Brandon Zipp

LOL. We're a startup again! Rise and grind you lowly peons...

"...we are being lead by a swarm of incompetent ideologues and ignorant grifters who are relentlessly ruining everything they touch. Every part of the federal government is being degraded right in front of us..."

Dark days for the FDA, biotech, pharma, and science. Going in the wrong direction.

Former Sacramento deputy kills 11-year-old son, is fatally shot after I-5 chase, officials say Marvin Morales, 40, was previously found to have lied about a 2023 fentanyl overdose on the job.

Deputy Dirtbag thought he was smoking meth he confiscated, but it was fentanyl - and he OD'd on the job. Sad ending. But he didn't OD from just touching it!!! Another example for @ryanmarino.bsky.social

www.kcra.com/article/sacr...

Pickle Rick: The Pinnacle of Biohacking

Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."

"It’s not a mystery. It’s math."

An insightful but heavy read for my morning coffee. Thanks for sharing.

Wait. I've never tried that...

Paid advertisement by the company... The science sounds cool, and it may eventually work, but it is clearly propaganda.

That looks like a mobile bioreactor- complete with built in 37°C heater and agitation!

Umm. She's holding the pipette that way because she was mouth pipetting, wasn't she...

Scientists pull ancient RNA from a woolly mammoth's body Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

Media: "Scientists pull ancient RNA from a wooly mammoths body"

Any scientist who has ever worked with RNA, even in the best of conditions: No F'n way...

www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

...Then they came for the ibuprofen, and there was no one left to stand up to them.

Seriously. With my middle-aged aches and pains- if they come for my ibuprofen I'll lose my shit.

A pinkish and greenish night sky over illuminated houses in the suburbs of northern California.

Aurora in Northern California!!!!

Awww. @cnaumann123.bsky.social is this related to Steffen Abel's work? I was in his lab @ucdavis.bsky.social and I remember the phosphate sensing project and Pdr2 mapping. Is he still at @ipbhalle.bsky.social ??? Very cool!

If you brag that you fired 5 rounds, create 7 holes, and the person survives.

Then you're a terrible shot.

And a douchebag.

Can you culture the fungus and inoculate on other plants? Or could you do post-harvest fermentations with it? I assume if its valuable, then there's some propagation of it.

That looks fungly, but super cool.

So my congressman Kevin Kiley (R) just had his CA-3rd district redrawn blue. Adios re-election plans!

He can now do the funniest thing: sign on to release the Epstein files, and go down in history for breaking both the shutdown- and the fascist aspirations of Trump.

#LetsGoKevin #prop50 #CA3rd

Press Releases | Investors & Media Reimagining the future of healthcare through the power of gene therapy.

I know it's a negotiation based on the merits of the treatment, but.... How normal is this?

Full press release text here:
www.uniqure.com/investors-me...

I like to think that HU-331 was named after Hüsker Dü...

Immigration beat down? Not with Dodgers epitomizing baseball's international flair Your morning catch up: The Dodgers' United Nations path to World Series title, thousands find food banks as SNAP benefits lapse and more big stories.

In short: immigration makes us better, and kinder.

Great piece on baseball and society by James Rainey.

www.latimes.com/california/n...

FINAL: Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Toronto Blue Jays 4

▪️ THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS ARE THE 2025 MLB WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS! 🏆🔵⚪️

#WorldSeries #MLB #baseball

It took me a second... hah!

It bears repeating: the opioid epidemic, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, was sparked by the activities of U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies and distributors. It was a homegrown, man-made plague.

We used to call these "weineritos"

The former Director of the NIGMS is trolling the current Director of the NIH and I am here for it.

Brian Kolp, a Chicago resident, carries tear gas near his home that was used by border patrol. He ran out of his house in Blackhawks pajama pants while barefoot to yell at ICE and Border Patrol

This is the ideal patriot. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

(Article here www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c... )

Why? If you can target the light accurately, it could shine on crops to disrupt the photoperiod and trick certain crops to keep growing larger- rather than diverting resources to flowering when the day length decreases. But it seems like an expensive technology with uncertain uses and returns.

Hampersand? 😁

When I hear "red eye" I do think of flight...