J. Chris Pires

Pangenomes, really?

Most early “pangenomes” = oligogenomes (oligo, Gr., few).

More recent “pangenomes” generally = poligenomes (polis, Gr., many).

True pangenomes (pas, Gr., every/all) would be rare indeed.

🙏🏼 @zbao.bsky.social for pointing out his review.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ICE conducted a raid in Lakewood Colorado. Over 75 Denver-metro residents showed up.

“We’re cutting Medicaid to pay for those bombs… "

I'm attacking Iran because they have nuclear weapons Why don't you attack Russia? Are you crazy? They have nuclear weapons

The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

"Trump's attack on Iran is terrifying in part because it's so untethered from policy goals and logic. He offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it."

The Speaker of the House defending the outsourcing of the decision to go to war not just to the executive branch but to a foreign government.

Article I Crisis on steroids.

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

There’s something disturbing about Melania Trump giving a speech about protecting children at the UN security council. Does she not know who she is? Or who she’s married to? Or the life she’s lived? Or what her husband is currently up to? And what her friends have done?

In this thread watch President Bill Clinton say that Trump told him that he had great times over the years with Jeffrey Epstein.

Then watch Secretary Clinton as she finds out that Lauren Boebert broke committee rules and sent out pictures from the deposition to conservative YouTuber Benny Johnson.

Not only has this Admin launched a regime-change war of choice that the American people don't want, they can't even get their story straight about why they did it.

American servicemembers and hundreds of civilians have been killed — and all they can do is lie.

Having grown up a white kid in the Jim Crow south, I’d now say that pretty much was slavery, though I didn’t start to understand that until my early teens.

Photo of the moon, near sunset, partially obscured by pink and blue clouds.

the moon tonight

“Be relentlessly lethal” what the absolute F is that supposed to mean.

They're calling it SuperBenghazi.

Reminder, this is all illegal.

Everything about this story is a perfect distillation of the moment.

White House privately tells Congress that "it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary."

The US has fewer counterintelligence officers who have experience with Iran because a few years ago those US officers did their jobs properly and assisted with a judge-signed search warrant regarding a criminal theft of US defense secrets, which the search found a lot of evidence of.

Seriously.

Quakertown PA MAGA police chief puts a 15-year old girl in a reverse chokehold and SHE is being prosecuted for aggravated assault?! 😡

Primary voters on Trump’s war.

Bet they’re looking for candidates who will stand up to Trump. That’s the mood of the country right now. We’re done with middle-of-the-road types.

HAYES: The US is choosing the date of engagement. We decided when we launched

GALLEGO: We actually don't know that. It seems like we may have actually launched at time that was pushed by Israel, because if there was proper planning you would've hardened these positions

JD Vance: "There's just no way that Donald Trump is gonna allow this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no end in sight"

Republicans spent 17 months on Benghazi because 4 Americans were killed.

It’s been 3 days and Trump’s illegal Iran attack has already gotten 6 American soldiers killed. He promises more will die soon. And Republicans don’t care.

Go @hillaryclinton.bsky.social. Absolutely 💯 percent correct.

Anthropic’s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns

As I've been saying for days: this feud with Hegseth -- in which Anthropic looks principled, and Claude looks so valuable that the Pentagon can't live without it -- has been terrific marketing for Anthropic www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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

"We know the fraudsters are going to fraud. We’re gonna make it a little bit harder for them”. @sjmelchor.bsky.social talks to @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other science sleuths to learn their tips for spotting dodgy papers. New @nature.com 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is figure 2, which shows global diversification dynamics of six diverse butterfly families.

Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researchers’ understanding of the clade in the genomic era. go.nature.com/4r0kbgS 🌍 🧪

The best actor category is filled to the brim with startlingly great performances. Michael B. Jordan won, propelled by a starring role in a much-needed startlingly great movie, AND he fucking nailed it! #ActorAwards #Sinners

Building Community and Sparking Curiosity in The Philosophy Lab - Project Pericles Professors Daniel Groll and Hope Sample bring together Carleton College and pre-collegiate students from the Northfield Area Learning Center to do philosophy together.

Great work by philosophers at my alma mater, Carleton College: #philosophy #academicsky projectpericles.org/news/buildin...

Khomeini's monument was toppled by Iranians. Iranians were in the streets long before the bombs. #Sociology teaches us that external intervention risks delegitimising popular resistance and structurally redefines it, turning an organic revolution into an appendix of someone else's war.

#AcademicSky