Joshua Sharp @JoshuaSharp@qoto.org

The Onion is on fire and I am in awe. https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

Tate Reeves was lieutenant governor in 2016-2019, when the MS Department of Human Services and others diverted more than $77 million in TANF funds away from the poor and toward wealthy individuals and their causes, like Brett Favre.

Presley called Reeves “a man with zero conviction” who “looks out for himself and his rich friends instead of the people who put him into office.”
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/31094/presley-leads-reeves-for-governor-amid-mississippi-welfare-scandal-poll-shows

For all the talk of the Twitter files supposedly (but not actually) revealing that Twitter was actively colluding with Democrats to censor conservatives (note: this did not actually happen), it's interesting to see that none of the Twitter Files discuss the now revealed point that Republicans regularly demanded Twitter remove tweets: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/09/somehow-missing-from-the-official-twitter-files-twitter-had-to-continually-respond-to-trumps-gop-officials-demands-for-taking-down-tweets/

New at The Watch: Debunking a dumb, racist narrative taking hold on the right

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/tyre-nichols-wasnt-murdered-because

Fully funded 4 year #PhD available at the University of Antwerp!

You will work in my lab on #machinelearning and #deeplearning solutions to analyze #massspectrometry #metabolomics data.

Job ad: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/academic-staff/?q=2652&descr=Doctoral-scholarship-holder-artificial-intelligence-for-bioinformatics
Application deadline: 19 March 2023

For more information, please reach out to me via email or social media.

Hamline U update: faculty votes overwhelmingly no confidence in president who presided over free speech debacle. FAAFO.

https://hamlineoracle.com/10822/news/hamline-faculty-no-longer-have-faith-in-president-miller/

The party of free speech out there free speeching I see

https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-florida-race-and-ethnicity-education-353417231de0a790c8e290479a5e52b8

Using heparan sulfate octadecasaccharide (18-mer) as a multi-target agent to protect against sepsis
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2209528120?af=R

Looks Interesting. Will have to dig into this and find out why an 18-mer...

#Glycotime #Proteoglycans #Science #Research

I just wrote a short piece over on post.news about how the h-index rose to prominence because it was a clever UI hack—and now that the UI hack is no longer needed, it may seem like a curious choice of bibliometric measure.

Here's the link if you want to read it there.

https://post.news/article/2KNv9uat3nL8CF6tIpA7eIpVGOg

I'll serialize here as well, below.

Superb structural glycobiology from Joel Bloch with Ethan Goddard-Borger & Kaspar Locher who solved the structure of tryptophan C-mannosyltransferase ! congratulations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-022-01219-9

#glycotime

Everything about this story is just appalling: University administrators, and apparently even student journalists, have apparently decided that material a particular religious group considers “blasphemous” is therefore “harmful.” They cannot have thought through the consequences of applying that idiotic principle consistently. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/03/debates-whether-academic-freedom-includes-images-offensive-muslims

Amid a raft of hospital closures, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves cautioned lawmakers against rushing to provide funding for ailing hospitals during a press conference on Jan. 3, 2023, saying that “keeping inefficient systems is not a good answer.”

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30116/crisis-mode-as-hospitals-close-mississippi-lawmakers-mull-band-aid-fixes

Another HS polymerase structure, after the one from Rebekka Wild's group, late in 2022.

@strucbio #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #Glycotime
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-022-01220-2

UC strike energizes unprecedented national surge of union organizing by academic workers https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-02/uc-strike-energizes-labor-surge #academia

I know that facts don't matter so much during a moral panic, but I'll just say that I teach a class every year at Stanford that tackles hate speech, violence, terrorism, child exploitation, suicide and other really difficult topics and use a lot of these words with no difficulties.

I do give my students a talk up front about the content of the course and the need to be resilient if you want to make a positive impact in this field, but so far no complaints.

https://reason.com/2022/12/21/stanford-elimination-harmful-language-speech-karen-american/

#NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (#REU) at Clemson University in materials #chemistry summer 2023 https://scienceweb.clemson.edu/uacl/research-projects/reu/

BIG NEWS: Congress is ready to give the City of Jackson $600 million under the federal omnibus package—an enormous sum that would finally make addressing the Jackson water crisis and fixing the city's broken water system a reality.

@NickJudin@twitter.com reports: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29778/congress-includes-600-million-for-jackson-water-system-in-omnibus-bill