Richard Lenski
Evolving better E. coli for 75,000 generations. Prof at MSU, but opinions my own. (Ok, I also speak for billions -- er, TRILLIONS -- of E. coli.)
Website for LTEE: the-ltee.org
Banner pic from NYC, shared by Darwin. (The microbiologist, not the other one.)
- Reposted by Richard LenskiThis is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
- Reposted by Richard Lenski#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...
- Do microbes get more food by swimming or staying still? Turns out both work, and cilia help them pull in nutrients no matter the strategy. buff.ly/vK3GmK5
- Reposted by Richard LenskiJeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
- Reposted by Richard LenskiGood News! 28 states have publicly rejected Kennedy’s vaccine schedule. They choose to follow evidence-based guidance from experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians. 🧪 www.kff.org/state-health... Via @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Richard LenskiElon Musk's net worth just hit $800 billion. How? One of his corporations acquired another one of his corporations. Meanwhile, Elon's companies pay next to nothing in federal income taxes and get billions of dollars in government contracts. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
- Reposted by Richard Lenskiagain we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
- Reposted by Richard LenskiJeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda. Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
- Reposted by Richard LenskiTrump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Not one more penny for ICE.
- Reposted by Richard LenskiA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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- Reposted by Richard LenskiA Russian-American expat friend told me yesterday that the running joke among the expat community in the USA is "I always said I wanted to live in a Russia without Putin, and now I do."
- Reposted by Richard LenskiIn 1977 NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft, including a CD with the song Johnny B. Goode, on a mission to study the solar system & beyond. The extraterrestrials who open it will get another CD every month from Columbia House at full price and be hounded for life by intergalactic debt collectors.
- Reposted by Richard LenskiYet another reminder that Homeland Security routinely lies as a matter of policy after its violent clashes with immigrants, protesters and observers. it’s the Department of Homegrown Impunity.
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- Reposted by Richard LenskiIf you want to understand the philsophy/ideology/plan Tim is referring to, I explain in this post (see Group 3) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
- Reposted by Richard LenskiJudge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
- Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.…
- Reposted by Richard LenskiBulk sales of tickets to Melania are being promoted through emails from WH Faith Office advisor Paula White-Cain using her National Faith Advisory Board list. People are encouraged to purchase 30 tickets at a time to “support our First Lady.” meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...
- Reposted by Richard LenskiICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.
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- Reposted by Richard Lenskireading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
- Reposted by Richard LenskiAs politicians stoke fear and hatred about immigrants, always remember this...
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- Reposted by Richard LenskiOssoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
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- From "Your Local Epidemiologist" -- The misleading language of "shared decision-making" in the context of vaccinations. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/shared-dec...
- Reposted by Richard LenskiYa hemos empezado con la actividad de lectura de libros de divulgación sobre evolución en la asignatura de Biología Evolutiva @universidadoviedo.bsky.social. Estos son los propuestos este año, a escoger uno según temas que interesen / sorprendan más a cada uno.
- Reposted by Richard LenskiTiempo hoy en clase para hablar sobre evolución rápida, observable en tiempo real, y sobre la importancia de experimentos de larga duración, explorando el "Long Term Evolution Experiment" @relenski.bsky.social the-ltee.org/about/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RAg...
- Reposted by Richard LenskiNice touch. “.. a framed photo of Presidents Trump and Putin at their summer summit in Alaska .. in a vestibule area that connects the West Wing to the residence ..” Via @elizlanders.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Richard LenskiBy “China”, he means “Congress.” By “Iceland”, he means “Greenland.” 🤡
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- Reposted by Richard LenskiA thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020
- Reposted by Richard LenskiYou can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
- Reposted by Richard LenskiStreet Art Utopia 💔
- Reposted by Richard LenskiCartoon by Adam Zyglis
- Reposted by Richard LenskiThe biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
- Reposted by Richard LenskiAs a gun owner and someone who routinely carries, this is accurate. Bottom line is, they didn't even know he was armed until they tackled him, he didn't touch the gun, they then disarmed him and murdered him.
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- Reposted by Richard LenskiHere's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
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- Worth a read of this piece by Peter Turchin in these turbulent times: www.vox.com/the-highligh...
- Reposted by Richard LenskiThis witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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