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Victor Tatarskiy

@greenrat.bsky.social
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Cell biologist and a cat person. I mainly study CDK8/19, cell cycle regulation, and new anti-cancer drug candidates. orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-5683

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 17h
Well, I am actually very impressed that someone can make an app that is worse that Microsoft Teams!
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Two extremely cool new papers on how AID gets targeted to appropriate genes for somatic hypermutation: paper 1 from Schatz lab at Yale shows that NELF and elongation components of the SEC are required- and suggests NELF can travel into genes /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transcription pause and elongation regulators mediate somatic hypermutation - Nature
The molecular factors and mechanisms that mediate the chromatin recruitment of activation-induced deaminase and the generation of its stalled polymerase II substrate during somatic hypermutation are i...
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy [Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]
A swaggering skeleton resting his hand on his hip, what's left of his hair blowing in the breeze. In the background a funeral procession leading to a church.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
tracking the Ring
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
is there a faculty member from University of Washington Chemistry here? if so, please DM
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wait, what??? I think a lot of nerds in Russia are familiar with Eskov's book, but I always thought that a) nobody outside of Ru knows it b) Eskov writing was a bit tongue in chick, "look guys how clever I am" (compared to the "Black Book of Arda" which is more "serious" in tone
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A PI tring to get a grant :)
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/7b0...
my 9 games HoMM3 (but all from 1 to 4), Starcraft, Doom 2, Civ, Sopwith and Digger (with my dad in 1989-1990), Half Life, Dune 2 and Diablo. But there were many others
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026
Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/
 3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a wonderful story, weaving together historians, hippies, old apple tree fanatics and DNA sequencers to reveal how French immigrants in Maine brought along one of the ancestors of American apples 🧪
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Was listening to the amazing Beforecast by @adapalmer.bsky.social (a season all about and around Machiavelli!) and she mentioned that Wiki had to invent a new format for war sides because of the War of the League of Cambrai) , and yeah:
War of the League of Cambrai sides with Venice and Papal states changing sides four times in total and ending on the other sides of the war from which they started
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's parliamentary election in Russia. Did my civic duty, lol.
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Man Laughing Toothlessly
Alt: A meme with mustached spanish man laughing about paella that illustrates my hopes for any consequence from my votes in Russia
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Expansion microscopy
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In case you didn't see it yet, the first episode of my new podcast Beforecast has launched! Check it out here:
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today is the last day to partake in Barnes & Noble’s 25% off sale for the preorder of “And Loki in His Prison”. Order your copy in hardcover or e-book to devour on release! buff.ly/ry0xKYk
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/08/2026
The lab is a mysterious place--where some people have "magic hands," and some experiments just won't work. Here's my story about the unspoken knowledge of science, and the struggle to share it. Gift link: nyti.ms/3UccF7Z
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Oleg X 🇺🇦 @olegx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The glass is half full Pessimist: The glass is half empty Goofus D. Dawg:
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This reminds me of the time an eminent Russian scientist working in my thesis advisor’s lab handed me a printout and asked me, a grad student, to “please review abstract and perform algorithm that randomly insert ‘a,’ ‘an,’ and ‘the’ in text.”
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wow, NASA engineers still optimize Voyagers for staying alive longer, and they are still learning new things about the interstellar space they are in www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/s...
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How NASA Engineers Are Keeping the Voyagers Alive
A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Connections Puzzle #1164 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Me being - HOW DO YOU NOT FIT IN HERE
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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yahooo 🎉 We got the cover! Meet our cute cover girl 🥰: the naked mole-rat Queen! 👑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026
In a *stellar* essay entitled "Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same" by the data scientist Lauren Leek, we get a top-notch example of "putting things together": laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur... 11/
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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.
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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 03/08/2026
Garffeld as Pangur Bán (from Seamus Heaney’s translation)
The following comic is based on Pangur Bán, translated by Seamus Heaney. “My Garffeld and I at work / adepts, equals, cat and clerk: / his whole instinct is to hunt, / mine to free the meaning pent”; panels 1 and 2 show Jon at a desk writing while Garffeld eyes a mouse.“More than loud acclaim, I love: / books, silence, thought, my alcove. / happy for me, Garffeld then / child-plays round some mouse’s den.” Panel 1 shows Garffeld chasing a mouse towards a large stack of books while Jon writes; then panel 2 shows Garffeld sitting on a pile of books that were knocked over in a cloud of dust, while Jon looks over.“Truth to tell, just being here / housed alone, housed together, / adds up to its own reward: / concentration, stealthy art.” Panels 1 shows Jon walking down a hall, Garffeld waiting to pounce behind him; panel 2, Garffeld jumps and scares Jon.“Next thing, an unwary mouse / bares his flank: Garffeld pounces. / Next thing lines that held and held / meaning back begin to yield.” Panels 1, Garffeld chases after a mouse on a stack of books on a table; panel 2, Jon looks at Garffeld who has ripped the books while the mouse has run off panel.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 08/08/2026
Rewrite history, add more squirrels (By Dave Coverly)
A founding father is sitting at a desk with a scroll. His dog is looking at him, life, liberty and the pursuit of squirrels? Give me that pen
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Ziplink is now Froggle
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
so if Interview with the Vampire is canonically set in our universe, you're telling us there's a chance that Lestat de Lioncourt *did* visit The Museum of English Rural Life
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Sasha Chavkin @sashachavkin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW: For more than a decade, Red Bull waged a global campaign that used flawed science to downplay the risks of mixing energy drinks and alcohol. Our new @theexamination.org investigation, with an all-star team of media partners across the world, is out
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Is it safe to drink Red Bull and vodka? Dubious research tied to the company has shaped energy drink policy.
The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Chōu Ōta, Vaccination, 1934
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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Years ago, I reviewed a paper that had interesting data but was not put well together at all. Badly organized figures, convoluted text. I was getting annoyed and then saw the asterisk in the (short) author list. The first author had written their first ever ms after their PI had suddenly died 🥺.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New blog post: New popular science book from me is happening! 🧪 skullsinthestars.com/2026/07/24/n...
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New popular science book from me is happening!
A bit of personal news: I’ve signed a contract for my next popular science book with the University of Chicago Press! My tentative title — subject to change — is “Booms, Bee…
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 23/07/2026
These backronyms need to STOP (Seriously this isn'T funny Or apPropriate)
Our PETRUSHKA (Personalise antidEpressant TReatment for Unipolar depreSsion combining individual cHoices, risKs and big datA)
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Лиса Алиса @inkerinkettu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Штош, моя книга «Шаман и звезды» вышла в издательстве АСТ. В чем особенности нового издания: текст расширили и обновили, добавили больше лора и новых глав. Бонусом — главы из продолжения. Книгу уже можно заказать, список маркетплейсов тут: t.me/novafiction/...
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Alexander Tyakht @atyakht.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our paper on FlaPro tool for quantifying flagellin diversity in the human gut microbiome is out now! bit.ly/4wLPxuH @anya-bogdanova.bsky.social @microbiome.bsky.social
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Human gut flagellome profiling using FlaPro reveals TLR5-related phenotype-specific alterations in IBD
Flagellin, the structural protein of bacterial flagella, activates the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). However, the ability of different flagellins to bind and stimulate TLR5 va...
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rixavie @rixavie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, so there's this amazing puppy called Sevo that I've fostered for a few days and he's looking for a permanent home! we reside in Armenia but we can transport him anywhere in the world. I would really appreciate some shares, I really really want for him to find his forever family
rixavie hugging a black puppya black puppy side eyeing while lying on a beda black puppy looking very politea black puppy lounging on the floor
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The summer bounty has started coming. There is two full boxes. Send help.
a box of red currant
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Oh, man :((
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 12/07/2026
Malaria elimination succeeded in much of the world, including Europe, North America, Australia, and much of Asia…
Malaria prevalence over the twentieth century - map of regions where malaria was eliminated.
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This revised Reviewed Preprint provides a fundamental finding regarding the context-dependent roles of the JAK-STAT pathway (JSP) across different cellular compartments within the breast cancer microenvironment, supported by convincing evidence.
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JAK-STAT Pathway Heterogeneity Governs Immunotherapy Response in Breast Cancer
Altmetric provides a collated score for online attention across various platforms and media.See more details
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would kill or die for Larry
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
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WIRED @wired.com · 19/06/2026
Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo. www.wired.com/story/ebola-...
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The Most Promising Ebola Vaccine Has Been Sitting on the Shelf for 15 Years
Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.
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David Gaboriau @dgaboriau.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
That's why I love biology :) (and cells in particular!)
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 20/06/2026
I've been watching Babylon 5 (along with @merrittk.com) and it's striking how almost every episode is criticizing a) fascism, b) xenophobia/racism, c) homophobia, d) theocratic conservatism. @straczynski.bsky.social wrote that shit woker than The Pitt S2. No way an exec would greenlight it today.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet
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Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
There is a wonderful Russian expression "A mark is not a mammoth, a mark will not go extinct"
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Ani Mejlumyan @animejlumyan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Listen to me and @jkass99.bsky.social talk about Armenia's elections with my on the ground observations on @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/161332...
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*UNLOCKED* The History of Armenia: 2026 Election Roundup | Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
It's a slight departure from the usual schedule, because Ani was in Armenia for the recent elections and took copious notes. Go beyond the (
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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What an incredible triumph for vaccination.
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Such cool works. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/tama...
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Tamara Dean Blurs the Boundary Between Bodies and Natural Landscapes
Tamara Dean captures ethereal images that explore the intrinsic bond between the human body and the natural world.
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