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In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...
NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week
the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪
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Rick Scott: "Is it gonna be easy to get the Strait or Hormuz open? It never was gonna be easy."
(The Strait was open just fine two weeks ago!)
For the night is dark and full of RNAses
In 2023, there was not a single day until spring where WindWaterSolar met >100% of demand for part of the day.
During winter 2026, so far there are already 45 of 68 such days (66%), and 18 straight.
And gas use is now down 60% vs '23
Solar up 61%, batteries up 322% vs '23
No state in the country has enough affordable homes, but California is one of the worst off: Only Oregon and Nevada have fewer available homes per household. bit.ly/4byZ4gV
📸 Larry Valenzuela
FIRE RFK JR
A win for academic freedom.
Being a professor is a tough job because we have a lot of competing pressures, but remember that we have an obligation to govern ourselves.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Lab logo facelift to better reflect our research focus. More about our lab here: bibellab.lmu.build
BREAKING: For the first time in 35 years the Ig Nobel ceremony will move to Europe. "There are no immediate plans to return the ceremony to the US."
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Food for thought for conference steering committees.
The Trump admin tried to use emergency rulemaking to erase the Board of Immigration Appeals, requiring that basically all appeals (which cost $1,000 to file!) be summarily dismissed without any review.
Thanks to our @immcouncil.org legal team and others, the rule is now BLOCKED!
"Russian flu," the pandemic that hit in 1977, bears an evolutionary signature of having emerged from a lab, perhaps as part of a failed vaccine effort. Covid, mpox, Ebola, and other influenza pandemics don't. Here's my story on a new way to trace the origins of pandemics. Gift link: nyti.ms/46N0W33
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
Fossil gas use for electricity down 59.5% in 2026 versus 2023 in the world's 4th-largest economy.
16th-straight and 43rd of 66 days in 2026 with >100% WindWaterSolar on California's main grid
Fossil gas use continues to plummet as solar & batteries rise
Adding link here, in case the above link doesn’t work for some.
www.warpnews.org/energy/ukrai...
Happy to share our new preprint on the mechanism of human tRNA 3' CCA maturation! This project was spearheaded by Bernhard Kuhle in my group, with contributions from many others and a great collaboration with the group of Peter Rehling (UMG). See highlights below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Georgia Democrats are running in 204 state legislative races, contesting 88% of House seats and 82% of Senate seats – Democrats’ highest number of qualified candidates and contested seats in at least three decades, according to the state party
Latham & Watkins LLP 🤮
Process in haste, repent at leisure.
On my way to DC and looking forward to this exciting mini-symposium! #ASBMB26
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
We are being governed by gangsters.
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Does he have to dress like a chef all the time everywhere he goes, like the Mandalorian of gastronomy
Today, I voted against H.Res. 1099, a Republican resolution that contains inaccuracies and is designed to justify the President's actions in Iran.
