Justin Blumenstiel
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Justin Blumenstiel
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Evolution, Genomics, Genetics, Epigenetics, Transposons, Small RNAs, Meiosis, Politics, Music, Kansas....AND DROSOPHILA!!!

Freaked out ribosome and DNA truther doing my own research.

"We are our own reviewers" - Alejandro Montenegro‬
If it occurs to me, it must be poasted.
February 5, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Am I meme'ing correctly?....I am, right?
February 3, 2026 at 11:35 PM
OMG. And not only that. You were able to PUBLISH IT INTO THE PAST!
February 2, 2026 at 10:56 PM
OMG. I have actually read some stuff by Steve Frank on the Price equation (whether I understood it is another matter). But this from Gemini is great. More reading to do I guess. But at least I am not losing my mind anymore (well, on this specific matter at least)
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
February 1, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Not the first thing I was expecting looking up "Kimura Drift" in Google Image search.

But "Kimura The Drift King" definitely opens up some possibilities.
January 21, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Hey - at least we got a nice update from Senator Moran about how many miles he traveled across Kansas in his highly relevant weekly newsletter!

He did miss one number though. Effort made trying to save our democracy: 0.
January 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
And also here, from the Second Geneva Convention:

www.un.org/en/genocidep...
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Another example (not that you needed one) of the pure AI garbage being pumped into the information ecosystem. YouTube Shorts on Barbara McClintock:
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Wow, what a resource! It's also worthwhile to note that the impact of the demographic "cliff" (aka, gentle slope) will be non-uniformly spread across institutions.

www.aei.org/research-pro...
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I mean, I'll take the -5 now. But GenX, WTF !!
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
LOL Grokipedia:
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I watched that Hank Green yesterday and I thought it was interesting that Google wasn't part of that infinite money loop. I feel like the whole thing will crash, but Google DeepMind might be the last one standing. And our last memory of Sam Altman will be this:
October 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
#NoKings - Topeka, KS.

Here I declare myself a proud member of Amphifa.

Democracy! Not Tyranny!
October 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#NoKings Topeka, KS!
October 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
October 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#NoKings Topeka, KS represents!
October 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ready for Topeka! #NOKINGS
October 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
An interesting model of post-transcriptional co-suppression in petunia prior to the discovery of RNAi. From "RNA-Mediated RNA Degradation and Chalcone Synthase A Silencing in Petunia", Metzlaff et al. 1997.
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
August 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Superb and wonderful recollection by Curt Stern of the early days, when cytology and genetics were becoming linked: escholarship.org/content/qt97...

Here is a great quote:
August 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The original circos plot? From the 1947-1948 Carnegie Yearbook, the page prior to McClintock's Mutable Loci in Maize paper.
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Translation in alt text.
June 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM