Alister Burt

Feudalism Is Our Future What the next Dark Ages could look like

An insightful read. I hadn’t appreciated the links between feudalism and privatization. The author’s evocation of how future historians may look back on our era in that respect felt important, and a fruitful way to think, to me. I’m hopeful the pendulum will swing back towards effective government.

YouTube video by Novara Media American Big Tech Has Enslaved Us | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis

Thanks for sharing Alexis, reading now - huge +1 on Tom’s recommendation, Varoufakis is also excellent in podcast form

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We’ll have to compare, think mine is from the 70s

I’ll save your wallet by drip feeding recommendations going forwards 😂

Veeeery nice! Enjoy it

Don Fawcett’s big red book The Cell is available for free online!!

There are a bajillion cryo-ET projects in there, recommend a physical copy if you can find one - it’s my favourite coffee table book

Nice find!! Glad there’s a free digital copy out there - still recommend a physical copy if you can, I don’t have a coffee table but it’s my favourite coffee table book

A small group of us bought the few used copies available on Amazon UK a few years ago, got to watch supply and demand do its thing live - hope you can find one for a good price!

don’t have an answer for you but if you’re looking at cell tomograms often I can’t recommend Don Fawcett’s big red book The Cell highly enough - it’s a *beautiful* atlas of classic EM images

Oooh no, will take a look!

This is one thing the ML folks are doing right, the blog post + arxiv combo is all you (should) need, wish it was more normalised for bio too

Right! Anything powered by the source engine brings back such great memories 🥰

the GNE headcrab went for its latest victim today, a wild @sjorsscheres.bsky.social…

Thankfully @przemekdut.bsky.social was there to save the day!

A utopian future is still possible (just) Mainstream parties have stopped promising voters better lives

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Engineering substrate selectivity in the human sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) Iodide (I-) uptake mediated by the Na+/I- symporter (NIS) is the first step in the biosynthesis of the thyroid hormones, of which I- is an essential constituent. NIS couples the inward transport of I-...

1/9 🚀 Big news! As a result of 5 years of my PhD, building on a 30-year dream of my PI Dr. Nancy Carrasco, we think we've found a new way to treat cancer! We’ve released our preprint & I'm so excited to share this story! 🧵
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#Science #proteinengineering #proteindesing

Egg, meet chicken

so satisfying - question: are all the best microscopists Dutch?

YouTube video by Huygens Optics Exploring White Light Interferometry! (WLI / CSI)

Incredible video. I suspect I will end up watching every video on the channel.

YouTube video by Novara Media UK Set To Cave To Trump On NHS Drug Prices | #NovaraLIVE

It’s terrifying to watch the UK be so easily pushed into spending more on drugs…

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This has been a real pain point for Warp users since we moved to Linux, psyched to see it solved

Awesome work @hamid13r.bsky.social ! Thank you for taking the time to share your solution more widely :-)

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finally hit πthon

Check out our new preprint on an integrated pipeline combining in situ #cryo-ET with MALDI #MSImaging for single-cell identification and classification from previously analysed EM-grids.
Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amyloid reconstructions from cryoSPARC

Helical Reconstruction of Amyloids in cryoSPARC?
We present guidelines, limitations & future perspectives for processing amyloids in cryoSPARC @structurabio.bsky.social.
Great collaboration of the Kelly Lab and @landerlab.bsky.social #cryoEM #amyloid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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I don’t think they are exactly the same, just sometimes :-) simply saying that many people I admire have personalities people find grating/perceive as arrogant

you see lack of professionalism I see desire for authenticity and intellectual honesty

Sad news. Systemic change like this is needed, this a step backwards on the path to a slightly better world

“If you have a productivity problem, you’re either not annoyed enough, you’re annoyed by something you can’t actually control, or you’re annoyed in the bad way, the kind that makes you want to skip town rather than dig in.” this resonated most for me