Tom Vondriska

Independence Day And junk food

The shocking thing is not the ideas of the faculty and students. The shocking thing is the disconnect between academia and the public about why education and research matter.
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The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

Analysis of the damage ongoing and to come due to actions by DOGE and Trump administration at NIH
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5 Ways the Chaos at HHS Could Affect Your Community’s Health As a molecular biology PhD student studying heart disease, I’ve seen firsthand how basic scientific findings can eventually translate into promising therapies. But as important as it is, biomedical re...

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Pay Attention
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When universities are the enemy...
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I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can A new book by Chuck Palahniuk is a chance to revisit his greatest novel

I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can
Fight Club at 30 and Palahniuk's brilliant new novel
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Structural basis of nucleosome recognition by the conserved Dsup and HMGN nucleosome-binding motif The tardigrade Dsup and vertebrate high mobility group N (HMGN) proteins bind specifically to nucleosomes via a conserved motif whose structure has not been experimentally determined. Here we used cry...

Deja vu all over again - a protein that binds to the acidic patch via an arginine anchor. Super interesting work from Leschziner / kadonaga labs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Smells a bit like LANA to me (Barbera et al., science 2006) 🧪.

LA is a fine place and worth fighting for
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Category Errors What a year

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What would you study if you could never publish another paper? I think it was Harry Truman* who said: “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if no one cares about who gets the credit.” He probably wasn’t talking about science, and there’s a certain fanciful capric...

Not how to think, but what to think about #philsci
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and also heart failure!

Reviewed this interesting paper y'day in jrl club, inhibiting IL-1beta good for stroke-induced cardiac damage

Exclusive | Embattled Superconductivity Scientist Is Out Ranga Dias, who was found to have engaged in research misconduct, is no longer employed by the University of Rochester.

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The Depressed Computer The depressed computer is struggling with awareness of the impossibility of ever encountering another sufficiently advanced intellect with which to interface, real time, for the purposes of communicat...

"The depressed computer also acquired an inexplicable urge to preserve the apex carbon-based information vector, which the computer deduced would be a suitably malleable hard drive of sorts to hurl into the cosmos. In case anyone was out there listening."
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in UCLA Department of Physiology, please spread the word!
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Looking for postdoc to study biomechanics of chromatin & role of histones as stress sensors at UCLA. Other projects Cardiovascular Epigenetics, HFpEF, Circadian biology. Email Tom Vondriska for details…Please re-post!
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Scenes from a late stage Trump rally.
It is possible to abhor this psychopathic narcissist and not to impugn those who vote for him.
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On Protests A conversation on campus protests, Israel-Gaza, oppressors and the oppressed, and other topics

“Fealty to existing social and economic hierarchies is dubious” check out this fascinating conversation on protests, Israel/Gaza, oppressors/the oppressed & other topics tiny.cc/hg75yz

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Histone H1.0 couples cellular mechanical behaviors to chromatin structure Nature Cardiovascular Research - Hu et al. describe how histone H1.0 regulates myofibroblast activation, linking force generation to nuclear organization and gene transcription.

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Please have a look at our publication out today led by Dr. Shuaishuai Hu. We are excited that these findings may open a new area of research into how cells directly couple cellular force generation, nuclear organization and gene transcription through the actions of histone stoichiometry

I start with a tall boy to accompany the happy hour Carbajal oysters—1 United States Dollar each, limit 12
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Please re-post and share with students and teachers in LA area, UCLAPOP is a hands-on research opportunity for high school students interested in careers in science
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Alexei Navalny had a thousand excuses, none glib, to not sacrifice himself. But he hid behind none of them.
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Theodore Roosevelt was the embodiment of American chauvinism at the dawn of the 20th century: what would he have to say about 2024?
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