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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
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"There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem

I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.

Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
GO GO GO! Wish I could have voted for you, good luck Josh!
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
It's a fucking bot, you idiots.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA!

In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I mean I can see how they'd have things in common
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
well that's a bit on the nose
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Shot/Chaser:
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
even in death one can judge a bigot by the company he keeps
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
He's still wearing cover makeup on his right hand.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Also, backatya (drank it a while back but saved the can).
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Placement: NYT photo editors know the score.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Sizemore is the only custom frame I ever got. Essentially a hybrid. Ritchey-style break-apart frame, Columbus SL, 650B with room for 40mm tires or 35mm with fenders. Quick, long trail geometry. I've taken it mountain biking in Moab. By far the best riding, most fun bike I've ever owned.
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Andy's trademark wishbone stay, made with a custom lug. Looked better with single-pivot brakes but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. You can see that the tires were brand new when this was taken.
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Here's the Strawberry more or less as it is now. 54cm C-T, 54 C-C. Parts-bin and eBay NOS before prices went thru the roof. Mavic 550 hubs, rims, shifters, and BB; Modolo levers, Chorus brakes, TA crank, Super Record pedals, Dura Ace (Nitto) stem, Cyclone II derailleurs. 19 lbs.
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Best toe clip straps I ever used: these are the ones Andy/Strawberry used to import. You can't have the Rasta ones, though, unless you promise to put them on that custom Bob Jackson.
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year

and now for something completely different
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The latter. So new, it’s still clean.
October 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Talking about the possibility of a third term, Trump said: "I haven't really thought about it. But I have the best poll numbers that I've ever had." — BBC
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
but they do care about this thing
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Oh, that deranged jackass. Numbers:
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
53% opposed, 24% in favor. Trump taking enormous, bloody dump on The Peoples' House going about as well as one might have predicted.
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
bot
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM