Sam You

So many people who make the decisions don’t believe in humans and humanity because they are out of ideas. They should hit up some museums, tour labs, read fiction, go to a national park, live a bit.

Maybe they should have tried sleeping

Panthers?!

In which I wonder if I ate an edible I forgot about…

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

I wonder what Scott Hanson’s vocal practice is. Silence the half the week? Tea?

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

Yo, at least phrenology didn’t use up all our water

Hotels that don’t start breakfast or coffee until after 6:30 should have to label themselves

How do they ever actually get work done?

They use kids for their culture wars but never actually care about them

DK is back!

Football reminds me anything can happen. Even the Browns winning.

Why would a person pay money for this if they can ask AI themselves to write the article

Didn’t know I could be happy for the jets

𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: The legendary Marshawn Lynch now has a job as a photographer on the sidelines for NFL games.

Lynch is photographing the Chargers vs. Chiefs game tonight in Brazil.

Cowboys are taking that betting line seriously

Harvard University lays off fly database team The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

News via The Transmitter www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

“The pause came in the form of a footnote”

I would ask if he has ever read an entire research paper in full and understood enough to have a discussion.

I used this every day during graduate school. Thanks for reporting

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

NYT, Page One:

“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”

@nytimes.com

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism"
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Hard to box breathe our way through this

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

Happy to be a Jumbo today

JFC, Fulbright scholar not accused of any crime, no immigration violation, no reason to expect any violence -- just Marco Rubio's whim -- and instead of summoning her first step is no-uniform / no-ID guys in masks and hoodies grabbing her off a public street.

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.