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Daniel Asarnow

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Postdoctoral scholar in Veesler Lab @ UWa. Former UCSF Biophysics & SFSU & UCSC Biochemistry student & Exploratorium Explainer. He/him. I take tiny pictures, in 2 & 3 dimensions. https://github.com/asarnow

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · Dec 30

Apoferritin on the rocks ❄️🧊🔬

Cryo-EM image of apoferritin particles partly overshadowed by two nanoscale crystals of cubic ice. Some ApoF particles are strikingly visible even through the "ice cubes."

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

It was 😱

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

That sounds ominous

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

Bizarre - but at least the most conservative one is still there

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

Fyi the scientist who coined the term "FSC" says GS actually stands for "golden stardust"

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

Not yet anyway, but I remembered reading about this likelier seeming hypothesis

academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

With more resources it might not be unique!

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

Sounds like we need 9 more JWSTs

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

Sounds like we need 9 more JWSTs

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 3h

It appears the oil share of GDP in Texas is ~3-5 times less than the other two (~6% vs ~20% for Rus and ~30% for SA). For comparison, Canada's is ~5-8% (of $2.25T) and Norway ~17% (~$0.5T), while in truly diversified California the number is ~0.3% (~$4.2T).

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 4h

Perhaps the original F-14 air data computer, arguably the first microprocessor, which was in use about 2 years before the Intel 4004 (with ~30x fewer transistors) was released. Conversely it was totally outdated by the time it was declassified 30 years later.

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 5h

Lol

Screen cap of paper information. Received, 6 May, 2020. Accepted, 6 September, 2021.

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 9h

I still sign the way it looked on a DMV pad that was showing its age in 2005

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 21h

Let's not forget the UK appears to have a significant output gap - there should be a lot of room to spend more. Idk why your politicians are all still addicted to austerity in 2025

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 21h

IMO the regular spending and monetary policy management approach Greenspan alluded to, which we already use for SNAP, the DoD, etc, would be preferable to the Pigouvian tax against employment & low/middle labor income we have now

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 21h

Our society has decided some consumption should be transferred from working to retired people: that is the tax in real terms

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 1d

Well, the density there is 6.5/ha & none of the people complaining are neighbors of the site. If Fairfax starts growing again there will probably be apartments *off* SFDB too - being exurban won't prevent apartment construction if there's a need (and shouldn't)

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 1d

Fairfax is practically the definition of exurban, though to be clear I think they should allow the building

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 1d

“First of all, you never have to default because you print the money, I hate to tell you, OK?”

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 1d

This fallacy is also apparently destroying England

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 1d

"A state" cannot but some states have extremely large real economies (and security forces with global reach) so there's a bit of a continuum there

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 1d

I may have downloaded it from that site when I was in college, but didn't remember. I should have posted *before* the discussion!

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 2d

FYI, the bank bailout was enacted before Obama was even elected, let alone inaugurated as president. He does deserve some blame (alongside the usual suspects) for the anemic American Recovery & Reinvestment Act stimulus of 2009, unfortunately only ~1/3 the size needed to avert a lost decade

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the "bank bailout of 2008" or the "Wall Street bailout", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great Recession, which created federal programs to "bail out" failing financial institutions and banks. The bill was proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, passed by the 110th United States Congress, and was signed into law by President George W. Bush. It became law as part of Public Law 110-343 on October 3, 2008. It created the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) whose funds would purchase toxic assets from failing banks. The funds were mostly directed to inject capital into banks and other financial institutions as the Treasury continued to review the effectiveness of targeted asset-purchases.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 2d

Tbf the projections in the EMDB report look pretty much exactly the same

Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 2d

For example if I claim a certain method leads to uninterpretable maps, I should be able to corroborate that by depositing the bad maps

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 2d

One way to think about it is that mandatory, but author-directed deposition (with merely advisory validation), ensures we can both work out cases like this one and deposit whatever is necessary to support any kind of result

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Daniel Asarnow @dabiophysicist.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely, fun read! Great names mentioned too (Lily Jan consistently sits on *a lot* of thesis committees👸)