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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 15h

I can try before the authors get back to you: this finding has a potential link to lupus, an autoimmune disease where our own immune system attacks our body, and it could help us understand and treat the disease better. Also, it's really cool to find out what crazy things biology does 🤯

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 15h

woah, what you doing on the cell surface, little feller? 🧬👀

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats to all the authors! Such a fascinating discovery 👀

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 16h

Haha I went to the BMES meeting after being in the field for 16 years, and I thought I was bad. Have fun!

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, biology is always full of surprises. I didn't quite expect viral mimicry. Do you have an idea whether it is potentially from activation of provirus or de novo?

Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 16h

I am so sorry to hear that... Get home safe.

Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 1d

I always wondered this as well 🤨

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 1d

I have a lot of thoughts on this book, and I am happy to talk about it if you don't want to read it. Alternatively, I could lend it to you when my mother-in-law finishes it.

Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 1d

😂

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 2d

"Do not obey in advance"

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing. It was a whole lot of American History lesson for me! We tend to experience our lives in such a delta function potential manner in space and time, so it is important to put our current experience in a larger perspective.

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 2d

I recently read "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (1936) and observed an interesting phenomenon: everyone around me knew of this book but never read it except for my brother-in-law. Who heard of this book, and who actually read it? Is there anyone who has never heard of it?

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Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social · 2d

🛠️New tool from the lab! #SHARK🦈: a new strain to support complex cloning of transient R6K expression plasmids – perfect for genome engineering. Work led by the talented Shivang Joshi and all strains and strain assembly tools enroute to Addgene. #synbio doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 2d

A neat and elegant work from the lab of @devleenasamanta.bsky.social to control enzymatic activity with (essentially) arbitrary molecular input using DNA "tweezers." 🧬🥢 Congrats to all the authors! 👏

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Single‐Molecule DNA Tweezers Enable Programmable Control of Enzyme Activity via Arbitrary Molecular Cues

Controlling enzyme activity with molecular precision remains a fundamental challenge. Here, we present a DNA-based strategy for the dynamic and programmable regulation of enzyme function in response ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure if you are awake, but here it is “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

www.nobelprize.org

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 3d

This was a really interesting interview. American democracy has been under greater danger in the past. I highly recommend a listen.

Anthony Davis @theanthonydavis.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to talk to Political Science Professor Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social on the likely downfall of the Trump dictatorship - only on The Weekend Show, tonight at 8/5pm. @meidastouch.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5qt...

LIVE: Expert Unveils SECRET KEYS to END Trump’s Reign | The Weekend Show

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

www.youtube.com

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 - Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" including the identification of regulatory T cells

#NobelPrize #Tregs

@nobelprize.bsky.social 🧪🔬🏆

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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Convergence of nanotechnology and CRISPR-based diagnostics
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Convergence of nanotechnology and CRISPR-based diagnostics - Nature Nanotechnology

This Perspective examines the technological landscape to bridge the gaps between CRISPR-based diagnostics and nanomaterials, proposing specific synergies that could catalyse their development and application.

doi.org

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 3d

I am hoping to make some toran-guk tonight. 풍성한 한가위 보내세요! 🌝

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 4d

Here is a really nice column article about this technology from Asimov Press

www.asimov.press/p/hyperspect...

Seeing Microbes from the Sky

Biotechnology needs more and better transducers.

www.asimov.press

Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 4d

And they are commercializing it 👀

www.fieldstone.bio

Fieldstone Bio | environmental measurement at scale

www.fieldstone.bio

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 4d

What a wild study from the Chris Voigt lab: hyperspectral reporter genes expressed in bacteria can be imaged from drones flying 90 meters up in the sky!?! 👏👏👏

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

Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria - Nature Biotechnology

Hyperspectral reporter genes allow imaging of ground bacteria from aerial vehicles

www.nature.com

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 6d

"Phage Tragedy of the Commons" 😂

How about "Phage Yellow Taxi" instead:
🎵Don't it always seem to go
🎵That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
🎵They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

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Jaeseung Hahn @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social · 6d

What about the sleeping (anti-woke), pro-American professors from around the world? 🙊

www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Cotton Introduces Bill to Close H-1B Visa Loopholes in Academia | U.S. Senator Cotton of Arkansas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353September 30, 2025 Cotton Introduces Bill...

www.cotton.senate.gov

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NPR @npr.org · 8d

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