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Purple-blue flowers with fancy yellow bits

Tradescantia occidentalis, our Western Spiderwort, blooming in my yard #nativeplants

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to June 5 🌿

#quiltsky, i'd be curious to learn how you all are using AI in your quilting design (eg hacking of pattern, fabric calculations, design....) - lets get the conversation going!

re #fifa 'peace prize' and who is expected to 'win' it: those of you who raised kids know the trick: - 'here is shiny new thing that is even BETTER than the shiny thing that for so many reasons you cannot have'..... sometimes works with 2-4 year olds. pathetic.

Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties The structure and interaction networks of molecules within biomolecular condensates are poorly understood. Using cryo–electron tomography and molecular dynamics simulations, we elucidated the structur...

@science.org 🧬🔬 Multiscale structure of #chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @janhuemar.bsky.social et al.

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A poster with branding for the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre fo Virus Research, labelled 'Virus Snowflakes.' The poster shows snowflake-like virus designs and song lyrics reading: On the twelfth day of Christmas, a virus gave to me, Twelve fights worth winning, Eleven Christmas dinners, Ten lunar landers, Nine childhood vaccines, Eight tools for teaching, Seven dogs a-barking, Six wasps a-laying, FIIIIVE TIIINY RIIIIIIINGS, Four vaccine platforms, Three genome segments, Two twinned capsids, and A world that is too small to see

Feeling festive?
Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases.
Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
#scicomm #sciart #decorations

you guys are so cute..... what is this word 'legal' that you are talking about... 😁

Pink and purple orchid with large white lip and yellow beard

Calypso bulbosa, our Fairy Slipper orchid, blooming on the Ceran St. Vrain trail #orchids #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 4 🌿

this finally will ensure him the #peace #nobelprize. Isnt this how it is generally works?

you couldnt make this up.

it is the season of giving.. maybe even to yourself! fantastic pieces!

my new go-to name for name-calling purposes.

Finally #snow in #colorado!!!

add my WTF to the collective. WTF.

if y'all arent follwing @frwildflowers.bsky.social you are missing out on fantastic #plant pictures native to #colorado.

Austria's rebel nuns refuse to give up Instagram to stay in their convent The trio of octogenarian nuns gained global fame after fleeing their care home and breaking into their former convent. Now their superior has asked the Vatican to intercede in the dispute.

you go girls! Austrian nuns raise a ruckus. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...

Yesterday was #WorldAIDSDay. It's the first time since its inception in 1988 that the US has not formally recognized it.

Large white four-petal flower with creamy anthers and a spider laying in wait for a pollinator

Oenothera caespitosa, our Tufted Evening Primrose, blooming with spider in Boulder Canyon #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 2 🌿

immigrants... get the job done!

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

and if your reply is #alphafold, i'd prefer an actual result thank you very much.

Question to y'all #protein experts: we used to do limited proteolysis, then N-terminal sequencing to see where domains are in proteins. no more N-terminal sequencing. 1) why doesnt anyone do Edman any more? 2) what is the most accurate / feasible / cost effective way to do this now?

David Baltimore obituary: virologist whose enzyme discovery transformed understanding of cancer and HIV/AIDS The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

The world has lost a giant of virology, molecular biology and science advocacy

David Baltimore’s obituary by Stephen Goff www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Poxvirus H5 mediates the formation of liquid-liquid phase separation condensates which promote virus factory assembly Author summary In this study, we investigate the role of a protein called H5 from the vaccinia virus in the formation of structures inside infected cells known as viral factories. These viral factorie...

And now confirmation of the liquid nature of viral factories for poxviridae.
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

i am here for this

Books We Love Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)

It’s officially Denver’s first snow of the season!

A whopping 0.2” at DIA = we’re on the board. First measurable snow since April 18 (225 days).

❄️ 2nd-latest first snow of the season (12/10/21).

❄️ 225 snowless days = T-3rd-longest snowless on record for Denver.

#COwx

Thank you!

All scraps and improv.,.. Had a pile is scraps in these colors and made 8 inch wide huedvpanels, then cut them into triangles. Trying not to rage while doing it. I think it will finish up well (only halfway done

Like I said, worlds going to shite but at least there are colorful #quilts to be worked on