Doing some very important talk prep before I go visit @joshdubnau.bsky.social at Stony Brook next week. With sincere apologies to the creators of this once-adorable childrens' book, I present the Barber Lab Limited Edition: 🧪🪰

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Come join us! Applications are open for the PhD program in Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology at Indiana University Bloomington. Deadline: December 1, 2026. Details and how to apply: biology.indiana.edu/graduate/gen... @iubiology.bsky.social

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“The overall product is a factually accurate portrayal of American politics that misses the big story: The Republican Party is a far-right entity at war with democracy; the Democrats are a normal party in a liberal democracy.” Exactly!

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“The paper seems interested in portraying conservatives and liberals as equally problematic, or at least implying that there are major excesses on the left as well as the right.” And then Bacon winds up a big punch:....

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Important observation about the NYT from Perry Bacon in the New Republic: “The Times implicitly and at times explicitly advances a centrist, status quo politics, and that’s exactly what liberals must abandon to save the country..... margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-biting-c...

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