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A 100-cell organism needs about 7 rounds of cell division. A 1,000-cell organism needs about 10. A million-cell organism needs about 20. Development time scales with the logarithm of size.
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A 100-cell organism needs about 7 rounds of cell division. A 1,000-cell organism needs about 10. A million-cell organism needs about 20. Development time scales with the logarithm of size.
Is the open science crowd categorically opposed to all scientific communications research or just the papers that they think are cringe
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Is the open science crowd categorically opposed to all scientific communications research or just the papers that they think are cringe
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Reading PALE FIRE on the train and shaking my head the whole time so that the other riders know that I don’t support long-form rhymed verse.
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reading PALE FIRE on the train and shaking my head the whole time so that the other riders know that I don’t support long-form rhymed verse.
just realized i’ve been listening to the “uanbridged” edition
July 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
just realized i’ve been listening to the “uanbridged” edition
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UFW Statement on July 10 Federal Raid in Ventura County
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, California. Others, including US citizens remain totally unaccounted for.
ufw.org
July 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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i don't know why this guy should give a shit about who new york city elects, considering that he moved to a war zone run by a guy who starts a new war every few weeks to keep from going to prison, because it's the only safe place in the world for jews
June 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
i don't know why this guy should give a shit about who new york city elects, considering that he moved to a war zone run by a guy who starts a new war every few weeks to keep from going to prison, because it's the only safe place in the world for jews
Steel toed boots are so expensive wtf
June 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Steel toed boots are so expensive wtf
I’m starting to get the scale of the gap left by NIH defunding
issues.org/has-nih-lost... <- from 2015, has a v helpful overview of history of US funding for biomedical research
issues.org/has-nih-lost... <- from 2015, has a v helpful overview of history of US funding for biomedical research
June 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I’m starting to get the scale of the gap left by NIH defunding
issues.org/has-nih-lost... <- from 2015, has a v helpful overview of history of US funding for biomedical research
issues.org/has-nih-lost... <- from 2015, has a v helpful overview of history of US funding for biomedical research
Just got into U of T AGAIN. Gonna have the most fucked up looking sankey chart for this admissions cycle
June 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just got into U of T AGAIN. Gonna have the most fucked up looking sankey chart for this admissions cycle
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Fantastic blog post on the new EO and #openscience by Kevin Munger
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/open-scien...
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/open-scien...
Open Science and Its Enemies
Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order nominally aimed at “Restoring Gold Standard Science”. Setting aside the absurdity of “restoring” something that never existed, what does that purport to mean...
kevinmunger.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Fantastic blog post on the new EO and #openscience by Kevin Munger
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/open-scien...
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/open-scien...
youtu.be/6sWMdf4iQaU?... Very cool stuff
Janusz Pętkowski – Possibility of Biochemistry in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid: Breakthrough Discuss
YouTube video by Breakthrough
youtu.be
June 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
youtu.be/6sWMdf4iQaU?... Very cool stuff
The joys of downloading to a remote network drive over a vpn
May 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The joys of downloading to a remote network drive over a vpn
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Doctor: This is not easy news, but, we found a worm in your brain. We've removed it, but need to run some tests.
Me: I kept it worm for you.
Doctor: What?
Me (slightly louder): I kept it Wourm for you
Me: I kept it worm for you.
Doctor: What?
Me (slightly louder): I kept it Wourm for you
May 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Doctor: This is not easy news, but, we found a worm in your brain. We've removed it, but need to run some tests.
Me: I kept it worm for you.
Doctor: What?
Me (slightly louder): I kept it Wourm for you
Me: I kept it worm for you.
Doctor: What?
Me (slightly louder): I kept it Wourm for you
Is Boston U particularly strong for philosophy/sociology of science? I’m trying to explore the field and it seems like BU affiliations are super common for any random article I come across
May 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Is Boston U particularly strong for philosophy/sociology of science? I’m trying to explore the field and it seems like BU affiliations are super common for any random article I come across
Just started reading Lewis Thomas today and wow i’d love to find a modern biologist who writes like this
May 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Just started reading Lewis Thomas today and wow i’d love to find a modern biologist who writes like this
What happened to adriano aguzzi? Posted “you’ll never cancel my science” and deleted his twitter. Is this pubpeer drama or something new
April 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
What happened to adriano aguzzi? Posted “you’ll never cancel my science” and deleted his twitter. Is this pubpeer drama or something new
Just read this perspective on solving programming tasks w/ evolutionary approaches that Jared Winslow referenced in “what happened to genetic algorithms?”. Critique of a mature research field. Crazy how difficult generating nontrivial code felt 7 years ago pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Why We Do Not Evolve Software? Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms
In this article, we review the state-of-the-art results in evolutionary computation and observe that we do not evolve nontrivial software from scratch and with no human intervention. A number of possi...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Just read this perspective on solving programming tasks w/ evolutionary approaches that Jared Winslow referenced in “what happened to genetic algorithms?”. Critique of a mature research field. Crazy how difficult generating nontrivial code felt 7 years ago pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The Colossal discourse sucks
April 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The Colossal discourse sucks
Why am I getting ads for genetic subtypes of breast cancer
March 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Why am I getting ads for genetic subtypes of breast cancer
If the median voter is going to determine the future of science funding, I really think people should stop playfully engaging with that Jiankui He guy
March 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If the median voter is going to determine the future of science funding, I really think people should stop playfully engaging with that Jiankui He guy