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rishi-jain.bsky.social
Synthetic biologist at Ginkgo working on Biosensors, CRISPR tools, etc. My art is on Instagram @rishi.jain.art
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CREATURE OF THE WEEK #2 This creature targets Portuguese man-o-wars (blue bottles) as its primary prey. In fact, scientists have found it in the stomach of loggerhead sea turtles, leading them to conclude that individuals were incidentally caught by the turtles as they were feeding on blue bottles

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Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

submitted 18 days ago • 49 comments

WEEK 1: Varanus komodoensis

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CREATURE OF THE WEEK #1 This creature's blood has passive antimicrobial properties conferred by a set of innately-expressed short (<100 aa) peptides. Scientists have engineered these peptides to increase their antimicrobial properties, observing higher predicted killing of bacterial pathogens

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CREATURE OF THE WEEK #1 This creature has a parietal eye: an organ on top of its head with photoreceptors containing an array of ancient non-visual opsins that are conserved across many groups of animals. This third eye is implicated in spatial awareness, circadian regulation, metabolic rate, etc.

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CREATURE OF THE WEEK: Week 1 In spite of the high dental stress this animal experiences as a function of its diet, it only has a thin layer of enamel. However, its teeth sequester iron at the cutting edge, resulting in greater strength and durability during use.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Hello! I’m starting a #SciArt series called CREATURE OF THE WEEK where I illustrate one creature every week. The twist is that I’ll trickle facts about the mystery creature throughout the week, until I release my illustration on Friday, along with the citations for facts.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

#NIH accounts for 47 billion = 25% of US federal research funding, essential for their world-leading position in bio-medical research. Trump just shut it down. No foreign adversary in their wildest wet dream could achieve such a devastating act of traitorous sabotage with a stroke of a pen.

submitted 29 days ago • 19 comments

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

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remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

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Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

submitted 31 days ago • 33 comments

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

submitted 59 days ago • 211 comments

Expecting Biden to sacrifice his son on the altar of norms simply to prevent Trump from having slightly more rhetorical cover to do what he was already going to do (and which he has already done worse) is exactly the kind of self inflicted wound democrats need to leave in the past.

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An employee of Huggingface, a site of AI training datasets, made a dataset of a million Bluesky posts scraped simply because they could. It’s currently trending: www.404media.co/someone-made...

submitted 89 days ago • 63 comments

If you don't want other users stealing your art, science, writing, etc and feeding it to AI models, this is a good way to find a bunch of accounts to block

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Denmark may be small but this is such a big deal -- a world-first tax on livestock emissions, a scheme to pay farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer application, and nature restoration plans. Check out @waiterich.bsky.social's (and Tim's) great explainer on this:

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Another older piece of mine! #art #sciart #paleoart

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How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search. Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here. Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.

submitted 333 days ago • 276 comments

Rough week. So let me fill your @bsky.app feeds with one of my favorite data visualizations... Enjoy! 🙂 Seasonal migration patterns of birds varying with air temperature using community science observations (eBird). Animation created by: sos.noaa.gov/catalog/data...

submitted 98 days ago • 25 comments

DraftKings release the player props for first cabinet pick fired, I got Hegseth in 6 (weeks)

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Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

submitted 101 days ago • 60 comments

I will never say no to increasing the amount of dark and spooky woods

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Here's the intro to my #art! Lil gouache thing I made last year

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As much as I hate the guy, I have to admit buying Twitter and tanking the value 80% to become co-POTUS is a chess not checkers move

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