Justin Blumenstiel

Bluffs along the Little Missouri River near Wind Canyon. Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, 08 Aug 2014. #NationalParks

Bluffs along the Little Missouri River near Wind Canyon. Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, 08 Aug 2014. #NationalParks

Whoah. Today I learned.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoi...

Wait. Wut?

This whole "reasoning" thing is just smoke and mirrors.

YoU Can WatCh the MoDeL ReaSon wIth tHE text it sHoOts out! See! It is SMART.

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

Wegravy?

I think it is fair to say that one of the great achievements of web design in the past 20 years is getting rid of drop shadows on everything.

'sup fellow nerds! Does anyone know how well SPRI beads remove glycogen? Thanks!

You should listen to Chuck Todd on the Bulwark this past week.🤢

I think John is correct that, in the face of all this, if there is no pushback, then this will grow and grow like a monster. For someone in my position, I am going to strive to be on team pushback. Perhaps to some detriment. But I can take it.

We got to get these men to step up.

Things are complex, but this is a bummer:
Mom 1: "The fathers of her children aren’t involved in their lives, and she has little contact with them."
Mom 2: "she is cordial with the father of her 2 youngest, who takes the girls from time to time, but prefers to only ask him for money in an emergency"

Fuck all these Dem concern trolls. I am still a Warren superfan.

Programmed meiotic errors facilitate dichotomous sperm production in the silkworm, Bombyx mori The goal of meiosis is typically to produce haploid gametes (eggs or sperm). Failure to do so is catastrophic for fertility and offspring health. However, Lepidopteran (moths and butterflies) males pr...

So excited to share this preprint from the Rosin lab in collaboration with the Hawley lab and @eelcotromer.bsky.social on moth spermatogenesis! We investigate the meiotic errors that occur during the formation of apyrene sperm (that have no DNA) in silkworms!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

These two things can be true.

1. Because of 2, I do my best to follow 3.
2. I'm at my wits end because of all of it.

The strain on scientific publishing Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals.

The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky.

This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy.

1/n

I hate this unending slog of keeping track of this stuff. Drives me insane.

What, this is in Cell? I thought we already knew this???

Wow. THANKS.

I was hanging with some old friends from the town I grew up in last week and they all thought the Dire Wold de-extinction was real...

@aclukansas.bsky.social‬ Over past couple weeks, employees at K-state and KU received an email indicating it was mandatory to "remove gender identifying pronouns or gender ideology from email signature blocks..." per Kansas 2025 Senate Bill 125, Section 161. Is that law legal under the Constitution?

Scan of a 1929 American Weekly newspaper page with headline "Romantic Old Maids Can Hear the Words of Love They Long For" and subhead "Professor Wensley's 'Mechanical Man' Is Now So Well Perfected, the Obedient Robot Will Say Anything You Want Him To, Will Answer Questions to Suit You, and Put His Arms 'Round Your Neck"

AI fantasies from the last gilded era: "At the same time rate of progress... even a flattering [robot] admirer could be purchased who would whisper in a neglected wife's ear all the nice things a busy husband forgets to say" @bruces atemporality ia801608.us.archive.org/23/items/375...

Groundbreaking Vaccine Helps Young Elephants at Cincinnati Zoo Overcome Deadly Virus - Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden

You all know I'm a vocal critic of #ColossalBio and Ben Lamm for their deëxtinction #DisInformation, annoying y'all in the process! But I also give credit where credit is due, and a vaccine for EEHV is a *big* deal; Ceterum (autem) censeo deëxtinction esse delendam

cincinnatizoo.org/groundbreaki...

I've been wondering if there is some market for super cheap laptops that only have a text editor, but you can hook up to another computer with a cable to download files.

I would imagine something like that could be built for like 50 bucks.

Wowza!

"The Sequence that Destroyed Everything" and "The Catastrophe is Worse Than Initially Thought" sound like song names for post rock bands.

"For Frank, research on genetic recombination was a kind of pleasure machine for the brain."

Franklin William Stahl (1929–2025)

Obit for Stahl by Meselson:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks! I wonder that the typical grant percent is...maybe that is typical...But, if you had no grants, does that mean for that period of time you would be running on 10 to 30% salary?