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 · 18/08/2026A previous decade’s internet might be of service here: ask.metafilter.com/298925/Frien...ask.metafilter.comFriend acquires a lot of cheese. What to do with it?For complicated / irrelevant reasons a friend has suddenly acquired 18 pounds of Red Leicester cheese. It is good quality. However (again, complicated reasons) the cheese must be moved, used or... 231
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Well I just learned western water rights are essentially use it or lose it format from this thread so I can confirm my prior assumptions assumed the situation was less insane yes 1160
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026But you gotta admit they’re in the marginal zone at best 140
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026You guys, these jokes are bad. Lacking any innate humor. I can only assume finding these funny is more of an acquired response. 140
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Anyone who knows an immunologist knows if they discovered this they’d immediately insist on using the acronym GTiRS or something 2150
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Precautionary spinal tap had better have been an automatic A. 080
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
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I wonder what percent of tubes and boxes had to be incinerated for poor labeling alone 1300
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... 12611
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
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026You gotta pay extra for that sweet laser background 010
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 16/06/2026How much could 4 peacocks and some eels cost, Michael 020
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 · 05/06/2026I’ve checked and she can confirm that news would NOT be embargoed 120
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
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 29/05/2026An advance team will be sent ahead to every building I enter that is >1 story tall to install a fire pole, slide, or zip line for my exit route. These will be built to engineering code, insured, and maintained at every location just in case I return. 🛝 000
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
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Longevity’s a hot field right now, you’re one Tolkien proper name and a PhD away from that sweet startup $$$ 3301
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Cool tech for the right applications. Need to be whitelisting ~10%+.of your reads, have your reads be long enough that it’s useful to eject them, and be prepared for it to run your GPUs hard aligning and evaluating the read content. Last I checked it’s ~4x enrichment for DNA. Clogs pores faster. 021
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 13/05/2026At that rate you could charge people to sponsor the rescue puppy booth 000
Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This is a great idea and Zamboni is an incredible name for a dog. 000
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) 341793575
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