Dan Samorodnitsky
@dsamorod.bsky.social
i'm an editor and science writer. i cover biology, genetics, the environment, stuff like that. i live in Minneapolis. my pronouns are he/him. i am the news editor at biospace and am a cofounder at @sequencermag.bsky.social
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LOCAL ANGLE: we need to talk about how every physicist on planet earth was on Epstein island
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
LOCAL ANGLE: we need to talk about how every physicist on planet earth was on Epstein island
The Central Dogma is really more of a guideline.
Despair seems like a reasonable course of action
'Some estimates are that up to 20% of the entire proteome can bind RNA and moreover that about 20% of all known protein complexes have an RNA component in them and you really have to think about how to deal with such large figures.'
'Some estimates are that up to 20% of the entire proteome can bind RNA and moreover that about 20% of all known protein complexes have an RNA component in them and you really have to think about how to deal with such large figures.'
RNA and Proteins: Who Bosses Whom?
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The Central Dogma is really more of a guideline.
wrong
59/ I haven't liked a Mountain Goats album in 20 years. Those early ones though... worth keeping in rotation.
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
wrong
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In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
If you have a James Watson story you'd like to share with me, DM me here or msg me on signal, dsamorod.25
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If you have a James Watson story you'd like to share with me, DM me here or msg me on signal, dsamorod.25
It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.
That sucks ass but I find succor in Jacob Frey being miserable for another four years.
jacob frey won
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
That sucks ass but I find succor in Jacob Frey being miserable for another four years.
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It only ratchets one way — until the fear-mongering hate and consultant-class grift are called out for what they are.
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
It only ratchets one way — until the fear-mongering hate and consultant-class grift are called out for what they are.
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Waterfall in Fall Creek Gorge, Ithaca, NY
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Waterfall in Fall Creek Gorge, Ithaca, NY
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Remembering fondly how there used to be a really nice park at the foot of the Sabo Bridge, and a nice green space parkway on Franklin and Cedar. But, literally because Jacob Frey is a huge asshole, neither of those things are available anymore. What kind of mayor takes nice things away?
Someone who likes his neighbors and wants to improve the place he lives probably wouldn't have fenced off half the city and spitefully dropped concrete rubble on any given open space where someone might sleep for the night.
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Remembering fondly how there used to be a really nice park at the foot of the Sabo Bridge, and a nice green space parkway on Franklin and Cedar. But, literally because Jacob Frey is a huge asshole, neither of those things are available anymore. What kind of mayor takes nice things away?
Jacob Frey being a miserable asshole with a palpable disdain for his own constituents is a perfectly good reason to vote him out. That attitude permeates his policies.
Sorry for cringe-posting, but I believe there’s real value in the politics of joy.
The Frey Guys just seem like genuinely miserable people who think it’s edgy and funny to be assholes without a care as to whether you like them or not. I imagine that attitude comes from the top-down.
The Frey Guys just seem like genuinely miserable people who think it’s edgy and funny to be assholes without a care as to whether you like them or not. I imagine that attitude comes from the top-down.
Also the manager of team Minneapolis has spoken
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Jacob Frey being a miserable asshole with a palpable disdain for his own constituents is a perfectly good reason to vote him out. That attitude permeates his policies.
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@boneshakerbooks.bsky.social is looking so good at 26th and lyndale 🌟 open now, go check it out!!!
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
@boneshakerbooks.bsky.social is looking so good at 26th and lyndale 🌟 open now, go check it out!!!
See also the non-stop histrionics about there being more than two sexes, or sex being a spectrum, or similar, because to them it implicitly gives people permission to be trans (even if the two concepts really have nothing to do with each other).
That’s because the purpose of biology for the right is naturalizing social hierarchy and defining a subaltern “other” to stand in contrast to the “normal”.
I think that an underreported key to understanding the contemporary evangelical right is that they hate Darwinism (performatively) but they fucking LOVE evopsych nonsense, especially when, as is so often the case, their thoughts turn to gender.
October 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
See also the non-stop histrionics about there being more than two sexes, or sex being a spectrum, or similar, because to them it implicitly gives people permission to be trans (even if the two concepts really have nothing to do with each other).
the posture brothers
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
the posture brothers
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Come join me, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, @sabs.bsky.social, and @maddiebender.bsky.social on October 24, for a virtual session discussing “How Worker-Owned Media Outlets Can Work.” It’s one of a bunch of events kicking off the national Science Writers meeting! #SciWri25
sciencewriters2025.org
sciencewriters2025.org
Schedule - ScienceWriters2025
sciencewriters2025.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Come join me, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, @sabs.bsky.social, and @maddiebender.bsky.social on October 24, for a virtual session discussing “How Worker-Owned Media Outlets Can Work.” It’s one of a bunch of events kicking off the national Science Writers meeting! #SciWri25
sciencewriters2025.org
sciencewriters2025.org
clocking in at the Maine Guy Tattoo Takes Factory, hope you all had a good shift, take it easy now
October 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
clocking in at the Maine Guy Tattoo Takes Factory, hope you all had a good shift, take it easy now
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It's pub day!! The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025 is out. I'm thrilled to appear with @sequencermag.bsky.social alongside many talented writers whose work I revere. Including the pieces in this anthology
Get a copy from an indie store to support the series
bookshop.org/a/114150/978...
Get a copy from an indie store to support the series
bookshop.org/a/114150/978...
October 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
It's pub day!! The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025 is out. I'm thrilled to appear with @sequencermag.bsky.social alongside many talented writers whose work I revere. Including the pieces in this anthology
Get a copy from an indie store to support the series
bookshop.org/a/114150/978...
Get a copy from an indie store to support the series
bookshop.org/a/114150/978...
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more and more people are coming to minnesota for reproductive or gender-affirming care. i talked to some of the pilots who can help 'em get here.
Meet the Volunteer Pilots Flying Patients From Red States to Reproductive Care - Racket
Removing barriers to bodily autonomy, one prop plane flight at a time.
racketmn.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
more and more people are coming to minnesota for reproductive or gender-affirming care. i talked to some of the pilots who can help 'em get here.
when I was a junior in high school, NY held a state-wide contest for one of these kinds of things. I came in first across the state by spending all my fake money on Apple and Google stocks and then forgetting about the project until it was over. got invited to albany and everything (I didn't go)
Relatedly, what do you think about high school programs where kids "invest" a fake starting amount in stocks of their choice, and then the winner is the kid with the largest balance at the end? It's not an uncommon club, but maybe not very helpful to kids.
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
when I was a junior in high school, NY held a state-wide contest for one of these kinds of things. I came in first across the state by spending all my fake money on Apple and Google stocks and then forgetting about the project until it was over. got invited to albany and everything (I didn't go)
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unearthed video from a 2017 candidate forum, since we’ve previously only had a screenshot of his tweet making this promise: jacob frey says he will end homelessness in 5 years
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
unearthed video from a 2017 candidate forum, since we’ve previously only had a screenshot of his tweet making this promise: jacob frey says he will end homelessness in 5 years
Shout out to the one guy with the Trump/Vance sign overlooking the Minneapolis No Kings protest
October 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Shout out to the one guy with the Trump/Vance sign overlooking the Minneapolis No Kings protest
Genetics has no place in understanding human behavior and anyone who is trying to do it is has retrograde ulterior motives
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Genetics has no place in understanding human behavior and anyone who is trying to do it is has retrograde ulterior motives
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With a major influx of new people on here, guess it's time to re-share and update my starter pack of researchers working on scientific racism. If you know of any scientists, historians, journalists, or anyone else working this beat that aren't already included, please let me know so I can add them!
October 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
With a major influx of new people on here, guess it's time to re-share and update my starter pack of researchers working on scientific racism. If you know of any scientists, historians, journalists, or anyone else working this beat that aren't already included, please let me know so I can add them!
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October 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
To support Boneshaker's big move, follow their link for financial donations and also divert any donations intended for us and bring them to any of our other drop spots!
❤️ Arbeiter Brewing
❤️ b Resale
❤️ Duck Duck Coffee
❤️ Modist Brewing
❤️ Arbeiter Brewing
❤️ b Resale
❤️ Duck Duck Coffee
❤️ Modist Brewing