Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting.
The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure.
The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real.
We have to stand up.
I have glow in the dark stickers this year! Come say hello! #ASMicrobe
#ASMicrobe folks! Support our peer-mentoring program and then come find me and get a shirt! I’ll be in the exhibit hall near the ATCC booth around 1 PM! #MicroSky 🧪🦠🔬
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Applied Math
Mapping the genetic landscape of the DNA damage response with Cas12a-based combinatorial knockout screens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.07.728858v1
The "Check how people's names are spelled before hitting Send" challenge.
I now have (and hope to release soon) a version of oarfish that swaps out minimap2-rs for rammap (it's generally faster & more RAM friendly). This is, IMO, an example of generative AI rapidly accelerating software dev in a good way. The integration would have taken a lot more time by hand!