Markus Deserno

Happy 94th Birthday to 🇺🇸American composer, conductor and pianist #JohnWilliams KBE born #OnThisDay in Queens, New York City

I have 3 Excel sheets open, none bigger than 30kB. How is it that Excel uses 1,6GB of memory? How, Microsoft??? How have you become SO BAD at efficient programming that I need 20,000 times the memory of the Apollo Guidance Computer, which landed on the moon, to collate student grades? DO BETTER!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Like not understanding the difference between a radio and a station.

You missed 4 zeros.

Need to get rid of all that ICE.

I appreciate the addition of Pluto. 💪

Don’t you think that’s a little dangerous?

Doesn’t look particularly wet to me.

Awesome colleague alert!
One day, @bridgesbio.bsky.social might save your life by disrupting bacterial communication and behavior. No need to kill your enemy—just confuse the heck out of them!

Many have already shared this powerful image by MJ.Hiblen, over on Insta under www.instagram.com/mjhiblenart/. It really makes me well up. May Renée and Alex rest in peace. 💔

Because of the victims.

Just like I don’t want to go to war zones to bear witness to atrocities first hand, I don’t want to watch snuff videos to confirm that ICE is executing protestors in broad daylight. I want professional journalists to do that. And I don’t want them to both-sides the content. DO YOUR JOB!

Martens, Turkowyd, Hohlbein, and Endesfelder would politely disagree! 🧪

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

Oh, apparently just one day.
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Vibrant color portrait of Jane S. Richardson, the visionary biophysicist and artist who revolutionized structural biology with her invention of ribbon diagrams. She gazes warmly at the camera with a bright, knowing smile that radiates quiet brilliance and decades of curiosity. Her silver-blonde hair woven with gentle waves. Large, elegant dangling earrings catch the light, and she wears a richly patterned brown blouse embroidered with intricate turquoise paisley motifs and delicate beadwork that echoes the molecular elegance she has spent her life depicting. Behind her floats a luminous, dreamlike backdrop of glowing molecular structures--interlocking hexagonal and ribbon-like forms in electric blues, teals, and greens--blending science and art in a single, living canvas.

Hand-drawn and hand-colored (by Jane Richardson) scientific artwork known as a Richardson ribbon diagram (or “ribbon model”), one of the iconic visual inventions of Jane Richardson that transformed the way we see and understand protein structures. A graceful, three-dimensional tangle of protein backbone ribbons twists and spirals through space, rendered in soft pencil lines and luminous watercolor hues. Smooth golden-brown coils represent α-helices that curl like elegant ribbons, while broad teal-green arrows trace the flat, pleated strands of β-sheets slicing through the molecule with directional purpose. Thin, looping golden threads connect the secondary structures, creating a delicate, almost dance-like choreography of biology’s hidden architecture. The entire form is framed by a simple olive-green mat and dark border, giving the drawing the quiet dignity of both fine art and precise scientific illustration—a timeless bridge between molecular reality and human imagination.

Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941

+ Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures)
+ MacArthur Fellow, 1985
+ Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991
+ President, Biophysical Society, 2012

#WomenInSTEM

So you’re saying Byron was the Malcolm Gladwell of the day? 🤔

Ooh, a rare picture of Evans without a cigarette!

How long until the word “appear” disappears? Not holding my breath.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.

When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL

I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.

The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Anyways—enjoy the festivities!

Maybe redefine ℏ = h / 2πi ?

Maybe the minus sign is on the back? 🤔

Stay strong! I am so sorry and worried about y’all!

Agree on the inks! And the Lamy Al-Star is also an immensely solid choice!