Benoit Bruneau

AAAHHHHHHHHH

didn't expect the slamming on the oven ceiling

The lawn chair knocked over meme. Green lawn, white chair and table, one is knocked over. Text “the great Nebraska earthquake of 2026 we will rebuild”

We survived a 4.0+!

Column | What science says we’ve been getting wrong about exercise Doctors and physiologists point to studies that show tiny, regular bursts of effort — like climbing a few stairs — can capture many of the benefits of the gym.

I like this article because my house has 65 steps, from driveway to bedroom. Fifty from home office to the top. Often I forget my keys upstairs... back up I go! So maybe that's all I need: live at home, forget stuff, up for dinner, down and back up after. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

This is brilliant

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

"a striking departure from usual...", "highly unusual...", "against usual norms", "going against tradition": can there be a harder set of terms to not gloss over illegal and amoral behaviour by certain individuals?

explosion sounds around here. Anyone know what this is?

Sleepy owl found resting among items on a New York antique store shelf Shoppers in upstate New York month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: a live owl resting peacefully among items on a shelf.

Who?

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

I already need a change of subjects from politics so here it is, Clingy Dogs.

Tony

It feels noteworthy that even one of the most bombastic companies in one of the most smoke-and-mirror-filled industries was still like ‘Whoa, it’s not ready for THAT’.

The Lancet is not holding back in its latest issue.

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm."

👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@thelancet.com

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Incredibly proud to share our new preprint, lead by the Incomparable Rithika Sankar.
Here we temporally dissect the role of FACT in mES cells, finding that FACT loss drives progressive deterioration of chromatin architecture, leading to transcriptional collapse.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Is that an actual Claude response or a real human?

If only I could also order ice cream. Will have to make a trip to Somerville soon. Maybe my sabbatical will be slinging cones

Where Mark is Robert Fripp and Florian is Danny Carey

Want now

We wrote a piece on how easy it is to write gene regulatory sequences. - Turns out, it isn't that easy even though we know a lot about cis-regulation.

huge credit to @carldeboer.bsky.social to seeing this through so our thoughts aren't lost. I promise, it's a worthwhile read!

Those are some cold cold cold people.

There should always be more ducks

Look, I don't know if this is true... I just want it to be

So tired of this, and the anxiety it brings

Toad, ever the pessimist, tells Frog in the windy meadow that he wants to give up on the kite. From "The Kite" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

Toad ran back to Frog.

“Frog,” said Toad, “this kite will note fly. I give up.”

I can't and I'm crying just thinking about it. She's so beautiful and so was my Tanya

I can't be the only one who is made /uncomfortable/ by the way that razor clams burrow into sand, right?

The final moments of this video by Kate Crump on the Oregon coastline are sort of the crowning glory of horror. 😬

But how does this even work?
Let's talk about bivalve mobility (if we must).

Gracie’s Ice Cream: Here for you when you fall.