Let them cope, look like they need it.
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Let them cope, look like they need it.
Oh the Pritzker heads are gonna love this one
We can delight in the prospect of Giuliani getting killed without homophobia.
Why don’t they even attempt to explain why the Dems came back to Texas in the first place. I have yet to be hear a good reason why they even made that decision
bush era conservatives directing their regime change instincts at the federal government lfg
Happy to share a new preprint from the Clarke & Vallese (@fravallese.bsky.social) labs reporting #cryoem structures of two RBC stomatin complexes – with AQP1 & UT-B - continuing the SPFH theme from our recent vault preprint! This was a fun one and has been cooking for a while - read on for more! ⬇️
Congratulations! 🎊 very interesting work! :o
At least one of them won’t be around much longer
lol. Love Florida citizen’s response to the continual erasure of the Pulse memorial sidewalk.
So interesting!
Mitochondria finally made the headlines, yay! Oh wait, ... oh no ....
He gave “Crumbl” the Grindr spelling like what’d ya expect???
I commend Tao for speaking out, but it needs to be said that only speaking up when personally affected by a policy is part of the reason we are in this mess to begin with. At the institutional level, this has signified a willingness to trade away other people’s rights to protect one’s own share.
Taking adjunct gigs at Columbia undermines the grad union @swcolumbia.bsky.social, so turn them down in solidarity.
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
I'm not a resident of NC, and I don't know what the next concrete steps in organizing are there. But speaking generally, this needs to be a wake up call for queer organizations nationwide to primary Democrats who vote for this, swing district or not. Transphobic Dems must become persona non grata.
"[establishes a law] prohibiting subjecting a parent...who raises a juvenile consistent with the juvenile's biological sex...to a petition supporting abuse or neglect that is based solely on those acts"
I almost couldn't believe the headline when I saw it, I hoped it was exaggeration. But it's worse than I could've thought. The Democratic governor of NC Josh Stein, along with several legislators, signed into a law explicitly protecting transphobic adoptees of trans children from abuse charges.
Go fuck yourself
Better ML for cryo-ET starts with better benchmarks. We built a phantom cryo-ET dataset (~500 tomograms) + hosted a Kaggle challenge. The result: community models beat expert tools. Read more in the @natmethods.nature.com article that just came out: 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Woah woah we have a Great Mind over here. Hey everyone, plato over here can play w the stupid kids he’s too busy having intuitions and understandings AND HE DONT NEED U 🤣
wow that’s fucked up that they killed everyone who didn’t complete the scavenger hunt
#unionstrong
"geniuses prefer to work alone" the words of someone who hasn't spent fifteen seconds in a modern lab
+ biological male
The saddest part of living in nyc :(
It’s unbelievable for me to see gays pulling this shit. Like forget about hating yourself, how can you have so little self-respect?
If you are thinking about the future of structural biology, we are too! Our two cents (Jürgen Plitzko and I) just got published online here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Yea nothing gets the people riled up like technicalities
“Inflammation” isn’t a symptom
I see this wherever people think their issue >> all others. I know an Arab trans girl who makes their opposition to the antizionist “armed struggle” (which is to say Islamists) vocally known, and routinely gets harassed, misgendered, or just called slurs by a loud minority of otherwise good ppl
@megan--korn.bsky.social my first two rotations 😂
"must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind" bro, you're literally a zionist 🤣
Prioritizing converting bigots over defeating them is the mindset of someone who's never lived with true injustice
Megan is one of the smartest and most motivated RNA biologists I've met since coming to Columbia. Welcome Megan! 😍
The court can hold state officials in civil (unpardonable) contempt of court. And you can bank that educators will take this as a license to reintroduce lgbtq content in schools. This fuckin defeatism just absolves you people of getting out and goddamn doing something. Grow up.
Very very cool work. The thing I don’t get is: they ran their encapsulation reactions with a ~1:1 capsid:target ratio (table S1). How can that be efficient? Only if the target has pretty high affinity to the inside of the capsids. How can that be true for a variety of proteins? (1/2)
Well, this is Darwinian themed sophistry and gibberish but I still like Pritz
Translation: The Supreme Court is trying to kill mothers. The Supreme Court is trying to kill people with HIV. The Supreme Court is trying to kill transpeople. The Supreme Court is trying to kill children with neonatal pathologies. The Supreme Court is trying to kill disabled people.
Gillian landing the galaxy brain take once again
Well it’s not idiocy because it’s a concerted plot to centralize power in the executive.. I feel like it’s wishful thinking to imagine Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing (when it’s Miller et al running the show for the purpose of building autocracy)
I'm sorry but given that Sudanese live tweeted and live streamed multiple massacres including the day the RSF took Medani - we saw footage of corpses & people digging mass graves in real-time - I'm actually so tired of any explainer that indirectly suggests we are the reason for the lack of empathy.
It's quite funny that fairly early in its history philosophy invented writing well (Plato) and reasoning well (Aristotle) and made it clear you can only do one; subsequently clarifying that we'll typically do neither.
@jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com watch tf out for this shit please and thank you 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Because you all needed a Turtles meeting... 🤣🤣 #bluesky
Maybe they’re white and cishet
No one has ever explained to me how a concept like emergence or complexity can inform scientific experiments or improve our ability to make predictions. Almost as if these terms were created by pop science communicators to sell books..
