This is cool

3 and a half months...

Luxardo old fashioned

Airlines will now have to provide automatic refunds to travelers if their flights are canceled or significantly altered under new US Department of Transportation rules. trib.al/3woBC7s

New roof

Kissing bugs are the primary vector for Chagas disease. An international team including Jason Rasgon has demonstrated—for the first time—the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in kissing bugs, opening the door to research on applications to control Chagas:

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In My Struggle to Make the Article Shorter, I Made It Much Longer, an Academic Journey

It is very unnerving when the roofers show up and start work. It sounds very wrong.

The dog does not like it. At all.

Yes

Congratulations to David Hughes, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security and professor of entomology and biology, for receiving the 2024 W. LaMarr Kopp International Faculty Achievement Award!

Read more about David at buff.ly/4aqKDZG

Lol

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Damn I just realized I have to buy gefilte fish

Interesting observation. Was going back through my timeline and all the Jill Stein and most of the Bernie stans I was arguing with in 2016 have all had their accounts suspended as bots...

Greece and Germany are my two favorite countries in Europe. I generally spend time in both when I go

The point DM was making is if one is doing one's job you are already applying for as many grants as possible. 'Write more grants' sounds suspiciously like rich people telling poor people 'have you tried not being poor?'

Or maybe you're not writing as many grants as possible now?

Jason Rasgon ReMOT The CRISPR Journal CRISPR is wild.

Thrilled to be a co-author on this new paper discussing the effects of urban induced mutations on health, ecology and evolution, out today in NatureEcoEvo led by Marc Johnson. nature.com/articles/s4155…