For those who aren't biologists: This is a biosafety cabinet. Every biomedical research lab in the country has one or more of these bio safety cabinets. They use air flow to protect cells from contamination by bacteria and fungal spores while you are working with them.

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
theonion.com/guy-on-...

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

well well, welcome everyone! ❤️❤️❤️🍻

I'm puffball apparently

Reminder for newcomers that bioRxiv has Bluesky accounts in every subject category - great way to keep up (please re-skeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California, health officials say California health officials warned the public to avoid drinking one batch of whole raw milk from Raw Farm, which has issued a voluntary recall.

If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Folks, always stay safe! Use Glaze or Nightshade! Protect yourselves 🙌

Make them think twice before doing this!

Also @hf.co should take this dang dataset down. It’s done do without company and more importantly, users individual consent.

Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.

GitHub make a nice butterfly if you add your profile there.

Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day.

Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.

we officially have more followers here than on twitter lmao

RAAD

Programming note! I'm using @en.blueark.app to gradually migrate old tweets over here. Bluesky is looking like a more stable place for an archive. Just wanted to flag this move, in case anyone gets confused as posts from years ago show up here--as if I were some social media time traveler.

Also, part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars. And those people were right. This is the funniest thing that has ever happened.

Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, int...

The Onion has purchased InfoWars.

theonion.com/heres-why-i-...

A man confronted by the consequences of his own actions:

welcome to the 100k+ people who have joined Bluesky in the last 12 hours!!! 🦋 🎉

Min åsikt är att allt som finns med på Absolute Christmas (1994 års version) är julmusik, allt annat är det inte.

oh my god

Ffs how did all these spam bots get Bluesky invite codes? I thought the purpose was somewhat gatekeeping these but no - and all we can do is to exist with a public profile and report/block one by one @safety.bsky.app @bsky.app

YEEESSSSSSSSSSSS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Maps with New Zealand

Maps with New Zealand

Oh yeah another social media account. This one is dedicated to materialistic delights, brunch and wholesome dystopian shitposting (mostly watching tbh)

anyone else trying to keep organized

bluesky now has a a brief, opportune window to rebrand itself as "twitter"