J. Harry Caufield

I didn't know they canonically so short

What are the Mighty Mighty Boss Bones?

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Who is Ellen Barkinetic?

What is expired soup coupons?

Judge orders Trump administration to restore more than $500 million in research funds to UCLA The decision marked a major win for the beleaguered UC system, which is facing a $1 billion demand to restore the funding.

Good news, for now
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

What are "small ones"?

What is Gopherholma?

What is "30 Rock (under layers of soil and loam)"?

What is a drawing class?

What was the Y2K Bun?

What is a schism?

Palimpsest - Album by Lauren Bousfield | Spotify Lauren Bousfield · album · 2020 · 13 songs

Music for today is Lauren Bousfield - Palimpsest open.spotify.com/album/34Vo08...

What is a prying buttress?

What is a chicken, operated in the manner of a fiddle?

What is a Catastrophic Hybrid of Ecological Entropy and Kinetics?

A use case for Vibrio phages? That is, if we aren't worried about seeding the oceans with exogenous viruses

What is "you live in my walls, and hear all my calls, Information Rat, Information Rat"?

What is the Information Uterus?

NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA Move follows Trump administration finding that school didn’t effectively combat antisemitism

"The suspended NSF grants, a list of which Science obtained from an agency source, span work from computer science and plasma physics to the measurement of volatile compounds created by this year’s Los Angeles fires." By @dangaristo.bsky.social in @science.org 🧪

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I can’t begin to enumerate the ways the Corporation for Public Broadcasting made my life better, literally from my earliest memories until today. This is gut wrenching.

What is Greg?

What is bathtub gin?

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

more than a year ago, the lancet put this out, now seemingly lost to the collective memory: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I am arguing that your work is not Findable if it is named SPARK or ADVANCE etc. (no judgement if it is! I know these things are collective decisions anyway)

If you work in the sciences and are hesitant about using generative AI, let me suggest this minimal application: please please use it to make a unique, searchable name for your next project

Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.

The 2010 paper claiming arsenic-based life has been retracted by Science today. 🧪

NIH staff are being required to fully fund ~ 50% of their grants. This means that all 4 years of an award will be paid out of this appropriation. This will help them get the appropriated funds spent, but will mean they can only fund (1/2 + 1/4*1/2) = 5/8 has many grants as they would have otherwise.

@bosc.bsky.social begins at #ismb2025 !

Amos Bairoch stands at a podium in front of presentation slides at ISMB2025

One big help: ontologies! #ismb2025