Chris Macdonald

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Postdoc in the Fraser Lab at UCSF, messing around with proteins. Sentimental empiricist
websitehttps://odcambc.github.io/
twitterhttps://twitter.com/protostasis
Chris MacdonaldSep 6, 2023
well there’s your problem
Chris MacdonaldAug 31, 2023
Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2023

This WaPo piece on the parents' rights movements plan to destroy public education in the U.S. is essential.

Unlike Assigned, WaPo's stories don't typically include screenshots of batshit crazy stuff they found, so I went and took one (from a link in the piece) that has to be seen to be believed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/michael-farris-homeschoolers-parents-rights-ziklag/

The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry

On a private call with Christian millionaires, home-schooling pioneer Michael Farris pushed for a strategy aimed at siphoning billions of tax dollars from public schools

The Washington Post
Chris MacdonaldJul 2, 2023
LOESS spotted in the wild
Chris MacdonaldJul 1, 2023
Now I’m sure I’m in Minneapolis
Chris MacdonaldDec 24, 2022
Show threadChris MacdonaldDec 21, 2022

I've been out of touch so I'm just making my way through the Quietus 2022 list...lazy.

This was great: the copy uses "lissom" somewhere and that's accurate

https://gi-gi.bandcamp.com/album/sunchoke

Sunchoke, by Gi Gi

8 track album

Gi Gi
Chris MacdonaldDec 20, 2022
I appreciate how polite phenix is.
Chris MacdonaldDec 20, 2022
Have there been any attempts to use sound for data…uh…visualisation?
Chris MacdonaldDec 20, 2022
Show threadJonathan PritchardDec 20, 2022

Thanks, these are great ideas. Some of this would also fit nicely into the multi-species thread.

And I have another table that covers some of the mutation types:

Chris MacdonaldDec 20, 2022
First plasmid map I’ve seen in the wild