Erik Hom
@erikfyhom.bsky.social
Symbiosis, microbes, evolution, synthetic ecology, biodiversity, STEM education, sustainability and stewardship @erikfyhom
Dual enhancement of mycoprotein nutrition and sustainability via CRISPR-mediated metabolic engineering of Fusarium venenatum www.cell.com/trends/...
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Dual enhancement of mycoprotein nutrition and sustainability via CRISPR-mediated metabolic engineering of Fusarium venenatum www.cell.com/trends/...
Canopy reflectance as a predictor of soil microbial community composition and diversity at a continental scale nph.onlinelibrary.wi...
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Canopy reflectance as a predictor of soil microbial community composition and diversity at a continental scale nph.onlinelibrary.wi...
Wow, partnership and working together across the political divide for the greater good, based on something real. We need much more of this, instead of knee-jerk tribalism. I hope my hometown of NYC continues to model this well, and that all of this works out for the best...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Wow, partnership and working together across the political divide for the greater good, based on something real. We need much more of this, instead of knee-jerk tribalism. I hope my hometown of NYC continues to model this well, and that all of this works out for the best...
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They Kindled Froggy Romance and Rescued Eggs to Save a Species in Mississippi
They Kindled Froggy Romance and Rescued Eggs to Save a Species in Mississippi
Fewer than 100 dusky gopher frogs were known to remain. Thanks to some very dedicated humans, numbers are now on the rise.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
They Kindled Froggy Romance and Rescued Eggs to Save a Species in Mississippi
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation
‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years
'China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers': Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years | Fortune
Many of the loans from China’s state lenders were routed through shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Delaware and elsewhere, according to AidData.
fortune.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years
Dietary fat disrupts a commensal-host lipid network that promotes metabolic health
Dietary fat disrupts a commensal-host lipid network that promotes metabolic health
The microbiota influences metabolic health; however, few specific microbial molecules and mechanisms have been identified. We isolated a Turicibacter …
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November 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Dietary fat disrupts a commensal-host lipid network that promotes metabolic health
A survey of musical chills experiences while performing music journals.sagepub.com...
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A survey of musical chills experiences while performing music journals.sagepub.com...
The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg’s highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup
The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg's highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup | Fortune
LeCun is a Turing Award winner and considered one of the pioneers of modern artificial intelligence.
fortune.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg’s highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup
So it was Dostoevsky's birthday on Tuesday (11-Nov). Counsel from him (from The Brothers Karamazov) rings so weirdly sad and true today, in a seemingly post-Truth era: "Above all, don't lie to yourself...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So it was Dostoevsky's birthday on Tuesday (11-Nov). Counsel from him (from The Brothers Karamazov) rings so weirdly sad and true today, in a seemingly post-Truth era: "Above all, don't lie to yourself...
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Ocean microbes may be developing taste for plastic pollution
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ocean microbes may be developing taste for plastic pollution
UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills
UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills - Marginal REVOLUTION
The UC San Diego Senate Report on Admissions documents a sharp decline in students’ math and reading skills—a warning that has been sounded before, but this time it’s coming from within the building. At our campus, the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate […]
marginalrevolution.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills
A bacterial coculture produces cellulose in 7 different colors
A bacterial coculture produces cellulose in 7 different colors
Biomolecular engineering creates a 1-pot method to spin colored bacterial textiles
cen.acs.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A bacterial coculture produces cellulose in 7 different colors
On this day in 2002, G. Perelman published a proof (part one of three) of the geometrician/Poincare conjecture. Sad reminder of the sort of corrupt politicking marring a beautiful thing that one has to deal with more and more today.... Narcissists suck...
The Poincaré Clash
A legendary math problem and the battle over who solved it.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
On this day in 2002, G. Perelman published a proof (part one of three) of the geometrician/Poincare conjecture. Sad reminder of the sort of corrupt politicking marring a beautiful thing that one has to deal with more and more today.... Narcissists suck...
What a joy it was to celebrate Andrew Murray today at Murray Palooza with so many others he mentored over the years!
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
What a joy it was to celebrate Andrew Murray today at Murray Palooza with so many others he mentored over the years!
Gutsy and generous. MacKenzie Scott awards $700 million for education, climate research philanthropynewsdige....
MacKenzie Scott awards $700 million for education, climate research | Philanthropy news | PND
MacKenzie Scott awards $700 million for education, climate research. In her latest gifts, Scott awarded more than $300 million to historically Black colleges and universities, including $80 million to Howard University and its college of medicine….
philanthropynewsdigest.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Gutsy and generous. MacKenzie Scott awards $700 million for education, climate research philanthropynewsdige....
The new measures are profoundly ironic on the face of it...I think most US citizens would probably fail the civics test alone, let alone one on moral character...Maybe we should test all citizens periodically? Under Trump, Becoming a Citizen Gets Harder
Under Trump, Becoming a U.S. Citizen Gets Harder
Federal officials say overhauling the process is necessary to ensure that only fully qualified immigrants become citizens.
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The new measures are profoundly ironic on the face of it...I think most US citizens would probably fail the civics test alone, let alone one on moral character...Maybe we should test all citizens periodically? Under Trump, Becoming a Citizen Gets Harder
Denitrification is a community trait with partial pathways dominating across microbial genomes and biomes
Denitrification is a community trait with partial pathways dominating across microbial genomes and biomes
Nature Communications - Well-studied denitrifiers can execute all steps in the process but their abundance in natural communities is unclear. Here, the authors analyse metagenomics data to show...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Denitrification is a community trait with partial pathways dominating across microbial genomes and biomes
Targeted high-resolution sensing of volatile organic compounds by covalent nanopore detection
Targeted high-resolution sensing of volatile organic compounds by covalent nanopore detection
Nature Communications - Volatile organic compounds are important analytes in medical diagnostics, with aldehydes forming a characteristic subclass. Here, the authors report that covalent nanopore...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Targeted high-resolution sensing of volatile organic compounds by covalent nanopore detection
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Nature - Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can onlinelibrary.wiley....
October 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can onlinelibrary.wiley....
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data:
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Nature - Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data:
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
Time-resolved fluorescent proteins expand fluorescent microscopy in temporal and spectral domains www.cell.com/cell/ab...
October 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Time-resolved fluorescent proteins expand fluorescent microscopy in temporal and spectral domains www.cell.com/cell/ab...
In silico biological discovery with large perturbation models
In silico biological discovery with large perturbation models
Nature Computational Science - A large perturbation model that integrates diverse laboratory experiments is presented to predict biological responses to chemical or genetic perturbations and...
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October 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
In silico biological discovery with large perturbation models
The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit
Why Safety on the Subway Matters - The Atlantic
People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.
www.theatlantic.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit