Joshua Sharp @JoshuaSharp@qoto.org

Do you know the mammalian monosaccharides? Most people who know their #aminoacids and #nucleotides answer no to this quesion... Want to learn? Download our new #glycogang #glycotime poster today! http://glyco-alberta.ca/educational-resources/ (in the for educators tab). Learn more about #glycosylation #education #biochemistry

#whataweekhuh

It's honestly offensive that we're being asked to believe that Clarence Thomas is somehow a brilliant legal mind capable of deciding the thorniest legal cases in the country as a Supreme Court justice, while also being utterly confounded by basic ethics rules.

BREAKING:
Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.
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The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice.

The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ mother was living.

#ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #RealEstate #Savannah #Georgia

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Register now! "#Bioinformatics for Protein ID" is a two-day short course in at #ASMS during June 3-4, 2023. Our course is aimed at newcomers to #proteomics. We cover the basics of database search, but we also demonstrate algorithms for spectral libraries and spectral networks. If you want to maximize what you get from each LC-MS/MS experiment, don't miss it!

Fees are $180 for students, but only if you register before April 30!

https://www.asms.org/conferences/annual-conference/short-courses/two-day-courses

Here is a must-read post from children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall on how Scholastic offered to publish her book — all she had to do was remove all mention of racism.

Sure, they're banning books in Tennessee and Texas. But it's not just the books that get published and then banned from the library. It's all the books that don't get published in the first place.

Those banning books know publishers like Scholastic pull this cowardly bullshit. It's their game plan.

https://www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4/11/scholastic-and-a-faustian-bargain

Three awards to #Glycotime researchers from the Biochemical Society! Congratulations to @DrGlycoBen, @gideondavies and Sir Mike!

New from me at The Watch:

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-smearing-of-garrett-foster

The Army Increasingly Allows Soldiers Charged With Violent Crimes to Leave the Military Rather Than Face Trial

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A federal watchdog called for ending the practice nearly 50 years ago, but the military pushed back.

Now, soldiers leave the Army with a negative discharge, avoiding possible federal conviction and with little record of the allegations against them.

W/ @texastribune

#Military #Army #ArmedForces #Crime #CriminalJustice #Justice #Soldiers #Courts

https://www.propublica.org/article/military-army-administrative-separation?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021.
FIFTY PERCENT. IN TWO YEARS. I keep pretty close tabs on these statistics and I had no idea it was that bad. 
#gunviolence #publichealth

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-50-percent-in-two-years/

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

Significant detail regarding #ClarenceThomas failure to disclose multiple gifts of travel from Harlan Crow over the years. In 2004, the LA Times reported on gifts Thomas disclosed he had received from Crow. After this reporting, Thomas didn’t stop accepting gifts from Crow; he just stopped disclosing them. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-04-06/the-times-reported-about-justice-thomas-gifts-20-years-ago-after-he-just-stopped-disclosing-them #JudicialEthics

I keep seeing strange takes from lawyers suggesting caution before condemning Clarence Thomas and, well, look, if my girl Sonia is also secretly living up the high life in the offseason on a billionaire's dime then impeach her too.

But she isn't. He is and he isn't even sorry.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

This is my favorite part of the Justice Thomas story. The sheer bullshittery.

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire: SCOTUS Justice Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
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Island-hopping on a superyacht.

Private jet rides around the world.

The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court.

“It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #Ethics #Travel #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Just want to point out that the premise of all these columns which argue "you can't indict Trump because some DA might invent charges against Obama or Clinton" is:

Law is completely fake, judges are all liars, and anyone can be sent to jail for anything.

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If that's the case, shouldn't we be talking about a massive overhaul of the entire criminal justice system, including releasing the vast majority of people in prison? 🤔

Uh huh, sure, the same thing was said about the industrial revolution and about mass production and about personal computers but then the wealthy absorbed all of productivity benefits and then kept demanding a bigger and bigger slice of the pie anyway.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-investor-predicts-ai-will-free-humanity-from-work-2023-3

Again #teammassspec wins JBC’s method madness!

My lab would cease without MS, which requires expertise in sample preparation/analysis & intelligence/patience in data interpretation! Hoping that my uni does invest in the next MALDI-TOF!

Our MALDI-TOF is 12 years old, but kept in shape via service contract. The funding it came after I wrote a piece of paper with ‘MALDI’ on it and put it into a prayer fountain at a Kyoto temple!

https://www.asbmb.org/journals-news/jbc-methods-madness

God, how far Alan Dershowitz has fallen. He could start a pillow company at this point.

Boy do I have some thoughts about this CEO's quote in @drewharwell's great reporting on Midjourney.

1) THIS IS HOW YOU END UP WITH TOOLS THAT APPLY ONE COUNTRY'S AUTHORITARIAN RULES TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE

2) He doesn't at all consider that Chinese people might also want to satirize Xi Jinping. Do they not matter?

3) "Minimize drama" is condescending nonsense. Being able to criticize one of the most authoritarian leaders in emerging tech is not a question of "drama."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/30/midjourney-ai-image-generation-rules/