Just checking folks: Was the Idaho guy who lured and shot multiple firefighters and cops, killing two, a drag queen? A Muslim? Black? An immigrant? An illegal alien? An evil democrat? Or, brace yourself, just another white, gun-worshipping, MAGA-loving “patriot”?

AGO1 is repressed by AGO2 and let-7 microRNAs during embryonic stem cell differentiation. bit.ly/4jdnehF

These two baby brother great horned owls were rehabilitated & taught to hunt on their own at Bear Paw Ranch Wildlife Rehabilitation center. Yesterday evening, they were released back here in Borrego Springs where they had prematurely fallen out of a palm tree nest (Sicco Rood).

Black-tailed jackrabbit ears veins dilating (vasodilation) to release excess heat. They were in the shade of mesquite trees to keep cool for the hot day ahead (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Gave a talk at Yale for the RNA&AI workshop. The workshop was overflowing with over 100 participants. It was inspiring to see so many young scientists excited about RNA & AI !

FYI …

weiss test, where 2 academics have to talk about something other than research

At the GRC on “Challenges at the Interface of Structure, Function and Chemistry of Nucleosides and Nucleic Acids” with a former collaborator who’s now exorbitantly happy in industry …

The entire essence of this website distilled into a single tweet

My interview with France24 : “I collaborate and co-publish with over 20 labs across the United States – including labs in Florida, Nebraska, California, and Texas," she says. "Now, due to government funding cuts, I cannot even afford to support my students france24.com/en/science/202…

When I said I had the file on my desk and would be making a decision soon, I didn’t mean I actually had the file on my desk or that there actually was a file or that I would be making decision soon. I was just trying to get you to shut up about it for a while.

Crazy to think Andrew Johnson is the only impeached President who never flew on Epstein's plane

i used to believe i was exempt from received wisdom. everything i did i had to carve my own path. but you waste so much energy bushwhacking on your own. the circuitous route ultimately spits you out at the same place as everyone else, you just arrive later and covered in scrapes

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One lesson of DOGE is that a lot of federal govt spending is sent to old ppl (social security, Medicare) and affluent individuals/orgs (defense, health spending) but the spending with the highest “lives saved per dollar spent” tends to go to v poor people or to scientists working

I think one reason some tech people are unwilling to grapple with DOGE’s failure is that it would require acknowledging that their entire belief system about government — and in some ways broader worldview — was wrong.

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It’s online- try it ! A great tool for analyzing chemical probing data for RNA structure academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

I just heard something that touched me from someone who is learning Spanish as a second language: "Due to the current situation in the United States, speaking Spanish in public is an act of rebellion and support, and I want to be a part of it".

Great to see, but this is $ 0.4 Billion over current levels which are still low at ~$ 50 B, (& has yet to be properly allocated for the year). This is in effect an inflation-adjusted cut. Sounds ungrateful given <everything>, but this is still not the step forward we need.