ABH
@hypusine.bsky.social
Biochemist, husband, writer, political junkie, parent. I think a lot and sometimes even write down the results.
What a great story.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar.
She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n)
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She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n)
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November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
What a great story.
This was a great read. Here's a related tangent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This was a great read. Here's a related tangent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Crazy times.
Officials detain the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew amid the Trump administration's ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts, a source confirms to NBC News.
Read more: nbcnews.to/44vH82Q
Read more: nbcnews.to/44vH82Q
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Crazy times.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
A Ghostbusters parade!
Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A Ghostbusters parade!
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Results from a large 20-year study show that halving a person’s intake of arsenic in drinking water reduces their risk of dying from any chronic disease, including cancer or heart disease, by 54% cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
Lower arsenic in drinking water drops chronic disease deaths by half
Landmark study in Bangladesh confirms that reducing arsenic exposure lowers chronic disease deaths
cen.acs.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Results from a large 20-year study show that halving a person’s intake of arsenic in drinking water reduces their risk of dying from any chronic disease, including cancer or heart disease, by 54% cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
Expected/annoying/understandable/awful how many of these questions were basically the schoolyard circle chanting "FIGHT! FIGHT!"
I get that fights drive clicks, and that a basic conflict for the press is "serve common good" and also "get eyeballs."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
I get that fights drive clicks, and that a basic conflict for the press is "serve common good" and also "get eyeballs."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Expected/annoying/understandable/awful how many of these questions were basically the schoolyard circle chanting "FIGHT! FIGHT!"
I get that fights drive clicks, and that a basic conflict for the press is "serve common good" and also "get eyeballs."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
I get that fights drive clicks, and that a basic conflict for the press is "serve common good" and also "get eyeballs."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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If you use Gmail, know that Gmail just opted you in to allowing them to train their AI on your emails. Follow these instructions to turn that off on every device you have asap! www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you use Gmail, know that Gmail just opted you in to allowing them to train their AI on your emails. Follow these instructions to turn that off on every device you have asap! www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content?" appeared in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905.
It contains his first published statement of mass-energy equivalence, the basis for the well-known formula E = mc².
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einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-doc/350
It contains his first published statement of mass-energy equivalence, the basis for the well-known formula E = mc².
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einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-doc/350
November 21, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content?" appeared in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905.
It contains his first published statement of mass-energy equivalence, the basis for the well-known formula E = mc².
🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-doc/350
It contains his first published statement of mass-energy equivalence, the basis for the well-known formula E = mc².
🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-doc/350
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The time is ripe to advance our understanding of the complex world of translation.
We can profile the diverse pool of modified tRNAs and a wider spectrum of amino acid incorporation into proteins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The synergy of these developments will exciting ❗️
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We can profile the diverse pool of modified tRNAs and a wider spectrum of amino acid incorporation into proteins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The synergy of these developments will exciting ❗️
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November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The time is ripe to advance our understanding of the complex world of translation.
We can profile the diverse pool of modified tRNAs and a wider spectrum of amino acid incorporation into proteins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The synergy of these developments will exciting ❗️
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We can profile the diverse pool of modified tRNAs and a wider spectrum of amino acid incorporation into proteins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The synergy of these developments will exciting ❗️
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I can’t quite put it into words, but Trump praising Mamdani on the same day that MTG resigns in opposition to “big Tech, big Pharma, the war complex and big donors” feels like a harbinger of realignment.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I can’t quite put it into words, but Trump praising Mamdani on the same day that MTG resigns in opposition to “big Tech, big Pharma, the war complex and big donors” feels like a harbinger of realignment.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
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Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
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Hanged
The past participle of the verb meaning killed by dropping from a rope around the neck is hanged.
The past participle of the verb meaning killed by dropping from a rope around the neck is hanged.
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Hanged
The past participle of the verb meaning killed by dropping from a rope around the neck is hanged.
The past participle of the verb meaning killed by dropping from a rope around the neck is hanged.
Even if you want to look at the post sideways and assume he was joking, I still think all of this holds.
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Even if you want to look at the post sideways and assume he was joking, I still think all of this holds.
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update: me+Claude just built a custom DNA amplifier from parts in 3 days.
codebase now sitting at >7k LOC across 27 files
the scope of features built today is insane 🤯
3.7k lines Python
1.5k lines javascript
1k lines HTML
500 lines CSS
160 YAML
documentation is >5k words
details in thread ⬇️
codebase now sitting at >7k LOC across 27 files
the scope of features built today is insane 🤯
3.7k lines Python
1.5k lines javascript
1k lines HTML
500 lines CSS
160 YAML
documentation is >5k words
details in thread ⬇️
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
update: me+Claude just built a custom DNA amplifier from parts in 3 days.
codebase now sitting at >7k LOC across 27 files
the scope of features built today is insane 🤯
3.7k lines Python
1.5k lines javascript
1k lines HTML
500 lines CSS
160 YAML
documentation is >5k words
details in thread ⬇️
codebase now sitting at >7k LOC across 27 files
the scope of features built today is insane 🤯
3.7k lines Python
1.5k lines javascript
1k lines HTML
500 lines CSS
160 YAML
documentation is >5k words
details in thread ⬇️
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
Damn.
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Damn.
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with proper internal standards, DNA sequencers can give highly sensitive, highly quantitative measurements of just about anything.
talking single-molecule sensitivity, dynamic range >10^6. with as much parallelization as you can handle (>10^6)
more people should know this. more should use it
talking single-molecule sensitivity, dynamic range >10^6. with as much parallelization as you can handle (>10^6)
more people should know this. more should use it
Swab-Seq: A high-throughput platform for massively scaled up SARS-CoV-2 testing
The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is due to the high rates of transmission by individuals who are asymptomatic at the time of transmission1,2. Frequent, widespread testing of the asymptomatic population ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
with proper internal standards, DNA sequencers can give highly sensitive, highly quantitative measurements of just about anything.
talking single-molecule sensitivity, dynamic range >10^6. with as much parallelization as you can handle (>10^6)
more people should know this. more should use it
talking single-molecule sensitivity, dynamic range >10^6. with as much parallelization as you can handle (>10^6)
more people should know this. more should use it
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The bill only forces the release of unclassified information.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The bill only forces the release of unclassified information.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
Amazed at the range of scales at which "I am going to suck out your innards through a straw" operates. Looking at you, assassin bug.
How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Amazed at the range of scales at which "I am going to suck out your innards through a straw" operates. Looking at you, assassin bug.
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The Senate has agreed to pass the Epstein bill by unanimous consent.
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Senate has agreed to pass the Epstein bill by unanimous consent.
Damn.
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Damn.
I present to you the president of the United States.
“You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the murdered columnist. “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him, or didn’t like him, things happen."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I present to you the president of the United States.
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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WATCH: @raskin.house.gov calls out Speaker Johnson for openly asking Sen. John Thune to change the bill to delay it further — and says Trump can release the files today
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
WATCH: @raskin.house.gov calls out Speaker Johnson for openly asking Sen. John Thune to change the bill to delay it further — and says Trump can release the files today