Craig McCormick

THE DECAPITATOR

Tools

More tools!

Popped into the Halifax Tool Library and got myself a membership. What a fun space! So many tools! This is great.

Thanks @danp.net for the recommendation! First job, fix my kids’ Nintendo DS 😀

Golf course developer tees up another bid for West Mabou Crown land | CBC News The company behind the Cabot Links and Cliffs golf courses is taking a third swing at a potential development that would include part of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park. That land is protected by law...

Cabot’s third attempt to co-opt land that’s supposed to be protected is both unwelcome and unwarranted, prompted by nothing but unmitigated gall and greed.

We need the provincial government to have the wisdom and integrity to shut this nonsense down, before this terrible trilogy goes any further.

Diurnal rhythm causes metabolic crises in the cyanobacterial mutants of c-di-AMP signaling cascade Biological sciences; Biochemistry; Microbiology; PII-like protein SbtB; c-di-AMP signaling; Cyanobacteria; Carbon/Nitrogen metabolism; Redox imbalance; Photosynthesis; Reactive oxygen species (ROS); C...

A bit late 🙃 but happy to share our recent findings on #cdiAMP signaling in controlling #cyanobacteria #diurnal rhythm in @cp-iscience.bsky.social

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

#cdiAMP is involved in almost all cellular processes, explaining it's essentiality in #cyano
@hhu.de
@mibinet.bsky.social

Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

The EU plans a new AI strategy to cut its reliance on US and Chinese technology Brussels is preparing to launch a new AI strategy aimed at strengthening Europe's digital independence and reducing its reliance on the US and China.

8/Looks increasingly like Macron is not a one off but the start of a cascade. EU announces AI plan to reduce tech dependence.
the-decoder.com/the-eu-plans...

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Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

I support Alberta teachers!!!!
As do so many other Calgarians, apparently!
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Chelsea Gray has been magnificent in game 2. Look at the defense move with her on the 2nd angle. A basketball savant. #WNBASky

this isn't cute, actually! pizza huts only do this when they're extremely stressed

I think about all of the awesome Americans that I respect. Like you, Harmit.
You deserve better than these unscrupulous christofascist dimwits currently running the show.
They will overplay their hand, and they will lose.
Looking forward to toasting their failure with you someday soon!

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons @timothysnyder.bsky.social discussed in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Proud of these kids standing up to bullies.

Calgary students stage widespread school walkout to protest Alberta's transgender laws | CBC News Students across several Calgary high schools walked out of class Friday morning to protest the province’s three controversial laws affecting transgender people across health-care, education and sports...

Heroes!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This week's selection of articles and #preprints on #proteostasis thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social -- biomed.news/bims-proteo/...

Highlight: Translation landscape of stress granules www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam.
Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/...
Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010
#ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

Un-frigging-believable. I have waited for something like this for so long!

Biology - UMass Boston Biology - UMass Boston

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

Every bold urban transformation asks a question: what will people remember—the controversy or legacy?

Showing great leadership, Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak bet on the latter, replacing a motorway with a waterway.

Two decades later, absolutely no one regrets the decision or remembers the controversy.

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I can watch this clip thousands of time and still won’t be enough.

Adam van Koeverden telling like it is.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You. Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem.

New Blog Post:
Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.

pracheeac.substack.com/p/scholarly-...

Spurious Correlations Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.

Correlation is easy to show and can be spurious eg per capita margarine consumption correlates with divorces in Maine

GCN1 couples GCN2 to ribosomal state to initiate amino acid response pathway signaling During nutrient deprivation, activation of the protein kinase GCN2 regulates cell survival and metabolic homeostasis. In addition to amino acid stress, GCN2 is activated by a variety of cellular stres...

Beautiful reconstitution of amino acid stress-dependent ISR activation by my @harvardcellbio.bsky.social colleagues presenting a unifying mechanism for GCN2 activation, which requires ribosome collisions and is enhanced by cognate uncharged tRNA in the A site! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

GCN1 couples GCN2 to ribosomal state to initiate amino acid response pathway signaling During nutrient deprivation, activation of the protein kinase GCN2 regulates cell survival and metabolic homeostasis. In addition to amino acid stress, GCN2 is activated by a variety of cellular stres...

Ooohhh....GCN1 couples GCN2 to ribosomal state to initiate amino acid response pathway signaling | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our October issue is out now!

The images are negatively stained electron micrographs taken from archaella bundles isolated from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.

Check the issue out here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

View of a gravel crusher dust trail with green trees on both sides and fallen brown leaves along the trail. There is dappled sunshine on the trail.

First Wednesday of the month is when Bike Brigade Halifax delivers food boxes on behalf of the North End Community Health Centre. I did a long ride to do a delivery to Spryfield, an area I avoid because of its hostility to bikes. It wasn’t an unpleasant ride, though!

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McIntosh Run Community Trail Outdoor Adventures Near Halifax, NS

Fortunately, @terriclarke.bsky.social gave me a low-stress route & I got to ride the McIntosh Run community trail for the first time. Beautiful!

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The War on Cars 🤝 The War on Fascists