Leigh Anne Riedman

Federal ICE Agent Pepper Sprays Person in Face in Santa Barbara Eastside Incident A masked federal agent wearing a vest labeled “police” pepper sprayed a person in the face at close range Wednesday morning on Santa Barbara’s Eastside.

www.noozhawk.com/federal-ice-...

Oh man, the southerner (Louisiana) and southern Californian in me is worried about the spiders in those awesome clogs!

Prevalence and Evolutionary Implications of Genome Rearrangements in Bacteria Abstract. The genetic material of bacteria and archaea is organized into various structures and set-ups, attesting that genome architecture is dynamic in t

Paper alert 🚨 @lbobay.bsky.social and I explored the prevalence and potential drivers of genome rearrangements in bacteria.
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

I think I'd be a lot less annoyed if 2factor didn't require use of my personal phone. If my employer wants 2factor, then they need to supply the second device, not rely on me to foot that bill

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Seeking candidates for a PhD/postdoc opportunity via IMPACT+ program in protistology+aquaculture in Halifax.

For more info, contact me by Feb 5th or see:

slamo.biochem.dal.ca/call-for-app...

#aquaculture #microsky #marinelife #protistsonsky #microalgae #protists

Opinion | I'm a pro-family conservative. Here's why I'm ok with Trump being best friends with a pedophile, Elon Musk creating a mountain of kiddie porn, and ICE abducting five-year-olds.

to make everything about Tolkien, as is my wont, this is definitely akin to the repeated theme in his works of living with real and justified and meaningful hope while knowing that there is much darkness we have to travel through to see that hope realized

living in a state of short term pessimism, medium term realism, and long term optimism is confusing to the psyche.

Yes we do!

He's about to yell "PARKOUR" and ricochet off the railing to jump at you

Hypothetical scenario of eukaryogenesis.

Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The findings imply a model of eukaryogenesis in which key features of eukaryotic cell organization evolved in the Asgard lineage leading to the LECA the last eukaryotic common ancestor.

"Every bombed village is my hometown" - James Baldwin And every dead child is my child. Every grieving mother is my mother. Every crying father is my father. Every home turned to rubble is the home I grew up in. Every brother carrying the remains of his brother across borders is my brother. Every sister waiting for a sister who will never come home is my sister. Every one of these people are ours, Just like we are theirs. We belong to them and they belong to us.

I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.

I have been so productive today, dealing with some of the most unpleasant household stuff like scrubbing out litter boxes.

Yes, I do have paper revisions and responses to reviewers due soon, why do you ask?

“I have no beliefs! Vote for me!”

Now I need to go watch the 1986 classic film, Labyrinth.

These Deep-Sea Creatures Liked You on Hinge Black seadevil anglerfish Twenty-five-years-old, monogamous, wants children What I’m looking for: A confident, independent female roughly twenty ti...

SEA LAMPREY
(Four hundred fifty million years old)

I go crazy for: Blood

Change my mind about: Blood

I want someone who: Blood

Assistant professor in botany job description for University of Northern British Columbia

Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions.

unbc.njoyn.com/CL/xweb/xweb...

🧪🌱 #botany

a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed ALT: a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed

📢 Open faculty position – Origins of Life
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀

SPREAD THE WORD

Apply here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

Two king cakes, which are ring shaped yeasted cakes decorated in stripes of purple, gold and green colored sugar on top of white cream cheese frosting (not pictured, small ceramic crowns hidden in the cakes)

Feels weird to post silly stuff right now, but maybe doing so is a little act of defiance? I'll keep working on that idea, but in the meantime here are the first king cakes of the season!

Illustration of gene flow along the succession of events leading from a simple archaeal ancestor through the more complex Asgard intermediate capturing the proto-mitochondrial alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont to the LECA. The wide coloured shape denotes the dominant trend of the origin of eukaryotic genes from Asgard ancestors, with light blue portions corresponding to archaeal evolution and the light brown portion to the evolution of protoeukaryotes starting with the alphaproteobacterial endosymbiosis. The purple arrows denote the smaller, piecemeal contributions of gene influx from various bacteria that are posited to have been occurring at all stages of the depicted evolutionary scenario.

Asgard archaea may have facilitated the evolutionary development of the mitochondria via endosymbiosis of α-proteobacteria at some point between the first eukaryotic common ancestor (FECA) and the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA)! 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A black cat sitting upright in a cardboard box.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a box divested of its contents must be in want of a cat.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social you're working on a new food pyramid episode, right?

Tenure-track Asst Prof Position in Geophysics at Columbia University. Apply by 31 January. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

Congrats Lucy! Looking forward to reading it!

Were Earth's deep oceans better oxygenated during the Tonian than later in the Neoproterozoic? New thallium isotope data suggest they were. Check out our new paper in Geology:
doi.org/10.1130/G536...

Professurship (W2) in Microbiology - Regensburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Universität Regensburg | 12851113 UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   The Faculty of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine invites applications for a   Professurship (W2) in Microbiology   To be...

A new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Microbial eukaryotes keep challenging assumptions about eukaryotic cell and genome biology.

Our upcoming workshop explores the frontier of protist genomics and how it shapes cell biology, ecology and evolution.

Please save the date! Talks, posters and ECR events

Websites and details coming soon

Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center.

We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

So it's ok for one country to go into another country and arrest its leader for criminal activity that hurts people.

Canada has the chance now to do the funniest thing ever.