When natural selection trumps sexual selection...

Times I’ve seen a woman harassing a man via DM on twitter: 0 Times I have heard of a man harassing a woman on DM: too many I don’t know men in my circle who have done this. But I also don’t know many men aware of the extent of the problem. Be aware. Help it stop. # MeTooSTEM

Right now huge parts of the Arctic are burning. This is not only devastating for the people who live there, and the ecosystems. But also because this emits enormous amounts of greenhouse gasses. Such as methane gas, escaping from rapidly thawing arctic permafrost.

Editorial: Researchers should draw inspiration from those who fought against nuclear weapon proliferation in the 1950s by asserting that supporting science is “not an issue of left versus right, but of the very survival and prosperity of humanity itself.” go.nature.com/31nSQcS

Our goal is to understand life and disease at atomic detail. We use #cryoEM, #NMR spectroscopy, #Xray #crystallography, #SingleMolecule spectroscopy, #MassSpectrometry and #computational tools to determine the mechanisms underpinning biological function.

Cool video on NMR.

An eighth grade science project evolved into “How to Build a Dragon or Die Trying,” a book authored by a father and daughter that explores how advances in cell biology, CRISPR gene editing and bioengineering might be used to make a live dragon. go.nature.com/2L8jIaD

The goal of our work has always been to keep working. To answer the questions, to question the answers and to never, ever, stop reinventing. Here, progress is always in progress. This is the University of Pittsburgh. #H2P

That co-author that takes forever with the draft x.com/SportsFunnies/…

I’m not a botanist, but here’s my botanical observation and hypothesis: The plant Madagascar Jewel on my window sacrificed its leaf in the middle of the trunk as a mechanism to knock off its seeds to the ground.

The red-capped manakin's "moonwalk" to impress the ladies buff.ly/2uA52f9

This is how much plastic (at a bare minimum) our lab has produced on an average week. This makes >230 pounds a year. Sad that so much plastic is dumped into trash. ⁦Sarah Hainer⁩

Scheduling a meeting by email x.com/buitengebieden…

JBC : Journal of Biological Chemistry m.jbc.org/content/early/…

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The Top Retractions of 2019 | The Scientist Magazine® the-scientist.com/news-opinion/t…

Have you heard about Journal of Lipid Research' new article format, "Images in #Lipid Research?" Each peer-reviewed, one-page article contains a single horizontal image, a 400-word caption and up to four references. Learn more: jlr.org/content/early/….

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