New talk, from the heart...on what #DNA teaches us about history, sharing, and how to secure a justly equitable future. youtube.com/watch?v=-dEL2yhT…

AI folks who are new to bio should spend some time with wet lab folks not only to understand how experiments, assays, lab work is done but also to learn the basic concept of CONTROLS. 1/

Is there anything more NYC than a Muslim mayor posting Суккот муборак / Sukkot Mubarak inside the most diverse county in America? This is Bukhori, the language of my people (Central Asian Jews called Bukharian Jews). A Muslim mayor joining a Bukharian Jewish rabbi to distribute food to needy neighbors, wishing us a happy Sukkot holiday in a Judeo-Tajik Persian rooted language that includes Hebrew and Aramaic with the word Mubarak rooted in Arabic with its sister term to the Hebrew barak. Diversity is beautiful, and so are these glimmers of Muslim Jewish unity that our community knew for thousands of years and are building once again here in the greatest city on earth.

RT @novatjerneld: This argument doesn’t work. Romani people were also targeted in the Final Solution and a primary target alongside Jews fo…

Davies “delivers a captivating history of the century-long effort to understand and treat #sicklecell… skillfully translates complex genetics into accessible prose... an illuminating account of scientific progress and medical inequity.” @PublishersWkly publishersweekly.com/9780674…

First in my bloodline to experience Jews being more upset about an Ed Sheeran concert than about German Nazis winning elections

Joe Rogan making a better argument for "defund" than half the Jacobin-left.

AOC struggling to make sense of her unqualified support for the House’s most vocal Zionist after his meeting with Trump’s son in law.

here's a long discussion with Cofnas where he is unable to provide any evidence for his incendiary claims:

While New York is home to the most American Jews in the nation, we are still such a small group that this only makes up 1 out of 10 New Yorkers. Half that of Black or Latino New Yorkers, who everyday witness all sorts of agencies and committees almost never being 40% comprised by them. Or even 50% women. So when American Jews advocate for our community to be reflected in every group, fine, but know that we are more over represented in these groups than our numbers, and that your Black, brown and women friends are watching you skip over them still. So if you’re not speaking up about structural inequality in our society, it’s hard to witness only speaking up about one committee while being overrepresented by every measure across every other.

Much as we should cherish basic genomic and other scientific data resources, dismaying to see returns of the Human Genome Project retconned as 'economic activity', rather than (yet) health equity as hoped and implicitly promised.

If @cmkshama had a walrus mustache, or had dropped out of prep school to repeatedly join corporate wars for 'fun', that'd be enough 'hook' for @ryangrim. But electing a defiantly accomplished wage-raiser as congress's first *actual* socialist since 1951? Meh, not worth his time.

One of the most relentless and compassionate people I know, now in great pain and need. Let's please help Suhayl mend fully and with security of mind. gofund.me/e03e6f551

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City. These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today. 🧵

So plants?

Two sharp folks.

Huh? What other 'democracy', since pre-1994 South Africa, still expressly bars its own native majority from voting majority, by exile or any other means?

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'I lay out my case to @PeterBeinart that forcing white South Africans in 1985 to dissolve their own state would be undemocratic, even if we see that as a "just outcome". But my argument is that it wouldn't be just because it wouldn't be democratic.' Good grief.

As I said in a QT (where I also ratio'd you, incidentally), your essay is about people quitting their jobs because they can't handle hearing criticism of Israel and Zionism at work. That's not being purged from public life. There is zero evidence that any alleged reduced acceptance and representation has anything whatsoever to do with Jewish identity, but rather advocacy of genocide, occupation, and ethnic cleansing. Anyone who advocates for genocide, occupation, and ethnic cleansing is likely to face pushback by their colleagues and others, as they should. In short, your entire argument is predicated upon conflating antisemitism with anti-Zionist sentiment, and also conflating Zionists' discomfort with hearing Israel criticized with being excluded from public life. The reasoning is entirely circular, and you're upset because people can't be fooled anymore.

"Lastly, & separately, I want to congratulate you on the work you have done, and continue to do, for the working families in NY. I have watched with admiration how you centered municipal workers as the heroes in every snowstorm. How you imagined childcare as a right for every working family, & as a social responsibility for everyone. These are things worthy of respect & admiration. But in this instance you have erred. You succumbed to forces that seek to pick away at you -- at your talented, beautiful wife, and at your work --clawing harder with each apology or concession you make. If you're not careful, they will siphon your soul before you even realize it."