Your reminder that these slideshows are only possible because our roads are designed like high speed freeways intersecting at massive intersections which prioritize traffic flow over any kind of safety infrastructure.

Excited to see our LARP1 manuscript published at The EMBO Journal. We show that LARP1 directly binds non-translating ribosomes and TOP mRNAs. An excellent collaboration with the Jingdong Cheng lab! embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Check out our paper in this month's issue of RNA! We found that the translation elongation inhibitor emetine stabilizes hundreds of mRNAs many of which encode C2H2 zinc fingers! rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/30/12/…

Double whammy! 🧬 Our latest collaboration with the Zaher/Beckmann/Inada labs reveals how Mbf1/EDF1 senses ribosome collisions to promote Gcn2 activation, allowing optimal induction of eIF2α phosphorylation and de-repression of GCN4 translation. cell.com/molecular-cell…

Please: 1) take 10 minutes to fill out this survey about the future of transportation in the Baltimore Metro 2) Send the link to one friend and ask them to complete it publicinput.com/whatif

Allow this video of a light rail vehicle stuck at a red light downtown, slowing down its journey to BWI for everyone onboard, to frustrate you enough to take action and fill out this survey! Prioritize transit, and make it a major part of Maryland’s future.

Four pedestrians have died after they were struck by vehicles while trying to walk across the portion of Belair Road that cuts through Baltimore City this month. Really, they all happened within roughly three weeks. Three weeks and a day to be exact. foxbaltimore.com/news/local/fou…

17 years and counting to study building a bike lane 🙃

Shame the road diet on this corridor was dismissed by Mayor Pugh. Instead the limited traffic calming that did exist was removed. Since then: more speeding, a building struck, a crossing guard hit, a pedestrian fatality.

It feels like 20° outside with 20mph winds. I'm told that's too cold to bike so Baltimore shouldn't invest in bike infrastructure. Yet I had 8 people in front of me and 5 people behind me in a single block while the car lane was empty?

The streets of Baltimore City were illuminated not just by lights but by the vibrant energy of residents coming together for a shared purpose during a community bike ride on Friday evening. wmar2news.com/homepage-showc…

Baltimore's drop in homicides - 23% since last year and a staggering 40% from two years ago - should be a national story. Mayor Scott's Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which prioritizes resources to those most at risk and community engagement, should be studied and replicated.

Horrifying. It shouldn’t be possible to be able to drive this close to crowds on the most famous street in the country. Bollards and GPS limiters should be everywhere there. How awful for NOLA. So awful.

Americans refuse retractable bollards to protect pedestrians because we are not a society that takes *individual responsibility* for anything. If a driver slams into a barrier, they blame *the barrier*. Insurance companies don’t want bollards, or any safe infrastructure

I love this idea that folks getting around on $500 bicycles are “a middle-class pressure group” while people getting around in $50,000 motor vehicles are… what, salt-of -the-earth working-class stiffs?

In lieu of a formal meeting, BaltPOP will be attending the second annual City for All Forum on Saturday, January 25th @ 10am at the Johns Hopkins Hospital campus. Registration is required to attend! Check out this topic on our forums for details: groups.io/g/baltpop/topi…

Baltimore residents: If the snow plow misses your street in coming days, you can submit a 311 request online under "Streets & Street lights" --> "# Snow or Icy Conditions on City Streets." Baltimore City DOT balt311.baltimorecity.gov/citizen/s/

Wow. So when we get serious about funding City Schools, we get some of the fastest improvements in performance in the country. That's awesome.

NIH funding creates medicines, jobs, and economic growth

This is my MBP (minimum bikable product): the fewest extra bike lines required for me to be able to do ~90% of my trips on a cycle track