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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Aug 18

Apparently if you want to read it *really* slowly, you can follow @samuelpepys.bsky.social

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Aug 18

Has anyone else noticed recent bugs with MyNCBI filters? There seems to be some pretty bad unexpected behaviour.

Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Aug 16

I have finally, after many months, finished the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys. Monumental. What a singular piece of work. It's impossible to compare against anything else.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Aug 9

But are you interested?

Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Aug 4

One of the dumbest self-owns of Google for researchers is this: paste a research paper title into the google search bar. The paper will be the top hit, and it will indicate the google scholar citation count, but will not provide a google scholar link to follow the citations.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Jul 29

Tom Lehrer's mastery of meter and rhyme was so good that he wrote an entire song shitting on Bob Dylan in 1965.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Well, yes, but the Latin is not the problem. The problem is that the kerning makes it appear as FR A NSCICVS. Much of the rest of the kerning is also bad, but that's the most egregious.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Jul 8

Happily, the original is available in all its elegance www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

The replication of DNA in Escherichia coli* | PNAS

The replication of DNA in Escherichia coli*

www.pnas.org

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Jul 8

As an undergraduate who loved physical chemistry and was just starting biology, I thought the Meselson-Stahl experiment was the coolest thing ever. It was so simple in its application of physical theory and experiment to prove a biological truth that it was perfect. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...

Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Jun 26

You are inspiring. But don't be discouraged: the person who wrote that message comes across as heartsick about it. Change will come.

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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · Jun 22

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · May 23

How can one efficiently simulate phylodynamics for populations with billions of individuals, as is typical in many applications, e.g., viral evolution and cancer genomics? In this work with M. Celentano, @wsdewitt.github.io , & S. Prillo, we provide a solution. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · May 21

What Vinay Prasad is proposing is scientific misconduct that would violate legally-mandated institutional review board review in the United States. He has never conducted a randomized control trial. He is not a scientist. He is a fraud.

They are mandating this to block approval, not encourage study

Prasad said the FDA will ask all manufacturers to do new clinical trials in healthy people ages 50 to 64, randomly assigning them to get a vaccine or a placebo and tracking outcomes with special attention to severe disease, hospitalization or death. Companies might need to repeat that requirement for future vaccine approvals if there's a large virus mutation rather than the past year's incremental evolution. Companies are also free to test their vaccines for approval in younger adults and children, Prasad said, adding "this is a free country."

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · May 16

Today I'm taking the lab for a social outing on a boat, and have worked hard to fit in. Should be seamless.

a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard and asking how do you do fellow kids

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard and asking how do you do fellow kids

media.tenor.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · May 12

From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · May 8

Dr. Amanda Thomas appointed inaugural Louise H. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Earth and Planetary Sciences at
@ucdavis.bsky.social eps.ucdavis.edu/news/welcomi...

Welcoming Inaugural Kellogg Endowed Chair Dr. Amanda Thomas to Earth and Planetary Sciences

Imagine a catastrophic earthquake shaking California's coastline, followed by landslides that block vital roads. Or a rainstorm hitting a region devastated by wildfires, triggering debris flows of unr...

eps.ucdavis.edu

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · May 7

Oh FFS

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Apr 28

Wow, I know Pope Francis had his enemies, but ...

www.reddit.com/r/typography...

Kerning on The Pope’s tombstone

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Apr 24

same

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 11

yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

Congressman Jared Golden @golden.house.gov · Apr 10

🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Apr 11

But in that case Ed saw it happen, and had the broken mirror in his possession. There wasn't another, much more plausible, explanation staring him in the face.

Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Apr 11

Improbable events do happen. I often think of a question posed by Ed Egelman when I was in grad school: "What's the probability of a runaway horse from the New Haven Police Dept. knocking the side view mirror off of my car when galloping down Whitney Avenue?" It's very low, but it happened. 4/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Apr 11

The scenario is an infected lab worker starting a lone super-spreader event at a non-crowded place on the other side of town in a city of 13M people, where that super-spreader location is *also* the place where a natural spillover would happen. It's an implausible scenario that demands evidence 3/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Apr 11

Not at their workplace, nor even on the same side of the river as their workplace, nor along public transit between their workplace and the market. No other lab worker not living near the market would have been infected and transmitted that infection elsewhere. 2/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · Apr 11

It's not just a series of events for which there is no evidence (a lab worker living near the market). That lab worker would have to have been infected *and* to have transmitted that infection at (and only at) exactly the location where a natural spillover would be most likely to occur. 1/

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