Justin Blumenstiel
Evolution, Genomics, Genetics, Epigenetics, Transposons, Small RNAs, Meiosis, Politics, Music, Kansas....AND DROSOPHILA!!!
Freaked out ribosome and DNA truther doing my own research.
"We are our own reviewers" - Alejandro Montenegro
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielSociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...
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- If it occurs to me, it must be poasted.
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- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielRemembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay. Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40. stanford.io/2C0io2A #WomenInSTEM
- Honestly, I think this is THE most important thing. Above everything else.
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- Just thinking out loud. When an AI can reliably do your taxes for your, I think that is the true AGI benchmark.
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielHere's an idea. Maybe people like Reid Hoffman & Deepak Chopra & Bill Gates and others who say they "are so sorry" for hanging out with Epstein but swear they didn't do anything bad - how about rather than Tweeting/Posting/Commenting about it they FUCKING DO SOMETHING.
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielFINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs: “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
- Discussed. Not Discussed. Utter disgust.
- Degree Map Degree-Level Assessment Curriculum Map Curricular Map Program Learning Outcomes Institutional Learning Goals
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielThey need to start saying he is the actual president. When people starting saying it about Elon it really got under Trump's skin and ended it.
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- This woman has a truly remarkable talent in distilling things.
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- Reposted by Justin Blumenstiel"There is still life in the old dog." Brian Charlesworth on Fisher's Fundamental Theorem in @journal-evo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...
- Um. Holy %^#K. Gemini is REALLY freaking good at explaining stuff. Using it a few weeks ago, I finally understood branching processes/extinction probabilities. Today, I started working through some stuff I HAVE BEEN LOSING MY mind about for years re: change in mean fitness using Fisher vs. p'. 1/n
- Keeping the bureaucracy satiated, one email at a time.
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielIf Joseph Goebbels and a rectal polyp had a kid.
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- @iammrbeat.bsky.social You will like this, could be good for a stream: jacoblum22.github.io/philosophy-q...
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- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielOkay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.
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- Reposted by Justin Blumenstielif bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
- Reposted by Justin Blumenstielbrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielI am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielVideo proves beyond a doubt that ICE murdered Alex Pretti in cold blood, he never unholstered his weapon, and was disarmed when the regime thugs shot and executed him. This was 100% intentional. It's a homicide. #3E #GoodvsEvil
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielWhat's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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- This really me helped reconcile a bunch of conflicting ideas rattling in my head. My devotion to the nearly neutral school is increasingly untenable. Hat tip to Luis Madrigal Roca (not on Blue Sky). If you need the PDF, DM me. KU doesn't even get this journal. LOL. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielPSA on Competitive, Not Discussed NIH proposal outcomes drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/p...
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- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielCrushed to hear of Mark Batzer’s passing. He was the Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. His influential research revealed how mobile elements shape the genomes of humans & other mammals. Mark’s personality, generosity & positivity were larger than life. He lifted everyone up. HUGE loss 💔
- Not the first thing I was expecting looking up "Kimura Drift" in Google Image search. But "Kimura The Drift King" definitely opens up some possibilities.
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- This shiny app is pretty cool. Just cruising around, I found one special issue where it appears one editor jammed his name onto all five papers. LOL. It looks like this was the price of admission into this issue. www.mdpi.com/journal/gene... paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...
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- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielI'd argue that the AI wasn't art until it was eaten
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- Maybe this is the true path for ACTUAL effective altruism..
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- Paul Simon was really ahead of his time when he asked his mother to not take his adrenochrome away.
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielOur eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.
- That settles it*. I'm on cteam ctenophore firsct. *For now.
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- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielThe ICE murder of Renee Good and the failure of any cessation of the Grok CSAM and nonconsensual image generation are part of the same broader story about the establishment of elite impunity for transgressing all moral boundaries of a humanist civil society with individual rights
- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielStress controls epigenetic inheritance! A histone ubiquitylation-based regulatory hub links stress/environmental signaling to heterochromatin self-propagation and epigenetic inheritance-reshaping how we think about development, drug resistance, and cancer 👉 nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09899-8
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- Reposted by Justin BlumenstielA fascinating case report. The DNA of a female murder victim was genotyped and it turns out that she has been a chimera: a mixture of 46XX/46XY cell lines. The analysis (STR-based) found: 1. The maternal chromosome was identical between the two cell lines. www.fsigenetics.com/article/S187... 1/6
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