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Breaking: Ken Starr endorses Santa’s ‘gay apparel’.

You’d know if you’d tasted it 😉

Vile.

Humans *are* amazing. One brief encounter with your NYC trash guy that reveals he composes concertos will spin your world view.

Beautiful, layered argument for the use of model organisms, especially small ones, in research. A must read!

..and we know the inherent danger of free radicals.

Wrapping up a great weekend of “Stem Cell Stories” at the Deutsches Museum.
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Happy to share that my PhD project is finally published!🪱✨
Selfish genes are found across the tree of life. They can disrupt inheritance patterns and at the same time act as units for molecular innovation. Here we tried to answer one big question: how do selfish genes emerge in the first place?

🪱 Selfish genes are everywhere and drive some of biology’s biggest innovations (CRISPR, antibody recombination, epigenetics). Yet almost no one asks the obvious question: how does a selfish gene begin? Our new manuscript uncovers how selfishness can emerge directly from the host genome.

My quote of the day

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

The hardest part about writing a review article, is composing emails to your colleagues that don't immediately get flagged as spam

#ProteomicSky

Maybe you know that we are not currently at war?😉

So happy to live among people who are not used to this.

The ‘prior era’ we’re currently attempting to survive?

Where were the media before this public, unintended exposure?

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How has this not already happened?

Wait…tax-free churches are selling health insurance?

🎯

Already happening. I just received a full-on denial of proposed routine health care from my work-based insurance.

Honestly, how are people with nothing to lose easier to control?

It’s already here. My work insurance declined all items of my proposed health care plan for routine procedures next year.

we’re all ‘wary Indians’ now. 😉

when?

Brooklyn celebrates from the Trader Joe site of Washington‘s former strategic perch!

Meanwhile, we’re still here & you aren’t preaching to a deaf choir 😉

I rely on his asking ‘Can I get away with it?’ to forecast US politics.

We do still expect better from each other.

In the spirit of our site host, ‘I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics’, the gaze has shifted from the mirror to its frame.