chris macdonald

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too!

preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵

Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/9

17th century engraving of a capybara under a palm tree eating a banana

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

they’re opening the john jones underground warfare school of excellence soon

chud ops

The MAGA meltdown; Mamdani's Rainbow Coalition; Remembering Tatsuya Nakadai Reading, Watching 11.16.25

The weekly Reading, Watching post.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-maga-m...

Agriculture’s new album The Spiritual Sound is available everywhere today.

The record is a study in joy and intensity, carrying forward the ecstatic spirit of their debut while pushing deeper into grief, transcendence, and renewal.

Listen: youtu.be/k9yMIboriEY
@agriculturemusic.bsky.social

try woodman’s before you decide

toothbrush

labor discipline

Evolution of polyamine resistance in Staphylococcus aureus through modulation of potassium transport | mSphere Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of infectious disease-related deaths globally. Understanding factors that govern adaptation and survival of S. aureus and other pathogens in the host environme...

Excited to share the latest work by outstanding PhD student @kdc509.bsky.social. This was one of our first forays into experimental evolution and uncovered some cool connections between potassium transport and antimicrobial resistance in S. aureus. Major kudos to Killian!

Quality time in the catio reading & napping

a ½ gallon of neutral milk

They finally made the milk from that hotel

UCSF Asilomar retreat t-shirt, 1990

to be fair the vast majority of drug discovery pre-AI has also ended up with toxic compounds

this whole album smacks of gender

Osmium - Osmium album cover. A kind of runic mark made of 6 double headed fork shapes against a black background.

Members of #Senyawa and Emptyset join forces with Sam Slater and Oscar-winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir for an exploration of machine learning that sounds thrillingly alien

Osmium - Osmium

buff.ly/5jLhEs4
@invadarecords.bsky.social

The diversity subprograms of the primary NIH fellowships were completely terminated, so anyone who submitted one was just rejected instead of being able to transfer to the main one. People people who already had one had it cancelled.

Adversarial peer review

I’m reeling

In a fugue state years ago I guess I got David Pajo to do a cameo to congratulate me on getting my PhD and I just saw it now

Simplify your life by nondimensionalizing

I’m patenting a constant anti-unit of temperature called the Bernard. 1 B = 10^30. Then 30 °F is just 1.92 B and 100 °F is 2.19 B. The beautiful thing is then 1 = 1 B/B.

One added benefit is that at 1 we have β = T.

That’s why I personally get rid of the ambiguity and just have 0 = 0 K and 1 = the Planck temperature. It’s much clearer to have 30°F = 1.92*10^-30 and 100°F = 2.19*10^-30. Avoids any confusion.

FWIW any openai model I tried seems to be unable to understand the idea

Not sure if this is anything

when the diy venue gets shut down

The likelihood of getting a usable answer for a tool seems to be proportional to how many people have posted about it on stackoverflow.