How do you not?

People get kinda mad if you bring either into a movie theater.

Divine punishment.

With this working, as a first test we took two plasmids, identical save for 8 point mutations changing the color, and competed them against one another. Here’s a video of what it looked like when we activated the recombinase. You can see the two compete in real time: 4/

I'm not saying we shouldn't care about this (we should) but we need to be clear-eyed about what we care about and the fact that universities as institutions are not inherently aligned with those things we value and for most of their history have not been.

I mean, go back 100 years and class/caste/gender was an insurmountable barrier for most people who wanted to access these "public" institutions, and the people who did have access to them cared less about learning and more about establishing social cred. So, return to form.

Again, a post-WWII innovation for the most part. Which is not to say that it is a bad thing but it is to say that "people seeking degrees for social clout and not giving a damn about learning" is not new

And the minority groups who DID have increased access to education and literacy without class barriers were systematically excluded from those formal institutions until the early 20th century, and the ramp-up to WWII involved the intentional purge of these groups from European university systems.

In general. Poor peasants weren't receiving subsidized educations in Bologna or Cambridge in the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, or even pre-war 1900s "because a complete education was considered standard for every member of society." Their education was largely limited to what the church deemed necessary

The idea that an education, and specifically a university education, is critical for all members of society as necessary for responsible citizenship is a relatively new one (basically post-WWII). In a way we are reverting to form, not corrupting a once-perfect ideal system.

Counterpoint: for a very long time, universities served as finishing schools for the offspring of society's elite, and existed more to facilitate the entrance of these children, especially the non-inheriting children of minor aristocrats and bourgeoisie, into polite society....

You're so tired from running overnight live imaging experiments you don't notice the park bench in front of you. Upon tripping, you find yourself culo over clavicles with a headache. Roll 3D8 against dexterity to see how hurt you are.

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Knowing Joaquin, I think he's being maximalist when he says "anything." I think he's thinking more along the lines of "the ribcages of your fallen foes" than "little tiny bottles"

There's a also large coccolepid (maybe Morrolepis, maybe not) in the Morrion Formation of eastern Colorado, near Canon City. Clearly a diverse and abundant group of fish in both freshwater and marine communities up until the end-Jurassic.

Glad to see this out. Very excited to see what uptake of these approaches can bring to bear on other areas of vertebrate phylogeny (even if they haven't fixed the early actinopt tree thus far)

I think the question marks are the darling in question here