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Dan Udwary
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Natural products biosynthesis and computational biologist at JGI. Host of naturalprodcast.com My account, not my employer's. Also @danudwary@mstdn.science
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But will she do a dance party?

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Something small but BIG you can do to help defeat Trump? VOTE AS EARLY AS YOU CAN. By voting early, you get your name off of the get-out-the-vote lists of D orgs, which means they can focus on folks who haven't voted. And early voting helps defeat R plans to suppress the vote on Election Day!

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So. Here it is. The ABSOLUTELY nuttiest study we have ever done in my 25+ years as a scientist working on mosquitoes "Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes" Let's dive into the paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes
Revisiting the paradigm of anhematophagy in male mosquitoes

Female mosquitoes are reproductively obligate bloodfeeders which feed on vertebrate blood to obtain nutrients required for egg production (driving transmission of vector-borne pathogens in the process...

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Just noticed the AlphaFold paper has 19 authors who "contributed equally" but only two of them get part of the Nobel Prize 🤔 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧬🖥️

These authors contributed equally: John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, Russ Bates, Augustin Žídek, Anna Potapenko, Alex Bridgland, Clemens Meyer, Simon A. A. Kohl, Andrew J. Ballard, Andrew Cowie, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Rishub Jain, Demis Hassabis
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And if you don't live 100 miles from the coast, then you're probably in either tornado country or wildfire country.

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The body has a way of shutting all that down, too, I hear.

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Yeah, pretty weird. What kind of organism?

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If he didn't have teeth, he would be saying "Ith clobbering thime!" So, teeth.

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OK. I don't think you owe it to them, either. I just don't think a lot of them are a lost cause, and if we can somehow get it through their skulls, Trump loses in a landslide. Doesn't solve the American Fascism problem, but it's a necessary step.

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Dan Udwary
@danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com
Natural products biosynthesis and computational biologist at JGI. Host of naturalprodcast.com My account, not my employer's. Also @danudwary@mstdn.science
378 followers1.2k following817 posts