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Thoughts, visions & revisions from John Lighton PhD, president & chief innovation officer of Sable Systems International (=the world's most advanced metabolic measurement systems)
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If this makes you mad, you can do something about it:
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#Standupforscience
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#Standupforscience
January 28, 2026 at 8:33 PM
If this makes you mad, you can do something about it:
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#Standupforscience
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#Standupforscience
Beautiful. Prose a bit purple but a lovely tribute to an amazing woman. nautil.us/the-woman-re...
The Woman Redeemed by Trees
A story about connection by the National Book Award winner.
nautil.us
January 29, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Beautiful. Prose a bit purple but a lovely tribute to an amazing woman. nautil.us/the-woman-re...
Congratulations to Sable Systems International on yet another record-breaking year! An amazingly talented team & a great corporate culture. Plus international collaborations in both science & industry, including diversifying our manufacturing locations. Truly an international company 🧪👊❤️
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Congratulations to Sable Systems International on yet another record-breaking year! An amazingly talented team & a great corporate culture. Plus international collaborations in both science & industry, including diversifying our manufacturing locations. Truly an international company 🧪👊❤️
This is about as close to Paradise as tou can get without the inconvenience of dying first. Highly recommended!
Want to do a postdoc at Friday Harbor Labs? We have two positions open. Apply by March 1st. I am happy to discuss potential projects with fish people.
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apply.interfolio.com/180092
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January 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM
This is about as close to Paradise as tou can get without the inconvenience of dying first. Highly recommended!
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Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.
Just a week 'til the Keystone Symposium on #Obesity & #Cardiometabolism (Jan 26-29, Keystone, CO, USA)! A stimulating meeting amidst beautiful mountains. Are you going? Come say hi & tell us about your research! 🧪https://www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/conference-listing/meeting/j62026
January 19, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Just a week 'til the Keystone Symposium on #Obesity & #Cardiometabolism (Jan 26-29, Keystone, CO, USA)! A stimulating meeting amidst beautiful mountains. Are you going? Come say hi & tell us about your research! 🧪https://www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/conference-listing/meeting/j62026
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This is the exact quote I have been searching for with regard to what is happening with science
In conversation back in 1994, the late Russian environmentalist Alexi Yablokov explained the problem of rebuilding democracy this way:
"If you have a tank of live fish, it is fairly easy to make fish soup.
Once you have fish soup, however, it is very difficult to make a tank of life fish again."
"If you have a tank of live fish, it is fairly easy to make fish soup.
Once you have fish soup, however, it is very difficult to make a tank of life fish again."
January 13, 2026 at 2:36 AM
This is the exact quote I have been searching for with regard to what is happening with science
Great news! There are still a couple of places left for Sable Systems' Basic (Classic Line) Metabolic Measurement Course which will be taking place in lovely Las Vegas in February. Great science, great networking - be there or be square! 🧪 www.sablesys.com/sable-event/...
Introduction to Animal Respirometry
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January 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Great news! There are still a couple of places left for Sable Systems' Basic (Classic Line) Metabolic Measurement Course which will be taking place in lovely Las Vegas in February. Great science, great networking - be there or be square! 🧪 www.sablesys.com/sable-event/...
Comparative Physiology FTW
An inducer of snail hibernation causes quiescence and hibernation-like cardioprotection, through metabolic rewiring and autophagy, in mice hearts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.698452v1
January 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Comparative Physiology FTW
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"Amazing Grace" Hopper died #OTD in 1992.
+PhD in #Mathematics, Yale
+Rear Admiral, US Navy
+Invented the first computer compiler, foundational to modern software
+Co-developed COBOL, one of the earliest standardized computer languages
#WomenInSTEM #legend
+PhD in #Mathematics, Yale
+Rear Admiral, US Navy
+Invented the first computer compiler, foundational to modern software
+Co-developed COBOL, one of the earliest standardized computer languages
#WomenInSTEM #legend
January 1, 2026 at 5:07 PM
"Amazing Grace" Hopper died #OTD in 1992.
+PhD in #Mathematics, Yale
+Rear Admiral, US Navy
+Invented the first computer compiler, foundational to modern software
+Co-developed COBOL, one of the earliest standardized computer languages
#WomenInSTEM #legend
+PhD in #Mathematics, Yale
+Rear Admiral, US Navy
+Invented the first computer compiler, foundational to modern software
+Co-developed COBOL, one of the earliest standardized computer languages
#WomenInSTEM #legend
Calling all #mycologists! This weird, mostly subterranean fungus peers out from the soil after rain. Location: Las Vegas, NV. Quarter included for scale. Any idea what the mystery fungus might be?
December 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Calling all #mycologists! This weird, mostly subterranean fungus peers out from the soil after rain. Location: Las Vegas, NV. Quarter included for scale. Any idea what the mystery fungus might be?
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
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The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
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theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.
These two properties are freely interchangeable 
Python is such a cursed and beautiful language.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
These two properties are freely interchangeable 
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The Sea Organ: Making Perpetual Music With Ocean Waves www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/the-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The Sea Organ: Making Perpetual Music With Ocean Waves www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/the-...
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The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large.
Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants
It’s a “violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”…
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large.
Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
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 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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The annual SciPo workshop begins. 80 poets and scientists meet to talk and inspire and scheme. Such great fun.
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The annual SciPo workshop begins. 80 poets and scientists meet to talk and inspire and scheme. Such great fun.
Damn damn damn. One of our favorite people on San Juan Island, Casey the Tree Feller, just died today from a 45 foot fall. He was such an energetic, wonderful, positive person. He leaves behind a spouse and four kids. Terrible, terrible news. 
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Damn damn damn. One of our favorite people on San Juan Island, Casey the Tree Feller, just died today from a 45 foot fall. He was such an energetic, wonderful, positive person. He leaves behind a spouse and four kids. Terrible, terrible news. 
A student in our advanced metabolic phenotyping course gets instruction from Dr. Thomas Förster on using the incredibly powerful, custom interactive macro generation mode of our data analysis system. Promethion files are a goldmine of data! 🧪
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A student in our advanced metabolic phenotyping course gets instruction from Dr. Thomas Förster on using the incredibly powerful, custom interactive macro generation mode of our data analysis system. Promethion files are a goldmine of data! 🧪