Nikilyn Nevins

Not sure why @lpachter.bsky.social did not post this here. But it is brilliant. Single cell genomics finally makes it to the clinic.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

A cartoon titled ‘The Life of a Scientist’. (The life is depicted as a set of steps, three up then three down with a character on each) Baby: Such a mysterious world! Child: I must search for answers Young adult: Each answer leads me to more questions Middle age: ... At least I've got lots of questions Old age: Ok, I guess questions are my thing now From grave: Such a mysterious world!

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

The Red Labyrinth The Red Labyrinth [Peek, Ben] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Red Labyrinth

I've got a new book out, The Red Labyrinth. It's a dark little novella about a giant underground labyrinth and a woman who starts a revolution inside it. Also, there are monks. Most of them are mad.

It's good for your friends. It's good for your enemies. It's good for completely random strangers.

A black and white photo of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. She is sitting at her desk and looking up at the camera, which is in front of her and to her left. Payne-Gaposchkin is wearing a baggy, ribbed sweater and has a wristwatch on her right arm. A pair of glasses rests on the desk in front of her, next to open books and papers which are just visible at the bottom of the photogaph. Filing cabinets, drawers, and another desk are visible in the background. She has short, dark hair which is no longer than chin-length, pulled out of her face behind her left ear.

“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

Image: Harvard Observatory

We started our Ph.D.s during COVID-19. Now, we’re graduating into political chaos “It is difficult to absorb all the uncertainty and still hold on to hope,” this Ph.D. student writes

We started our Ph.D.s during COVID-19. Now, we’re graduating into political chaos www.science.org/content/arti... #phd #phdchat

‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard.


https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX

Paul Auster, Prolific Author and Brooklyn Literary Star, Dies at 77 With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author and patron saint of his adopted borough drew worldwide acclaim.

Paul Auster, Prolific Author and Brooklyn Literary Star, Dies at 77 www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/b...

No Substance #167: Shadow Films I’ve a new story in the latest issue of Lightspeed. It’s called ‘Shadow Films’. It’s free to read, but you should feel free, as always, to buy the issue if you enjoy the piece and what John ...

No Substance #167 is out. It's a brief introduction to my new story, Shadow Films, available now to read at Lightspeed.

Shadow Films - Lightspeed Magazine Alvin’s scripts arrived in yellow envelopes. They were hand delivered, placed inside his letter box as if part of the regular mail, but with no address or stamps on it. The scripts were typed on unl...

My novelette, 'Shadow Films,' is free to read on Lightspeed now. It's about films being made in the back of films. If you like it, but sure to share it round, tell people you dig (like and subscribe, as they say) and support Lightspeed, a fine 'zine that publishes fine work.

No Substanc #163: David Fincher's The Killer At which point does monotony become art? Is it when the character stands outside a McDonalds in Paris and the light shines right, or the reflection in the glass reveals a face of passive disquiet? Is ...

No Substance #163 is about David Fincher's The Killer, a film swimming in a quiet, undeniable boredom.

the first ever webcam was put online by the university of cambridge in 1993. it was pointed at coffee pot in a room near the computer lab so workers could check how much coffee was left

A Peron's tree frog nestled happily into a cotton hammock.

Several Peron's tree frogs have moved into the hammock on the verandah. My attempts to lure them into a newly constructed frog hotel instead have so far been unsuccessful. Anyone know what might convince them? I'm delighted to have the frogs, but I would also like to use the hammock!

Show me your pet and who they're named after

This turned out to be an excellent factoid to share with a partner, 10/10

It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Mozilla's new report on the data privacy of modern cars is nightmare fuel. Enshittification has definitely hit the car industry:

Claude the leaf thief devours $6k worth of seedlings intended for koala habitat After several months of illicit gorging at a NSW nursery, Claude the koala has been caught in the act.

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...

For anyone who wants to print out those coles and woolies "specials" stickers

For anyone who wants to print out those coles and woolies specials stickers:

drive.google.com/file/d/1HAJm...

Was thinking about the first time I made a science poster (let's say, a couple yrs ago). More construction paper and less R, but basically the same process as the one I made today. Although, possibly faster to use glue than PowerPoint.

Protestor holding sign saying "The enemy does not arrive by boat but by limousine."

Black and white photo in which a black cat looms large in the foreground and seems to be walking directly behind a much smaller man in the middleground.

When I talk to comic book artists I always emphasize the importance of clearly separating their planes of depth. This rule is only for comics and does not apply to Turkish photographer Sami Uçan.

Hi, I'd love to join the science feed. @danirabaiotti.bsky.social

What's the craziest thing you've found in a lab cupboard or freezer from a previous group?

Oh boy, did we find a shocker in the -80 yesterday 😬😱😷
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Black and white photo of a small black child sitting on a sidewalk against a worn brick wall. He looks down and to the right where a shorthaired tabby is approaching him curiously. Huge, hand painted writing fills the walls, advertising food items and making the boy and cat look so small.

London, 1962. www.standard.co.uk/culture/don-...

Structural variants seem much less popular than cats. For good reason, perhaps

Distinct Classes of Complex Structural Variation Uncovered across Thousands of Cancer Genome Graphs A novel computational approach for inferring and classifying patterns in cancer genome graphs uncovers three classes of complex structural variation with distinct tumor type and genomic distributions.

Revisited this paper today in a meeting. Anyone on here with experience using the genome graphs? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Long-molecule scars of backup DNA repair in BRCA1- and BRCA2-deficient cancers - Nature Linked-read whole-genome sequencing reveals patterns of structural DNA variants that are specific to homologous recombination deficiency and can be used to distinguish between BRCA1- and BRCA2-deficie...

Am fascinated by this recent paper. The more I look at our SV data, the more I think it has a lot of information we need to mine more cleverly. Or at least, I need to get smarter about it :) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Harper is a black cat with many demands in the morning.

Decided to start in the same fashion I start every day: with a nosy cat. This is Harper.