Leslie Newcombe

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful!

here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

Vigil planned in Toronto for Alex Pretti, Minnesota nurse fatally shot by ICE agent - NOW Toronto A candlelight vigil is being held in Toronto to honour an American nurse killed after being shot by a U.S. federal immigration agent.

A candlelight vigil is being held in Toronto on Tuesday to honour an American nurse killed after being shot by a U.S. federal immigration agent, as outrage and grief, including among Canadians and health-care workers, continue to grow. #AlexPretti

nowtoronto.com/news/vigil-p...

he was murdered for doing public health

The most important public health story right now in America is that the Trump administration is executing people in the streets, it is kidnapping people of all ages, including 2-year-olds, it is torturing them, & it is putting them in concentration camps where many have been killed or “disappeared”

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I am David Herzberg, historian of drugs and psychoactive pharmaceuticals in America, here to talk about the opioid crisis and its prehistories. Author of Wh... Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

Another #AMA appears #Skystorians! We're joined by David Herzberg, historian of drugs and psychoactive pharmaceuticals in America, here to talk about the opioid crisis and its prehistories. An incredible chance to come ask all your #History questions!
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Figure 1: The Rothman-Dahly Evidence Pyramid (original version) An equilateral triangle with a small blue section labelled "Thoughtful, well-conducted studies of any design" at the top, with the remaining space colored red and labelled "The other shit"

‪It has a name now 😜

Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.

✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...

✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/

If you’re interested in how gen A.I. is affecting academic publishing,

How’d you like to browse my new collection of gen A.I. images in journals?

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A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.

Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...

Nothing feels as intimate as getting a reviewer who understood exactly what you were trying to hide

wake up babe new phil trans cover just dropped.

The end of an era! May I suggest Mycobacterium leprae?

Exciting to see you in this neck of the woods (apologies for the unseasonable snow!)

DAY 144
SPECIES 144 - Klebsiella pneumoniae
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Watercolor + paper

K. pneumoniae has been demonstrated to increase crop yields in agricultural conditions.

#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint

Back in the late twelfth century Al-Baghdadi saw your post about how ancient aliens built the pyramids and is embarrassed for you.

Day 22, GOAT. The most iconic (if not the greatest phage of all time) in terms of looks are myovirus like phages. They look like a lunar lander and are instantly recognisable as a virus. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: MegaThread: Truth, Sanity, and History Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

@askhistorians.bsky.social has shared a few META posts in the past year that are relevant for #NoKings

"[Geenbaum] represented what everyone should strive to be: an obstacle, however small and seemingly inconsequential, in the path of fascism."

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two men are pushing a small boat through the water . Alt: Three young men are on a rowboat when it capsizes and then they salute as the ship sinks

Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN.

Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?

Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)

We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
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US will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday that it will not enforce key provisions of a rule issued in December by former President Joe Biden's administration that require...

There's a lot happening but this shouldn't get overlooked: The Trump administration is walking away from Biden-era rules requiring airlines to pay for damaged wheelchairs / mobility devices.

This move is cruel, dangerous & unjustified

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I made that mistake with A Song of Ice and Fire - you can imagine my consternation as I neared the end of the last book with no conclusion in sight...

I am a well educated, pretty media literate person whose job it is to be professionally annoying. I cannot figure out if my cancer medication, which costs $17k a month (I do not pay anything thanks to a combo of insurance/access programs), is going to be tariffed 100%.

As Trump vows to end asylum, a tech bro site valiantly defends him -- from accusations that he wants to end asylum An editor at the "anti-woke" site Pirate Wires scolds me for criticizing Trump's immigration policy. He has no idea what he's talking about.

New from me: A "heterodox" writer took a week to teach himself immigration law, then reprimanded me for daring to suggest that Trump is violating the due process rights of immigrants.

He's wrong -- about pretty much everything.

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YouTube video by Domino Recording Co. Four Tet - No More Mosquitoes (2001)

🦟 🪱 🦠 25 tracks on a theme of infectious disease....

We start with a banger that's 24 years old, Four Tet's magnificent "No More Mosquitoes" (it's a rallying cry for this playlist 'cuz they're a vector for all sorts of diseases, like malaria and Zika)

1/25

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Hierarchy of Scientific Evidence Strongest to weakest top to bottom Meta-analyses & systematic reviews Randomized controlled trials Cohort studies Case-control studies Cross sectional studies Animal trials & in vitro studies Case reports, opinion papers, and letters

same pyramid but at the top is another pyramid that says 25+ scientists signed an opinion paper

same pyramid but at the top is mom’s advice

a shitpost pyramid with “the other shit” on the bottom and “Thoughtful, well-conducted studies of any design” at the top. probably the best version i’ve seen

from worst to best versions (off the top of my head)

If that meme is your intro to jungle, watch this fantastic short video that gives you a little taste of the history and ethos of the art form that is jungle
@gavinyamey.bsky.social

youtu.be/vDZHEAwDAVo?...

YouTube video by starpowerdrummer we need jungle (i'm afraid)

Unfortunately my knowledge of the genre is limited to a brief University Challenge mention, but it does sound pretty good: youtu.be/_pFRF5-XuYk?...

Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research.

And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

What would some actually effective treatments for the Black Death be? Given what is known about the practical and theoretical knowledge of medicine and related field around mid-14th century, not only in Europe but generally in the world, it can said with quite a high degree of certainty that there were no efficient curative for any internal bacterial or viral infection.

The Black Death ripped through the world to devastating effect. /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta has a surgically precise post on how medieval people tried to fight it, and what effective ways were just beyond their capabilities. #Skystorians #HistMed