Jonathan Eisen

More - Velella velella - By-the-wind Sailors - seen at Bodega Head in Bodega Bay, CA #hydrozoans

Blue blobby creature with a clear sail above the blob, resting on some sand

Velella velella - By-the-wind Sailor - seen at Bodega Head in Bodega Bay, CA #hydrozoans

For farms struggling with commercial bee loss, California native plants and bees could be key Research is showing that California native plants growing next to, say, avocado groves is good for the orchard and for all kinds of pollinators.

“California is home to 1,600 species of native bees — nearly 10% of the world's bee species …

But for decades, U.S. farms have relied on just one fragile species: the European honeybee.” 🧪

Brown pelican flying over white water. Wings outstretched.

Brown pelican flying with white water in background. Wings outstretched.

Brown pelican flying. Blurry ocean water in background.

Brown pelican flying. Wings outstretched up a little bit.

Pelicans are absolutely stunning creatures . Seen at Dillon Beach, CA. #Birds #California #Nature #Wildlife #Pelicans

Doctor Who Compared Pandemic Restrictions to Nazi Germany Gains Keys to the Vaccine Vault In the media’s rush to cover the nomination of Casey Means to the position of Surgeon General, one important name was neglected. Means, of course, deserves scrutiny as the co-shepherd of the Make Amer...

Describing Prasad as a “contrarian” is an understatement. For a less hagiographical profile of his actions during the COVID pandemic, see:

www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

YouTube video by Jonathan Eisen Sunset. Dillon Beach, CA

Sunset. Dillon Beach, CA

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YouTube video by Jonathan Eisen Sunset. Dillon Beach, CA

Sunset. Dillon Beach, CA

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Dillon Beach CA

I wish people cared about research more - this is devastating, and it should be a bigger story.

Virginia Giuffre: "She led me up a staircase and we made a right into Jeffrey's room and Jeffrey lying naked on the massage table, Jeffrey lifts his head up, looks at Ghislaine, Ghislaine looks at him... It turned very sexual and it was abuse, straight away, from both of them."

Pelican attack. Dillon Beach, CA.

65 Genomes Expand Our Picture Of Human Genetics Researchers closely examined the genomes of 65 individuals to paint a more complex, and more complete, picture of human genetic diversity.

Complete genomes alert! @glennislogsdon.bsky.social, @christinebeck.bsky.social, and I were on @scifri.bsky.social today talking about "Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes"
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📻 www.sciencefriday.com/segments/65-...

thx

Tern in flight facing to the left with a fish in its bill. White capped waves in background

Tern (Caspian I think) seen at #DillonBeach this AM. #birds

Detection of functional clusters (FCs) specific to the phenylalanine (PAL) and p-coumaroyltyramine (THT) pathways. Top left: Network depicting the relationship between transcripts and mass signatures within the PAL FC. Bottom left: Network illustrating the interplay between transcripts and mass signatures within the THT FC. Top right: Heatmap illustrating the expression levels of all transcripts within the PAL and THT FCs. Upper middle right: Heatmap displaying the abundance of all mass signatures present in the PAL and THT FCs. Lower middle right: Correlation matrix highlighting the correlations among transcripts and mass signatures within the PAL FC. Bottom right: Correlation matrix displaying the relationships between transcripts and mass signatures within the THT FC, including Mutual rank and transformed edge weights.

Elucidating #plant #Biosynthetic pathways: @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social @marnixmedema.bsky.social &co develop #MEANtools, an unsupervised computational workflow that integrates #MultiOmics data to predict #metabolic pathways by linking transcripts to metabolites @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4odL94g

<i>Sarcocystis</i> spp. Student guest post time! One of the assessments that I set for students in my ZOOL329 Evolutionary Parasitology class is for them to write a...

New student guest post on the Parasite of the Day blog!

This post was written by Hayley Doggen, and it's about Sarcocystis - a hidden danger in the meat of wild deer and feral pigs 🦌🐖 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/07/sarc...

Was thinking humpback but dont know whales well

Humpback whale seen surfacing in the water with a pelican flying nearby

BIg Mammal Sighting at Dillon Beach Just Now:

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

One of my favorite possessing. Got this VERY old negative from my mom of my great grandparents Bernard Axelrod and Ida Relles. This was taken when they lived in Lviv / Lwow in #Ukraine in the early 1900s.

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment - Nature Microbiology This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.

A little holiday news:

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.

Well, one outcome of the jeans ad contreoversy is that lots of geneticists can now say "I was googling Sydney Sweeney for work"

Shout out to the WSJ journalists who reported on Vought’s impoundment by footnote, causing the White House to walk it back. Impact journalism!!

Breaking: Vinay Prasad is out at FDA, following Sarepta decision and vaccine controversies FDA's CBER head Vinay Prasad exits agency after Sarepta gene therapy controversy and criticism over Covid vaccine decisions. Conservative media targeted his political views.

I hope this is because he’s way out of his depth, completely incompetent, and a menace to public health, and not because of Laura Loomer endpoints.news/vinay-prasad...

Well, at least there is some good news

Vinay Prasad departs the FDA A top FDA official is out after less than 3 months on the job.

#Breaking: Vinay Prasad, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, has suddenly departed after a series of controversial decisions about a treatment for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/v...

So, Columbia paid out $221M so that the Trump administration would resume payments on $400M in existing grants (i.e., signed work contracts) and so that Columbia could compete for future HHS/NIH awards.

Lucy didn't even wait a week before pulling up the football.

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social