Paul Jaschke

Paul Jaschke

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Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University | Engineering phage & microbes to discover and create new biology.🇨🇦🇦🇺 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 🦠🧬

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Spotify continues to amaze with how terrible their ability to pick songs that go together. I listened to two different songs by the same band about 10 mins apart and it started playing the SAME song by another artist as the follow up 😂 Was their only innovation locking up labels faster than others?

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Nothing says libertarian like denying others the freedom to celebrate liberation.

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This is the best thing ever written in connection with an Arctic expedition - Mary L of Gosport telling Captain John Ross in 1829 that no, her husband will NOT be joining his crew.

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#russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children, changing their names and date of birth and putting them for adoption on Russian websites, so their parents wouldn't be able to find them. You don't have to be a parent to feel sick reading this. Yet, if you are, imagine it's your child. on.ft.com/4cgS06f

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An email from a reader helped a team of ProPublica reporters uncover secret tuition payments Harlan Crow made for a family member of Clarence Thomas. Now we’re looking for tips on the election, and you can help. www.propublica.org/article/read...

Reader Tips Propelled Our Supreme Court Reporting. Now Your Info Could Power Our 2024 Election Coverage.www.propublica.org An email from a reader helped a team of ProPublica reporters uncover secret tuition payments Harlan Crow made for a family member of Clarence Thomas. Now we’re looking for tips on the election, and yo...

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This is a New York Times op-ed about Netanyahu, suggesting that the U.S. government's patience with him should come to an end. It was published twenty-six years ago.

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Absolutely hilarious how lame all this sounds www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/t...

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somebody should ask Trump if he’s already pardoned any family members

Biden has to say he won't pardon his son because he knows the media would absolutely savage him if he tried. Yet the same media completely takes it for granted that Trump will pardon himself if he's re-elected, it's just baked into assumptions about his future cases and they don't even bother to ask

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Deplatforming is out of favor in Silicon Valley. But it works. A new study in Nature finds that Twitter's mass suspension of 70,000 QAnon-linked accounts after Jan. 6 meaningfully reduced the overall circulation of fake and hyperpartisan news on the platform. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.www.washingtonpost.com A new study finds deplatforming “super-spreaders” of misinformation can limit the overall spread of online whoppers.

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(NYT opinion page circa 2.46 billion years ago) Yes, We're Going Through A Historically-Unprecedented Atmospheric Oxidation Event — But It Strains Credulity To Claim It's Due To Unregulated Porphyrin-Based Photosynthesis By Cyanobacteria

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Trump and his supporters are not angry that the Manhattan trial was “rigged.” They’re angry that it wasn’t. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Ehehehe

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Another fun project with Andrew Hessel & Jackie Forge. We present an NFT for my phavourite phage, PhiX174! The phage was one of the designs in my publication "Definitive demonstration by synthesis of genome annotation completeness" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

Andrew Hessel on LinkedIn: PhiX174 (PRJ0013) - SYNGEN-NFT | OpenSeawww.linkedin.com Ten years ago, Paul Jaschke, Jackie Quinn Forge, and I made a synthetic PhiX174 phage. It cost about $1000 to have the genome synthesized and assembled. Paul…

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Very interesting article on non-coding RNA. It’s also even crazier when you realise some ncRNA is also found to code small proteins! #RNA #genetics www.scientificamerican.com/article/revo...

Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genomewww.scientificamerican.com Scientists have recently discovered thousands of active RNA molecules that can control the human body

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She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism. Courtney Gore of Granbury, TX has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum.

She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.www.propublica.org Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum....

A really nice piece of work showing the activity of a new type of anti-phage defence system using reverse transcription! #phage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

De novo gene synthesis by an antiviral reverse transcriptasewww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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ukjan.org.uk#inaugural-st... "Conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, and the discomfort such criticism causes some students, only makes it harder to address antisemitism. It ultimately risks seeding resentment against the Jewish community, making us less, not more, safe"

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We need this for #phage

DeepES: Deep learning-based enzyme screening to identify orphan enzyme genes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.09.592857v1

DeepES: Deep learning-based enzyme screening to identify orphan enzyme genes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.09.592857v1 www.biorxiv.org Progress in sequencing technology has led to determination of large numbers of protein sequences, an

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SPOTIFY: your playlist has ended, would you like to hear some other random songs ME: no thank you SPOTIFY: yeah well tough shit

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If I were in the jury pool I’d be feeling so much pressure to get dismissed for an offensive anti-Trump meme. It is a matter of honor.

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Fox News currently torn between mentioning Trump fell asleep at his trial or claiming he's actually woke

This is the upbeat story you didn’t know you needed today www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...

Falcon that crashed Taylor Swift concert set-up released back at Stadium Australiawww.abc.net.au A peregrine falcon that came to ground during the set-up for Taylor Swift's concert has recovered in the care of wildlife professionals and has been released back into his habitat at Stadium Australia...

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One year. One year of missed bylines. One year of not seeing his family and friends. One year of courage, grace and resilience. One year of unjust imprisonment. His story should be here. It’s time for Evan to come home. #FreeEvan #IStandWithEvan