Justin Blumenstiel

For you... @johnlogsdon.bsky.social

Warning notice on the side of a jumbo pack of clingfilm: CAUTION: CUTTING EDGE IS VERY SHARP

Spare us the cutter!

It's a solid commitment to listen in one block. But worth it over a period.

Have you listened to her United States Live?

It's so freaking great.

"He said, you know, to be really safe you should always carry a bomb on an airplane. Because the chances of there being one bomb on a plane are pretty small. But the chances of *two* bombs are almost minuscule."

Shortbread data. Delicious, but useless here.

Another great and hilarious line from that album (to me at least):

"Thanks for showing me your... swiss army knife "

Keep going until you hit the place where they're thinking of building that drive-in bank.

You can't miss it.

I am convinced that we have massively underestimated the impact of substitution reversions on the amount of molecular positive selection that we are able to see. Large populations will readily have reversing mutations readily available, and gene flow will also reintroduce ancestral alleles.

So, we have an unhealthy fixation with fixation?

Hopefully, this will be an effective wedge in these conversations. Crossing fingers.

Call your Reps and senators in both parties--so many folks threatened with devastating cost hikes in health insurance--they're wavering

I'll freaking take it. Gonna try to use it as a wedge with Senator Moran's office tomorrow. We'll see...

Druggable Pockets. Digable Planets.

It's grad school application season! My lab (cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ ) will be recruiting a PhD student via the MPS program at MSU (mps.natsci.msu.edu) for Fall 2026.

Happy to take inquires via email (which can be found in the lab website) if you are applying this cycle.

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For goodness sake, they should show it in schools.

"Don't be a sucker" would be a good campaign slogan

This is a brilliant video. Thanks!

Amazing opportunity!

Walked up to the gas station to get breakfast tacos from the food truck & passed a man in his 70's walking a grey-muzzled mutt, both moving slow.

A little boy, probably 5-6, was shouting to him in Spanish about a bug he found and for a moment, the world seemed like a bright & wonderful place.

we don't need AI when content like this exists

and scene

I’ve fallen into Sora’s slippery slop AI Altmans as far as the eye can see.

I’m having a hard time understanding how offering people the option of making deepfakes of each other is attractive or sustainable, but there’s also a racialized and gendered piece of this that’s mostly ignored. Sam Altman is at no risk for the proliferation of fake videos depicting him doing crime.

Wow, Brian! What a service! Thank you!!!

Webpage on the hidden curriculum of applying to ecology and evolution grad programs in the US (a lot of the info applies to other fields too, but perhaps less well): applyingtoeeb.info

#AcademicSky 🧪

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Find an event near you:
www.nokings.org#map

Damn straight Kansas people! BE THERE!

TEtrimmer: a tool to automate the manual curation of transposable elements - Nature Communications Transposons are repetitive DNA sequences that are hard to identify and map accurately. TEtrimmer automates key manual steps, enabling faster and more reliable annotation of transposable elements in any genome.

Thrilled to share that our TEtrimmer paper has just been published in Nature Communications! A big thank you to all collaborators — the article is now online ;)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Maybe in the end, all things on screens will turn into pure sewage and the whole thing will just collapse into itself?

This social app can put your face into fake movie scenes, memes and arrest videos The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.