Yuki Tamura

田村優樹 / Associate Professor at Nippon Sport Science University (日本体育大学) / Exercise Metabolism / Bioenergetics

[4Gamer @4GamerNews]

大学教員として研究室を構え，ゼミ指導から論文発表まで体験できる。放置型シミュレーション「教授シミュレーター」，2026年6月8日に発売
https://t.co/73n3CTeeMc

日本語に対応し，体験版も配信中

[Sholto David @addictedtoigno1]

Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures", but their own internal data.

[David J. Castillo-Cornejo PhD. 🔬 @davesnetvault]

I bring to you: Light driven SDS-PAGE polymerization. No TEMED, No APS, no stinky neurotoxic curing reagents: Just clean light and fast photo polymerization (Curing time: 15 min). No federal funding no stupid COÑASHIT, no academic clowns. Independent science!

[Banana @banana_baeee]

Guys look Claude helped me - a random guy in his basement - build a wetlab and do vibe genomics!

I sequenced my whole genome despite zero lab experience, without my DNA leaving home!

I put together my notes and a step by step guide here:

https://t.co/T5x6PKkwjW

It was a lot easier than I was expecting!

Ultimately I hit ~16x coverage and compared my results against my 600k raw 23andme SNPs, and it held up!

[TCN @TCN_Kyoto_TPU]

流石にかなり尾ひれがついている気もするのですが...。
https://t.co/Gt7BaVzEYx

[TCN @TCN_Kyoto_TPU]

筑波は割とシムシティみたいな感覚で作られているイメージです。噂では「研究者は研究だけ出来ればいい」というのを真に受けた田中角栄が研究施設「しか」誘致しなかったら招いた研究者が次々と死んでしまって、生活に必要な店や飲み屋を慌てて誘致したらあんまり死ななくなったという伝説があります。

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

[村山茂樹 @Clunio]

ペテン師扱いされがちな野口英世だけど、実は免疫学分野でノーベル賞級の業績を残している。補体反応の発見である。しかし難解な免疫学の基礎生物学的な業績であるため、生物学の専門教育を受けた人のさらに一部にしか認識されていない。

[どんちゃん @Donchan1242]

怪しいシンポジウムの座長

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Lifting weights is associated with better academic performance.

[佐久間 @keisankionwykip]

【続編】統計警察になった大槻班長vsカイジ

[佐久間 @keisankionwykip]

カイ二乗検定(カイジじょうけんてい)するカイジ

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

A Brief History of Parafilm (for the upcoming @AsimovPress book, "Making the Modern Laboratory.")

In 1830, a German chemist named Carl Reichenbach (who spent decades of his life extracting various chemicals from tar, for some reason) cooled petroleum and noticed that a thick layer of wax formed on top. He dubbed this wax paraffin, from the Latin for parum and affinis, meaning “very little” and “lacking affinity.”

Paraffin remained quite obscure until 1859, when Edwin L. Drake drilled the first-ever oil well in the small town of Titusville, Pennsylvania. In the decades following, as hundreds of oil wells sprung up across America, paraffin wax became an extremely common byproduct of oil manufacturing. And since it is entirely odorless, this wax was commonly used to make candles.

Paraffin was also used, oddly enough, in some historic physics experiments. In 1932, for example, James Chadwick, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, used paraffin to discover the neutron. He stuffed chunks of wax inside his neutron detector, and then blasted a beryllium target with radioactive particles. Chadwick detected neutrons after the high-speed particles “dislodged protons from a piece of the wax.”

The word “parafilm” -- that ubiquitous thing that scientists use today to seal flasks, due to its ability to allow gases through while blocking liquids -- was first trademarked by the Marathon Paper Mills company in 1934. The company marketed it as a moisture-proof, self-sealing wrapper. But initially, it was marketed not to scientists but rather to sailors, primarily for map mounting.

Sailors would place a flat layer of parafilm between a map and fabric, and then apply a hot iron for about ten seconds. The parafilm wax would partially melt and join the map to the fabric, making it more resilient to saltwater and harsh ocean winds. Even today, the parafilm recipe is closely guarded. What we know for certain, based on chemical analyses, is that parafilm is made from 56 percent wax and 44 percent polyolefins, and that it has a boiling point above 550 degrees Fahrenheit.

In the 1950s, the Marathon Paper Mills Company sold its Wisconsin plant (and the rights to manufacture parafilm) to the American Can Company, one of the largest military contractors during World War II. Around the same time, advertisements for parafilm began appearing in magazines, including Scientific American. A 1952 advertisement touted parafilm as a “wonder material” for sealing flasks and culture dishes, and also as “airtight,” even though it is permeable to gases.

The rights to manufacture parafilm passed around to various companies until Amcor, one of the world’s largest packaging companies, bought the rights for $5.25 billion in 2019. Today, parafilm is manufactured in a factory located about 40 miles southwest of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Adapted from an essay I co-wrote with @Meta_Celsus a couple years ago!

[🥺ぴえんねずみ🐀🍝 @pien_nezumi]

P20のピペットマンで注射しててごっつおもろい

[MTG全1のジョン（ナカヤマ サトシ） @AcediaSloth]

早稲田でもあったなこういうチェーン式
『これを使う必要がある時に君たちの肘から先が残ってる保証はないのでこう言うデザインになってます。君たちはこう言うところにハンドルをつけるような設計をしないようにしてください』
的な工学部ジョークを言われた記憶

[電ファミニコゲーマー @denfaminicogame]

「世界最強のエクセル使い」を決めるeスポーツ大会が意味不明すぎた。あらゆる関数を駆使→熾烈なサバイバルを繰り広げる
https://t.co/7EZOWyPUqL

12月3日に行われた今年度の決勝では、エクセル猛者が「折り紙」を題材にした課題に挑戦。なお、ファイナルラウンド（準々決勝）には日本人も初進出した

[さくら🌸医療統計・データサイエンス @Sakura_Med_DSci]

うおおお～～！！！！
PubMedが更新再開されたっぽい。
米政府の閉鎖が解除されたからですね。良かった良かった。

[Joseph Moran @MoranLabChem]

They say grad students start to resemble their chemicals.

Very creative, Jack!

Happy Halloween!