UBC is at least in the top five world wide for views from a campus.
But this also reminds me a bit too much of bleary eyed wanders on campus while waiting for my E. coli to recover after transformation at the end of a twelve hour day.
Wendy Carlos - synth and electronic music pioneer who helped shape the development of the Moog synthesizer, and the first trans woman to win a Grammy for her work on “Switched-On Bach”.
Fine for screening clones, not so good when your experiment depend on purity of plasmid.
If you want to try to out-cheap me on labware, I spent my PhD dumpster diving for single-use drosophila vials and scrubbing them out by hand for reuse. May the science gods help you if you run a screen.
TFW: You see Gen-Z SciCommers do a "Day in the Lab" video, but all their protocols are slower and worse than you did 20 years ago and their sterile technique explains the mycoplasma outbreaks and un-repeatable results.
THE ODYSSEY (2026, dir. Christopher Nolan)
Anthony Berndt
Excited to share our latest paper! We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. @cp-cell.bsky.social (1/7)
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Working on a grant proposal. Just replaced every occurrence of "cis-SNARE" with "c-SNARE," "trans-SNARE" with "x-SNARE," "cis-Golgi" with "early Golgi," and "trans-Golgi" with "late Golgi," because this is #TheStupidestTimeline and we are governed by idiot arsonists.
Modugraph
cADPR isn’t the only product. A TIR domain from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii produces 3′cADPR, a signaling molecule previously known only from bacterial Thoeris defense systems. This is the first eukaryotic TIR shown to produce this bacterial immune signal as its dominant product.
