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The mitochondria in a cell are weirder than you think. Not just “the powerhouse of the cell,” but more like a shape-shifting, constantly remodeling, mildly unhinged energy blob. #CellBiology
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The mitochondria in a cell are weirder than you think. Not just “the powerhouse of the cell,” but more like a shape-shifting, constantly remodeling, mildly unhinged energy blob. #CellBiology
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An iPSC-derived heart muscle cell photographed through a microscope by former Burnette lab graduate student Dr. James Hayes. #CellBiology
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
An iPSC-derived heart muscle cell photographed through a microscope by former Burnette lab graduate student Dr. James Hayes. #CellBiology
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We are watching the concept of reality slip away before our eyes...
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We are watching the concept of reality slip away before our eyes...
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RNA droplets that grow and segregate by ribozyme catalysis. Check out our latest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.673008v1
September 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
RNA droplets that grow and segregate by ribozyme catalysis. Check out our latest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.673008v1
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My quote of the day
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
John Wooden
UCLA basketball coach
National Champions 1964, 1965, 1967-1973, 1975
Longest winning streak 88 games
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
John Wooden
UCLA basketball coach
National Champions 1964, 1965, 1967-1973, 1975
Longest winning streak 88 games
August 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
My quote of the day
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
John Wooden
UCLA basketball coach
National Champions 1964, 1965, 1967-1973, 1975
Longest winning streak 88 games
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
John Wooden
UCLA basketball coach
National Champions 1964, 1965, 1967-1973, 1975
Longest winning streak 88 games
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🌊 Scientists discovered thriving chemosynthetic ecosystems 30,000 feet deep in Pacific trenches! These communities derive energy from chemical reactions using methane & hydrogen sulfide seeping from the sea floor - challenging assumptions about life at extreme depths.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Chemicals seeping from the sea floor sustain an extreme-depth ecosystem
Deep trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean host tube worms and molluscs that rely on energy from chemical reactions.
www.nature.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🌊 Scientists discovered thriving chemosynthetic ecosystems 30,000 feet deep in Pacific trenches! These communities derive energy from chemical reactions using methane & hydrogen sulfide seeping from the sea floor - challenging assumptions about life at extreme depths.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 2 with white hat stands behind Person 1 who is seated at desk with laptop] PERSON 1: I’m ranked 7,145,000th globally on this chess platform. It’s hard to be ranked that low in *any* activity. (2) PERSON 1: Few pastimes even *have* 7 million rated players. Until the internet, it wasn’t really possible. You could be this bad, but only unofficially. (3) PERSON 1: So in a sense, I’m worse at chess than anyone was at *anything* for most of human history. PERSON 2: Why are you still doing it? (4) PERSON 1: Well, no human has ever had this many friends to play with. PERSON 2: That person is calling you some very obscene names. PERSON 1: Our friendship is complicated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibttiz6nmqpook66kcfxofvchkxnjfuc3n5gthpsjnj6wyhmnz27q@jpeg)
July 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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By flipping an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch involved in Vitamin A metabolism, researchers in Science have enabled ear tissue regeneration in mice.
Learn more: scim.ag/3TzUSnH
Learn more: scim.ag/3TzUSnH
Reactivation of mammalian regeneration by turning on an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch
Mammals display prominent diversity in the ability to regenerate damaged ear pinna, but the genetic changes underlying the failure of regeneration remain elusive. We performed comparative single-cell ...
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July 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
By flipping an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch involved in Vitamin A metabolism, researchers in Science have enabled ear tissue regeneration in mice.
Learn more: scim.ag/3TzUSnH
Learn more: scim.ag/3TzUSnH
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s—and he’s still trying to figure out what it does.
Learn more in this #NewsfromScience feature from last year: scim.ag/3Tv7FYc #ScienceMagArchives
Learn more in this #NewsfromScience feature from last year: scim.ag/3Tv7FYc #ScienceMagArchives
This biologist aims to solve the cell’s biggest mystery. Could it help cancer patients, too?
Four decades after his lab found odd, massive particles inside cells, Leonard Rome is still determined to figure out what “vaults” do
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June 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s—and he’s still trying to figure out what it does.
Learn more in this #NewsfromScience feature from last year: scim.ag/3Tv7FYc #ScienceMagArchives
Learn more in this #NewsfromScience feature from last year: scim.ag/3Tv7FYc #ScienceMagArchives
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What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
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June 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
June 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Wake up, babe, a new phylogeny and classification of coelacanths just dropped. 🐟🧪
A deep dive into the coelacanth phylogeny
The discovery in 1938 of a living coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, triggered much research and discussion on the evolutionary history and phylogeny of these peculiar sarcopterygian fishes. Indeed, coe...
journals.plos.org
June 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Wake up, babe, a new phylogeny and classification of coelacanths just dropped. 🐟🧪
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Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at
grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis.
Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.
grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis.
Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.
June 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at
grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis.
Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.
grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis.
Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.
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June 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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By playing rhythmic audio to comatose patients, then skipping a beat, researchers could elicit changes in heart rate—but only in patients who went on to have favorable outcomes. The phenomenon could be used to predict patient outcomes. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
May 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
By playing rhythmic audio to comatose patients, then skipping a beat, researchers could elicit changes in heart rate—but only in patients who went on to have favorable outcomes. The phenomenon could be used to predict patient outcomes. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I really wish there was a study on post 2020 cruelty.
May 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I really wish there was a study on post 2020 cruelty.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
May 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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After 60 years, scientists finally know why ginger, calico, and tortoiseshell cats look the way they do. scim.ag/3BpxRxY
Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last
After 60 years, scientists know why gingers, calicos, and tortoiseshells look the way they do
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May 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
After 60 years, scientists finally know why ginger, calico, and tortoiseshell cats look the way they do. scim.ag/3BpxRxY
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A large-scale genomic study in Science of over 1500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and the Americas sheds new light on the ancient migrations that shaped the genetic landscape of North and South America.
Learn more: scim.ag/4mi1yUf
Learn more: scim.ag/4mi1yUf
From North Asia to South America: Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing
Genome sequencing of 1537 individuals from 139 ethnic groups reveals the genetic characteristics of understudied populations in North Asia and South America. Our analysis demonstrates that West Siberi...
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May 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A large-scale genomic study in Science of over 1500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and the Americas sheds new light on the ancient migrations that shaped the genetic landscape of North and South America.
Learn more: scim.ag/4mi1yUf
Learn more: scim.ag/4mi1yUf
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We are hiring!
Professors to teach Biochemistry and Microbiology at The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at @uconn.bsky.social
Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
UConn Nation is a great place to work!
Professors to teach Biochemistry and Microbiology at The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at @uconn.bsky.social
Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
UConn Nation is a great place to work!
May 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
We are hiring!
Professors to teach Biochemistry and Microbiology at The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at @uconn.bsky.social
Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
UConn Nation is a great place to work!
Professors to teach Biochemistry and Microbiology at The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at @uconn.bsky.social
Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
UConn Nation is a great place to work!
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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