Current premises of 'de-extinction' has a strong modern safari for the affluent vibe, IMHO.

I hope so - otherwise this is too depressing!

Nice Minolta SLR! I love 110 film too, though I stick with BW and hand-develop with caffenol to keep it cheap.

Haha I'll try my best to stick with 660, keep my eyes on sx70 in the future

Hmm you're right - maybe I should just keep an eye open and pick one up on the cheap, even if refurb needs to wait. The best instant camera ever made aren't going to be around forever.

Ah, that's the camera I'll dream about for a long while. Factoring in CLA and 600 conversion, prices are high and rising, it looks like.

Thank you! All the shots so far managed to impress - I think I really need to start saving up for the film.

Fantastic talk by @vikramshivakumar.bsky.social Mumemto—Scalable multi-MUM finding for pangenomes
Papers biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.654611 & doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03644-0
Code: github.com/vikshiv/mume...
Very efficient pangenome visualization tool, revealing synteny and variations!

I build an ML tree using Haladaptatus outgroup against existing Halococcus species (single copy genes based, 308 targets), and it does seem to place in middle of other Halococcus species with great bootstrap values.

I think that's the point where I get all the side eyes from my collaborators lol

oooh cool name. I was also thinking something quadra related from the cocci packing. Also as Gunnm reference

I also decided to make doubly sure, so got some detailed microscopy from collaborators and should be getting gas chromatography analysis sometime. Getting some practice on academia-amateur collaboration pipeline in the process as well :)

Reasonably certain this is a novel species - originally collected as part of a Halococcus-wide resequencing & methylation analysis project I ran (paper coming soon 🤞). The conventional biomarker genes, genomic structural arrangement and SCG based trees all set it apart from others of the genus

Ohh good one. These guys seem to dissolve into agglomerates under specific growth conditions too.

It'll likely be what you described or one of the older researchers (from 70's I think) associated with history of this one, whatever is more appropriate.

I like it, accurate and to the point!