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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 7h

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Screen grab from the substack post, focused on the bolded phrase: “I began to wonder whether the title was a hidden signal that this book was actually part of the war, with essayists carefully chosen to wage a battle against science, scientists, and institutions in need of a comeuppance so that higher education and science can get back to the classics (aka the good old days).”

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 3d

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis

my brain: not u though

me: not me though

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 4d

From global health leader to global health pariah. #ThanksDonald! healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...

UN Declaration On Noncommunicable Diseases Fails To Win Approval After US Foils Consensus - Health Policy Watch

NEW YORK CITY - A painstakingly negotiated Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases with overwhelming support from UN member states failed to win

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

The fact that the 6 L (leucine) codons come together to form an L should be interpreted as a sign that this is a good way to visualize the aa table. 🙂

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

The two arginine blocks are in the same quadrant, but farther apart than might be expected, because the first-position change is a transversion not to a bond-partner, and because pyrimidines are over-represented in P1, and purines are over-represented in P3, of R codons.

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

Dashed yellow lines link unconnected blocks that represent the same aa. The two serine blocks are in different quadrants because serine has two different P2 nts, which is pretty weird.

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

Arrows indicate potential CpG bridge codons. Each large arrow indicates four codons that can bridge back to an earlier codon. Small arrows each indicate one codon that can bridge forward. The top row should also have small forward arrows, but mysteriously does not. We blame the gremlins.

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

Circles indicate codons with CpG. The large circle indicates all four codons in the CGX box; each small circle indicates a single codon.

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

So, for example, V (valine) is in the T quadrant, and the G section of that quadrant, corresponding (since the top-level T represents) to GTX. W (tryptophan) is in the G quadrant, T section, G subsection, corresponding to TGG

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

nts for all three codon positions are arranged in this pattern. Position-two (P2) nts have the largest effect on aa, and determine quadrant of each codon. P1 nts are nested inside the P2 quadrants. P3 nts are nested inside P1; these lines are not shown if they don't affect aa result.

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

Working with @rowandurrant.bsky.social on ways to visualize the amino-acid table and better understand viral evolution.

We started with a two-by scheme for nucleotides (small square), where bond partners are horizontally adjacent and transition-connected nts are vertically adjacent.

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A blackboard with a drawing in several colors of chalk showing 16 squares, some subdivided, with one-letter abbreviations for amino acids and other annotations. Above is a small white square divided in four, showing ATCG (clockwise from upper left). More description provided in the thread.

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

The #DAIDD2025 deadline has been extended to 10 Oct!

Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · Sep 8

An "dynamic" workshop with an exciting group in a fun place!

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A screenshot of a flyer with a picture of Muizenberg beach with changing sheds in the foreground and the Cape of Good Hope in the background; some text information similar to the information in the link; and logos from SACEMA and ICI3D.

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 8d

bsky needs "like" options like fb has, so I can just click laugh. Never needed that so much as now.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 11d

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this:

“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 17d

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18d

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

WASHINGTON, UT—As he described a massive backlog of murders that continued to stump the agency he leads, desperate FBI director Kash Patel reportedly asked the family of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin ...

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 18d

*no competent federal prosecutor with principles and a spine would bring such charges.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20d

If you're a firm conservative and you believe this path doesn't eventually lead to your own speech being censored by the Trump regime, you are sorely mistaken. That day is coming. I promise you.

And if you ignore that longterm consequence out of favor for short-term schadenfreude over someone liberal being censored by the government, you need to ask yourself whether you really support the First Amendment.

I'm not asking you to support liberal opinions or refrain from boycotts of entertainment you don't like. I may find that position ridiculous, but that's your right.

Boycott movies and shows. Boycott businesses. Criticize Kimmel and Colbert and everyone else you don't like. By all means, leverage your capital in the marketplace of ideas.

But the moment you support or enable the government to punish people with wrong opinions, it only becomes a matter of time before your own opinion is being punished by the government.

I don't give my money to anti-trans people. I don't watch their shows. I don't buy their products. I don't think they deserve my money or my attention. That's my right.

But if the government were to directly punish someone for expressing an anti-trans opinion, I would be the first in line to defend them. Even if I believe they're an insufferable clown, I will still defend their First Amendment rights.

Either you believe in First Amendment protections, or you don't. Either you believe the government has no business punishing someone's speech, or you don't.

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 22d

It's pretty likely that the phrase surrounding it is awkward or ambiguous, try rewriting a bit around it?

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Missed out on a ticket for LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED?

Our event is proving so popular we’ve released EXTRA online tickets so more people can learn how to fight dangerous health #misinformation!

Get your ticket👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 24d

This cartoon from October 1953 reminds me of something. Or someone.

Peanuts cartoon strip

Panel 1: Patty and Violet are smiling at Charlie Brown, who says "Go ahead! Make fun of me! You just wait.

Panel 2: Charlie Brown shakes his fist in foreground, girls play in background. He says "Someday I'll get to be President, and then you'll all be sorry!"

Panel 3: Girls say in unison: "I'll say we will!"

Panel 4: Charlie Brown walks down the sidewalk saying "Somehow that didn't come out right."

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 25d

So to be clear. If it happened 365 days ago, you would say "it happened two years ago today"? Because that's two "occurences of the day"? That's (effectively) where this thread started, and not very far up that page.

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 26d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

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Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 27d

*latter.