I have most of my lab working on one project so we can get it out soon. Today, we got scooped. Devastated.

Hey Buzz, how is a Trump administration going to prioritize human spaceflight while cutting 2 trillion from the federal budget? To cut that much you have to cut all discretionary spending, including NASA. Last I checked rockets are expensive.

Hmm, I wonder which color is for the reference gene?

Somehow, I've managed to teach today and run a PCR (gel and all). Is my phone nearly dead already? Yes. Have I done anything else productive? No

WTF is wrong with men in this country?

How am I going to break this to my daughter? How do I explain that this despicable person is going to be president again? That a lot of people, especially men, could put aside his racism, misogyny, and fascism, and vote for him. Or did they vote for him because of those things?

Nerd thought, I think we are at the 'Great Filter'. I'm not sure we are going to make it past it at the rate we are going.

We are about to get a lot of analysis and punditry to explain the election results. Let me simplify it for everyone - it's sexism.

I'm thinking of shifting careers. I figure a job as a truck lift-kit salesperson would be more in line with the interests of our society, or maybe a job in the iron lung industry. There's gonna be a lot of demand there soon.

This evening, the newest Cottrell Lab graduate student, Cassandra Smoak, will be presenting poster 402. Over the last few months she has been evaluating a recently published ADAR1 inhibitor - ZYS-1. I'll let her tell you if it is a good inhibitor or not... #RNA25