Neil

These are getting crazy

Zero consequences for the killers. And they wouldn't even announce that there will be zero consequences had they not been outed in the media.

Scientist Really Thought Job Would Be Less Grant Writing And More Glow-In-The-Dark Lizard Making bit.ly/3yOW3Ue

Well, this has been a long-awaited day- the first paper on our multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) is on the BioRxiv. Ever wonder how simple multicellular organisms evolve to become larger and more complex over thousands of gens? 1/35 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Bioinformatician and the lab’s experimentalists who want their sequencing data analyzed

Made some bread

Fascinating results, groundbreaking work, you can send me the 8 million kronor now no need to wait for further verification,

#ImageOfTheDay: October 27, 2020: We found this unusual umbrella-shaped pedestal covered with corals & sponges during a dive near Jarvis Island, a 4.5-square-km (1.7-square-mi) uninhabited island just south of the Equator. Full caption: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/dai…

Human neutrophils swim and phagocytize bacteria!

When you’re winning:

the anti-smoking mascot for Kanagawa, Japan, is Suwanzo, an elephant with a cigarette for a trunk and a smoke-hating swan on its head.

Happy 10th Birthday to Fallout: New Vegas. 🎉

The most extreme case of female caste fate differences in ants is that between African army ant queens and workers. Here, a small Dorylus molestus worker is conveniently posing on the head of her giant queen mother. From chapter 5 of my Army Ants book: amzn.com/067424155X

Brighten up your next Zoom call with our new collection of virtual backgrounds. Each image features an inspiring place on the Scripps campus, including the iconic Scripps Pier shown here. 🌅 Download for free using this link: sio.photoshelter.com/galleries/C000…

Japanese mascots getting stuck, a thread:

Odd, placing a rats nest of cables behind the PCR machines without plugging any of them in doesn’t result in functioning PCR machines.

Joshua Tree!

So my sister was evacuated for a while from her house in #ShaverLake due to the #CreekFire fire. Thankfully, her house survived, and she was recently allowed back in. And she discovered this amazing microbial montage. It used to be a loaf of bread.

Don’t miss the scale change on the y axis 👀