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ATP synthase activity boosts membrane proton acceptance and lateral diffusion | PNAS In most organisms, ATP synthesis is powered by the proton motive force (pmf) and catalyzed by ATP synthase. While the chemiosmotic theory originall...

📣 I was waiting for this paper for a while 🥳
Our new paper in @pnas.org shows that ATP synthase drastically alters membrane properties related to proton diffusion. Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Hahaha thank you that made me genuinely laugh. I ended up chucking the old packet.

Now I'm curious about metagenomic profile of expired salty condiments...

Fighting post-warehouse muscle cramps and plotting phylogenetic trees.... And I'm finally done! (for now)

I need a beer.

Men studying a dragon

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#Julialang folks, did you check out Tachikoma.jl TUI framework yet? It looks pretty wild. I'm thinking of testing it out as a frontend for a bioinfo dashboard for a collaborator.

Hope the author is planning on giving a talk at the upcoming JuliaCon!

github.com/kahliburke/T...

Sleepy owl found resting among items on an antique store shelf in Durham The bird, an eastern screech owl, is nocturnal and typically nests in tree cavities. It is not immediately clear how it got inside the store.

Aw this is too cute.

Sleepy owl found resting among items on an antique store shelf in Durham

cnycentral.com/news/local/o...

Will do!

Rust based plotting - with rendering in terminal!

I use terminal plots all the time, it's just so much better than generating megabytes of png just to look at some transitionary data. Looking forward to learning this one.

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Looking at a new assembly against other putative members of its suspected genus.

The plot came out looking like something from an abstract expressionist work, I like it.

Joining the All-The-Bacteria project provides an annualised return on investment of 8.9% bacterial genomes.

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

Delicious irony: a publishing giant making billions supposedly to filter out dodgy papers highlighting how unpaid volunteers outperform them at it. 🤷‍♂️🤡

#NatureRipoffs #ScienceCrisis @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Past Ocean Depths Noteworthy — Archaeal lipids can serve as proxies of past ocean depths.

Paleobathymetry by looking at Archaeal lipid chemical structures. Very cool.

#Archaeasky 🦠🧫

smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...

Ohh that's a cool idea. I've never seen anyone do that before - I'll test it out as like a custom module method.

Morning commute in the city today. Yep we're definitely getting more than a foot of snow for sure. #nyc

HOT FUZZ scene. Pegg as a cop talking to some underage kids in a pub When’s your birthday? 22nd of February. What year? Every year.

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

Painting of the Port Royal Monastery

On today's new episode we tackle the Port-Royal Logic, the most influential philosophy textbook of early modern Europe, which combines ideas from Descartes with scholasticism:

www.historyofphilosophy.net/port-royal-l...

#logic #podcast #philsky #philosophy #podcast #earlymodern #hopwag

Darn it. I'm all out of marmalade on the eve of another blizzard coming into NYC... And I don't think I have spirit left to face the ravenous Trader Joe's yuppies clutching bread with all the wild passions of a Méduse survivor today.

Yeah I'm looking at keeping a separate shared env and using something like this - eben60.github.io/ShareAdd.jl/

Fellow #julialang heads:

I have a couple of modules (DataFrames, CSV, maybe FileIO etc) I don't want to have in base env, but used for everyday processing tasks.

What would you recommend between temp env (]activate --tmp, maybe aliased on cli) and shared env? I'm leaning toward the latter.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Definitely going to jump into rust in the future! One step at a time for me though

Right? There's still mounds of snow on some streets around here too - so we're very likely getting something. I think mine's just a pavlonian reaction to the years of TV news weather coverage...

NYC's been dry for so many winters now, I still can't believe we'll get that much snow (even after the last blizzard). We'll see

Maybe I worded my post weirdly, but I wrote this in support of the article and your comment! (Let me know if it came across as otherwise - it's hard to tell these things on the net)

Flower traits evolution in a bird‐pollinated genus Brandisia (Orobanchaceae) from Asia Brandisia (Orobanchaceae), an Asian hemiparasitic genus, shows striking floral divergence. All species are bird-pollinated, mainly by generalist nectarivores such as white-eyes. Variation in floral c...

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Chen et al.'s🔥new work on the #evolution of #flower traits in the bird-pollinated Brandisia advances our understanding of how #bird #pollinators shape floral diversification.
doi.org/10.1111/jse....
@wileyecology.bsky.social
#evolution #systematics #pollination

As someone who went through the school system here, I agree. It's amazing how much of public discourse & education in post 2000's US was still dictated by downright McCarthyist paranoia... And how erasure of social class translated into erasure of power structure in a country, which is just nuts.

If people had understanding of GNU, copyleft, & how tech and research projects (from linux kernel to CERN) are run, it would be impossible to attribute hatred of tech to the ever-vaguely defined 'left'.

Billionaire managers & their cronies hijacked the sci/tech discussion in our society wholesale.

There's a blizzard warning in #nyc for Sunday night-Monday morning. I did not see that coming at all, past few unreasonably warm & dry winters spoiled me.

Still love that we got some real snow this season though...

I keep finding myself where using the new programming language just takes a lot longer than alternatives. And with real projects to deliver, I need to either compromise or invest my personal time.

But I think it's worth it - I feel like I'm so close to having it just 'click' in my head