Bruce Hamilton

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Oh and there's a bigger talking point. I haven't done all the states but I'm looking at a FY2024 contribution to the NIH that ranges from $64 per person from Alabama to $193 dollars per person from Massachusetts. $180 from California, $170 NY, $116 Tx, $98 North Carolina. a bargain at the price.

ON MASS INTERACTING WITH A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD

R. Robertson et al
J. Psychophysics, 1968

Washington Post: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
Also Washington Post: “Turn out the lights.”

Name a colleague you admire for their rigor.

Or the people who have literally profited the most from society could pay their taxes to ensure its continuation.

Snow Drought in the West Reaches Record Levels

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/s...

I love the graphic explainer below. Essentially the same argument as “Persuasion in Parallel” (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...): People generally respond to information in the same direction, starting from where they are. Every nudge in the right direction helps bend the moral arc toward justice.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.

This can't be "reformed"

Fremdscham

No one is above the law. Secretary Noem abused her power, violated the Constitution, and put Americans in danger. I'm supporting the articles of impeachment to remove her from office.

Yo' momma's so stupid she's lettin' folks tell her what her own eyes are seein'.

Alex Pretti's gun is like Renee Good's car: irrelevant to the central fact that they were murdered by ICE. ICE wants us to debate whether Pretti should have been carrying because that avoids the central fact. Pro-carry, anti-carry--that has as much to do w/ his murder as his fashion choices. Zero.

The cerebellum does everything.

Although it is less aesthetic, it is less functional.

Big Dog on Campus.
@ucsandiego.bsky.social
#Revelle earlier today

Generalized transduction by P22 within Salmonella might be earliest, Zinder and Lederberg 1952. Conjugation transfer by high frequency recombination strains was about the same time, much of it by Esther Lederberg. Transduction between (whatever one means by) species by at least late 60s.

Phage transduction would be another early example, but I would have to look up first examples. If somatic transfer qualifies, sarcoma virus, Rous 1911?

Depends on how you define terms. One could argue Griffiths 1928 for transfer between strains or Avery MacLeod & McCarty 1944 for purified DNA source. Cohen and Boyer for a synthetic DNA.

Dr. King did amazing things, but often we only talk about his successes. Dr. King also had some "failures", and they are important to discuss because we often learn a great deal from failure. And failure can inform or grow a movement, like Albany, Georgia's failure did for Dr. King. /1

North Minneapolis ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van A family was caught in clashes between protesters and law enforcement during protests in north Minneapolis, leading to three of their six children, including a 6-month-old baby, being hospitalized.

Unbelievable. 3 small children were hospitalized after ICE deployed tear gas and flash bangs on nearby protesters. ICE is totally out of control and Congress must immediately rein them in. 1/2

Santayana quote.

What exactly—and I realize there may be more than one right answer—is wrong with people?

Screenshot showing current temperature 72F

You know, January.

Someone said something interesting to me recently: "In my field almost everyone uses bioRxiv. If someone publishes a paper without putting it on bioRxiv first, I immediately wonder if they having something to hide."

I miss boring.

But do you teach studnets? Apparently I do.

Good luck, Michelle