Rachel W. Martin

The concept of the Farcaster network abruptly being cut off and leaving people stranded on a different planent than their home, or trapped in the bathroom, which is on top of a mountain or under the sea, has lived in my head all these years. But otherwise, yeah.

I hadn’t made that connection, but yes!

Wow, look at these stones!

Tiffany! The people want Tiffany!

I can see why. Her fashion game was very strong.

Superstar

This is <exactly> why I never want to hear from James Carville ever again about the "faculty lounge." It feeds the far right authoritarian lies & the Herrenvolk democracy nonsense. No Democrat (or democrat) should use that language when discussing professors or universities ever again. Full stop.

Yale Chemistry had a couch in the women’s restroom. Definitely no one hung out there.

I can confirm. I bought the book and there has been a steady supply of lizards.

I'm in the "I suck, I suck, I suck" part of revisions, which I'm experienced enough to know happens every time before I figure things out and it doesn't suck anymore. Knowing that doesn't make this bit more fun.

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

LOTS of laundry product advertising is weirdly sexualized. I have questions. I do not want them answered.

I continue to be amazed by these guys. I remember when most of the New Caledonian geckos were the kind of thing where you might be lucky enough to see one at the zoo someday, and now you just have a bunch of them in your house. Captive breeding is awesome!

I'm just here to boost isopods. I currently travel too much for most pets, but my extremely low-maintenance isopod colonies give me a lot of joy. They are so busy! So much antenna-waving and bustling around.

They are perfect little spuds.

The sequencing of the future of the past.

real quick before bed, some training notes:

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I think I’ll probably eventually get him the same brand’s larger brushes if he keeps enjoying painting: honeysticks.com/products/hon...

I wrapped the handle in vet wrap for a comfy bite

So much left beef. So much.

Abstract submission open, The 65th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance (RMCMR) August 2-6, 2026, the Snowbird Resort & Conference Center, Snowbird, Utah, featuring EPR Symposium and Solid-state NMR Symposium

Abstract submission open, The 65th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance (RMCMR) August 2-6, 2026, Snowbird, Utah, featuring EPR & Solid-state NMR Symposia, submission deadline is April 24 for oral abstracts & May 15 for posters rockychem.com/conference/c... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

True, it does work out that way for some ppl.

The state of the crystallin is strong.

Thanks, John, but I don’t even want to listen to myself for that long. 25 minutes is just fine.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

I’m giving a talk at #BPS2026 about using genetic code expansion to make NMR samples of modified proteins. I can promise it will not be 2.5 hours long.

I’m also baffled about their expectations. I’m on here to have fun chatting and exchanging silly little jokes with interesting people. I don’t think it’s going to make me famous.

We teamed up with OpenFlower (@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social), a nonprofit creating designer flowers for art & education, to release 3 limited edition postcards! These flowers were powered by Whole Plasmid Sequencing from Plasmidsaurus.

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Nice! Which one is it?

Nuria Assa-Munt Honored with 2026 Rosalba Kampman Distinguished Service Award BETHESDA, MD – In a significant and well-deserved recognition, the Biophysical Society has announced that Nuria Assa-Munt, formerly of the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been awarded the prestigious Rosalba Kampman Distinguished Service Award for 2026. This accolade will be formally presented to Assa-Munt at the Society’s upcoming 70th Annual Meeting, scheduled to take place in San Francisco, California, from February 21 to 25, 2026.

Nuria Assa-Munt Honored with 2026 Rosalba Kampman Distinguished Service Award

BETHESDA, MD – In a significant and well-deserved recognition, the Biophysical Society has announced that Nuria Assa-Munt, formerly of the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been…

I do think keeping the journal functioning is important on its own, but I didn’t care for the implication that those doing anything public are just making noise while the serious insiders are getting things done (and they can’t be expected to tell us what it is.)

Now he has done it.

Holden Thorp set up a false dichotomy and irritated @cdelawalla.bsky.social regarding all of the balls she and @standupforscience.bsky.social have kept in the air while she was (checks notes) finishing her PhD.