Justin Blumenstiel

Get your war on.

By contrast, Nero, as a fiddle player, presumably had some rhythm.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

The modern formatting addiction in writing dynomight.net/formatting/

Transposable elements contribute substantially to naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster Recessive lethal mutations are common and often persist at unexpectedly high frequencies due to diverse mutational causes. This study shows that many lethal alleles in Drosophila melanogaster arise…

In a new study, Sarah Marion &co use genetic mapping and whole genome sequencing in wild #Drosophila to reveal the genetic basis of naturally occurring lethal mutations and introduce a new model that could explain their frequencies in natural populations.
🧪 #genetics

Reflections on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology: Joe Felsenstein YouTube video by SMTPB

There is a nice discussion about this book in this interview with Felsenstein as part of the "Reflections on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology" series, presented by the Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. Discussion starts at 48 minutes:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSSx...

I freaking love Technotronic. Gotta start finding places to jam out to house music like back in the day...

music center LA on instagram: use code CHALAMET to save 20% on ballet tickets. image of some ballet dancers.

so that’s kind of funny lmao

Ubercool.
Toxin-antitoxin systems were discovered 40 years ago in E. coli, and later on in many genomes including in euks.
Now the 1st TA system is reported in the mouse genome!
It affects embryo killing. Amazing distribution of a simple yet efficient genetic system
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Transposable elements contribute substantially to naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila

LOLZ.

Incredible thread

We just launched flyRoom — modern web-based stock management for Drosophila labs. No more spreadsheets, no more messy labels, no more lost stocks. Free to start, built by researchers for researchers.

www.flyroom.net

Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Desalination, water, and war Attacks on civilian systems, including water systems, must be condemned and punished under the laws of war.

Attacks on civilian water systems must be condemned and punished under the laws of war. We must repudiate such attacks and stop targeting water supplies, water systems, and other critical civilian infrastructure. #Water must never be a target or weapon of war.
thebulletin.org/2026/03/desa...

New Article: "An NLR–transposase fusion gene from rye provides broadly effective resistance to stripe rust in wheat" rdcu.be/e7z39

Broad-spectrum stripe rust resistance gene Yr83 coned from rye; encodes a unique NLR–transposase fusion protein. #PlantScience

Pure bloodlust. Absolutely sickening.

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Even masks are becoming difficult to find. This is a huge mistake. I ask those who have the ability, especially foreign media, to reflect on this situation. What are people supposed to do under these conditions? This is truly a crime against humanity.”

It is grotesque. There should be absolute shame heaped upon anybody in the University making more than about 200-300K, at least in places where the cost of living is reasonable.

Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69 YouTube video by Sonic Youth

Every time I teach molecular evolution, I can't can't this song out of my head:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Gf...

Coming down
Sadie, I love it
Now, now, now
Jukes Cantor '69
Jukes Cantor '69
Jukes Cantor '69

Trent Rez in the head like a hole vid

Pain at the pump 🎶
Feel like a chump 🎶
Just checked the news 🎶
Outbreak of Mumps 🎶

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Gruk and Zluk....

LOL, I used "contract" in this context. It goes deep...

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

This is where we went off the rails. The cost.

The contract with students was broken on this matter when the costs became out of control. If higher education was much more inexpensive, it would be easier to return to this much preferable state of affairs. I wish we could get back on track.

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...