Nathan Gamarra Ph.D.
@ngamarra.bsky.social
Biochemist who enjoys many-a-things. He/Him 🇺🇸🇨🇴
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My quote of the day
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My quote of the day
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry
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November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Here's a big thank you to everyone at NIH who is trying to get everything regarding grants and reviews re-started!!!
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here's a big thank you to everyone at NIH who is trying to get everything regarding grants and reviews re-started!!!
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While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
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Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.
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I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish
For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been motivated to understand the mechanisms through which organisms adapt to their environments. Coloration and pigmentation are remarkably variable wi...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
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designing a new timberwolves jersey after every win 🐺
record: 7-4
record: 7-4
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
designing a new timberwolves jersey after every win 🐺
record: 7-4
record: 7-4
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With a score of 85, this article is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by @altmetric.com!
It even featured in @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social's podcast: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...
Take a look: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...
Look out for Altmetric badges on eLife articles 🏆
It even featured in @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social's podcast: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...
Take a look: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...
Look out for Altmetric badges on eLife articles 🏆
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
With a score of 85, this article is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by @altmetric.com!
It even featured in @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social's podcast: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...
Take a look: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...
Look out for Altmetric badges on eLife articles 🏆
It even featured in @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social's podcast: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...
Take a look: elife.altmetric.com/details/1744...
Look out for Altmetric badges on eLife articles 🏆
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An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
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Netflix has a new show about my boy James Garfield!!!!
He’s the president I’m most confident had ADHD. I think he could’ve been one of the greats if he hadn’t been murdered/shot and then killed accidentally by doctors.
So far I’m really enjoying it.
It’s called Death by Lightning.
He’s the president I’m most confident had ADHD. I think he could’ve been one of the greats if he hadn’t been murdered/shot and then killed accidentally by doctors.
So far I’m really enjoying it.
It’s called Death by Lightning.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Netflix has a new show about my boy James Garfield!!!!
He’s the president I’m most confident had ADHD. I think he could’ve been one of the greats if he hadn’t been murdered/shot and then killed accidentally by doctors.
So far I’m really enjoying it.
It’s called Death by Lightning.
He’s the president I’m most confident had ADHD. I think he could’ve been one of the greats if he hadn’t been murdered/shot and then killed accidentally by doctors.
So far I’m really enjoying it.
It’s called Death by Lightning.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Irvine, California
Pop: 287,401
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine,_California
Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25763655
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Pop: 287,401
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine,_California
Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25763655
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36612252
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=135175012
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!
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A pan-KRAS inhibitor and its derived degrader elicit multifaceted anti-tumor efficacy in KRAS-driven cancers www.cell.com/cancer-cell...
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A pan-KRAS inhibitor and its derived degrader elicit multifaceted anti-tumor efficacy in KRAS-driven cancers www.cell.com/cancer-cell...
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🆕 from us at #EMNLP: Are LMs better at answering questions about Germany in German than in French? Is national knowledge linguistically contingent?
Interestingly, only for some multilingual models is this true. Aya knows China best in Chinese, but LLaMA's best in English always.
Interestingly, only for some multilingual models is this true. Aya knows China best in Chinese, but LLaMA's best in English always.
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🆕 from us at #EMNLP: Are LMs better at answering questions about Germany in German than in French? Is national knowledge linguistically contingent?
Interestingly, only for some multilingual models is this true. Aya knows China best in Chinese, but LLaMA's best in English always.
Interestingly, only for some multilingual models is this true. Aya knows China best in Chinese, but LLaMA's best in English always.
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We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A versatile cohesion manipulation system probes female reproductive age-related egg aneuploidy - Nature Aging
To study pathways that lead to aneuploidy during aging, the authors provide a system that enables cohesion protein depletion in mouse oocytes, mimicking effects that occur during aging. They uncover a...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Uh oh.
I'm already at high risk - I'm going to stop taking it for now, but I want to see the study; insomnia itself is a risk factor for heart failure.
"A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin...
newsroom.heart.org/news/long-te...
I'm already at high risk - I'm going to stop taking it for now, but I want to see the study; insomnia itself is a risk factor for heart failure.
"A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin...
newsroom.heart.org/news/long-te...
Long-term use of melatonin supplements to support sleep may have negative health effects
Research Highlights: A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin for at least a year found they were more likely to be diagnosed with heart ...
newsroom.heart.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Uh oh.
I'm already at high risk - I'm going to stop taking it for now, but I want to see the study; insomnia itself is a risk factor for heart failure.
"A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin...
newsroom.heart.org/news/long-te...
I'm already at high risk - I'm going to stop taking it for now, but I want to see the study; insomnia itself is a risk factor for heart failure.
"A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin...
newsroom.heart.org/news/long-te...
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Brilliant.
Selten hab ich eine so intelligente Lösung gesehen, wie man den Eigentümer eines Geldbeutels kontaktieren kann.
Chapeau!
(Netzfundstück)
Chapeau!
(Netzfundstück)
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Brilliant.
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The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
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Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
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I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks.
So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪
So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪
The best scientific talk advice that gets ignored
Here are some prescriptions for a case of UCPS (Unengaging Conference Presentation Syndrome).
scienceforeveryone.science
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks.
So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪
So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪
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Women derive more benefit from physical activity than men with respect to reduction of cardiovascular risk and related mortality, and can achieve protection at lower levels of engagement. From ~85,000 participants, open-access (blue=men)
nature.com/articles/s44...
nature.com/articles/s44...
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Women derive more benefit from physical activity than men with respect to reduction of cardiovascular risk and related mortality, and can achieve protection at lower levels of engagement. From ~85,000 participants, open-access (blue=men)
nature.com/articles/s44...
nature.com/articles/s44...
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Rest in Power Jack DeJohnette:
One of the best to ever sit behind the drum kit.
One of the best to ever sit behind the drum kit.
“Cantaloupe Island” (Live, 1990)
YouTube video by Herbie Hancock
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Rest in Power Jack DeJohnette:
One of the best to ever sit behind the drum kit.
One of the best to ever sit behind the drum kit.
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From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)