Zeal Wierslee
@zealws.bsky.social
Software engineer in the bioinformatics space. Biology, math and science nerd. He/him
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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Rewatching Battlestar and JFC it was prescient. Armed, masked thugs ripping mothers from babies, grabbing innocent people with no warrant. A self-important buffoon as President. Fascists stripped of humanity. On and on.
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Rewatching Battlestar and JFC it was prescient. Armed, masked thugs ripping mothers from babies, grabbing innocent people with no warrant. A self-important buffoon as President. Fascists stripped of humanity. On and on.
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Pinball model of development and reprogramming. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pinball model of development and reprogramming. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905.
His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development.
On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape.
🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio
His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development.
On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape.
🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
This is pretty amazing. 🤩
“A new study suggests that these vaccines might boost the effects of immunotherapy drugs, perhaps by alerting the immune system & helping direct immune cells to attack tumors. That’s in addition to helping protect against Covid, which can be particularly important for cancer patients”
mRNA Covid shots may boost the effects of certain cancer treatments, study suggests
The potential reasons that a Covid vaccine would help treat cancer are intriguing.
www.statnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is pretty amazing. 🤩
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Respect to those who got here first.
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Respect to those who got here first.
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The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.
The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak
Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.
As if I needed another reason to dislike Dawkins.
For those following along, writers include Richard Dawkins, Niall Ferguson, Gad Saad, Jerry Coyne, Amy Wax, Peter Boghossian, Steven Pinker, Jordan Peterson & 20+ more via Post Hill Press.
posthillpress.com/book/the-war...
posthillpress.com/book/the-war...
The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process
posthillpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
As if I needed another reason to dislike Dawkins.
Don't forget Thai, and whatever New Zealand's got to offer. Club D ftw!
D, final answer, not even close. You get everything from Mediterranean to Middle Eastern to Indian to Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and assorted Southeast Asian, then because you also get Singapore you get world class global cuisine too.
I’d miss a good taco, sure. But easy, easy answer.
I’d miss a good taco, sure. But easy, easy answer.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Don't forget Thai, and whatever New Zealand's got to offer. Club D ftw!
"That relaxed attitude about bodily autonomy comes as something of a surprise, given the state’s six-week abortion ban, but this is America, where you can do anything with your body unless there’s a uterus in it."
September 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"That relaxed attitude about bodily autonomy comes as something of a surprise, given the state’s six-week abortion ban, but this is America, where you can do anything with your body unless there’s a uterus in it."
I worked for a big tech company that had a search feature. They developed a new feature that would autosuggest the top few results as you typed, and it was wildly successful. Being able to jump to the thing you're searching for, and skip a separate search results page was exactly what users wanted.
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done."
Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
September 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I worked for a big tech company that had a search feature. They developed a new feature that would autosuggest the top few results as you typed, and it was wildly successful. Being able to jump to the thing you're searching for, and skip a separate search results page was exactly what users wanted.
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“The first tsunami wave is forecast to reach Hawaii just after 7:15 p.m. local time, which is 1:15 a.m. ET.” Be safe, everyone abcnews.go.com/US/tsunami-w...
8.8 magnitude earthquake near Russia prompts tsunami alerts in Hawaii, Alaska and West Coast
Tsunami alerts were issued for Alaska and Hawaii on Tuesday after a major, 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, according to officials.
abcnews.go.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“The first tsunami wave is forecast to reach Hawaii just after 7:15 p.m. local time, which is 1:15 a.m. ET.” Be safe, everyone abcnews.go.com/US/tsunami-w...
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Please pray for my family
July 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Please pray for my family
Obligatory "computer algorithms aren't going to save us!"
youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44?...
Access to advanced algorithms (for virtually any social problem) just makes it easier to shove through whatever agenda you have, and makes it easier to hide that you had the agenda in the first place.
youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44?...
Access to advanced algorithms (for virtually any social problem) just makes it easier to shove through whatever agenda you have, and makes it easier to hide that you had the agenda in the first place.
July 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Obligatory "computer algorithms aren't going to save us!"
youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44?...
Access to advanced algorithms (for virtually any social problem) just makes it easier to shove through whatever agenda you have, and makes it easier to hide that you had the agenda in the first place.
youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44?...
Access to advanced algorithms (for virtually any social problem) just makes it easier to shove through whatever agenda you have, and makes it easier to hide that you had the agenda in the first place.
Can't wait to see the upcoming paper on conifer carcinisation.
In any event the authors published a correction in which they wrote "Nevertheless, we believe such a specimen corresponds not to a true ichnofossil but to an inorganic (sedimentary or physical) structure."
I think a conifer log is a pretty reasonable alternative hypothesis.
I think a conifer log is a pretty reasonable alternative hypothesis.
July 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Can't wait to see the upcoming paper on conifer carcinisation.
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Unique higher ed program is helping Columbus residents: columbusunderground.com/columbus-pro...
Columbus Promise: Students Earn, Learn, and Build a Future - Columbus Underground
Discover how the Columbus Promise program is helping local students earn a college degree tuition-free while gaining work experience!
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July 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Unique higher ed program is helping Columbus residents: columbusunderground.com/columbus-pro...
I find very little to be proud of today, but the struggle of the oppressed in spite of overwhelming odds is certainly one of America's greatest traits through history and today.
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
Let America Be America Again
Let America be America again.
poets.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I find very little to be proud of today, but the struggle of the oppressed in spite of overwhelming odds is certainly one of America's greatest traits through history and today.
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
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"O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"
Starting the day sharing my favorite Langston Hughes poem in the family group chat before doing my own reading
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"
Starting the day sharing my favorite Langston Hughes poem in the family group chat before doing my own reading
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
Let America Be America Again
Let America be America again.
poets.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"
Starting the day sharing my favorite Langston Hughes poem in the family group chat before doing my own reading
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"
Starting the day sharing my favorite Langston Hughes poem in the family group chat before doing my own reading
poets.org/poem/let-ame...
They're aiming for the 1950s but they're gonna overshoot and wind up in the 1890s.
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
They're aiming for the 1950s but they're gonna overshoot and wind up in the 1890s.
Trump knows exactly what's in his bill. It's malicious and he's laundering lies about it to patch up his approval rating and convince Congress to pass it.
Trump has no idea what's in his own bill because even he said don't touch Medicaid. The bill guts Medicaid. It guts Medicaid by $1 trillion. This is a fact, and we are not going to let Fox News or anyone else distort the truth.
Fox News is working overtime to help Republican launder their lies that actually nobody is losing Medicaid
July 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Trump knows exactly what's in his bill. It's malicious and he's laundering lies about it to patch up his approval rating and convince Congress to pass it.
I have very little hope he'll change his vote since the first time it passed the house, but I told my rep (OH-15) to vote No anyway. It took like 60 seconds.
Live in these districts? Time to let your neighbors know what their representatives are up to. Ripping healthcare away from millions, cutting cancer research, setting up concentration camps, while shoveling billions to their friends in tax cuts. All of them need to be voted out. Get to work.
July 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I have very little hope he'll change his vote since the first time it passed the house, but I told my rep (OH-15) to vote No anyway. It took like 60 seconds.
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
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Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!