williamrabrown.bsky.social
@williamrabrown.bsky.social
Fission yeast genomics, epigenetics and centromeres, genome engineering, Russian language, culture and pre-1917 history.
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Millington, J. W., Lopez, J. A., Sajjadian, A. M., Scheffler, R. J., DeFelice, B. C., Ludington, W. B., Good, B. H., O'Brien, L. E., Huang, K. C. (2025). Gut microbe-derived lactic acid optimizes host energy metabolism during starvation. bioRxiv, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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💣 At 3am, the nukes were coming... Or so Zbigniew Brzezinski was told.
Edward Luce revisits one of the Cold War’s most surreal nights — and the legacy of Carter’s underrated strategist.
Read in the @ObserverUK: Meet the President’s Main Man by John Bew observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Meet the President’s main man | The Observer
An elegant portrait of Jimmy Carter’s hawkish security adviser reveals him to be a pivotal figure in cold war policy
observer.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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it’s a real testament to the intellectual traditions of these centuries-old institutions, folding to authoritarian pressure like paper in a storm and kneeling to naked financial extortion
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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A motivating quote from @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social:
“…You are discovering knowledge and gifting that to humanity for all of posterity. Once you learn something no one can take that away. It is not an object. It is an intellectual currency that will be shared throughout the generations…”
July 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“The word ‘Dimore’ in Italian means dwelling but conjures up images of old villas clinging to their aristocratic origins. It lends the name a sense of nostalgia. I think it’s our DNA” – Britt Moran

No, no, no; a million times no. just stop this. DNA is a polydeoxyribonucleotide.
April 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!
"The University declares that this opinion piece was not in violation of any Tufts policies. Further, no complaints were filed with the University or, to our knowledge, outside of the University about this op-ed."
April 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Since April, we have been busy curating pathways using GO-CAM pathway modelling. So far, 466 proteins (33 pathways) have been modelled. We have modelled signalling pathways, metabolic pathways, and other processes. The full list is here: www.pombase.org/documentatio..., and will increase weekly!
January 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM