μL @muliter.bsky.social · 1hOn a more literal note, it seems as if this strain of Bundibugyo ebolavirus is not as obviously in-your-face-ebola as Zaire (eg lack of bleeding). Also seems pt had been sick for some time (which strikes me as non-ebola-like) 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 1hI listen to This Week in Virology occasionally and I like that they really really hammer on the point that diseases don't respect borders and that "nobody is safe until everybody is safe". 100
Reposted by μLKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 7hTo put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 3816781101
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 22hsomething something gap between the intelligence of the smartest bear and dumbest human etc 030
Reposted by μLNPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Look Rock Webcam, Great Smoky Mountains National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #GreatSmokyMountains 042
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I looked it up and .vcf was taken by the virtual contact file back in the late 90's, way before variant call files were invented! Looks like somebody forgot to check which acronyms had already been taken. oops! 010
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I was always so confused as to why my variant call files were showing up as contacts, but today I noticed that the format on the finder window showed the files were showing up as "vCard" 110
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It continues to be crazy to me that nobody is really doing anything about this. Do first world countries actually think that this will go away if they ignore it? Do they think diseases respect borders? More importantly, do they think they are morally absolved of doing nothing?!? 000
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026have you tried the trader joes mango ice cream bars? they are very good 010
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026and fill a small pool with them so i can dive into it like scrooge mcduck 000
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Gonna come back from japan one day with a suitcase full of pens 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I wanna watch a full-length documentary about niche japanese office supplies. 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I realized this when reading The Overstory by Richard Powers. (imo overall a very overwrought and self-important book). The one part of it that i really liked was where two of the characters grew a tree in a large wheelbarrow or something and every year they would re-weigh it. 010
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026American chestnuts through breeding in the resistance genes from the Chinese chestnut, and also by leveraging a few surviving/resistant American chestnut elders. The article is fairly dense (sorry), but all you REALLY need to look at is the abstract and fig 1.science.orgGenomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restorationMore than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai... 000
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ohhhh this is so so sad. I like your poetry about it. I always thought the mode of the blight was particularly cruel, seedlings are able to grow into saplings, but are killed before adulthood. Some hope for you - there has been a massive effort to breed resistant 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think I'm going to do a longer thread that's more put-together later this month when I've finished the book. Happy October to all Survivors and Previvors! 000
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think we should all take a moment to reflect on where lax regulations on corporations gets us. It gets us weasels like this crawling out of the woodwork trying to sell the concept of knowing our very bodies back to us. 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Mark had been doing this with BRCA1 and BRCA2 (among others) and charging $3,100 (back in the early 00's) because he could. 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Mark Skolnick had not patented a technology to do the test - he had patented the concept of finding out about one's BRCA genotype. Essentially legalized extortion. 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Until the ACLU challenged this little man, companies could patent (un-modified)human genes, and essentially force you to use them to test your DNA if you wanted to know your own genotype. 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I went into this adventure already knowing (and hating) some about Myriad, but Jesus Christ. i mean... watch this and tell me he isn't the worst little weasel on the planet www.youtube.com/watch?v=wffd...youtube.comIn the Family (2008) | A Visit to Myriad GeneticsYouTube video by Kartemquin 100
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Because it's breast cancer awareness month, I'm currently reading The Genome Defense by Jorge L. Contreras - which is about the whole Myriad Genetics being a BRCA patent troll and the ACLU suing them about it thing.genomedefense.orgTHE GENOME DEFENSE - BY JORGE L. CONTRERAS - INSIDE THE EPIC LEGAL BATTLE TO DETERMINE WHO OWNS YOUR DNAThe Genome Defense, by Jorge L. Contreras - a lively narrative account of the ACLU's lawsuit against Myriad Genetics that went to the Supreme Court and ended gene patenting in America. 120
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The fact that this man was denied ignorance to his bad deeds through a slim chance is momentarily satisfying in a poetic way, but more broadly gut-wrenching, as I am reminded of all the other voters like him, unaware, going about their lives, ready to cause more harm again. 050
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Something about how this world works that angers me so much: the people and institutions responsible for the most harm are often removed enough from it that they face no direct consequences for what they have done, and are, in fact given the gift of being allowed ignorance of their transgressions 280
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Does anybody know of any good advanced #genetics lectures that are available on youtube? I want something to listen to while I'm doing other stuff, but all I'm finding is intro stuff. It's really hard to find either upper level lectures or quality seminar series. 000
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026did the dark purple come from the same plants or pods as the lighter purple. it would be an interesting thing if they did 121
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026how many ferns require SEM or high mag microscopy to definitively ID? 110
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026getting an email from Slurm User two minutes after submitting your job is never a good sign 000
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026static.klipy.comPatrick Star Asks 'Who Are You People?'Alt: Patrick Star Asks 'Who Are You People?' 040
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think the LLM people have been trying to deliberate muddy those waters, and the science-adjacent media sure seems to be complicit in adopting this wording. 030
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the "clean ingredient"/"natural product" thing truly has gone too far 000
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026though...the guy was a maniac terrorist, so perhaps this was a deliberate cinematic choice to highlight his instability 010
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i think if i were pipetting anthrax, i'd be gripping the P200 a bit tighter. 110
Reposted by μLthe corghoul from cowboy beBOO! 👻 @realqrampage.fightins.online · 27/09/2026anyways, abolish greek life 416711
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Probably www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jD...youtube.comI am 30 or 40 years old - Aqua Teen Hunger ForceYouTube video by Saving You From Yourselves 010
μL @muliter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026trying to fish out a usable fraction of product for the gel when drops the oil have somehow got mixed up in the aqueous layer, and then failing, so the oil rises out of the gel well, dragging the product with it 🫠 010
