The science is as over-hyped and borderline fraudulent as the ethics are thorny (and that doesn't even count the George Church, friend of Epstein angle)
05.03.2026 17:53
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The science is as over-hyped and borderline fraudulent as the ethics are thorny (and that doesn't even count the George Church, friend of Epstein angle)
Oh no what did BC do...
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Wave-like contamination on a 1/2 MS plate
@contamclub.bsky.social
Since people are liking the Bocchi colors, I have a whole collection of color palettes on my GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Colo...
You will find the hex code, the preview, and the inspiration for each color palette. I hope some of them will be used.
#DataVis
The OpenPlant kit is finally available from Addgene as... a kit :)
www.addgene.org/kits/haselof...
@addgene.bsky.social #marchantia #synbio
β...the old conferences did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either,β Epstein wrote to Brockman. βThe women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.β π‘π©π»βπ¬ #AcademicSky
New Ed Yong book in April 2027 let's gooooo
We teamed up with OpenFlower (@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social), a nonprofit creating designer flowers for art & education, to release 3 limited edition postcards! These flowers were powered by Whole Plasmid Sequencing from Plasmidsaurus.
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Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.
Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
DeepL seems to have updated and has removed the "thesaurus" feature. Does anybody know a good alternative to DeepL?
Interesting paper: Metabolic enzyme PAL can go into the nucleus in response to high product build up and sequester an activating TF of the pathway, thus acting as a feedback inhibition loop.
From: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience
Very nice genetic dissection of the roles of BSK kinases in brassinosteroid signaling by Wenqiang Tang's lab. bsk-u (ko for BSK1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 & 12) really looks like a bri1 null mutant and can be rescued by over-expressing BSK3. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Oops, I think this part got all the documentation: registry.igem.org/parts/bba-25.... Or ask Nicole, she'll definetly know
You could try the one the iGEM team made this year (registry.igem.org/parts/bba-25...), should still be in the Signalhaus. to use it it not as an intermedia but rather as primary, you just have to change the epitope I guess π
And save >80% on the cost by pooling 6 or more plasmids into a single sample using our free SAVEMONEY algorithm!
elifesciences.org/articles/88794
colab.research.google.com/github/Masaa...
Transcription terminators can be strong promoters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.12.705533v1
Thanks Rita, it's not urgent :)
Does anybody have access to this article?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
a photo of a fat yellow beetle grub writhing on concrete
does anyone know what kind of beetle this is? inaturalist is just suggesting some kind of scarab. I saw it in the adirondacks by tupper lake in july
π΅mTurquoise2-based glucose biosensors TINGL and THINGL from @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social and the Teusink Lab!
Find the plasmids here: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...
PhD opening
Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress.
Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
@dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
We're recruiting a PhD student to try and understand stress memory and gene function, using gene editing, in trees! #plantscience
OpenAI fired a VP who opposed their erotica rollout (and had started a company-wide peer mentorship program for women), allegedly telling her it was because she discriminated against a man π€ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Why do some scientists say "Bluesky is dead. I have no engagement. I have more engagement on X"? My TL is full of cool science, queer art, weird history facts, politics and whimsy. You're just not doing it right, man. Plus the fascism
Anyone ever tried super glue (cyanoacrylate) for mounting coverslips with stained mammalian cells, to be used for fluorescence microscopy?
I'm looking for ways to conserve microscopy samples for a looooooong time...
