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Something good has to happen eventually

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I say this verbatim to my white girlfriend when she gets mad at me for not doing the dishes

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Whito is in angry mood. 😡

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hard to believe they announced they’re gonna boil jensen huang live on tv in a big pot of broth with a goodly mix of onions, garlic and other aromatics but its true

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The Carp is Back

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@AMartinezArias I agree with your point but you’re greatly selling short the complexity of even the molecular level here. Speaking as a biophysicist, I find that cell people tend to underestimate just how complex, unpredictable, and seemingly random biomolecular behavior is.

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@andimgladofit ‘Fellow in Campus Freedom’ is very possibly the worst job title I’ve ever seen.

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had the thought this afternoon id love to have a coffee that does the opposite of what a coffee does. like just winds you down a bit. then realized that from a great distance i was approaching the concept of a beer

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No opinions on grad stipends at this time but I will say when I first moved to Toronto for my postdoc my boss was paying me a fat $42k CAD a year. He would have continued to do so if CUPE didn’t come through to raise the floor to $50k, just enough to survive on in the city

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hard to believe they announced they’re gonna boil jensen huang live on tv in a big pot of broth with a goodly mix of onions, garlic and other aromatics but its true

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Risotto is a beautiful name for a baby girl

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@poppy_haze To be fair the going rate for postdoc work here is $60-70k lol. Still I’d expect a PhD with AI/ML experience to probably break 6 figures in Toronto

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NIST enforcers are going to round me up and put me in a camp

[Director Michael Kratsios @mkratsios47]

Today, we released the National Policy for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening to protect American biotechnology innovation while reducing the risk of misuse.

This policy establishes a new, government-wide screening requirements for synthetic DNA and the equipment used to make it. It will ensure companies selling nucleic acid sequences and synthesis equipment know their customers and prevent the malicious use of these materials and tools.

This policy strengthens our Nation’s biosecurity posture by establishing rigorous U.S. government-wide procurement screening and physical security standards for synthetic biology. It replaces outdated “self-attestation” systems with robust, independent verification. It creates a dynamic, SI-powered screening layer that assesses the biological risk from nucleic acid sequences, allowing the U.S. to anticipate and prevent malicious use and help stop dangerous gain-of-function research.

@NIST will issue rigorous new screening standards and @HHSGov and @USDA will certify synthetic biology providers. Together, these measures will strengthen American biosecurity, safeguard responsible innovation, and establish a global standard for safe and transparent synthetic biology tools and research.

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@alexbronzini Hell no need to go to the south you can find white guys who talk like that in indiana

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I think just for fun we should have an election where time zones are swapped and people have to try to read tea leaves about turnout in Washington to make early sweeping generalizations about the whole country

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Not sure that's quite right!

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I’m being harassed over email by a beautiful woman by the name of ORCID

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This is what set everything in motion in Poland btw

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Dawid, a 26-year-old gray seal, found his fall spirit by rolling around in fallen leaves at a Polish zoo.

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(guy who know’s he is destined to be killed by a horse) Why do they call them ‘diary’ and ‘livery’ when you write about what you LIVEd in the Diary and you DIE at the Livery

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He also wore the same attack on titan survey corps jacket to every (daily) class. No joke in 3 years of seeing him 4-5 times a week I don’t think I ever saw him without it on. Nice guy though!

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I took several years (!) of Japanese with a guy who just absolutely refused to do the ambiguous r/l sound. I get why! If you lean into it you sound like you’re doing the racist bit from A Christmas Story. By the third year though it got absurd, at some point you gotta commit

[Nick @fin0cchi0]

In order to properly speak a foreign language you sort of have to do an impression of a native speaker. The reason why most anglos are so bad at languages is because they are too self-conscious to effectively do this

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Jamon Beurre is a beautiful name for a baby girl