This is the time that we opened for The Cramps, Danceteria, on Halloween as “it crawled from the south” and we only played songs about death. I wore a pink gingham bunny suit complete with bunny ears mitts and footies. The sweatshirt came off after the first song. Photo by Laura Levine. 1982? ‘83?
AMP thought of as one-off in Drosophila may have moved around a lot…much like genes encoding antiparasitoid proteins fand pore-forming toxins in insects (see karger.com/jin/article/...). Extremely cool. A challenge is that short peptides present a very hard problem—discerning convergence from HGT…
A structure-based approach identifies bacteriophage proteins that block bacterial immunity. www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...
A molecular 'gatekeeper' in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes
Congratulations, @ottlab.bsky.social on a great paper in Science.
www.cibss.uni-freiburg.de/news/a-molec...
Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.
some shit is about to go down
The World's Biggest Acidic Geyser Erupts at Yellowstone After Years of Minimal Activity www.discovermagazine.com/the-world-s-...
"Can I talk to you about an extended warranty for your car?"
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A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft some of his most renowned instruments. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...
New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 Chimps are apparently just as obsessed with crystals as we are.
A new study found they’ll ignore normal rocks to carry quartz around, even nesting with them at night. Researchers actually had to trade bananas and yogurt to get the crystals back
aw yeah parasitoid wasps
EIN3-Like family members fine-tune fruit coloration by divergently regulating flavonoid and carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato (Ruochen Wang , Liang Yang , Mengbo Wu , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging
Glass data storage solution could last millennia. Microsoft researchers write stable data into borosilicate glass with lasers. by Ananya Palivela. A rectangular piece of translucent blue glass has several vertical sections of varying blue shades.
In a new study, scientists at Microsoft Research have shown that they can write information into a lump of borosilicate glass. Their calculations suggest the data trapped inside would be stable for at least 10,000 years. cen.acs.org/materials/el...
#chemsky 🧪
Tricked-out Toyota Siena minivan was key to the research in this article. I kind of wonder how it was described in the grant budget. 🤔
Restoration Update: In the Wake of Klamath Dam Removal • The Revelator therevelator.org/klamath-rest... 🧪🦑🌎
