Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD
@rburdine1.bsky.social
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New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the incredible shrinking Speaker of the House.
Least. Speaker. Ever.
When it comes to American politicians who say little and do less, the gold standard remains former President Calvin Coolidge.
As most people know, Coolidge was quiet, deeply reserved, and generally u...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the incredible shrinking Speaker of the House.
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT - says one of the least insightful people on this planet.
Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT - says one of the least insightful people on this planet.
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."
William Safire,
writer, columnist, journalist, speechwriter
William Safire,
writer, columnist, journalist, speechwriter
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."
William Safire,
writer, columnist, journalist, speechwriter
William Safire,
writer, columnist, journalist, speechwriter
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Excellent commentary on transgenerational inheritance and the importance of rigor and reproducibility.
Subtitled: when a colleague drags and tries to throw you under the bus because they couldn't follow protocols
@ctmurphy1.bsky.social
Subtitled: when a colleague drags and tries to throw you under the bus because they couldn't follow protocols
@ctmurphy1.bsky.social
I wrote this insight for eLife. A friend said, "Why would you want to step on that rake?". Well, I guess that's just who I am. Enjoy. elifesciences.org/articles/109...
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
elifesciences.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Excellent commentary on transgenerational inheritance and the importance of rigor and reproducibility.
Subtitled: when a colleague drags and tries to throw you under the bus because they couldn't follow protocols
@ctmurphy1.bsky.social
Subtitled: when a colleague drags and tries to throw you under the bus because they couldn't follow protocols
@ctmurphy1.bsky.social
Reposted by Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD
Stop starving people, extend ACA tax credits, reopen the government. It's not that difficult.
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Stop starving people, extend ACA tax credits, reopen the government. It's not that difficult.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
Since she cloned it and found the gene mutated was c21orf59 - now called cfap298- she got to name the mutant. So "Kurly" to merge her name and the phenotype so "she can be immortalized in science." /x
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Since she cloned it and found the gene mutated was c21orf59 - now called cfap298- she got to name the mutant. So "Kurly" to merge her name and the phenotype so "she can be immortalized in science." /x
There is a convention in some labs that if you clone the gene affected in a mutant, you get to name the mutant. My student, whose last name was Ku, cloned the mutant as part of her senior thesis. The mutant fish has a tail that curls down as part of its phenotype./1
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
There is a convention in some labs that if you clone the gene affected in a mutant, you get to name the mutant. My student, whose last name was Ku, cloned the mutant as part of her senior thesis. The mutant fish has a tail that curls down as part of its phenotype./1
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On Friday night, Donald Trump held a Great Gatsby-inspired Halloween party themed "A little party never killed nobody.”
On Monday morning, the Trump administration told a judge it will only PARTIALLY fund SNAP and 40 million Americans should expect delays for food benefits.
On Monday morning, the Trump administration told a judge it will only PARTIALLY fund SNAP and 40 million Americans should expect delays for food benefits.
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
On Friday night, Donald Trump held a Great Gatsby-inspired Halloween party themed "A little party never killed nobody.”
On Monday morning, the Trump administration told a judge it will only PARTIALLY fund SNAP and 40 million Americans should expect delays for food benefits.
On Monday morning, the Trump administration told a judge it will only PARTIALLY fund SNAP and 40 million Americans should expect delays for food benefits.
This is our first submission to @jcellsci.bsky.social and the experience was fantastic. We will absolutely be submitting here in the future. Highly recommended.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is our first submission to @jcellsci.bsky.social and the experience was fantastic. We will absolutely be submitting here in the future. Highly recommended.
We are thrilled to see this out in @jcellsci.bsky.social an in the special issue on Cilia. Cfap298 - which we call Kurly - is the mutant that keeps on giving us surprises! In this paper, a mutation generated by CRISPR, that deletes two aa and changes a third, specifically affects cilia motility.
Marvin Cortez, Cullen Young, Rebecca Burdine @rburdine1.bsky.social and colleagues identify a conserved domain in Cfap298 that governs left–right symmetry breaking in vertebrates.
#JCSciliaSI
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#JCSciliaSI
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We are thrilled to see this out in @jcellsci.bsky.social an in the special issue on Cilia. Cfap298 - which we call Kurly - is the mutant that keeps on giving us surprises! In this paper, a mutation generated by CRISPR, that deletes two aa and changes a third, specifically affects cilia motility.
This is like my son punishing a teacher he thinks is ridiculous by not doing his homework.
I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is like my son punishing a teacher he thinks is ridiculous by not doing his homework.
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Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species
➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Reposted by Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD
R.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).
October 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
R.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).
Seconded. Feel free to give me a call or contact me on Signal.
Dear @nytimes,
It is entirely possible to write a story about education without seeking comment from Chris Rufo.
Sincerely,
An actual educator
It is entirely possible to write a story about education without seeking comment from Chris Rufo.
Sincerely,
An actual educator
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Seconded. Feel free to give me a call or contact me on Signal.
I'm with you!
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I'm with you!
I'm not understanding the point you are trying to make.
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I'm not understanding the point you are trying to make.
Generate a list? Pretty sure that is well within the capabilities of most AI tools.
October 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Generate a list? Pretty sure that is well within the capabilities of most AI tools.
Can someone send me a link via DM? I can't find it and need something to procrastinate with
October 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Can someone send me a link via DM? I can't find it and need something to procrastinate with
Why waste an hour doing something a computer can do well in 15 secs? (Serious question).
October 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Why waste an hour doing something a computer can do well in 15 secs? (Serious question).