I’m around the same age as RFK Jr. I went to the same school some of his cousins, including JFK Jr, went to. I’m here to tell you, not one kid was bringing guns to St. David’s on the Upper East Side in 1969. He is out of his fucking mind.
This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...
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RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.
Frank Conniff
Schmidt Ocean Institute
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#SMBE2026
S24: Molecular mechanisms of selfish elements and strategies
🗓️ Mon Jun 29, 10:20am
🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
Talks by:
@levine-lab.bsky.social
Yu Hua
@cecilecourret.bsky.social
@eleanoreritter.bsky.social
Elli Cryan
@alexand-kwak.bsky.social
Steve Perlman
@antisense.bsky.social
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🐙 Say hello to Inopinoteuthis magna — the big-eyed jellyhead. 🐙
And yes, that common name does makes us suspect someone’s kiddo was in the lab that day! (Special thanks to @jeffday.bsky.social for sharing this species ID when we posted a different view of the animal.) #Doldrums 2,923 m
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
#TEsky Helitrons are enriched in lichenized fungi with long generation lengths and small distribution sizes doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
Evidence for dual pathways of Tc1/mariner domestication in Drosophila
#Drosophila
Schmidt Ocean Institute
#TEsky Complete mitochondrial sequencing reveals the horizontal transfer and gene rearrangement of Passiflora edulis doi.org/10.3389/fpls...
Barbara McClintock was born #OTD in 1902. 🧪
🌽 McClintock, who spent most of her career at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, won a Basic Medical Research Lasker in 1981 for the discovery of transposons, genetic elements that can move from one location to another: http://ow.ly/hVNI50Jvkql
#WomenInSTEM
A deep-sea whale necropolis that has:
1) Far more whale falls than you can imagine,
2) At wild depths, &
2) Whale fossils as old as the Mio/Plio boundary, still on the seafloor?? 🤯
Gets my vote most interesting publication of 2026 (so far).
#AcademicSky 🧪⚒️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
IntroductionThe mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Passiflora edulis, an economically important fruit crop, remains poorly characterized, with previous rep...
Hi #osflimburg communty! Bioinformatics group from Brno, Masaryk University and authors of https://pqsfinder.fi.muni.cz waving here and wishing a great day! 🧬
