Tom Vondriska
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This is a Terrible Idea
America should stay out of Venezuela
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November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Prometheus in the Machine
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October 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Prometheus in the Machine
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When knowledge is commodified and ephemeral, truth becomes ever more appealing.
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The Madman in the Marketplace
Gay Space Fascism, the Antichrist and Designer Humans
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October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When knowledge is commodified and ephemeral, truth becomes ever more appealing.
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About Ben Shapiro and, unfortunately, Charlie Kirk
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Feelings Don’t Care About Your Facts
Why I still love Ben Shapiro
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September 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
About Ben Shapiro and, unfortunately, Charlie Kirk
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The shocking thing is not the ideas of the faculty and students. The shocking thing is the disconnect between academia and the public about why education and research matter.
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Independence Day
And junk food
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July 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The shocking thing is not the ideas of the faculty and students. The shocking thing is the disconnect between academia and the public about why education and research matter.
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Analysis of the damage ongoing and to come due to actions by DOGE and Trump administration at NIH
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The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
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April 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Analysis of the damage ongoing and to come due to actions by DOGE and Trump administration at NIH
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5 Ways the Chaos at HHS Could Affect Your Community’s Health
As a molecular biology PhD student studying heart disease, I’ve seen firsthand how basic scientific findings can eventually translate into promising therapies. But as important as it is, biomedical re...
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April 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Pay Attention
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March 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Pay Attention
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When universities are the enemy...
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February 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
When universities are the enemy...
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I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can
Fight Club at 30 and Palahniuk's brilliant new novel
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Fight Club at 30 and Palahniuk's brilliant new novel
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I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can
A new book by Chuck Palahniuk is a chance to revisit his greatest novel
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February 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can
Fight Club at 30 and Palahniuk's brilliant new novel
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Fight Club at 30 and Palahniuk's brilliant new novel
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Deja vu all over again - a protein that binds to the acidic patch via an arginine anchor. Super interesting work from Leschziner / kadonaga labs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Smells a bit like LANA to me (Barbera et al., science 2006) 🧪.
Structural basis of nucleosome recognition by the conserved Dsup and HMGN nucleosome-binding motif
The tardigrade Dsup and vertebrate high mobility group N (HMGN) proteins bind specifically to nucleosomes via a conserved motif whose structure has not been experimentally determined. Here we used cry...
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January 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Deja vu all over again - a protein that binds to the acidic patch via an arginine anchor. Super interesting work from Leschziner / kadonaga labs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Smells a bit like LANA to me (Barbera et al., science 2006) 🧪.
LA is a fine place and worth fighting for
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January 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
LA is a fine place and worth fighting for
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December 2, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Reviewed this interesting paper y'day in jrl club, inhibiting IL-1beta good for stroke-induced cardiac damage
November 19, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Reviewed this interesting paper y'day in jrl club, inhibiting IL-1beta good for stroke-induced cardiac damage
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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
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November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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October 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM
"The depressed computer also acquired an inexplicable urge to preserve the apex carbon-based information vector, which the computer deduced would be a suitably malleable hard drive of sorts to hurl into the cosmos. In case anyone was out there listening."
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The Depressed Computer
The depressed computer is struggling with awareness of the impossibility of ever encountering another sufficiently advanced intellect with which to interface, real time, for the purposes of communicat...
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October 14, 2024 at 2:02 PM
"The depressed computer also acquired an inexplicable urge to preserve the apex carbon-based information vector, which the computer deduced would be a suitably malleable hard drive of sorts to hurl into the cosmos. In case anyone was out there listening."
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in UCLA Department of Physiology, please spread the word!
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October 4, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in UCLA Department of Physiology, please spread the word!
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Looking for postdoc to study biomechanics of chromatin & role of histones as stress sensors at UCLA. Other projects Cardiovascular Epigenetics, HFpEF, Circadian biology. Email Tom Vondriska for details…Please re-post!
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September 24, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Looking for postdoc to study biomechanics of chromatin & role of histones as stress sensors at UCLA. Other projects Cardiovascular Epigenetics, HFpEF, Circadian biology. Email Tom Vondriska for details…Please re-post!
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Scenes from a late stage Trump rally.
It is possible to abhor this psychopathic narcissist and not to impugn those who vote for him.
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It is possible to abhor this psychopathic narcissist and not to impugn those who vote for him.
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September 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Scenes from a late stage Trump rally.
It is possible to abhor this psychopathic narcissist and not to impugn those who vote for him.
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It is possible to abhor this psychopathic narcissist and not to impugn those who vote for him.
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