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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She had the magnetism to get a viewer to pay *less* attention to Marlon Brando.

Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I learned French as a youth, and Chinese starting in my forties. My French was never very good, but I reached a point where on the rare occasion someone asked me a question in French I would respond in Chinese.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Jonny Cash did not shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die only for you to settle for morgan wallen

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Apparently Craig Venter has passed away. At first I couldn't find verification (his Wikipedia page hasn't been updates), but found other sources : www.synbiobeta.com/read/a-synth.... I'm surprised I've not seen more coverage of this!

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A Synthetic Biology Pioneer Has Left Us: Remembering J. Craig Venter (1946-2026)

The synthetic biology community lost one of its founding giants today. Craig Venter - scientist, provocateur, and relentless force of nature - has passed away.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

one arm bandit curious? Never heard of the Zollman Effect? Join us Friday next week for the new episode of Conversations at the Center the podcast of the @center4philsci.bsky.social with our guest @kevinzollman.com

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

When marking a student assignment today, I mixed metaphors so badly that I reminded myself of Archie Bunker. I wrote "In this case, you left two low-hanging fruit on the table".

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Apparently if you want to read it *really* slowly, you can follow @samuelpepys.bsky.social

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Has anyone else noticed recent bugs with MyNCBI filters? There seems to be some pretty bad unexpected behaviour.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I have finally, after many months, finished the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys. Monumental. What a singular piece of work. It's impossible to compare against anything else.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

One of the dumbest self-owns of Google for researchers is this: paste a research paper title into the google search bar. The paper will be the top hit, and it will indicate the google scholar citation count, but will not provide a google scholar link to follow the citations.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Tom Lehrer's mastery of meter and rhyme was so good that he wrote an entire song shitting on Bob Dylan in 1965.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Well, yes, but the Latin is not the problem. The problem is that the kerning makes it appear as FR A NSCICVS. Much of the rest of the kerning is also bad, but that's the most egregious.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

As an undergraduate who loved physical chemistry and was just starting biology, I thought the Meselson-Stahl experiment was the coolest thing ever. It was so simple in its application of physical theory and experiment to prove a biological truth that it was perfect. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...

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Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

You are inspiring. But don't be discouraged: the person who wrote that message comes across as heartsick about it. Change will come.

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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

How can one efficiently simulate phylodynamics for populations with billions of individuals, as is typical in many applications, e.g., viral evolution and cancer genomics? In this work with M. Celentano, @wsdewitt.github.io , & S. Prillo, we provide a solution. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 1/n

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

What Vinay Prasad is proposing is scientific misconduct that would violate legally-mandated institutional review board review in the United States. He has never conducted a randomized control trial. He is not a scientist. He is a fraud. They are mandating this to block approval, not encourage study

Prasad said the FDA will ask all manufacturers to do new clinical trials in healthy people ages 50 to 64, randomly assigning them to get a vaccine or a placebo and tracking outcomes with special attention to severe disease, hospitalization or death. Companies might need to repeat that requirement for future vaccine approvals if there's a large virus mutation rather than the past year's incremental evolution. Companies are also free to test their vaccines for approval in younger adults and children, Prasad said, adding "this is a free country."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/05/2025

From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Wow, I know Pope Francis had his enemies, but ... www.reddit.com/r/typography...

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Kerning on The Pope’s tombstone

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

But in that case Ed saw it happen, and had the broken mirror in his possession. There wasn't another, much more plausible, explanation staring him in the face.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Improbable events do happen. I often think of a question posed by Ed Egelman when I was in grad school: "What's the probability of a runaway horse from the New Haven Police Dept. knocking the side view mirror off of my car when galloping down Whitney Avenue?" It's very low, but it happened. 4/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The scenario is an infected lab worker starting a lone super-spreader event at a non-crowded place on the other side of town in a city of 13M people, where that super-spreader location is *also* the place where a natural spillover would happen. It's an implausible scenario that demands evidence 3/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Not at their workplace, nor even on the same side of the river as their workplace, nor along public transit between their workplace and the market. No other lab worker not living near the market would have been infected and transmitted that infection elsewhere. 2/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It's not just a series of events for which there is no evidence (a lab worker living near the market). That lab worker would have to have been infected *and* to have transmitted that infection at (and only at) exactly the location where a natural spillover would be most likely to occur. 1/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My longer response is to your other reply bsky.app/profile/gtuc...

