#Subpopulations
posting here since bsky is taking off!
nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08146-w Congratulations to my good friend @keunwooryu.bsky.social and the Craig Thompson lab on uncovering metabolically distinct mitochondrial subpopulations. Really cool cell biology Keun!!
Cellular ATP demand creates metabolically distinct subpopulations of mitochondria - Nature
Mitochondria are able to maintain two competing metabolic pathways—oxidative phosphorylation and the reductive synthesis of proline and ornithine—by generating two mitochondrial subpopulations that ar...
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November 22, 2024 at 11:48 PM
In another thread I also talked about how premodern militaries relied on subpopulations that already knew how to use bows well to supply their armies with archers, because they couldn't realistically train them themselves

Well, these pastoral subpopulations are the typical source, lol
May 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
You all are really bad at wresting with the actual attitudes of subpopulations in the USA
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
No, it's just that MOEs on subpopulations in polls are very high.
July 1, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection - Nature Microbiology
Single-cell gene expression analysis reveals phenotypic heterogeneity to enable bacterial specialization over the course of plant colonization.
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April 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Well the E stands for Egregious

It's a new test that I'm running on various ship subpopulations

You know, cadets, ensigns, officers, technical staff, floating eyeballs, etc
August 23, 2026 at 2:11 PM
they should collect more so they can more confidently estimate subpopulations iyam
August 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Agencies will need to invest more in collecting and analysing data about subpopulations like disabled New Zealanders.
June 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
(In fact, pastoral subpopulations are often the source of "bandits" in history, as defending their herd from predators and other raiders often means they're much more experienced fighters than average farmers, and may opportunistically turn to violence to meet their needs)
May 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
At a very fundamental level, your politics are governed by whether you believe that "intelligence" is a trait that appears widely and randomly throughout human populations or whether it manifests only selectively in certain subpopulations and thus must be jealously protected.
my regular reminder that many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country very plainly believe in eugenics
Bill Ackman’s post about Tucker Carlson and Jeffrey Epstein has an interesting explanation for why he believes he became a billionaire:

“I inherited good genes from wonderful parents who instilled good values in me.”

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July 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Happy to share the version of record of our locus coeruleus paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prior thread on some of our discoveries in this study:
bsky.app/profile/jere...
September 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Fucking cholinergic subpopulations. Such assholes.
February 15, 2026 at 1:05 AM
(I think everyone knows that Medieval England and Scotland relied heavily on archers in their militaries - and the reason they even COULD do so is because large stretches of those countries are bad for intensive farming, but good for pasture, resulting in large pastoral subpopulations)
May 1, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Study of Peripheral Blood T-Lymphocytes and Their Subpopulations in COVID-19 Patients

A minor paper, showing what has been reported before, and at risk of being overinterpreted.

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Study of Peripheral Blood T‐Lymphocytes and Their Subpopulations in COVID‐19 Patients
Objective: To study the characteristic changes in peripheral blood T-lymphocytes and their subpopulations in COVID-19 patients by in-depth characterization of peripheral blood T-lymphocytes and to an...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Territorial and Non-Territorial Subpopulations of Wilson's Warblers Return to Central California Breeding Grounds in Two Migratory Waves | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
December 6, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Good news. We elect people to make decision, not hold processes by which extremely unrepresentative subpopulations drag out any decision for months.

Easier than ever to contact your elected, we don't need public hearings.
May 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
afaik the baseline rate of depression is much lower and its only in subpopulations that you see rates as high as 40%

(“grad students” being a quite shocking example of a high depression rate subpop)
September 25, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Cellular ATP demand creates metabolically distinct subpopulations of mitochondria
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cellular ATP demand creates metabolically distinct subpopulations of mitochondria - Nature
Mitochondria are able to maintain two competing metabolic pathways—oxidative phosphorylation and the reductive synthesis of proline and ornithine—by generating two mitochondrial subpopulations that ar...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM
It's also worth noting these pastoral subpopulations are sometimes ethnically distinct from the people they share land with in some ways?

And in those cases, are often subject to horrific levels of persecution - e.g. the Romani in Europe
May 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
📢 New paper out in Mol Syst Biol!
During the development of WT yeast colonies, small cell subpopulations experience transient, high-intensity mutational bursts. Such hypermutation episodes are modulated by the DNA damage tolerance pathway 🧬
🔗 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
June 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I think the neanderthal contribution to human genome is quite small and only in some subpopulations, indicating a pretty limited and very one-sided integration
September 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Beyond the leader cell: How pancreatic islets self-organize to control blood sugar.
https://buff.ly/3QpGbSd
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
If the Trump cuts to education continue, my prediction is the rise of corporate schools housed within factories, offices, and plants, with curricula and values dictated by each owner. It's the Balkanization of education, with some subpopulations getting next to none.
February 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The authors of a new Perspective argue that #AI tools for medical diagnostics should track and maximize accuracy for all subpopulations, rather than focusing on fairness criteria that quantify disparities between protected subpopulations. nejm.ai/3C1E6bM

#MedSky
January 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM