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Stephen Moxley
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Industrial fermentation researcher living in the Upper Valley. Passionate about humans' earliest form of technology.
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Here is a very rough version of the For You Stats dashboard: linklonk.com/foryou

It shows you 3 things:
- how much you've been using For You
- how many views and likes your posts got in For You
- how your likes/reposts helped surface posts to other people in For You

Feedback welcome
February 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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(1) this is cool (2) lol at the framing of "molecule can almost do important thing"
RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins
Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an RNA molecule that is very close to being able to do this
www.newscientist.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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🧬 Engineering stress-resistant #Yeast: Overexpressing PIR3 & SPI1 helps yeast tolerate high-concentration molasses stress from potassium/calcium ions. Modified strains showed significantly higher ethanol production than wt
🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #Biotechnology
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...
February 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.
February 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Great to see this officially out: An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor - works in yeast & mammalian cells and is compatible with FLIM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor
Glucose is an important substrate for organisms to acquire energy needed for cellular growth. Despite the importance of this metabolite, single-cell information at a fast time-scale about the dynamics...
pubs.acs.org
February 3, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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January 31, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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More Burgh
January 31, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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⚡ Unconventional zinc finger binding! Newly solved structure shows #Yeast Fzf1 transcription factor uses non-canonical DNA binding strategy with its 5 zinc fingers; unusual binding pattern controls key stress response genes like SSU1 and YHB1
🧬 #YeastResearch #SGD
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...
January 30, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Gérard DuBois
October 30, 2023 at 10:37 AM
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'1970s canned goods label designs, from The Art of the Label by Robert Opie.'
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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your calm moment
January 22, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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2-minute comic
January 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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🏺How was #malt discovered? I should've presented this at the World Neolithic Congress last year but was not able to. So I submitted it to PAST, the newsletter of The Prehistoric Society. It was published last month in the November issue. It should be online soon!
merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-...
The importance of being malted: making malt and malt sugars from cereals in the Palaeolithic.
The Shanidar Cave: one of the places where the ancient magic of malt was first discovered. (image: Wikimedia)  I should have presented this...
merryn.dineley.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#F47C10
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The 2025 Agar Art Contest winners have been selected! This year’s theme, “Microbes Make the World Go Round,” inspired 557 global entries—from food fermentation to antibiotic production. See the masterpieces and finalists! asm.org/press-releas... #agarart
December 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Trade catalog images
American Type Founders Co.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
1950

Images: Type, Typewriter and Typography Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/ATF1...
December 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
twenty one people in the past MONTH??
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Dec 10
Death cap mushrooms look harmless, but are responsible for the majority of the world's mushroom-related deaths. California officials say 21 people have been sickened in recent weeks, one fatally. n.pr/492ntdv
What to know about death cap mushrooms, blamed for poisonings in California
Death cap mushrooms look harmless, but are responsible for the majority of the world's mushroom-related deaths. California officials say 21 people have been sickened in recent weeks, one fatally.
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Hometown Unveils Disappointing Microbrewery https://theonion.com/hometown-unveils-disappointing-microbrewery/
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
this would fix me, etc etc
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Fun new preprint from the lab, headed up by two incredible undergraduate researchers: Using Experimental Evolution to Correct Mother-Daughter Separation Defects in Brewing Yeast. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using Experimental Evolution to Correct Mother-Daughter Separation Defects in Brewing Yeast
The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is the workhorse of the brewing industry. Brewers have domesticated a vast array of different strains with traits that complement the beers they wish to br...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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AWESOME technical goal. This is exactly the direction to go on this problem, and worth taking a risk on.
Prof. Laura Dassama (Stanford Chem) is developing a small-molecule therapy for sickle cell disease that removes BCL11A, restoring fetal hemoglobin without gene editing. Her goal is a simpler, more affordable sickle cell therapy. brnw.ch/21wXP8k
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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#OpenCloning is a an Open Source alternative to SnapGene/Benchling that supports automation and integration with other software

✅ Free
🔓 Open Source
🧬 More cloning methods than SnapGene
🤖 Can be automated with python
👨‍🔬 Built by a researcher — for researchers!

👉 Check it out at opencloning.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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My latest blog post: Golden Conecap, Conocybe aurea.

A rather scarce fungus in the UK and a very nice find this summer when I was watering a neighbour's greenhouse at the allotments.

www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2025/11/20/g...

#Fungi #FungiFriends
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I use Celsius because I care about how water feels. Sorry for being an empath
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM