Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

WOW!!! Beautiful new Nature paper from Burkart Lab UCSD reveals how non-ribosomal peptide natural product synthetases work together.

They use tetrazine click chemistry to capture these huge protein complexes mid-reaction. 3 different snapshots show different states.

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

It’s painful to read the abstract knowing what was to come. And a reminder: we still don’t have a vaccine, despite great effort.

reconnecting with my twitter mutuals

Bringing back the wisdom of early internet

I wrote one of my past professors to say how often I think of her & how she shaped me as a scholar & educator. she responded:

“you know of course that mentoring works only when everyone involved is open to genuine learning & presence & engagement, & so recognize in yourself those qualities, right?”

Slowly coming to a thought that In LotR Theoden, Denetor and Saruman are much deeper villains than Sauron. The whole book reads as a study on dictators.

Great Blue Heron with a background of water lilies.
#Birds #photography
#GreatBlueHeron #Herons #ArdeaHerodias

The best Russian political scientist finally made a YouTube channel in English. She often talks about autocracies and dictators. Might be interesting in current times
youtu.be/EUHS5-0V3SE?...

Missed my train when Twitter started. Let's see if microblogging is interesting in 2024.

#Rotterdam in the morning

Thank you to @fabcucc_73 for today's #FoxOfTheDay . A beauty !