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The Democratic Party (@TheDemocrats) has devolved into a sanctuary for defeatists, antisemites, and Islamists. A party so addicted to surrender deserves Neville Chamberlain as its mascot and appeasement as its only plank. After nearly three decades, I’m done. I refuse to share a political home with Hamas-apologist @RashidaTlaib, the perpetually incoherent @AOC, the even more incoherent @KamalaHarris, and the senile senator from Vermont, @BernieSanders. nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/…

St. Cosmas & Damian were twin physician-martyrs known as the anargyroi—“the silverless”—because they treated patients for free. They are the patron saints of physicians. Obviously, not of American physicians, who will not give you the time without pay. #Art Jean Bourdichon. 1503–1508. Saints Cosmas and Damian. Tempera and gold on parchment

Peter Beard. 1966. Elephant embryo, Uganda. Gelatin silver print on paper #art

The reports are fake and Oxford University Press is making money from #OpenAccess. the-scientist.com/138-case-repor…

The history of #PCR. the-scientist.com/the-history-an…

A truthful song. Shame Europe is discovering reality only after Europe had already become… #Eurabia. youtube.com/watch?v=EYAmch…

The scientific literature is polluted. 730 papers using "performatively inclusive" terms instead of "women."

#Caturday Gertrude Abercrombie. 1953. Self-portrait and cat. Oil on Masonite

The erasure of women: In hyper-politically correct academia, women no longer exist—only “people with uteri.” whitmanwire.com/science-enviro…

In hyper-politically correct academia, women no longer exist—only “people with uteri.” whitmanwire.com/science-enviro…

@StevenSalzberg1 Kudos for calling junk DNA junk DNA and for defining it as useless and harmless.

we just published (in G3) the genome of the oldest living thing on Earth: the bristlecone pine, which can live 5,000 years or more. Do we know yet what allows it to live so long? No, but the genome is a great place to start ucdavis.edu/climate/news/u…

The fact that know-nothing Trump appointed a man with zero medical credentials - who had devoted himself to undermining our faith in vaccines - to be the head of Health and Human Services reminded me of another head of state, the scientific know-nothing, Joseph Stalin, who named the quack Trofim Lysenko to head research in the USSR. The results were catastrophic. Russia is still a genetic and medical backwater.

An Iranian ballistic missile has hit a huge Temu (@shoptemu) warehouse in Dubai. The damage is estimated at $57.99.

The bigoted Nazi has something good to say about a Jewish institution. Keep your praises for your Hamas friends.

The business “genius,” Trump, will cause the taxpayer to pay $1 Billion to a French company so the USA will become more dependent on Middle East oil. Trump bankrupted more than a dozen companies. He is now attempting to bankrupt the USA. nytimes.com/2026/03/23/cli… via @NYTimes

The Princess and the Cellphone.

A very good introduction to intragenomic conflict. kirkmaxey.com/wp-content/upl…

We all know the story. 17 Oct 2023 - Gaza. Explosion at Al-Ahli hospital. Within minutes: “Israeli airstrike” “Hundreds killed” The BBC led with it - and stayed with it.

Reminder that parallel adaptation may not be driven by positive selection. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/34…

Refreshing my evolutionary vocabulary: Lewontin's Paradox. The neutral theory predicts that genetic diversity should scale with effective population size. In reality, diversity varies by only ~100-fold, whereas population sizes, and presumably effective population sizes, differ by many orders of magnitude. No consensus explanation. asu.elsevierpure.com/en/publication… elifesciences.org/articles/67509