Science Words of the Day from rogue members of @Choano_Lab, now working from home. Accuracy not guaranteed.
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I made a video about the CRISPR patent dispute. Parody of "Obedient Servant" from the musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
youtu.be/rAyZys1CIcU
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Happy belated winter solstice to all! Except of course to whomever came up with the Gene Ontology category "biological process". That person only gets wishes of undetermined future life events with unspecified valence.
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Don't say "Some people think Mendel faked his statistics" but "Mendel's experiments showed questionable pea values".
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I’m such an introvert when I gastrulated all my cells wanted to be endoderm
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having a segmented body plan is just repeating the same error 20 times
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little-known fact: after the bead is done rolling down the Waddington landscape, it falls into an infinite, glacial void
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sometimes I wake up in the morning wishing the Cambrian explosion had never happened
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neurons are a major evolutionary innovation without which animals would never have been able to contemplate the extent of their despair
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Jacob and Monod often went for long horse rides together; and they affectionately called their horses "our lack-toes transporters".
Lactose (v. ph.): something true of most horses.
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Erratum: due to a technical issue at our printing facility, the cartoon was unfortunately omitted in today's word. Thanks to our regular readers who pointed out the mistake. It should have been:
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By practicing Total Internal Reflection, our physics editor @BEuplotes has learned that his anxieties are only surface-deep.
Total Internal Reflection (n.): a state of profound introspection.
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Today's word is frequently observed in biology labs.
Pseudopod (n.): when you pretend to be listening to a podcast in order to not speak to your colleagues.
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In anticipation of @nickingolia's talk later today, we've done him the favor of making him a background slide, free of charge.
Translational profiling (n.): Condescension towards people with mistranslated tattoos.
