National Institutes of Health.
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The opportunity to teach a med school course with Bertil for almost a decade was one of the greatest privileges of my academic life.
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Faculty do teach, in my department (a med school department that runs a large undergrad major). We /also/ need TAs to help us with tutoring sessions and grading.
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@carlbergstrom.com
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"There will be spontaneous demonstrations of party workers, voicing their gratitude and joy."
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Although there is pretty good evidence that the dimer exists, there is no published experimental data on its structure, so far as I know.
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This is a model of a dimer hypothesized to exist by several groups. The putative dimer would be essentially an inhibited form of the protein, and dissociation of the dimer would be needed to make the protein active in fusion (in combination with two other SNARE proteins, and cofactors).
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Oh, it gets worse.
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OR-2? Seriously? They are in deep, deep trouble.
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They need to read this. They had better.
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T34 URISE: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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"Come outside and say that shit. ALL THE WAY OUTSIDE."
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💪
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Irrelevant and illegal. bsky.app/profile/rgoo...
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I mean, unless they want to be found in civil contempt. bsky.app/profile/rgoo...
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Yup
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Has been. But will NIH act without transparency anyway?
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Important question.
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@jeremymberg.bsky.social are you hearing anything along these lines?
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That is a function of basic public policy, not scientific achievement or lack thereof.