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Charley Rosenblum
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Research Scientist (molecular biology, PhD)-retired. Scientific Publishing
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POLLING PLACES ARE OPEN ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.
a poster that says " i need you to vote " on it
ALT: a poster that says " i need you to vote " on it
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
October 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
As Nobel season approaches and names are bandied about, isn’t it time for Jeffrey Gordon to win Medicine for his pioneering microbiome work?
#medsky #microbiology #science
October 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Scientists have spent decades puzzling over potatoes’ origin story. The answer was juicier than anyone expected, @katherinejwu.com reports.
Potatoes Evolved From … Tomatoes?
Dipping fries into ketchup just got a little more mind-bending.
bit.ly
July 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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It’s now a little harder to earn a five-star rating from the #VirginiaTech Helmet Lab.
Helmet Lab updates its rating system for football and bicycle helmets
Safety improvements to helmets led the lab to update its STAR rating system to ensure it is differentiating the most high-performing helmets.
news.vt.edu
July 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Police in Salt Lake City say three people are in custody after a shooting that left a victim with life-threatening injuries during the city’s “No Kings” demonstration.
Victim hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after shooting at ‘No Kings’ march in Salt Lake City
Police said it was too early to tell if the shooting was politically motivated or whether those involved knew each other.
www.kfyrtv.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reading @jbf1755.bsky.social’s and enjoying (not certain if enjoying but fascinated by) “Field of Blood”. I knew about the Sumner caning but now I realize it wasn’t an abhoration. It’s helping me see our path the present. Why wasn’t the Cilley story taught in HS?
May 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Exposure to an E. coli mutagenic toxin colibactin increases risk of early onset colorectal cancer. Made me say ‘Wow!’ But isn’t surprising on reflection.
#medsky #moleculargenetics #oncology
Childhood Exposure to Bacterial Toxin Tied to Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer
Genetic findings reveal how early exposure to a DNA-damaging toxin from gut bacteria may contribute to the global rise in younger populations.
www.the-scientist.com
April 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A new frontier for biochemists but 120 light years away. Now physicists and engineers need to get a move on to give us warp drive.
120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
nyti.ms
April 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
OpenAI is building a social network
ChatGPT versus X?
www.theverge.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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See below for the story of Flemington NJ resident Karim Daoud, who was detained by ICE on March 18 even though he he entered the US legally 20+ years ago and is married to a citizen.
March 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This measles alert is for people who went to Capital Health in Hopewell, NJ near Princeton 3/23-24.
Person with measles could have exposed others at N.J. medical center
NJDOH is encouraging all residents to stay up-to-date on routine vaccinations.
www.nj.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Preprints, Conspiracy Theorists and Governance?

Provocative topic in article from The Publication Plan. #academicpublishing #scientificpublishing
What does the future hold for preprints: credibility vs accessibility?
Find out why measures to improve the credibility of preprints may be at odds with their core strengths.
thepublicationplan.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
@nj.com
Any deep thoughts on track & field following the alleged baton assault of a runner by another in a HS relay? Though not involved, T&F event javelin is a sport based on infantry combat leading to something in running events 🤔
March 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Really??? The B1G and ACC had their tourneys this weekend with no issues, as usual.
There are plenty of stories of US parents fighting at baseball and basketball games
Does N.J. wrestling have a violence problem?
The Knox case has raised many issues, including concern over a sport based on hand-to-hand combat
www.nj.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Yes it is highly contagious AND it affects the immune system causing “immune amnesia”. The infected are susceptible to other diseases for years after, causing sickness and death
#measles #infectiousdisease
March 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Will They Come for PubMed Next? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

#medicine #medsky #molbiol🧪

You need to be old like me to remember doing your research and dissertation without NLM. We cannot go back
Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next?
Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource
www.medpagetoday.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Pubmed is back up after a roughly 12 hour issue. A friend who's a coder tells me it was a DNS misconfiguration. Whether accidental or not is unknown.
#Medsky #academicpublishing
March 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m on the sidelines watching now but remember my arguments with my committee that junk RNA wasn’t junk. Nature is conservative. It won’t waste energy on ‘junk’ tiny RNA production
#genetics
A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus
In Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the genomic region around the gene cortex is a “hotspot” locus, repeatedly implicated in generating intraspecific melanic wing color polymorphisms across 100 mi...
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Even when children “recover”, there is still mortal risk. Subacute sclerosing panecephalitis from measles. SSPE case studies shook me when a virology grad student
February 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Podcast on naming in science. A colleague who cloned mammalian ether-a-go-go (hERG) stated the problem. Though fun for C elegans and Drosophila folks back then, the names fail when communicating human disease to patients! No more merlot or zinfandel genes. #molecularbiology #scientificpublishing
From viral variants to devastating storms, how names shape the public's reaction to science
Podcast Episode · Nature Podcast · 02/07/2025 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM