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Maxim Greenberg

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See, this is why the @newyorker.com is the only magazine I read

February 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

Man @dvnjr.bsky.social is not holding back!

$From Sunday Long Read Newsletter: The “Melania” reviews piled up like a multi-vehicle crash on Friday and the digital rubbernecking, while a horrifying new batch of 3 million Epstein files documents dropped to, uh, digest, made for a macabre delight. Why did Jeffrey Bezos pay $40 million for this bizarrely bad, bland infomercial (and another $35 million to promote it)? And it was impossible to ignore the fact that this zero-stars bomb debuted the same week of reports that Bezos’ Washington Post is kneecapping the paper’s beloved and legendary sports desk and gutting its vaunted foreign staff. How many Post journalists’ (relatively meager) salaries could be paid for a fraction of the cost of a “horrific” film that Xan Brooks calls “an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne?” The answer is obvious, of course. Too often these days, billionaires choose to pay to placate power rather than pay people to speak truth to it.$

February 1, 2026 at 9:22 PM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

😥

January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

The boss tries to run one simple PCR just to chip in a bit, and this is the reaction from the lab 😂

January 28, 2026 at 4:14 PM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

Here's one of my fave's, which is well known in epigenetic circles. The drosophila line Su(var)3–9 had a mutation in the gene that codes for the H3K9 methyltransferase. So the name SUV39 is just a complete coincidence! From David Allis' obituary www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A classic story that Dave repeatedly shared was how his lab members exploded in excitement after their peptide sequencing results revealed that SUV39H1 did, in fact, methylate H3 lysine 9. He laughed and said the enzyme’s name already gave it away: SUV“3" for H3 and “9” for lysine 9.

January 28, 2026 at 11:13 AM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

I am back from an absolutely unforgettable visit to Tsinghua University, where I got to see firsthand a hotbed of incredible epigenetics research. I was so spoiled by my incredible hosts (Fan Zhou and his lab), who introduced me to the cultural and culinary wonders of Beijing. 谢谢 🙏

January 22, 2026 at 10:41 AM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

Primitive streak

January 15, 2026 at 10:16 AM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

I saw this headline in the @washingtonpost.com , and literally had to click the link to know if they were talking about Iran or the US...

Videos show security forces firing directly into crowds in at least six cities

January 15, 2026 at 6:42 AM

Maxim Greenberg

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January 13, 2026 at 6:52 PM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

Arriving to @ijmonod.bsky.social

January 7, 2026 at 8:12 AM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

2025 had its ups and downs, but my @nytgames.bsky.social crossword streak was a pillar of consistency

January 1, 2026 at 10:44 AM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

Glad I got a recent visit in! I love that place!

December 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

In our house, every day is Raturday

December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

Every year, I inch further and further towards the southwest of this graph.

December 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

For those interested, the France-raised turkey was a huge success 👨‍🍳🦃

November 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM

Maxim Greenberg

@maxvcg.bsky.social

I wouldn't go that far, but good friends were in Paris and we celebrated T-day on Sunday. They made pecan pie, which I haven't eaten since moving to France. I had three pieces, and I can't stop thinking about it.