Ollie Rando
Magic Science Dude, Round 4. Uncouth, spitting out the sunroof through my missing tooth.
Chromatin structure and function, paternal effect paradigms, reproductive biology and lil embryos.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoFINNEAS 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.”
- Reposted by Ollie RandoYou know, I think it was literally last year, at age 69, that I discovered that the name of Coomassie Brilliant Blue stain, should in fact be "Kumasi" - because that's where it came from. That's right, from Ghana!
- Reposted by Ollie RandoAs a dyslexic, this is super interesting to me.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoYes it’s called a strategy of denial to deter China in the Pacific yes that’s why the priority is restoring the Monroe Doctrine but in Greenland yes where the only foreign base is already ours yes which is why we’re sending a carrier to the Middle East to bomb Iran yes. I am a strategist yes.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoWe need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
- Reposted by Ollie RandoAs seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him
- Reposted by Ollie Randoso many clergy coming to protest ICE that they're overflowing the airport sidewalk we are going to win
- Reposted by Ollie RandoAn Enormous Stone
- Reposted by Ollie Randowhat could these cost, ten dollars?
- Reposted by Ollie RandoThis is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoThis ought to work
- Reposted by Ollie Randodon’t mind me, just watching this on repeat for an hour at a time
- Reposted by Ollie RandoIn the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights
- Reposted by Ollie RandoAs a native Masshole, I could literally fall asleep to this—somehow very comforting. Also Affleck’s delivery is superior youtu.be/FhC76xAq7oE
- Reposted by Ollie RandoJust for posterity here is the Heathcliff comic the day that Scott Adams died.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoGlobus was a small rotating globe, approximately five inches wide, displaying the spacecraft's current and projected position above Earth. Instead of digital systems, it operated through a complex network of gears, cams, and mechanical differentials that converted orbital data into globe motion.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoI love these little dumb dumbs 🥰
- Reposted by Ollie RandoExpect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoCAD-C: An engineered nuclease enables repair-free in situ proximity ligation and nucleosome-resolution chromosome walks in human cells biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Ollie Rando"London Eye"
- Reposted by Ollie RandoIt's worth sharing this every six months or so...
- Reposted by Ollie RandoIf you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it
- Hmmm ... sperm RNAs? Paternal effects? It's like an early Christmas present! Very nice article by Ivan Amato, including quotes and work from some excellent scientists like @colinconine.bsky.social ... and me, as well. ;) www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fit...
- Reposted by Ollie RandoDo what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoThe piss tank on the ISS is now 51% full.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoData poem: Family tree of languages Interactive, expanded. Click the + to grow each branch :) dr.eamer.dev/datavis/poem...
- Reposted by Ollie RandoAs a kid, I thought dog catchers were going to be a bigger problem.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoWe are thrilled to share our new pre-print on the molecular anatomy of nuclear proteasome in human sperm cells! #In-cellcryo-ET + #SPA + #LM! @piotrkolata.bsky.social @a-dsantos.bsky.social, @tomdendooven.bsky.social!! doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Ollie Randogreatest mural ever? it's in the running
- Reposted by Ollie RandoOne thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoMicrowave: Your food is hot. Beep-beep-beeeeeep Car: Put on your seat belt. Ding-ding-ding Dryer: Your clothes are dry. Here’s a 40-second sea shanty performed on a penny whistle
- Reposted by Ollie RandoThis is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
- Reposted by Ollie RandoVaults. They are cell biology's greatest puzzle! This preprint from Martin Beck's lab shows them docked on ER membranes with a ribosome inside. What on earth is going on there?? #CellBiology #WTFology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Ollie Randooh cool we’re doing Schizophrenia as a Service
- Reposted by Ollie Rando🎶 It was a strawberry bidet The kind you find in the homeware store
- Reposted by Ollie Randoall i'm saying is that there were better options
- Reposted by Ollie RandoI guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
- Reposted by Ollie RandoWhite House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
- Reposted by Ollie RandoCheck out this map of light displays. Fun for the whole family!
- Reposted by Ollie RandoIntensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
- Reposted by Ollie RandoI can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoI am brimming with holiday spirit
- Reposted by Ollie RandoSo love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
- Reposted by Ollie RandoTIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
- Reposted by Ollie RandoWe mapped the whole human fallopian tube in 3D and at single-cell resolution via our CODA workflow. More about this work here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Possum Three-legged deer Blue Heron (?) Ground bees that seemed to have some kind of little society Water cockroach that was eating a little fish (horrible) Bonus: 500 slugs reduced to brothe by vigorous application of salte
- Reposted by Ollie RandoSo this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoNew preprint! We measured temperature- and pH-induced aggregation for over 18,000 natural and de novo designed protein domains!
- Reposted by Ollie Randothis used to be the kind of thing you’d see in a Grand Theft Auto game as an over-the-top parody of America
- Reposted by Ollie RandoWhenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
- Reposted by Ollie RandoA reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January: acasignups.net/cdc-website
