Dr Darren Abbey
@thebiologistisn.bsky.social
@thebiologistisn on various other systems. PhD Genetics, UMN.
I do bioinformatics/genomics with a university lab.
I work unofficially to make new interesting varieties of food plants. I've made distinctly blue colored dry beans.
I make/sell art, too.
I do bioinformatics/genomics with a university lab.
I work unofficially to make new interesting varieties of food plants. I've made distinctly blue colored dry beans.
I make/sell art, too.
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btw, have you looked at etymonline.com ? One of those fantastic, crap-free, labor of love websites. I learned stuff about late antique / early medieval cross-borrowing between Romance and Germanic while I was looking up spy, espionage, sabotage, sabot
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November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
btw, have you looked at etymonline.com ? One of those fantastic, crap-free, labor of love websites. I learned stuff about late antique / early medieval cross-borrowing between Romance and Germanic while I was looking up spy, espionage, sabotage, sabot
It's more like a few hundred, at best. The subsidies were the most cost-effective approach.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It's more like a few hundred, at best. The subsidies were the most cost-effective approach.
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In 2024, ACA was approx. 125B. There are 340M Americans. If trump has his way, we’ll each get about $368 to pay for our healthcare each year. 🧐
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In 2024, ACA was approx. 125B. There are 340M Americans. If trump has his way, we’ll each get about $368 to pay for our healthcare each year. 🧐
Here's another colorful bin!
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Here's another colorful bin!
If this is what's happening, I would expect these white seeds to be enriched with colorless flavonoids absent from typical white beans.
A variety like this would also be useful for making genetic test crosses.
I'll be growing those separately next year.
A variety like this would also be useful for making genetic test crosses.
I'll be growing those separately next year.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If this is what's happening, I would expect these white seeds to be enriched with colorless flavonoids absent from typical white beans.
A variety like this would also be useful for making genetic test crosses.
I'll be growing those separately next year.
A variety like this would also be useful for making genetic test crosses.
I'll be growing those separately next year.
Thus, these white seeds may represent the overall pathway still being active, but the terminal branches turned off.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thus, these white seeds may represent the overall pathway still being active, but the terminal branches turned off.
One surprise was a single plant that made white seeds. White in beans usually means the whole flavonoid pathway is shut off. However, both of my starting varieties had a mutation that turned off only the red/purple/blue or yellow pigment producing terminal branches of the pathway, respectively.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
One surprise was a single plant that made white seeds. White in beans usually means the whole flavonoid pathway is shut off. However, both of my starting varieties had a mutation that turned off only the red/purple/blue or yellow pigment producing terminal branches of the pathway, respectively.