Erik Hom
@erikfyhom.bsky.social
Symbiosis, microbes, evolution, synthetic ecology, biodiversity, STEM education, sustainability and stewardship @erikfyhom
@lufthansa service seems to be getting worse...cases like this are more frequent, with more variable service: warm, excellent customer service on one hand and idiotic,
"bad American"-styled service on the other.
"bad American"-styled service on the other.
Violinist Told to Carry Guadagnini Without Case on Lufthansa Flight
Lufthansa staff at Helsinki airport told Carolin Widmann that her standard violin case was too large, and that her only option was to check the instrument into the hold.
theviolinchannel.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
@lufthansa service seems to be getting worse...cases like this are more frequent, with more variable service: warm, excellent customer service on one hand and idiotic,
"bad American"-styled service on the other.
"bad American"-styled service on the other.
New ethical standards today seem to have deleted the section on conflicts of interest. The new normal? Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New ethical standards today seem to have deleted the section on conflicts of interest. The new normal? Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
Bye bye Science of the Total Environment... The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 billion in 2024
english.elpais.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Bye bye Science of the Total Environment... The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
Puts things in perspective for Thanksgiving... A Battle with My Blood
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Puts things in perspective for Thanksgiving... A Battle with My Blood
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore
Nature - Thousands of centromeres were identified and tracked across two major fungal clades, showing that new centromeres spread progressively and that the kinetochore acts as a filter to...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore
Nuclear hormone-sensitive lipase regulates adipose tissue mass and adipocyte metabolism www.cell.com/cell-me...
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nuclear hormone-sensitive lipase regulates adipose tissue mass and adipocyte metabolism www.cell.com/cell-me...
Wireless in-body sensing through genetically engineered bacteria
Wireless in-body sensing through genetically engineered bacteria
Nature Communications - Wireless in-body sensing can enable health monitoring and preventive healthcare. Here the authors genetically modified bacteria and show an implantable sensor that senses at...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Wireless in-body sensing through genetically engineered bacteria
Accurate predictions of protein mutational effects accelerated with a hybrid-topology free energy protocol
Accurate predictions of protein mutational effects accelerated with a hybrid-topology free energy protocol
Communications Chemistry - Understanding the effects of protein point mutations is crucial for pharmaceutical and biotechnological applications, yet achieving a balance between prediction accuracy...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Accurate predictions of protein mutational effects accelerated with a hybrid-topology free energy protocol
Nano-frixrion based energy generation through Si pores... Triboelectrification during non-wetting liquids intrusion–extrusion in hydrophobic nanoporous silicon monoliths www.sciencedirect.co...
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Nano-frixrion based energy generation through Si pores... Triboelectrification during non-wetting liquids intrusion–extrusion in hydrophobic nanoporous silicon monoliths www.sciencedirect.co...
Nano-frixrion based energy generation through Si pores... Triboelectrification during non-wetting liquids intrusion–extrusion in hydrophobic nanoporous silicon monoliths www.sciencedirect.co...
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Nano-frixrion based energy generation through Si pores... Triboelectrification during non-wetting liquids intrusion–extrusion in hydrophobic nanoporous silicon monoliths www.sciencedirect.co...
Dual enhancement of mycoprotein nutrition and sustainability via CRISPR-mediated metabolic engineering of Fusarium venenatum www.cell.com/trends/...
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Dual enhancement of mycoprotein nutrition and sustainability via CRISPR-mediated metabolic engineering of Fusarium venenatum www.cell.com/trends/...
Canopy reflectance as a predictor of soil microbial community composition and diversity at a continental scale nph.onlinelibrary.wi...
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Canopy reflectance as a predictor of soil microbial community composition and diversity at a continental scale nph.onlinelibrary.wi...
Wow, partnership and working together across the political divide for the greater good, based on something real. We need much more of this, instead of knee-jerk tribalism. I hope my hometown of NYC continues to model this well, and that all of this works out for the best...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Wow, partnership and working together across the political divide for the greater good, based on something real. We need much more of this, instead of knee-jerk tribalism. I hope my hometown of NYC continues to model this well, and that all of this works out for the best...
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They Kindled Froggy Romance and Rescued Eggs to Save a Species in Mississippi
They Kindled Froggy Romance and Rescued Eggs to Save a Species in Mississippi
Fewer than 100 dusky gopher frogs were known to remain. Thanks to some very dedicated humans, numbers are now on the rise.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
They Kindled Froggy Romance and Rescued Eggs to Save a Species in Mississippi
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation
‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years
'China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers': Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years | Fortune
Many of the loans from China’s state lenders were routed through shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Delaware and elsewhere, according to AidData.
fortune.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years
Dietary fat disrupts a commensal-host lipid network that promotes metabolic health
Dietary fat disrupts a commensal-host lipid network that promotes metabolic health
The microbiota influences metabolic health; however, few specific microbial molecules and mechanisms have been identified. We isolated a Turicibacter …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Dietary fat disrupts a commensal-host lipid network that promotes metabolic health
A survey of musical chills experiences while performing music journals.sagepub.com...
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A survey of musical chills experiences while performing music journals.sagepub.com...
The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg’s highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup
The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg's highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup | Fortune
LeCun is a Turing Award winner and considered one of the pioneers of modern artificial intelligence.
fortune.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg’s highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup
So it was Dostoevsky's birthday on Tuesday (11-Nov). Counsel from him (from The Brothers Karamazov) rings so weirdly sad and true today, in a seemingly post-Truth era: "Above all, don't lie to yourself...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So it was Dostoevsky's birthday on Tuesday (11-Nov). Counsel from him (from The Brothers Karamazov) rings so weirdly sad and true today, in a seemingly post-Truth era: "Above all, don't lie to yourself...
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Ocean microbes may be developing taste for plastic pollution
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ocean microbes may be developing taste for plastic pollution
UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills
UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills - Marginal REVOLUTION
The UC San Diego Senate Report on Admissions documents a sharp decline in students’ math and reading skills—a warning that has been sounded before, but this time it’s coming from within the building. At our campus, the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate […]
marginalrevolution.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills
A bacterial coculture produces cellulose in 7 different colors
A bacterial coculture produces cellulose in 7 different colors
Biomolecular engineering creates a 1-pot method to spin colored bacterial textiles
cen.acs.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A bacterial coculture produces cellulose in 7 different colors
On this day in 2002, G. Perelman published a proof (part one of three) of the geometrician/Poincare conjecture. Sad reminder of the sort of corrupt politicking marring a beautiful thing that one has to deal with more and more today.... Narcissists suck...
The Poincaré Clash
A legendary math problem and the battle over who solved it.
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
On this day in 2002, G. Perelman published a proof (part one of three) of the geometrician/Poincare conjecture. Sad reminder of the sort of corrupt politicking marring a beautiful thing that one has to deal with more and more today.... Narcissists suck...