Amr Aswad

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[Tax Justice Network Bsky: @taxjustice.net @TaxJusticeNet]

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[Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro @LedesmaAmaro]

Don’t miss the February issue of @CellSystemsCP! It is all about microbial communities! 🦠 Cool perspectives & reviews and many different opinions on the “key challenges for engineering microbiomes” (including my two cents on the topic). 👇🏼

https://t.co/8tOxbq4HdJ

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

@Mahan_Ghafari @ArisKatzourakis I can’t wait for the pictures of a diesel generator outside Peter Medawar with a sign that says “please switch off after convergence”

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

And you could totally add layers to this by considering the underlying genotype as well as things like the influence of variables external to the enzymes involved

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

Hey science twitter - is there such a thing as a synteny analysis for a metabolic pathway? Like not synteny of the genes in the genome but more like elements/steps in the pathway? Wouldn’t that be cool?! Someone help me elaborate this thought!

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

So we could line up the same pathway across different species and examine the differences, such as when an enzyme is lost or perhaps gains a certain function. We could call it comparative metabolics?

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

@DrCJ_Houldcroft 🤓

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

@mbeisen To trap bureaucrats in an Infinity loop of sending and receiving forms to each other while the rest of society moves on

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

This wins Twitter

[Aris Katzourakis @ArisKatzourakis]

I think the prime minister has simply accepted that resignations are endemic, and he will learn to live with them.

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

Can you still be prime minister if you don’t have ministers 🤔

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

@ArisKatzourakis Haha i remember that one

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

Evo-devo hypothesis: human children develop their front teeth first so they can bite their siblings effectively.

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

Refreshing to read an opinion on this question which doesn’t just say what we want to hear. The bottom line is - there are still many unknowns, and the virus has already shown that it can surprise us.

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[Zac Swider @ZacSwider]

Starfish blastula labeled with probes for DNA and microtubules 🧵

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

@TomOrrell86 I still derive value from the diagnosis, and the management tools that go with it, but i certainly prefer to integrate the symptoms into the full range of my personality traits, rather than see them as separate. I know this isn’t exactly a hot take but I just thought I’d share

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

@TomOrrell86 I don’t know if this is at all an appropriate comparison but with ADHD and a history of psychosis, I have found peace with seeing these not as things I have or have had, but rather just aspects of my psyche that contribute to who I am.

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

It’s not even funny how often people ask me if/when this will happen. Evolution only works like this in the Upsidedown

[Aris Katzourakis @ArisKatzourakis]

Milder and less transmissible variant discovered today that will sweep the globe and replace all existing strains.

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

1,5 meters social distance, or: 4 robots with mustard. ???

[Amr Aswad @AmrAswad]

@TomOrrell86 Fairuz!