ABH
@hypusine.bsky.social
Biochemist, husband, writer, political junkie, parent. I think a lot and sometimes even write down the results.
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Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Thank you, fellow humans who understand humans.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Thank you, fellow humans who understand humans.
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In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
Seventh patient in HIV remission after stem cell transplant | News | ConnectSci
connectsci.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
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Clean tech spending may hit record high in US this year—DESPITE the political climate.
A structural shift: the transition is increasingly independent from temporary political will. Falling costs, long-term investment cycles & state-level momentum are driving growth.
www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
A structural shift: the transition is increasingly independent from temporary political will. Falling costs, long-term investment cycles & state-level momentum are driving growth.
www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
Surprise: Cleantech Spending May Hit Record Despite Trump’s Carbon Push
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how AI is ushering in a new nuclear age and investing in developing nations amid a pullback in U.S. aid and private funding
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Clean tech spending may hit record high in US this year—DESPITE the political climate.
A structural shift: the transition is increasingly independent from temporary political will. Falling costs, long-term investment cycles & state-level momentum are driving growth.
www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
A structural shift: the transition is increasingly independent from temporary political will. Falling costs, long-term investment cycles & state-level momentum are driving growth.
www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
My annual plug for the value of using emacs org-mode as a career scientist.
Audio not great, talk great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgyR...
Good starting point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode
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Audio not great, talk great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgyR...
Good starting point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode
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Emacs Org-mode: Organizing a Scientist's Life and Work by Prof. Carsten Dominik
YouTube video by ColeWunderlich
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
My annual plug for the value of using emacs org-mode as a career scientist.
Audio not great, talk great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgyR...
Good starting point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode
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Audio not great, talk great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgyR...
Good starting point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode
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The epitranscriptome formed by the growing number of modifications occurring within mRNA transcripts.
We have been mapping mRNA modifications for over a decade.
=> Characterizing their functions -- especially on translation -- is a research frontier.
We have been mapping mRNA modifications for over a decade.
=> Characterizing their functions -- especially on translation -- is a research frontier.
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The epitranscriptome formed by the growing number of modifications occurring within mRNA transcripts.
We have been mapping mRNA modifications for over a decade.
=> Characterizing their functions -- especially on translation -- is a research frontier.
We have been mapping mRNA modifications for over a decade.
=> Characterizing their functions -- especially on translation -- is a research frontier.
A fantastic series on #AI AKA #machinelearning via a longtime favorite blog. Accessible to folks who, like me, lack relevant technical background: balloon-juice.com/2025/10/29/g...
Balloon Juice - Part 1: What is AI, And How Did We Get Here?
Guest post series from *Carlo Graziani. (Editor’s note: It’s Carlo, no S.) On Artificial Intelligence Hello, Jackals. Welcome, and thank you for this opportunity. What follows is the first part of a ...
balloon-juice.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A fantastic series on #AI AKA #machinelearning via a longtime favorite blog. Accessible to folks who, like me, lack relevant technical background: balloon-juice.com/2025/10/29/g...
While I kind of understand anti immigration sentiments if I squint and look sideways, to me this has always been the route to a robust nation. Attract the best talent, then make it worth their while to stay and build our economy -- and our collective know-how.
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
While I kind of understand anti immigration sentiments if I squint and look sideways, to me this has always been the route to a robust nation. Attract the best talent, then make it worth their while to stay and build our economy -- and our collective know-how.
What a great story.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar.
She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n)
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She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n)
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November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
What a great story.
This was a great read. Here's a related tangent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This was a great read. Here's a related tangent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Crazy times.
Officials detain the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew amid the Trump administration's ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts, a source confirms to NBC News.
Read more: nbcnews.to/44vH82Q
Read more: nbcnews.to/44vH82Q
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Crazy times.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
A Ghostbusters parade!
Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A Ghostbusters parade!
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Results from a large 20-year study show that halving a person’s intake of arsenic in drinking water reduces their risk of dying from any chronic disease, including cancer or heart disease, by 54% cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
Lower arsenic in drinking water drops chronic disease deaths by half
Landmark study in Bangladesh confirms that reducing arsenic exposure lowers chronic disease deaths
cen.acs.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Results from a large 20-year study show that halving a person’s intake of arsenic in drinking water reduces their risk of dying from any chronic disease, including cancer or heart disease, by 54% cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
Expected/annoying/understandable/awful how many of these questions were basically the schoolyard circle chanting "FIGHT! FIGHT!"