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I should add that a universal counter-argument to this is that the HSM spillover also requires a Rube Goldberg chain of events because the intermediate host hasn't been identified. Unfortunately, most of what could have identified a host at the time was actively destroyed. /fin

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I don't know if you've ever taken a subway or bus in a major Chinese city, but I can attest that doing so is a *crowded* experience. The scenario of #3 is not "excluded" as a possibility, but requires a chain of events that is a veritable Rube Goldberg machine 6/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Which brings us to your #3. The HSM was largely though not exclusively wholesale. It was not a crowded shopping centre. The #3 scenario involves *infected* WIV staff (none are known) travelling to HSM and triggering a super-spreader event at HSM and nowhere else. 5/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The WIV lab is not only a considerable distance away from the market, it's on the other side of the Yangtze river. If cases of a prion disease were seen at and around a meat packing plant in Brooklyn, one shouldn't immediately blame researchers at the Rockefeller in Manhattan 4/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A counter-argument has invoked other unrelated labs closer to the market like the Wuhan CDC, but they didn't do any virology work. (To say the least, suggesting other unrelated labs doesn't strengthen an argument against WIV) 4/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

For a lab leak, it needs explanation, which leads us to your #2. The WIV laboratory was not near the market. Driving from the lab to the market takes about half an hour. Public transit somewhat longer. 3/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

by that I mean with the wet market at the center of the distribution of residences. There have been a variety of counter-arguments to the analyses that reached these conclusions, but those counter-arguments are weak or wrong. For a natural spillover, this biogeography makes sense 2/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Using your enumeration, #1 is true, #2 is not, and #3 is *mostly* not and largely a distraction. Starting with #1: yes, the majority of known early cases (including early hospitalised cases) had connections to the wet market. Those who were not connected lived "around" the wet market, and 1/

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

At a one geographic scale, biogeography locates the early outbreak in Wuhan. With that virtually everyone is agreed. That's usually where the biogegraphy argument *for* a lab leak begins and ends. But biogeography doesn't respect city boundaries, and neither should the use of it.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I think for that one should look outside the phylogenetic analysis alone and consider consilience from multiple lines of evidence. The biogeography of early cases is explained by a natural origin but not by a lab origin.

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Very interesting and appealing paper for many reasons. So far my only critique is the use of paperpile for links to references.

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Shu-Sin Chng @figlegend.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Our latest work on the bacterial Tol-Pal complex now published! Kudos & congrats to the brilliant @weeboont.bsky.social! We can (finally) confidently assign the true function of Tol-Pal in maintaining OM lipid homeostasis, independent of cell division! 👇 1/7 #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Primary role of the Tol-Pal complex in bacterial outer membrane lipid homeostasis - Nature Communications

The Tol-Pal complex is important for multiple cellular processes in Gram-negative bacteria, but its molecular functions remain unclear. Here, Tan & Chng provide experimental evidence supporting th...

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Yes. I added credits to the graph created over on Xitter. But I hadn't seen the full deets at the time

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Who is fact-checking Trump's fake trade numbers country by country? #Singapore doesn't impose a tariff on US imports and has *never* run a trade surplus with the US, but Trump imposed a 10% tariff based on a fabricated 10% tariff on US exports to Singapore.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Disgusting beyond words..

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

For those Americans who don't give a shit about either humanitarian aid or the people of Myanmar, can you at least see how dismantling USAID weakens the US internationally?

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Greg Tucker-Kellogg @gtuckerkellogg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Singapore, an island nation of < 6 million people, has sent an 80 person team from its civil defense, while the US has sent nothing.

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