Rick Wood
riwood.bsky.social
Rick Wood
@riwood.bsky.social
Biochemistry & Genetics
Top 16 releases for August
#ListenBrainzMonday
September 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
July 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Today, 1,152 NAS members/Nobel Laureates (as private individuals) sent a letter to Congress regarding the cuts to science being proposed by the Administration, and currently going through the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

tinyurl.com/5n7y7853

@standupforscience.bsky.social
Letter to Congress Requesting Protection of Science Funding in the FY26 Budget
tinyurl.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Lab meeting here today.
Houston people: Matthew Shipp will be performing two solo shows at Rothko Chapel today. His new album The Cosmic Piano comes out today; I wrote about it (and about his solo work more broadly) last week:
burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-solo-m...
The Solo Music Of Matthew Shipp
A decade of cosmic piano journeys
burningambulance.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
April 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
April 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
go.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Rustling in frustration because you missed #yearinmusic?

If you are a #lastfm user then you’re in luck! We (re)generate YIM next week, so there’s still time to sign up and import your 2024 listens and get a YIM:
listenbrainz.org

Not a lfm user? Sign up now and we’ll get you sorted for YIM 2025 🍃
January 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Listenbrainz keeps track of your listening and is non-commercial free, and is great fun. 2024 stats out today. @listenbrainz.org #yearinmusic
January 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Happy holidays!

Who is doing some holiday MusicBrainz editing? You’re not alone, it seems a lot of people unwind by entering some data - me included! MusicBrainz just hit an all time high, with 43,000+ daily edits. -a
December 24, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Most “favorite of year” lists came out in November; now that it’s mid-December, here’s mine. Ten 2024 “jazz” releases that I especially enjoy: #bestof2024 #jazz 2024

Geoff Stradling & the Stradband – Nimble Digits (Origin Records)
Josephine Davies – Weatherwards (Whirlwind Recordings)
December 17, 2024 at 2:44 AM