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  So since we are stunned to find ourselves with some funding to do research, we are now looking to actually hire postdocs! If you're looking for a postdoc in transcriptional regulation and you want to work in a VERY wetlab/computation hybrid environment, check us out! https://thebrain.bwh.harvard.edu/positions.html

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  I know I've posted this before but it happened again today and I think it bears repeating. If you're out and about and you see what looks like a group with one person taking a picture of the other members of the group in front of some landmark or pretty view, stop and say, "Do you want one all together?" They can just say no if they don't want to or if you've misread the situation (at least once I've offerred and it turned out the person taking the picture had done...

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  Okay, gonna actually put on clothes and leave the house!

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  The world is shit in a lot of ways but there's pesto.

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  How chocolate is made, in case you're curious (a thread): Cacao grows within about 10° of the equator. The trees are WEIRD-looking small trees and the fruit kind of grows straight out of the trunk and large branches. Fruit growing out of a trunk looks very wrong to me but I have no complaints about the result. The fruit is a pod, shaped like and slightly smaller than an American football or rugby ball. Like so many other fruits, it contains a number of seeds, each with a thin shell of its...

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  Last weekend we had some friends over and made tacos, so there were still some stale corn tortillas, some shredded cabbage, some chili-lime black beans, and some chili-lime grilled pork in the fridge. We cut up onions and cherry peppers (Tom grew the peppers) and fried them until they were getting soft, added the torn up tortillas, then garlic, some mustard greens (that Tom also grew), and the shredded cabbage. Then some sliced up pork and the rest of the beans. For as "How do I use up...

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@GayDeceiver/116999118181430998 I feel seen.

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  We grilled on Sunday (brats and asparagus) so we did an eggplant and some onion and garlic while the grill was going so that tonight we could make baba ganoush with air fryer falafel and flatbread.

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  Yes hello there is a new Wondermark and it is excellent. Who among us … https://wondermark.com/c/1589/

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  I ran past a construction site yesterday and I was really enjoying the art that they were displaying on the fence-covering material, when it suddenly occurred to me that we didn't used to have that. It used to only ever be dark green plastic mesh, and now it often still is but it's also not infrequent to see pictures or screen-printed art on the mesh, just because some institution doing the construction has decided it's better public relations if what everyone has to look at here for...

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  Look, I don't wanna speak ill of the dead, but I just wanna say that if you're concerned that maybe you might drink too much, or even if you're FINE everything's FINE but you know or suspect that maybe someone ELSE is concerned that maybe you might drink too much, just, chill out with that, huh? Have a ginger ale, maybe get into seltzer, they're everywhere these days. Your friends don't want to mourn you. Really.

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  Finally a DST proposal I can get behind. https://xkcd.com/3272/

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  Greetings from (still) hot, humid Georgia, on this, the occasion of my father-in-law’s hundredth birthday!

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  I had a plan for dinner, I even set some lentils soaking in the fridge before I went to work, but as I was driving home it was just so strikingly beautiful out, such a PERFECT evening, that I got home and said, Hey, let's walk into Harvard Square and eat outside instead. We had a beautiful walk and held hands and saw some shirtless runners, went to Felipe's and it was DELICIOUS exactly the same as every other time we've gone there, and I have a cheesecake for later. (Cherry frangipa...

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  @brittcoxon@mastodon.art Whenever I see one of these 2x2 polls, I like to run Fisher's Exact Test and see if the difference in ratios is likely to occur by chance. Here I get p-value = 0.002118.

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  This year I have remembered to try to make lilac sugar while the lilacs are still out!

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  @lisa@beige.party Congratulations. I'm sorry it's hard, I'm sorry about all the bullshit, but congratulations.

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  I have a #physics question and I hope maybe some nerd will be interested in taking up the challenge of explaining something to an (I like to think) intelligent layperson. A lot of stuff I read about dark matter seems to assume, implicitly or even explicitly, that it comprises particles that not only don't interact with the ones we're pretty sure about, but also don't interact with each other. Is this just Occam's Razor? 'Cause, I mean, everything we DO know about is *compli...

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  Okay, it's Sunday night and time for a story thread. This one will probably be kind of long. This is the story of the time I was a professional drug user. (1/15)

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  Your occasional reminder that boobytrap spelled backwards is partyboob.

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  I once again feel the need to say explicitly that if it seems like I click the little star on like everything you ever post, it's not that I'm being a creep, you're just really cool and have interesting things to say.

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  RIP Taylor Kirk I guess, I didn't even know that they existed but "Timber Timbre" is, or I suppose now was, a really great name for a band.

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  Someone invoked The Infamous Twitter Rice Truck Saga (which I had the good fortune to watch go down in real time) and someone else said they had never heard of it before so you're welcome. https://mastodon.ie/@nameshiv/109454532858408130

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  I think I may have said, "Eh, it's just pain" more in the last two weeks than in the previous 57 years. But also this is really fucking old. I should say, though, that I reached out to the venue where we saw a show on Saturday, and they were awesome, they set up a stool for me right at the corner of the stage, I was prepared for the back wall but I got to sit right up front and seated-bop and wasn't in pain and it was glorious.

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  The thing I find most sobering about the relative density of various wildlife and biodiversity in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone compared to other areas with similar geography and history is that it tells us pretty clearly that the very presence of humans is worse for the ecosystem than a nuclear disaster. And not just worse, but, like, MUCH worse.

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  Suddenly today I was struck that it's funny we call it a "bus." It's short for "omnibus," which is a Latin word meaning "for all." The "all" is really the conceptually relevant part there, since it's common transportation rather than a personal vehicle, but that's the "omni." The -ibus part was just a suffix indicating the indirect object. It's rather as if we'd started calling them "for-alls," then eventually s...

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  I am le tired.

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  @overholt My husband collects coins (quite seriously) and he is involved in a similar (but distributed, community-based) effort to catalog all the dies used to make Morgan silver dollars at various mints in various years. He received an award for, if I'm remembering correctly, his work on the 1883 Philadelphia dies.

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  If you supervise someone, and ESPECIALLY if you supervise someone really good, take this opportunity to ask yourself, "Have I told them lately that they're really good, or pointed out something that they did really well?" Maybe you do not need this reminder but I sure do, and I've had awesome people that I co-supervised express doubts that made clear that I had just *forgotten* to let them know they were awesome. (There's an understandable default to no...