Reposted by Laura WhiteCraig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I am going down the rabbit hole on classic Jacob, Monod et al lac operon studies. The cites for isolation of laci (i) mutants are a book chapter + an article in French- does anyone know what the selection/screen was? Was it just use of an indicator plate that could show lactose metabolism+glucose? 352
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Easy to donate blood or platelets at Children’s Hospital if you’re around the Anschutz Medical Campus in CO: giveblood.childrenscolorado.org/donor/schedu...giveblood.childrenscolorado.orgChildren's Hospital Colorado - Donor Portal 053
Reposted by Laura WhiteAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026As a historian of smallpox vaccination who collects vaccination ephemera, this is quite literally something I sometimes have nightmares about 18968173
Reposted by Laura WhitePalaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 20/07/2026#art #drawing #jaguar #blackjaguar #petroglyph #glyph 9668198
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Baby bears for your Saturday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Zr...youtube.comLIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.orgYouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams 050
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Ok first of all, I didn't know that NIH had a 3D print designs library, and second of all 🐸: 3d.nih.gov/entries/3DPX...3d.nih.govNIH 3DNIH 3D 1154
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 14/07/2026At last, I can finally share my big news: I've been selected as one of the 50 scientist-enterpreneurs of Activate's 2026 cohort! At Andon Bio we're tackling an old problem -- why is protein expression so painfully unpredictable? -- with a new angle: 🔎 tRNA dynamics 🔍. activate.org/news/activat...activate.orgActivate Welcomes 50 New Fellows to Cohort 2026Meet the 41 Hard Tech Companies Across 5 Activate Communities 070
Reposted by Laura WhiteMax Fürst @maxfus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Domain swap is a staple in protein engineering. But instead of trial & error, can we predict an ideal crossover w/ comp modeling? Happy to share a wonderful collaboration w/ Jürgen @lassak-lab.bsky.social at my alma mater LMU Munich to convert a protein ligase to an aaRS for β amino acids t.ly/lNpVw 22011
Reposted by Laura WhiteBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 03/07/2026When I explain to peeps how much we do in research labs for how few $$, they simply don’t believe me. I once explained it to a famous person from Pixar, he looked me square in the eye and said “You mean all the cancer, vision, and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be %#ing kidding me!” 8583179
Reposted by Laura WhiteAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 03/07/2026TIL that from 1961 to 2009 there was a bowling alley in Antarctica (at McMurdo station) and it used penguin-themed pins. 221370262
Reposted by Laura WhiteRyan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Taking our first steps towards sequencing the extracellular matrix by “Intact and single-molecule analysis of heparan sulfate” from @phristov.bsky.social in the lab, in collaboration with Miten Jain's lab. "HS-nano-seq" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 12511
Reposted by Laura WhiteDr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Antler tissue is the fastest-growing animal tissue. It can grow at a rate up to 2 cm/day in some species. Despite this very high cell division rate, there are remarkably cancer-free, a paradox that biologists continue to study. Elk can grow a whole 40 lb (18 kg) set in less than 6 months. #mammals 625449
Reposted by Laura WhiteJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 26/06/2026My version of this for how fast airplane technology developed? Orville Wright flew both the Wright Flyer and a Lockheed Constellation 28613147
Reposted by Laura WhiteMichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Our new paper was, by definition, an adventure: stepping outside of our comfort zone, embracing the unknown, and engaging in activities where the outcome is uncertain. Includes discovery of a new species and working with a Native American tribe to name it… 🧵👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comComparative Analysis of Stress Adaptation in the Yeast Microbiome of CactusYeasts and related fungi isolated from cacti or nearby non-cactus plants were characterized phenotypically and genomically, revealing differences that hint at modes of adaptation to the cactus host. 32710
Reposted by Laura White—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 22/06/2026I love this illustration for instance, from The News-Times, Saturday January 14th, 1978. 262
Reposted by Laura WhiteZeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026TusDCB-mediated tRNA sulfur modification is required for virulence and intestinal fitness in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli 🦠 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...journals.asm.orgTusDCB-mediated tRNA sulfur modification is required for virulence and intestinal fitness in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli | Infection and ImmunityEnterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a well-known foodborne pathogen that causes not only severe hemorrhagic diarrhea but also life-threatening complications such as hemolytic uremic syndrome… 053
Reposted by Laura WhiteDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/06/202632 grants on 6/3 and nothing since then. A bit odd, to say the least. 045
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Matt and his growing army of talented junior colleagues will not and perhaps cannot stop coming up with new ways to dissect the complex mechanisms by which cells send RNAs to different subcellular locations. It’s been fun watching Charlie Moffat in his lab systematically chip away at this story. 051
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 09/06/2026the itsy bitsy sisyphus put death in a lock pissed off the gods who handed him a rock cursed for all time to roll it up a hill but the rock just falls back down so he is rolling still 082
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Sitting on some great news I can’t share publicly yet, so in the meantime, here’s a happy dog for your Friday. 3604
Reposted by Laura WhiteSorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Important Canadian journalism. 1132
Reposted by Laura WhiteZamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026This is awful to hear, describing how Sean Eddy (HMMER, infernal, pfam, rfam) has been defunded. The letter said his work "had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated," www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...npr.orgResearchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish scienceEven with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear. 7144112
