Ollie Rando
@epididymosome.bsky.social
Magic Science Dude, Round 4. Uncouth, spitting out the sunroof through my missing tooth.
Chromatin structure and function, paternal effect paradigms, reproductive biology and lil embryos.
Chromatin structure and function, paternal effect paradigms, reproductive biology and lil embryos.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Possum
Three-legged deer
Blue Heron (?)
Ground bees that seemed to have some kind of little society
Water cockroach that was eating a little fish (horrible)
Bonus:
500 slugs reduced to brothe by vigorous application of salte
Possum
Three-legged deer
Blue Heron (?)
Ground bees that seemed to have some kind of little society
Water cockroach that was eating a little fish (horrible)
Bonus:
500 slugs reduced to brothe by vigorous application of salte
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Humpback whale
Orca
Tiger shark
Moose
Black bear
Humpback whale
Orca
Tiger shark
Moose
Black bear
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Beaver
Black bear
Caribou
Wolf
Moose
Beaver
Black bear
Caribou
Wolf
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Possum
Three-legged deer
Blue Heron (?)
Ground bees that seemed to have some kind of little society
Water cockroach that was eating a little fish (horrible)
Bonus:
500 slugs reduced to brothe by vigorous application of salte
Possum
Three-legged deer
Blue Heron (?)
Ground bees that seemed to have some kind of little society
Water cockroach that was eating a little fish (horrible)
Bonus:
500 slugs reduced to brothe by vigorous application of salte
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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New preprint! We measured temperature- and pH-induced aggregation for over 18,000 natural and de novo designed protein domains!
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
New preprint! We measured temperature- and pH-induced aggregation for over 18,000 natural and de novo designed protein domains!
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this used to be the kind of thing you’d see in a Grand Theft Auto game as an over-the-top parody of America
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
this used to be the kind of thing you’d see in a Grand Theft Auto game as an over-the-top parody of America
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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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To probe gene-scale chromatin physics, we built 96-mer (20 kb) arrays with defined histone marks. Combining single-molecule tracking, AFM imaging, and developing in vitro Hi-C, we saw how specific modifications dictate chromatin structure and dynamics. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Gene-scale in vitro reconstitution reveals histone acetylation directly controls chromatin architecture
Reconstituting 20-kb chromatin shows that tuning acetylation alone reshapes its folding, dynamics, and contact domain formation.
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
To probe gene-scale chromatin physics, we built 96-mer (20 kb) arrays with defined histone marks. Combining single-molecule tracking, AFM imaging, and developing in vitro Hi-C, we saw how specific modifications dictate chromatin structure and dynamics. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
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I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
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i’m sorry but vampire babies are just too fucking adorable
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
i’m sorry but vampire babies are just too fucking adorable
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check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
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Monty Python understood p-hacking
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Monty Python understood p-hacking
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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No One Completely Sure If The Old Mothball Factory Is Shut Down
September 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
No One Completely Sure If The Old Mothball Factory Is Shut Down
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To keep our profit margins as high as possible, we will be giving you just a little bit of chicken drugs, as a treat
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
To keep our profit margins as high as possible, we will be giving you just a little bit of chicken drugs, as a treat
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I thought of *several* of you when I saw this
September 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I thought of *several* of you when I saw this
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Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula
Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland
September 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula
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this would fix me
September 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
this would fix me