Anthony Berndt

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Biochem tricks are one thing... I've got mentors who were some of the earliest recombinant DNA psuhers but they remind me that there were never "good old days" just lots of logging counts and screening clones

Being fluent in your current assembly and expression system, now that takes time and years

"'Paper mill Hairball"

Original link:

pubpeer.com/publications...

In 2025, GISAID cut off access to many critical SARS-CoV-2 resources, incl. our outbreak.info.

A month ago, GISAID leveled accusations against us, Cov-Spectrum, Nextstrain, and members of COG-UK, which are false and misrepresent known facts.

Our joint response:

blog.outbreak.info/joint-respon...

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

JFC I didn't realise it was that bad.

Solidly good science from @merz.bsky.social et al... and the guy obviously appreciates the Canadian Clusterfolk genre, so that's a plus.

Ellison Lab Ellison Lab at University of Georgia.

There are 13 authors on this paper, including 4 undergrads, 3 grad students, research scientists… I have never had more difficulty assigning author order. But most importantly of all: this was an equal effort between my lab and Courtney Ellison's lab at U. Georgia. ellisonlab.org

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I mean we bothered to lay all that track to “build a nation”, displaced Indigenous people and trashed their heritage and outlawed everyone’s future free enjoyment of rail corridors and waterfronts from the Rockies to the Pacific, the very least we can have rn is decent transport. Who’s on this

Plasmidsaurus Happy Hour · Luma Hello, hello! Join the lightning-fast sequencing dinos for a laid-back hangout with great company and chat about all things DNA & RNA 🦖 Come join us at…

🦖 Berlin friends, join us for a Plasmidsaurus Happy Hour this Thursday, 6PM!

Enjoy a laid-back hangout with great company and chat about all things DNA & RNA - along with an open bar, delicious bites, and exclusive merch.

See you there!

#apaperaday TREAT-NMD conference themed still, with a review by Loboda et al from @moltherapy.bsky.social Nucleic Acids on genetic strategies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy anticipating tomorrow’s challenges of gene therapy session and today’s keynote Terry Flotte. Doi 10.1016/j.omtn.2025.102759

No wonder the right wing was so obsessed with woke-scolding.

Just made Excel self aware. This is going to spawn 3,000 articles from terrified journalists about AGI

#ProtistsOnSky
no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

Necessary/sufficient, guitar fixing edition - hope y'all get to play this weekend.
Be well, guitar friends! 🎸
@slewzeus.bsky.social @benoitbruneau.bsky.social @docdellaire.bsky.social @wbderry.bsky.social
@fish4walking.bsky.social @thelovelylab.bsky.social @lucksmith.bsky.social

Seeing HKers go out of their way to communicate lessons learned in a much more aggressive surveillance state where civil rights were already much more curtailed is both warming and cold sobering at the same time.

I hope Americans are paying attention.

YouTube video by Ten Strings And A Goat Skin Huginn And Muninn - vidéo-officielle-video - Ten Strings And A Goat Skin - Corbeau, June 1, 2013

youtu.be/X4kR70jFG_8

Just some Canadian hipsters in a field.

obligatory tagging of @jasnah.bsky.social

TFW you dial in the chemistry and automation _just_ right and the process objectively looks better than the past iteration.

What appears to be a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field is actually a normal sized praying mantis that's actually sitting on my windshield

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

This might play a role in your unhappiness:

From Disappointing affirmations: Do something nice for someone today. Leave them alone. Life is hard enough without your bullshit.

Happy New Year
#disappointingaffirmations

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

A box that looks like Hamburger Helper, but it's called Lobster Secret, and the mascot is a lobster claw with the same face. It also says Maine Coast Casserole, Naturally Flavored, Finished in 30 minutes (after you make the lobster)

Remember this from the 90s? No??? That's because I woke up with a splitting migraine today, and my malfunctioning synapses invented this abomination. I hyperfixated on it for several terrifying minutes while immobilized in bed. It haunted me all day, so here's my rendition of it.

If it weren't for the fact that I have actual useful science to do, I would love to do a 5-year follow up on some of the covid doomer twitter people and where they are now.

'Fireside' Al Maitland reads Frederick Forsyth's The Shepherd | CBC Radio The year is 1957. An RAF pilot is heading home from Germany for Christmas. Fog sets in, and all radio communication is lost.

As is Traditon:
Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd" as read by the CBC's late host "Fireside" Al Maitland

www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

This paper is such an incredible read, with beautiful microscopy:

-- rare purple sulfur bacterial symbionts in a eukaryotic ciliate (which also has a green algae symbiont)

-- a close relative with a 4-way symbiosis with a green algae and 2 nonphotosynthetic gammaproteobacteria

Not that long ago, in vivo mouse enhancer design was a dream. Today, it's a reality! Using transfer deep learning to design de novo synthetic embryonic enhancers active in the heart, limb, and CNS. Great collab with @alex-stark.bsky.social lab! @ucibiosci.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social

That black cat named Moon at Stonehenge surrounded by its adoring crowd during this year's winter solstice

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

The French (French Canadian?) term for egg nog (= “chicken milk”) is such a delight.