Reposted by Laura WhiteSarah Ellinwood @sarahellinwood.bsky.social · 13/05/2026#ASGCT2026 had a dedicated area with rescue puppies you could play with and I hereby demand every science conference has this going forward. @darthbluesky.bsky.social 429722
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Imagine pulling up next to what you think is the driver’s side of this little truck. 051
Reposted by Laura WhiteVictoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 03/05/2026'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread) 341791574
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 30/04/2026a dad next to me in line for pizza is explaining, upon preteen prompting, who Chuck Norris is: “what do you mean then he went crazy, dad?” “uhh he just got very political. but anyway you’ve probably heard some memes about him” “like what?” this guy spent his whole 20s preparing for this moment 041
Reposted by Laura Whitelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/04/2026not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer 1444799880
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I know I’m in Georgia because a TSA agent just held up an empty Pepsi bottle that came loose in the scanner and asked the line whose Coke it was. 040
Reposted by Laura WhiteJanne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 30/03/2026This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't 10640821021
Reposted by Laura Whitec0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 23/03/2026If you get your hands on a decent UV flashlight or other UV light source, try pointing it at a bruised banana. You'll have the opportunity to observe a phenomenon called "blue halos of death" caused by cellular senescence & the breakdown of chlorophyll in the fruit peel. Let's talk about it. 926579
Reposted by Laura WhiteChris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 20/03/2026This is just crazy. March 20th. Colorado. 911019
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I filled out my family's college basketball pool bracket based on mascots' abilities to win in head to head competition, so now it's time to reshare the greatest picture ever taken of Uga, the University of Georgia's namesake bulldog. 180
Reposted by Laura WhiteJessica Andreani @jessicaandreani.bsky.social · 18/03/2026🚨Come work with us! 🚨 I2BC is recruiting new team leaders in molecular and cellular biology, with special attention to multidisciplinary approaches and computational biology. 🧬🧪🔬👩🔬🧑💻 We provide a great environment with top-notch technological facilities. 🗓️ Apply by April 22, 2026! 11614
Reposted by Laura WhiteChenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026You know what would be really fun? Synthetic epigenetics. There are so much chemical space to decorate DNA, but most of them are not naturally occurring (e.g., DNA acylation). If we put together a set of writers, readers, and erasers, we can get a whole orthogonal synthetic epigenetic system going. 2103
Reposted by Laura White"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I love this joke. You love this joke. We all do. It is hilarious. Buuuuuut...you know we're about to discuss Roman calendars, right? And that this joke isn't quite right? SO! Let's talk about Roman calendars and why the 'number months' (Sept-Dec) do not match their numbers (7-10)! 1/ 6619199
Reposted by Laura WhiteJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25 49962
Reposted by Laura WhiteJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026New reporting on what has happened to science under the Trump administration and HHS leadership, building on publicly available NIH grants data. Take-away: across-the-board cuts are reducing our capacity to discover & serve. Out today, via @pratik-p.bsky.social 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe... 12112
Reposted by Laura WhitePhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Ye GADS Twin fountains! Spectacular. 618932
Reposted by Laura WhiteMile Sikic @msikic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Transformer-based AI has boosted @nanoporetech.com sequencing accuracy, but at a cost to portability due to GPU demands. Our new work, spearheaded by Sara Bakic, introduces Campolina link.springer.com/article/10.1... to improve nanopore signal segmentation for event-based mappers.link.springer.comCampolina: a deep neural framework for accurate segmentation of nanopore signals - Genome BiologyNanopore sequencing enables real-time, long-read analysis by processing raw signals as they are produced. A key step, segmentation of signals into events, is typically handled algorithmically, struggl... 22314
Reposted by Laura WhiteJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026With these results in hand, we can now reproduce the graph that @joshuasweitz.bsky.social posted. It is still shocking, but we can now understand why it looks the way it does: The number of R01 and R56 awards were down while the number of applications were up. 16/20 11612
Reposted by Laura WhiteJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The plot is only part of the story. The data do not include lost science via terminations, freezes, stalled payments, and award delays. The collapse in awards rates will lead to job loss, gaps in research programs, and drive scientists to spend more time writing grants rather than doing science.report.nih.govNIH Data Book 28724
Reposted by Laura WhiteJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science. 18698420
Reposted by Laura WhiteUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/03/2026David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.” 15684491733
Reposted by Laura WhiteAlex Palazzo @ribonucleicacids.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Just a reminder - Please Register for the 3rd Codon Usage Conference in Montreal, Canada from May 31- June 3, right after the RNA Society Meeting. Even if you can't go, please share! #RNA #RNAsky #RNAbiology sites.google.com/view/codonus...sites.google.comcodon usageAbout the Conference Codon usage bias—the preference for certain synonymous codons—is a key factor in genome regulation. Codon usage and synonymous codon mutations have been shown to influence gene ex... 083
Reposted by Laura WhiteDr. Christian Brandes @christianbrandes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026This periodic table shows the origins(!) of chemical elements: The carbon in your bones was created under extreme conditions within dying stars. The iron in your blood comes from exploding stars & the gold in your teeth from neutron stars. We are literally made of star stuff. #science #sagan #stars 62913