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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates

I believe there is a truth that should be universally acknowledged: that a single man in possession of a good lunch and a warm summer's day must be in want of a nap.

I have not published a paper since (checks notes) June 17th and have not worked on a research project since (checks notes again) 5:30 AM this morning. I am currently working on three different projects.

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I wonder when fretting governments will react proportionally to the fact that birth rates reflect millions of independent decisions that nevertheless coalesce into a kind of Lysistrata in response to income inequality and the destruction of the climate, and no lil thousand dollars is gonna fix that

Here is the Democracy Now/ACLU brief for the Supreme Court.

Thanks to all of the plaintiffs for standing up, and the attorneys and their staffs for all of their hard work.

Let's win this thing (again)

protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

America 2025. Where everything is a conspiracy to people who don’t understand how anything works...

The "liberal billionaires of least resistance" are not allies. They are just smart dragons that positioned themselves to be slayed last, which is why my advice is to subvert expectations and fight Dem Party mega donors first, or they'll always lurk in the shadows helping their Republican BFFs win.

A day late but STILL IMPORTANT

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

Quote for a 63x objective. The objective is $12,784. The tariff is $1,661.92

Zeiss 63x objective

We need a new microscope objective. A $1.6k tariff for something that you can hold in your hand and that is only manufactured in Germany

Ah yes, firing the data expert after bad news on jobs, just the kind of commitment to research excellence we like to see in governments that are asserting control over…academic research.

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

Delightful story about a 17-year-old homeschooler who disproved the 40-year-old Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture. She decided to apply straight to graduate school, skipping the rest of high school and college. When she finishes, a PhD will be her first degree.

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

A giant thank you to @drjz.bsky.social and @vidigaljoana.bsky.social! It takes a village to celebrate #RNAday

NIH had fun celebrating another #RNAday. Thanks to @vidigaljoana.bsky.social for organizing this great event and @slwolin.bsky.social for building a strong RNA community.

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

the weird thing - probably not weird at all--is they have not seemed to make the connection between cutting funding to all their bogeyman institutions and 'the economy'... like what do you think 'the economy' is

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Versailles for the Very Stupid What Trump is doing to the White House isn’t a remodel. It’s a cry for help with chandeliers.

This isn’t patriotism. It’s a golden goose-stepping makeover brought to you by gout, delusion, and Overstock.com.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Sierra Hull: Tiny Desk Concert The mandolin virtuoso captivates with her deep storytelling and incredibly fast fingerpicking.

The mandolin virtuoso captivates with her deep storytelling and incredibly fast fingerpicking.

Being a trans lawyer in this moment is such a mindfuck. It's trying to persuade judges that fascism is bad whilst also trying to persuade everyone in the courtroom that I'm a human being and not a zoo exhibit.

Oh the (Rocky) horror. They brought their own leftover Meatloaf.

I don't know of other books off hand but the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social has lots of folks interested in public education of RNA. I do think it is very needed, especially in the US where mRNA medicines and vaccines are being defunded due to COVID grievances.

great stuff! Is your book available in other languages?

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

This is ALL of our futures.
This is the AI world.
Sucking up resources.
Killing the environment.
For the benefit of a handful of Billionaires
Did YOU vote for this??
#NOKINGS #NOICE #NOFASCISTS #NOPEDOPHILES
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY #EMPATHY #TOLERANCE
#HUMANITY #dueprocessforall #RESIST #GOODTROUBLE

My son and I at Sphere on 8/1/24 to see Dead & Company.

It's AUG 1, my friends. That means it's:

1. RNA Day. Cheers to the best nucleic acid!

2. Jerry Garcia's birthday and the beginning of the Days Between.

3. One year ago today that my son and I saw Dead & Co at Sphere.

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...