Tom Vondriska
banner
tomvondriska.bsky.social
Tom Vondriska
@tomvondriska.bsky.social
Science, literature, world order

https://thomasvondriska.substack.com/
Pinned
Not the fentanyl you're looking for

open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
This is a Terrible Idea
America should stay out of Venezuela
open.substack.com
Not the fentanyl you're looking for

open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
This is a Terrible Idea
America should stay out of Venezuela
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Prometheus in the Machine
open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
October 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
When knowledge is commodified and ephemeral, truth becomes ever more appealing.
open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
The Madman in the Marketplace
Gay Space Fascism, the Antichrist and Designer Humans
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
About Ben Shapiro and, unfortunately, Charlie Kirk
open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
Feelings Don’t Care About Your Facts
Why I still love Ben Shapiro
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The shocking thing is not the ideas of the faculty and students. The shocking thing is the disconnect between academia and the public about why education and research matter.
thomasvondriska.substack.com/p/independen...
Independence Day
And junk food
thomasvondriska.substack.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Analysis of the damage ongoing and to come due to actions by DOGE and Trump administration at NIH
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
open.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
March 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
When universities are the enemy...
open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
February 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can
Fight Club at 30 and Palahniuk's brilliant new novel
open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
@chuckpalahniuk.bsky.social
I Want You to Hit Me as Hard as You Can
A new book by Chuck Palahniuk is a chance to revisit his greatest novel
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Tom Vondriska

Deja vu all over again - a protein that binds to the acidic patch via an arginine anchor. Super interesting work from Leschziner / kadonaga labs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Smells a bit like LANA to me (Barbera et al., science 2006) 🧪.
Structural basis of nucleosome recognition by the conserved Dsup and HMGN nucleosome-binding motif
The tardigrade Dsup and vertebrate high mobility group N (HMGN) proteins bind specifically to nucleosomes via a conserved motif whose structure has not been experimentally determined. Here we used cry...
www.biorxiv.org
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
LA is a fine place and worth fighting for
open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
January 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Category Errors
What a year
open.substack.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:05 PM
December 2, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Reviewed this interesting paper y'day in jrl club, inhibiting IL-1beta good for stroke-induced cardiac damage
November 19, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Reposted by Tom Vondriska
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:

docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
docs.bsky.app
November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
October 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM
"The depressed computer also acquired an inexplicable urge to preserve the apex carbon-based information vector, which the computer deduced would be a suitably malleable hard drive of sorts to hurl into the cosmos. In case anyone was out there listening."
open.substack.com/pub/thomasvo...
The Depressed Computer
The depressed computer is struggling with awareness of the impossibility of ever encountering another sufficiently advanced intellect with which to interface, real time, for the purposes of communicat...
open.substack.com
October 14, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in UCLA Department of Physiology, please spread the word!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09761
October 4, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Looking for postdoc to study biomechanics of chromatin & role of histones as stress sensors at UCLA. Other projects Cardiovascular Epigenetics, HFpEF, Circadian biology. Email Tom Vondriska for details…Please re-post!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38765203/
September 24, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Scenes from a late stage Trump rally.
It is possible to abhor this psychopathic narcissist and not to impugn those who vote for him.
thomasvondriska.substack.com/p/who-is-don...
September 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM