Jake Roeglin

Spotify's doppelgänger problem After King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard left Spotify in protest earlier this year, something strange took their place

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James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

NYT obituary of Jim Watson.

A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.

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The Jays lose the World Series in one of the greatest baseball games ever played

Shohei Ohtani is the second player in World Series history with multiple hits in a winner-take-all game he pitched in, joining 1934 Dizzy Dean

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

“For Eco, the key early transition into modernity occurred when ‘a line was drawn between hallucination and sight’ in Robert Grosseteste’s thirteenth-century treatise on optics.”

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Remember: if it's white smoke coming from Dodgers stadium, a run has been scored. If it's black smoke, we play another inning.

What if this is all because a kid somewhere begged their parents to let them watch the whole game and they caved, saying “aw sure honey you can stay up until the game ends” surely imagining a 9pm bedtime? What if he got his wish? His wildest dream?? What if we all had that little twerp to blame

We’ve progressed from watching the baseball game to being held hostage by the baseball game.

Starting to think a Greek mythology punishment might be in play here. The game is doomed to continue until the Blue Jays are brave enough to pitch to Ohtani.

They’re gonna walk Ohtani again, who will reach base 8 times.

"no position player has ever pitched a world series game" this game is about to say challenge accepted

To the 15th!

This is the second-longest game by innings in World Series history

The other was ALSO Game 3 at Dodger Stadium. 2018, 18 innings

This was at many parties/family events/church potlucks growing up in Wisconsin in the early 2000s.

WashU meets with White House to discuss Trump higher ed compact - Student Life Chancellor Andrew D. Martin met virtually with White House representatives on Friday afternoon to discuss President Trump’s higher education compact, which asks universities to commit to a range of po...

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Hoo boy we’re so done for…

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Wouldn’t happen to be these volcanos, would it? Took this a few minutes out from LIR on our honeymoon!

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There's no shame in being wrong about something.

There is shame in choosing to be wrong.

1/2 The Arts & Crafts interior of Chicago's Second Presbyterian Church (by Howard Van Doren Shaw working with painter Frederic Clay Bartlett after a 1900 fire gutter the church) with its Tiffany stained glass windows

Given the state of the world, sharing wins is important. I’m so happy to share the joyous news that Olivia Solomon, a postdoctoral trainee, is officially now an Assistant Prof at Prairie View A&M! It’s so exciting, and we are all so proud! What a gift to see people land their dream job.

“It is sometimes considered gauche, in the world of American political commentary, to give words the weight of their meaning.” Quite a line.

Bolsonaro found guilty in attempted coup, assassination plot Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled the former president tried to reverse his 2022 election loss with a plot that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

BREAKING Brazil’s supreme court finds former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate Lula, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss. Trump, a Bolsonaro friend, had pressured the court to drop the case

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I’ve come to understand that some programs literally don’t teach at all. Folks either start the program with a pre-existing conceptual foundation or they never care to develop one because the PhD is simply a stepping stone to an unrelated job in tech.

…the ironic rallying cry of the ignorant mob wholly succumbed to the paternalist state’s propaganda?? Elphaba’s wickedness was “thrust upon her,” and Glinda was in fact mourning her as these words were being sung 😅

I condemn violence and murder in all its forms, including the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

Also, Charlie Kirk was a racist, transphobic, homophobic, anti-democratic ‘activist’ who helped make this country a worse, less just place for millions of people.

These statements are not contradictory.

Correction: It’s *imperative* that you put the phone down.

It’s ok to put the phone down.

A brain center that controls consummatory responses The BNST brain region integrates a broad range of external and internal signals to flexibly regulate consumption, revealing a unified control over consummatory responses.

Discovery of a brain center (BNST) that controls consumption (including sweets, fats, salt and other foods) in mice
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Inhibiting SLC38A2 lowers blood pressure in rodent models of hypertension Inhibition of Slc38a2 in vascular endothelial cells enhances NO-mediated vasodilation and reduces blood pressure.

The amino acid transporter SLC38A2 is linked to a higher risk of #hypertension and can be targeted to lower blood pressure, show new experiments in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine involving mice and an analysis of population cohorts in China and the U.K. Biobank. https://scim.ag/4mQ3Ji0