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Kuang To Investigate How Microbes May Rewrite Genetic Messages Carnegie Mellon University’s Zheng Kuang is exploring whether bacteria in the gut microbiota help decide which versions of a gene get activated.

Zheng Kuang is uncovering how gut microbes may influence which gene isoforms our cells use. Supported by a new grant from @hypothesisfund.bsky.social, his work could reveal new links between diet, the microbiome and disease, opening doors to novel RNA‑based therapies. 🧪 #Biology #MolecularBiology

#DarwinDay 🧪

"I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."
- Charles Darwin

Cheers for Team USA turn to jeers for Vance at Milan Cortina opening ceremony The vice president and his wife attended Friday's Olympic festivities in Milan, Italy.

Cheers for Team USA turn to jeers for Vance at Milan Cortina opening ceremony

ICE has repeatedly violated Colorado court order restricting arrests of immigrants, lawyers allege Federal immigration authorities have repeatedly violated a court order by continuing to “indiscriminately” arrest people in Colorado without warrants and without first checking if they&…

ICE has repeatedly violated Colorado court order restricting arrests of immigrants, lawyers allege

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How America’s EV retreat is increasing China's control of global markets U.S. automakers are pivoting away from EVs to refocus on gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs while Chinese manufacturers are expected to keep growing electric exports.

How America’s EV retreat is increasing China's control of global markets

Nearly 60% Of Voters Think Kristi Noem Should Be Removed After Minnesota Shootings Noem has received blowback for her response to fatal shootings by federal agents in Minnesota.

Noem has received blowback for her response to fatal shootings by federal agents in Minnesota.

What It's Really Like: A First-Hand Account of the Portland ICE Facility Occupation In Portland, members of the community have been standing up to ICE for most of Trump's second term so far.

"They laugh, gesture, taunt, and treat suffering like entertainment. They do not see the people out there as neighbors. They do not see themselves reflected in this community. They see an enemy. Meanwhile, the nightmares of this community now include their faces."

New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria While the New Mexico Department of Health said it cannot pinpoint the baby's exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy.

Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby's mother drank raw milk during pregnancy.

Surge of Democrats, women file to run for office in West Virginia’s 2026 primary election Democrats have filed to run for at least 85 of the 100 seats in the West Virginia House of Delegates and 17 of the 19 seats up for grabs in the Senate this year. The at least 125 Democrats running…

More than a 100 democrats have signed up to run for seats in the Republican-led West Virginia Legislature this year.

via @westvirginiawatch.com

Montreal Canadiens Hide From ICE Ahead of Minneapolis Game The NHL team is under a self-imposed lockdown in order to avoid the masked ICE agents roaming the streets of Minneapolis.

The Montreal Canadiens, who play in Minneapolis on Monday night, have been told to stay inside their hotel at all times, take the team bus rather than walk, and carry passports.

“Perhaps we shouldn’t be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics,” one Bluesky commenter wryly noted. trib.al/J3ldiJY

Opinion | Trump Has Overwhelmed Himself This is a presidency that is, by any measure, failing.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“This is a presidency that is, by any measure, failing,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes about the second Trump administration.

George Mitchell's name removed from scholarship programme amid Epstein files release The US-Ireland Alliance has unanimously agreed that its George J. Michell Scholarship program should no longer bear the former Senator’s name.

George Mitchell, WHO was honoured for his work in the Irish peace process, has been removed from a scholarship programme that bears his name due his links to the Epstein scandal.
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A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

Just moments ago the parkway was TAKEN OVER by winter cyclists. At first I thought hundreds, but they just kept coming. Thousands and thousands! I almost cried. I’m so dang proud of MN right now.

The director of Melania movie

Goldman: They’re still covering up, because only half of the documents have been released.

I don’t understand why they get to decide—without explanation—why half of the material should be held back. Trump’s name is all over it. So now we know why there was such a cover-up…

JD Vance @JDVance X.com Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it. 8:28 AM • 9/4/21

JD Vance in 2021:

Fresh cover-up accusations fly as girl claims Ghislaine Maxwell 'presented' her to Trump Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell “presented” an Epstein victim to President Donald Trump while at a party in New York City at an unknown date in an attempt to “effectively pimp her out,” ac...

Fresh cover-up accusations fly as girl claims Ghislaine Maxwell 'presented' her to Trump

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Peter Attia 1752 Niall Ferguson 59 HR McMaster 35 Janna Levin 27 Roland Fryer 9 Derek Thompson 6 Mark Hyman 5 Roger Carstens 3 Arthur Brooks 2 Reihan Salam 2 Elliot Ackerman 0 Masih Alinejad 0 Caroline Chambers 0 Clare de Boer 0 Andrew Huberman 0 Casey Lewis 0 Patrick McGee 0 Lauren Sherman 0

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

Jeffrey Epstein files: don’t be fooled. Millions of files are still unreleased | Moira Donegan Federal prosecutors had identified 6 million files that were ‘potentially responsive’ to the law, but only released 3.5. Why?

Jeffrey Epstein files: don’t be fooled. Millions of files are still unreleased | Moira Donegan

The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaging the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Then, on January 24, history repeated itself far too quickly: Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis.

What followed was an instant smear campaign against Pretti. We’ve seen this before. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

1-28-26 Fulton Warrant

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document.

Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said.

As mayor, Eric Adams embraced a secretive, abuse-ridden police unit called the Community Response Team.

One of the unit's leaders, Kaz Daughtry, once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him.

He's now joining Trump's DHS, @nytimes.com reports.

Revisit our investigation:

The son of a veteran who died in 2024 says Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was his dad's ICU nurse and read out a final salute after his father's death.

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work.

One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

Heroes in our midst!

As described this 16” x 20” linocut print combines gold text in a central circle reading “OUR FATE” arching upwards, “IS TIED” horizontally across the middle, “TO THAT OF THE INSECTS” arching downwards in two lines with insects. Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), the Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Virgin Tiger moth (Apantesis virgo), an Isabella’s Longwings butterfly (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), a blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), a firefly (Photinus pyralis), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a white underwing moth (Catocala relicta), an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.), a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta).

Day 22 #artAdventCalendar my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda I made for Manufactured Ecosystems. 🧪🐡🐝 Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators with 🧵

Scientists make groundbreaking discovery about crops grown near solar panels: 'A significant impact' One of the key challenges of agrivoltaic projects has been limiting the impact of shade on crops grown near solar panels.

#solar
#environment
#agriculture
#energy
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“ … scientists have discovered that, by placing solar panels at least eight meters (about 26 feet) apart, they can optimize both crop production and electricity generation”