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For decades, cellular aggregation was considered an evolutionary dead end.
Cells could come together temporarily.
But complex multicellular organisms like animals?
Our study, led by JP Gerdt, with Ruibao & @jennahed.bsky.social suggests it may be time to rethink that🧵 #ProtistsOnSKy
Ron Filipkowski
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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
This is outrageous.
When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.
Charlatans taking advantage of vulnerable people - just the lowest, most grotesque sort of behavior...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
An infuriating story about pharmaceutical patent abuse and the cost of medicine in the US
www.propublica.org/article/revl...
Desperate US parents pay up to $20,000 a session for a procedure scientists say could be bogus
Douglas Adams:
> Anything in the world when you're born is normal, ordinary and a natural part of the world. Anything invented between when you’re 15-35 is new, exciting and revolutionary and you can get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.
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Very cool! Also nice to see the thunderstorms pop up along the Sierras in the afternoon. I wonder if the smoke was from the big warehouse fire in Tracy. That started at 1:00 pm Thursday but burned for a long time - 1 million sq ft warehouse.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
Dmitry Grozoubinski
Dante needed a 10th circle of hell for knowing quacks.
Mark Lemley
KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI ft.trib.al/Ef8zdYs
Kevin Mitchell
Can there be any doubt that Trump deserves that Nobel Peace Prize? He's now ended the Iran war [checks notes] 39 times in just four months :)
www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/p...
Gina Kolata in @nytimes.com on Nancy Wexler & Huntington disease. I met her 35 yrs ago but saw her only rarely afterwards. I was shocked & pained at a Soc. for Neuroscience conference a few yrs ago seeing her at a reception, clearly w/HD.
Great person; good profile
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...
ft.trib.al
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
It’s been more than two months since President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran, saying at the time that the two sides were close to a deal.
