Cancer biologist, environment and cancer, guitarist, would-be evolutionary molecular biologist, bread baker, sometimes coder, amateur photographer, professional microscopist, & gardener. Lab site: https://blogs.dal.ca/dellairelab/
I just heard about the term “Intellectual Omnivore” and I feel seen… #YupThatsMe
Inefablejuly Dog Eats Cereal and BreadALT: Inefablejuly Dog Eats Cereal and Breadstatic.klipy.comSomething tells me ... this is a big deal #Transposons #Evolution #Sex-linkedDisease #LINE1
Di JiangWhy is the X chromosome rich in L1 mobile elements? @science.org X-chromosome inactivation draws L1 mutagenesis to the human X chromosome | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Emily JohnstonYou know what this ISN'T? An LLM. Once more for the folks in the back: nearly all of the actually useful, genuinely promising things that AI can do for us have nothing to do with LLMs & planet-devouring data centers. Hope, not hype. Serving us, not serving us up to Big Tech. @sciam.bsky.social
This is equal parts fascinating and crazy! Biology is wild.
Jeff GrohAvocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
And we thought forest fires were only bad in Canada this year. 220,000 people evacuated in France!
castanetFrance says monster fire that forced 220,000 people to flee has stopped growing #France
So… there is a new and fast spreading sexually transmitted diseases and it is not bacterial or viral, it is fungal and related to ring worm! 😳😬 www.instagram.com/reel/DXSusee...
Dr. Andi on Instagram: "There’s a new STI being talked about in the U.S. and it’s not a virus or bacteria… it’s a fungus.
TMVII is an emerging type of ringworm that can spread through close skin-to-s...12K likes, 403 comments - your.doctor.bestie on April 18, 2026: "There’s a new STI being talked about in the U.S. and it’s not a virus or bacteria… it’s a fungus.
TMVII is an emerging type of ringwor...www.instagram.comLots of food for thought in this thread … #AIandScience
Jase Gehringfor a very large number of reasons, this should not be your concern, especially at this point in time
Back to the future moment… In the 80s this was pretty common, as most schools had swimming programs vis community pools (remember the badges for swimming and diving!?) and access to CPR training.
castanetPoll: Should the B.C. government mandate basic water survival skills in school?
I guarantee this Instagram post will trigger either imposter syndrome or incredible FOMO in most academic Ph.D.’s 😬😳 www.instagram.com/reel/DbNHLDZ...
This is why AI needs wet lab... #ThereIsaidIt
Lennart HilbertA periodic reminder for all of our convenience: “The data are not good or bad. The data are the data.” “Data is king.” “Without data, all theory is crap.” 3 sentences I learned from 3 supervisors AKA the reason it’s worth spending 1/3 of my time and 2/3 of our budget on keeping a wet lab running.
Yet another example of a contagious cancer! Inter-individual transmission of melanoma in catfish! www.cbc.ca/news/science...
'Rare' contagious cancer found in fish from Quebec and U.S. lakes | CBC NewsIt's rare that cancerous tumours can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma skin cancer tumours among catfish in Quebec and the north...www.cbc.caMan pulls gun over a pool noodle in West Kelowna BC - #FAFO delivered by local shortly afterwards
castanetWest Kelowna man says he disarmed a gunman by pool Saturday #WestKelowna
And also the loss of the Buffalo 🦬 contributed to the dust bowl droughts of the 1930s. Ironically, the 60 yr culling of buffalo to ostensibly cut off a major food source for American Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, resulted in near starvation conditions for settlers 50 years later.
Jessica KantA lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.