Marc Dionne

I'm sad to report that my native land currently leads the world in fucking guys

this may qualify as a hot take

just as long as it's not Science

publish in Nature, get a free set of steak knives

knows how to accessorize

time is a flat circle with a curl of citrus peel

Cattle bovine TB vaccine field trials move to next phase Read about our Cattle Vaccine Project: APHA’s invaluable addition to the toolbox to eradicate bovine TB in the UK.

Do cows count? Admittedly, not stated whether or not it's administered IV aphascience.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/21/c...

Isn't that how evolution works? In the beginning, all expression was constitutive

Stay tuned for my theory about how the immune system controls antimicrobial activity by changing the interest rate on amino acid swaps

the blue screen of death from a computer, running Windows 7, that has had to restart

extra points if you could take down the whole system

when I'm in bash I feel as though I'm some kind of 1337 h4x0r but in R it's just like, you know, work

Dear funding agencies,

I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.

Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.

I totally understand. I just wanted to offer reassurance that our world, dystopian as it can seem, is not *that* bad. Yet.

That is not true. It *is* true that there are specific funding opportunities for using AI in science, but that's not most of the funding available, and the AI in question is not the kind of AI autofill slop generation that we're all so sadly used to.

Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.

Model organisms, in particular non-mammalian model organisms, such as yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, #Drosophila and zebrafish, have long stood at the centre of biological discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

People point to the Tories broader record in government but them leaning on Ofcom to leave GB News alone despite its repeated regulatory breaches & its star presenter being a political rival of theirs may actually be the thing that dooms them

Naturally, Labour are refusing to correct this mistake

she was easy to track down

well, it *does* make me cranky when my stomach hurts

"The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value."
- John Gurdon

I can't really complain—somebody gave me a confocal once. Sadly, it's dead now.

envious

are you referring to the speaker of the house of representatives as "shit Ilan Wurman"

I've only read Bleeding Edge once (you've made me want to read it again)—but this is interesting given the comments in the introduction to Mirrorshades that Gibson and Sterling and the other early cyberpunks were unified in their worship of Pynchon.

but in that case, it's not a real Kavanaugh stop, because there's a legitimate cause for suspicion

UK numbers look large because of (relatively) large numbers of events early in the time series. It's interesting how UK falls behind Germany, then France and Canada at the very end. Gun control appears to be highly effective at reducing gun deaths.

as I recall, the last time I paid attention to this, this was an accurate statement of the full extent of our mechanistic understanding of the adjuvanticity of alum

Hm is it bad if the industry somehow propping up a trembling economy is based almost entirely on our collective willingness to let it do crimes

second prize is two mosquitoes

mosquoin, surely

folate deficiency