Bryan Gibb

DNA replication initiation timing is important for maintaining genome integrity | Journal of Bacteriology The regulation of DNA replication is fundamental to cell growth and cell cycle control. In eukaryotes, under-initiation or over-initiation leads to genome instability. In bacteria, it is unclear how c...

DNA replication initiation timing is important for maintaining genome integrity | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.

Maybe I’m weird, too. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Can’t help but think there might be a relationship between people complaining about paywalls and newspapers being bought by billionaires. We should be willing to pay for news because that’s how journalists get paid.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Since there is talk about bringing back ASBESTOS (this is somehow true), I thought it would be useful to describe just some what happens to you when you breath this stuff into your lungs.

In short, it’s terrible.

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@nytimes.com probably: Human sacrifice, Muslims and Jews riding bikes together, mass hysteria! bsky.app/profile/zohr...

Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches We established a research-education partnership known as EvolvingSTEM that provides secondary school students the opportunity to conduct authentic research experiments centered on microbial evolution....

Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team.

Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵

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Just brigading our fellow science stans here.

Thx @erictopol.bsky.social for sharing @holdenthorp.bsky.social for laying out what's at stake in our battle to stop the Trump regime from privatizing the Federal government: EVERYTHING.

#StandUpForScience
#StopTrump

More US scientists must speak out Nature Human Behaviour - The Trump administration has launched an extraordinary and dangerous attack on US science. Climate and water scientist Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and...

Just released. My Nature piece:

"Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault...
History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists...

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I think if we just started calling raw milk what it really is, poopy milk, people would maybe stop thinking it’s some sorta miracle elixir.

This is what a Cold Air Front looks like from Space

Zoom in on the Andromeda Galaxy with Hubble. What looks like a smudge of light to the unaided eye is actually a vast galaxy containing an estimated 1 trillion stars.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

YouTube video by Periodic Videos Chicken Leg in Piranha Solution - Periodic Table of Videos

"Periodic Videos" on YouTube has done several videos demonstrating the piranha solution on candy, flowers, but I think my favorite is the raw chicken leg demonstration, which dissolves down to the bone.

There's a delay, or induction period, but then the reaction goes to town.

I, for one, am glad that the ‘national security’ threat used to justify US tariffs on China has clearly been resolved so quickly.

This is brilliant, 90 to 100 percent of the class started wearing masks after playing the game.

This is important when expecting others to resist.

We all experiencing different levels of precarity, and of different kinds. Some of us can retire at this moment, many of us can't. Some have family with identities being targeted, some don't. Some are more mobile than others.

Traumatic brain injury is an area of scientific study that barely existed 20 years ago, and the knowledge we’ve gained in that short time alone has led to multiple paradigm shifts that can prevent disabilities and even prevent major tragedies. The knowledge we will lose out on will harm generations.

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service) Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.

Cuts to NOAA funding threaten our ability to predict and monitor hurricanes and tornadoes—putting lives and communities at risk. But NOAA’s work goes far beyond weather. Guest blogger Dr. David Shiffman shares 10 vital but lesser-known roles NOAA scientists play.

4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence

4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence
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Jalen Hurts and other Eagles are not attending White House celebration with Donald Trump Hurts had been noncommittal about joining his Eagles teammates at a White House celebration of their Super Bowl victory.

Jalen Hurts won’t join his teammates when they celebrate their Super Bowl victory at the White House Monday with President Donald Trump, an administration official told The Inquirer.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Being able to build simple tools has been so empowering. Here is a reproduction of Jacques Monod's 1942 PhD thesis on diauxic shifts using my handmade turbidometers. Ultra clean signal showcasing textbook catabolic repression, using his exact media. Delighted to share these tools with y'all. 💚

It's #DNADay. Time to get out these awesome PhaseGenomics socks to celebrate. BSingletons

This is why I find the on/off view of biology so preposterous. It’s always a gradient, a chance that enzyme will meet a substrate, a chance that sigma factor will encounter a free promoter, etc.