Greg
@rashihillel.bsky.social
Science Fiction nerd, Lover of junk stores and forgotten places, Never found a Lichen i didn't like, nor a fungus. Proud papa of 3 boys, 2 cats, 1 dog and a wife who is my forever home.
Reposted by Greg
A study published in August in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had elaborate body armour, including a spiky ornament on their tail. These extreme armour features are unlike those of any other vertebrate, including other ankylosaurs later in their evolutionary history. #Paleosky 🧪
Extreme armour in the world's oldest ankylosaur - Nature
The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.
go.nature.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A study published in August in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had elaborate body armour, including a spiky ornament on their tail. These extreme armour features are unlike those of any other vertebrate, including other ankylosaurs later in their evolutionary history. #Paleosky 🧪
Reposted by Greg
Two magnesium start-ups—Magrathea Metals and Tidal Metals—are making plans to start production of the metal in the US. cen.acs.org/materials/St... #chemsky 🧪
Start-ups advance US magnesium plans
Projects based on new chemistry could offset the loss of domestic supply from a troubled Utah plant
cen.acs.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Two magnesium start-ups—Magrathea Metals and Tidal Metals—are making plans to start production of the metal in the US. cen.acs.org/materials/St... #chemsky 🧪
Reposted by Greg
In a huge French study of >28 million adults, those who received the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine:
✅25% lower risk of death from any cause over 4 years
✅75% lower death from COVID
buff.ly/SP0sCpJ
Strong long-term, population-level evidence reinforces vaccine's safety and protection.
#medsky #episky🛟😷🧪
✅25% lower risk of death from any cause over 4 years
✅75% lower death from COVID
buff.ly/SP0sCpJ
Strong long-term, population-level evidence reinforces vaccine's safety and protection.
#medsky #episky🛟😷🧪
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In a huge French study of >28 million adults, those who received the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine:
✅25% lower risk of death from any cause over 4 years
✅75% lower death from COVID
buff.ly/SP0sCpJ
Strong long-term, population-level evidence reinforces vaccine's safety and protection.
#medsky #episky🛟😷🧪
✅25% lower risk of death from any cause over 4 years
✅75% lower death from COVID
buff.ly/SP0sCpJ
Strong long-term, population-level evidence reinforces vaccine's safety and protection.
#medsky #episky🛟😷🧪
Reposted by Greg
Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is better when you PRESUME WONDER.
Share the thing you think is neat. Listen to the person excitedly share the thing THEY think is neat. Even if you already know it, enjoy their enjoyment of sharing. There's nothing more human. 🧪
Share the thing you think is neat. Listen to the person excitedly share the thing THEY think is neat. Even if you already know it, enjoy their enjoyment of sharing. There's nothing more human. 🧪
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is better when you PRESUME WONDER.
Share the thing you think is neat. Listen to the person excitedly share the thing THEY think is neat. Even if you already know it, enjoy their enjoyment of sharing. There's nothing more human. 🧪
Share the thing you think is neat. Listen to the person excitedly share the thing THEY think is neat. Even if you already know it, enjoy their enjoyment of sharing. There's nothing more human. 🧪
Reposted by Greg
A study in Nature finds that five groups of disorders share most of their genetic risk in a screen of 14 psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. The findings could help to improve diagnoses and lead to new treatments that work across several conditions. 🧬 🧪
Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature
Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders.
go.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A study in Nature finds that five groups of disorders share most of their genetic risk in a screen of 14 psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. The findings could help to improve diagnoses and lead to new treatments that work across several conditions. 🧬 🧪
Reposted by Greg
“It is not too late to take another path.”
— David Suzuki
Government of Canada launches new initiative to recruit world-leading researchers
🇨🇦 Canada will invest $1.7 billion to attract top global talent 🧪
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
— David Suzuki
Government of Canada launches new initiative to recruit world-leading researchers
🇨🇦 Canada will invest $1.7 billion to attract top global talent 🧪
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“It is not too late to take another path.”
— David Suzuki
Government of Canada launches new initiative to recruit world-leading researchers
🇨🇦 Canada will invest $1.7 billion to attract top global talent 🧪
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
— David Suzuki
Government of Canada launches new initiative to recruit world-leading researchers
🇨🇦 Canada will invest $1.7 billion to attract top global talent 🧪
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
Reposted by Greg
For-profit academic publishing companies are the biggest swindle around. They get their product - which is often taxpayer-funded - for free, then turn around and charge academic libraries exorbitant fees to access it. 🧪
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
For-profit academic publishing companies are the biggest swindle around. They get their product - which is often taxpayer-funded - for free, then turn around and charge academic libraries exorbitant fees to access it. 🧪
Reposted by Greg
Perennial grain crops and the Land Institute are profiled in this piece from The Guardian. Perennial crops are indeed an important piece of our future food supply.
Because, truly: "Soil is more important than oil"
🧪🌍🌱🐝 🦋
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Because, truly: "Soil is more important than oil"
🧪🌍🌱🐝 🦋
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution
Scientists in Kansas believe Kernza could cut emissions, restore degraded soils and reshape the future of agriculture
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Perennial grain crops and the Land Institute are profiled in this piece from The Guardian. Perennial crops are indeed an important piece of our future food supply.
Because, truly: "Soil is more important than oil"
🧪🌍🌱🐝 🦋
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Because, truly: "Soil is more important than oil"
🧪🌍🌱🐝 🦋
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Greg
Really a devastating blow to the #scicomm community that @robinince.bsky.social has felt pressured to resign from the BBC simply because he is passionate about his political principles, including a firm belief that trans lives are precious. 🧪 #scicomm
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Really a devastating blow to the #scicomm community that @robinince.bsky.social has felt pressured to resign from the BBC simply because he is passionate about his political principles, including a firm belief that trans lives are precious. 🧪 #scicomm
Reposted by Greg
Check out this great interview with ice-coring legend Lonnie Thompson on @thedailyshow.com. youtu.be/oQoXNtcfwvA
🧪🌊❄️🥼
🧪🌊❄️🥼
Lonnie Thompson - “Canary” & Letting Glaciers Tell Their Story | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Check out this great interview with ice-coring legend Lonnie Thompson on @thedailyshow.com. youtu.be/oQoXNtcfwvA
🧪🌊❄️🥼
🧪🌊❄️🥼
Reposted by Greg
🧪This is how global collaboration of science is supposed to work.
Via @sciencestories.bsky.social on IG
Via @sciencestories.bsky.social on IG
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
🧪This is how global collaboration of science is supposed to work.
Via @sciencestories.bsky.social on IG
Via @sciencestories.bsky.social on IG
Reposted by Greg
GLP-1 drugs can help people lose weight by quelling hunger cues. Nature reports on the work by scientists testing if these drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids. 🧪
Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food.
go.nature.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
GLP-1 drugs can help people lose weight by quelling hunger cues. Nature reports on the work by scientists testing if these drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids. 🧪
Reposted by Greg
👇🎯🔥🧪
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
👇🎯🔥🧪
Reposted by Greg
Discover how a unique kinase domain in cyanobactin pathways is linked to peptide phosphorylation, enhancing pharmacological properties. #NaturalInnovation PMID:41271676, Nat Commun 2025, @NatureComms https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65184-2 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
Phosphorylation of peptides by a kinase domain in cyanobactin pathways | Nature Communications
Phosphorylation is an important protein post-translational modification and a valuable tool in medicinal chemistry for improving the pharmacological properties of small molecules, but rare in natural product biosynthesis. Here we report phosphorylation in cyanobactins, a family of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides. We identify an unusual kinase domain embedded in the C-terminal macrocyclase encoded in cyanobactin biosynthetic gene clusters and link it to the production of phosphorylated dolichospermamides and aphanizomenamides. Heterologous expression, domain deletion and site directed mutagenesis confirm the role of the kinase domain, while transplantation of this domain into the sphaerocyclamide pathway leads to the production of phosphorylated sphaerocyclamides. The kinase domain acts on both linear and cyclic substrates with preference for Tyr residues. Collectively, these findings expand the diversity of post-translational modifications in cyanobac
doi.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Discover how a unique kinase domain in cyanobactin pathways is linked to peptide phosphorylation, enhancing pharmacological properties. #NaturalInnovation PMID:41271676, Nat Commun 2025, @NatureComms https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65184-2 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
Reposted by Greg
🧬🌳🍎 RESEARCH 🧬🌳🍎
BSA-seq based genomic mapping analysis of dwarf tree habit in a columnar apple breeding population revealed QTLs for the dwarf and tall phenotypes, among which strong epistatic interactions were detected - Dougherty et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
BSA-seq based genomic mapping analysis of dwarf tree habit in a columnar apple breeding population revealed QTLs for the dwarf and tall phenotypes, among which strong epistatic interactions were detected - Dougherty et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🧬🌳🍎 RESEARCH 🧬🌳🍎
BSA-seq based genomic mapping analysis of dwarf tree habit in a columnar apple breeding population revealed QTLs for the dwarf and tall phenotypes, among which strong epistatic interactions were detected - Dougherty et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
BSA-seq based genomic mapping analysis of dwarf tree habit in a columnar apple breeding population revealed QTLs for the dwarf and tall phenotypes, among which strong epistatic interactions were detected - Dougherty et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Reposted by Greg
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
Reposted by Greg
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Reposted by Greg
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Reposted by Greg
As e.e. cummings and so many other thinkers and writers have known, we should beware those who sing their patriotic love of America while showing complete disregard for the lives of Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
As e.e. cummings and so many other thinkers and writers have known, we should beware those who sing their patriotic love of America while showing complete disregard for the lives of Americans.
Reposted by Greg
Hello from outside the Portland ICE facility.
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Hello from outside the Portland ICE facility.
Reposted by Greg
Aspects of our political system which are currently failing and long overdue for reform:
- The two-party system
- The US Senate
- An all-powerful, stand-alone presidency
- A politicized Supreme Court with full veto power over Congress and the executive
- The two-party system
- The US Senate
- An all-powerful, stand-alone presidency
- A politicized Supreme Court with full veto power over Congress and the executive
Take stock of everything that is failing us right now.
When the moment comes, don’t seek to restore + improve those institutions.
We should replace them.
When the moment comes, don’t seek to restore + improve those institutions.
We should replace them.
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Aspects of our political system which are currently failing and long overdue for reform:
- The two-party system
- The US Senate
- An all-powerful, stand-alone presidency
- A politicized Supreme Court with full veto power over Congress and the executive
- The two-party system
- The US Senate
- An all-powerful, stand-alone presidency
- A politicized Supreme Court with full veto power over Congress and the executive
Reposted by Greg
Reposted by Greg
It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.
October 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.
Reposted by Greg
Rep. Adelita Grijalva still hasn't been sworn in. Mike Johnson knows that Grijalva would vote yes on the release of the Epstein files. #gopcorruption #swearherin
October 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Rep. Adelita Grijalva still hasn't been sworn in. Mike Johnson knows that Grijalva would vote yes on the release of the Epstein files. #gopcorruption #swearherin
Reposted by Greg