FAQNYC podcast getting more and more interesting by the minute
Attack helicopter
We are fighting for a better future for workers and universities together 🌹
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
I think this is why racist politics in the EU are so overwhelmingly focused on migration: the focus is to not let any POC in in the first place
Agree 100%. But I think what’s lacking is Europeans won’t burn down their own social welfare state cause it disproportionately helps POC. It’s like the Southern phrase “a white man will shit in his own pants if it means he can make a black man smell it”
These barrels don’t crack 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Cannot believe I’m seeing that show referenced here 😭
wow who could've imagined that while MAGA and NYT columnists railed against trans surgery for minors it was all a smokescreen to ban ALL hormone, surgical, etc care for transgender adults. HOW could anyone have predicted this?
Some folks will say this is because MAGA is ignorant. They might be, but that’s not why. They’re trying to sow distrust in science as part of an ultimate project to replace its authority with that of oligarchy: whomever can buy the most media can decide Truth. Just look at the other site.
But the monied interests behind MAGA and RFK aren’t doing this because they’re ignorant of science (tho they may be), they’re doing it to sow distrust in and dethrone Science as the socially dominant standard of knowledge, to be replaced by Religion and Oligarchy (Project 2025)
It is the equivalent of watching the moon-landing and saying “let’s close NASA”
This is why it's important to canvass and phonebank for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social *now*, even if you think he's a shoo-in for November. It's not just about making sure he wins election. It's about building the organizing infrastructure to make sure he can succeed in his agenda as mayor.
🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook: It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks. Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.
📄 New paper: 3DEM Structure Map Validation Recommendations Two new metrics assess model-to-map fitness in cryo-EM: 🔹 Q_relative_all → compares avg Q-score across PDB/EMDB 🔹 Q_relative_resolution → compares within similar resolution #3DEM #CryoEM #wwPDB
Going door to door to shock people
“Zohran is cool and all but you couldn’t replicate Zohran for a competitive race” Zohran for a competitive race:
Yes there’s been a struggle along sectoral line. My sector (higher ed) is furious over the support for tariffs, but automobile, aeronautics, and agricultural equipment lean much more in favor of tariffs and they have a larger share of membership.
We’re a democratic union dumbass. The members support tariffs. Our union is still uniformly Democratic (we were the first union and only major one to endorse Zohran, putting him on our slate in 2024 when he polled at 0.4%)
It’s called stand up striking. You strike at key nodes in production to maximize the cost on the boss while minimizing strike costs—it’s an endurance tactic. Are you even in labor?
Skinny girls for Bernie 😍
Extremely excited to share that I’m joining Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! We will explore how the mobile genome works—how transposons shape us, our DNA and how they can be harnessed to build useful technologies. #NewPI #RNAsky #TEsky thawanilab.org
The UAW is a democratic union who’s members voted to support the tariffs. Period. I think at a certain point leftists understand that the American “working class” simply *is* reactionary and when given the chance to act in a democracy will tend to support MAGA
“Pretty silent” is news to me given that our lawsuit against the Trump administration secured the release of tens of millions in federal grant dollars before the Columbia admin signed their shit deal. But I’m just a grad student worker and UAW member what would I know
How bout you go jump in a lake before talking shit on one of the democratic party’s largest canvassers unless you actively want to lose elections
They cannot be allowed to raise children in whites only private schools tho, at that point it’s segregation and indoctrination
And we are in the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social !! Check it out
This review highlights gaps in #HIV testing, treatment, and suppression, calling for equity-driven strategies to reach the 2030 target of ending #AIDS as a public health threat. plos.io/3HHIEqq
This week's post is about why spherical cows are physics' mascot ⚛️🧪 open.substack.com/pub/nirmalya...
Instruments and approaches are emerging for single-molecule protein analysis. In this Technology Feature by @vivienm.bsky.social some developers and early users talk about their first impressions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eAUlX
wtf India
I love Ross but.. yikes
Fossilized fish trails reveal earliest steps out of water | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
This looks interesting!
Excellent point— How much more media noise was made about anti-semitism on Columbia’s campus versus the actual murders committed by the Right?
Our #CryoET story on how a top antimalarial drug candidate perturbs the native malarial translation machinery is out @natsmb.nature.com🥳 rdcu.be/eBbrH A massive team effort led by @leonieanton.bsky.social Meseret Haile & Wenjing Cheng in collaboration with Jerzy Dziekan & the Alan Cowman! #TeamTomo
In a country where you need to go well out of your way to acquire raw milk, the blame is squarely with her (recognizing ofc the anti-scientific establishment that’s build a permission structure for this behavior)
Chaya Raichik is a terrorist
That's ten times what the federal government has ever spent on sex changes for trans people in prison btw
You didn’t answer the question. Do you eat meat? Are you a murderer?
People will whine “PETA is so bad and extreme” and then take a bite of steak siphoned out of the Boschian vortex of unimaginable suffering which humans have made the everyday reality of most terrestrial vertebrates.
Such as? Do you eat meat or buy animal products?
Nobody is doing it like PETA
More gays
“Purity” like I get the point but Obama fucking murdered people and he wasn’t an elected at the time. We should criticize our own.
Well yea but what preceded it was a theological binary and that was at least as bad as the biological one. Frankly contemporary poststructuralist frameworks (or “non-frameworks”) of gender are as good as they’ve ever been.
Oh the irony
This wasn’t true for 2024 tho, turnout appeared to support Trump. It could still be true overall but it’s silly reasoning, evidently we haven’t won the “competition” otherwise we would’ve won the actual goddamn election 🙄
Could democrats filibuster the existence of the army?? 🤣