I get that fights drive clicks, and that a basic conflict for the press is "serve common good" and also "get eyeballs."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
I get that fights drive clicks, and that a basic conflict for the press is "serve common good" and also "get eyeballs."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Expected/annoying/understandable/awful how many of these questions were basically the schoolyard circle chanting "FIGHT! FIGHT!"
I get that fights drive clicks, and that a basic conflict for the press is "serve common good" and also "get eyeballs."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
I get that fights drive clicks, and that a basic conflict for the press is "serve common good" and also "get eyeballs."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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If you use Gmail, know that Gmail just opted you in to allowing them to train their AI on your emails. Follow these instructions to turn that off on every device you have asap! www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you use Gmail, know that Gmail just opted you in to allowing them to train their AI on your emails. Follow these instructions to turn that off on every device you have asap! www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content?" appeared in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905.
It contains his first published statement of mass-energy equivalence, the basis for the well-known formula E = mc².
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einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-doc/350
It contains his first published statement of mass-energy equivalence, the basis for the well-known formula E = mc².
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einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-doc/350
November 21, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content?" appeared in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905.
It contains his first published statement of mass-energy equivalence, the basis for the well-known formula E = mc².
🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-doc/350
It contains his first published statement of mass-energy equivalence, the basis for the well-known formula E = mc².
🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)
einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-doc/350
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The time is ripe to advance our understanding of the complex world of translation.
We can profile the diverse pool of modified tRNAs and a wider spectrum of amino acid incorporation into proteins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The synergy of these developments will exciting ❗️
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We can profile the diverse pool of modified tRNAs and a wider spectrum of amino acid incorporation into proteins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The synergy of these developments will exciting ❗️
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November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The time is ripe to advance our understanding of the complex world of translation.
We can profile the diverse pool of modified tRNAs and a wider spectrum of amino acid incorporation into proteins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The synergy of these developments will exciting ❗️
1/2
We can profile the diverse pool of modified tRNAs and a wider spectrum of amino acid incorporation into proteins: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The synergy of these developments will exciting ❗️
1/2
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I can’t quite put it into words, but Trump praising Mamdani on the same day that MTG resigns in opposition to “big Tech, big Pharma, the war complex and big donors” feels like a harbinger of realignment.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I can’t quite put it into words, but Trump praising Mamdani on the same day that MTG resigns in opposition to “big Tech, big Pharma, the war complex and big donors” feels like a harbinger of realignment.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
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Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
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Hanged
The past participle of the verb meaning killed by dropping from a rope around the neck is hanged.
The past participle of the verb meaning killed by dropping from a rope around the neck is hanged.
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Hanged
The past participle of the verb meaning killed by dropping from a rope around the neck is hanged.
The past participle of the verb meaning killed by dropping from a rope around the neck is hanged.
Even if you want to look at the post sideways and assume he was joking, I still think all of this holds.
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Even if you want to look at the post sideways and assume he was joking, I still think all of this holds.
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update: me+Claude just built a custom DNA amplifier from parts in 3 days.
codebase now sitting at >7k LOC across 27 files
the scope of features built today is insane 🤯
3.7k lines Python
1.5k lines javascript
1k lines HTML
500 lines CSS
160 YAML
documentation is >5k words
details in thread ⬇️
codebase now sitting at >7k LOC across 27 files
the scope of features built today is insane 🤯
3.7k lines Python
1.5k lines javascript
1k lines HTML
500 lines CSS
160 YAML
documentation is >5k words
details in thread ⬇️
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
update: me+Claude just built a custom DNA amplifier from parts in 3 days.
codebase now sitting at >7k LOC across 27 files
the scope of features built today is insane 🤯
3.7k lines Python
1.5k lines javascript
1k lines HTML
500 lines CSS
160 YAML
documentation is >5k words
details in thread ⬇️
codebase now sitting at >7k LOC across 27 files
the scope of features built today is insane 🤯
3.7k lines Python
1.5k lines javascript
1k lines HTML
500 lines CSS
160 YAML
documentation is >5k words
details in thread ⬇️