Matthew Jessulat

Learning chess online. I am apparently not very good.

Today, I was walking past a coffee shop, and noticed a sign advertising a tiramisu flavoured latte. That's right, they found a way to make espresso taste like coffee. Finally, a drink that tastes like the thing that it is. A caffeine turducken.

It was delicious.

Internet's telling me there might be Northern Lights tonight. It's too cloudy where I am, but other folks in Canada, if you've got clear skies, look up!

someone asked on insta what “be brave enough to be kind” means and why i say it on my podcast and at screenings

being kind is always a vulnerability - it exposes your belly. love puts us in harm’s way always. we gotta find the courage to risk being hurt. or else i don’t know what the point is.

Leanna Owen, Margot Riggi , David Drubin, Janet Iwasa and Yidi Sun use molecular animation to depict the full progression of CME in budding yeast, with an accompanying Cell Science at a Glance article and poster.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

It's remarkable the collection of zany genetic libraries of yeast mutants that have been created. And it's easy enough to modify one yeast strain, but a lot of effort to systematically make a new strain 6,400 times. Kudos!

My mother's up to seventeen years now.

Regina-style pizza needs more appreciation. I've heard they put cinnamon in the sauce to make it sweeter?

And congrats to the Riders on their Grey Cup victory!

Best of luck to the Riders today!

Image of Aurora Borealis, mostly red glow across the sky with green below, over clouds and distant city lights.

Quite the light show tonight (just outside Regina)

Canadian Parliament buildings

The CSMB is concerned that, despite new investments, Federal Budget 2025 weakens rather than strengthens Canada’s research ecosystem.
Sustainable research funding is essential for innovation and competitiveness.
Read more: csmb-scbm.ca/csmb-stateme...

#CSMB #Budget2025 #ResearchCanada #Science

Clever way to illustrate sound concepts by creative use of a woofer.

...I'll... ah... I'll show myself out.

I am also deeply thankful for pecan pie.

With half a bottle of Chardonnay in me, and with full acknowledgement of the objections to this holiday many have, I would like to say that I am thankful for my parents, the support they gave and the character they taught me to have. I know who I am, and I persevere, because of them.

Time’s almost up to vote in #ScienceExposed 2025—voting closes this Sunday!⏰

Two U of R grad students are finalists in the competition:

📸 Ali Molaeitabari, "Fungal Poppy"
📸 Jade Fisher, "Synaptic Sunset"

Let’s celebrate their incredible research—cast your vote today!

❎ bit.ly/4pv4VZJ

#GoFarUofR

I wonder what will do more damage to scientific credibility in the long run... Science institutions and grants being openly and deliberately taken over by partisan political ideology, or people getting their science information and understanding from ChatGPT summaries?

... sooooo, Labubu's are just the Pokemon evolution of Furbys, right?

Remember, doing the same thing over and over and over again while expecting to get different results is the very definition of my exercise routine.

Everything happening is a lot.
Take a breath. It’s not on you to fix all of it.
Find a corner of it you can work on.
Do a thing today that matters to you. Help someone you can help.
Don’t let anyone talk you out of trying.

As brutal and lonely and dark as the world is right now, the few trans people in my life are some of the most kind and decent souls I know. They have survived so much, and are thriving now. So maybe there's hope for the rest of us too. Happy pride.

I want to believe in people. Even after everything, I want to believe in people. Because if I'm wrong, what's the goddamn point?

Really loving Steam Powered Giraffe lately.

I hate to admit it, but the resize had me confused for almost a minute.

I think it will be interesting to see how much the record early voting was a question of electoral engagement and how much was just people more willing to cast a ballot in advance to save the rush. But if you haven't yet, there's still time (in my time zone at least)!

Some of the smartest people I've ever met have been the dumbest people I've ever known.

If you can avoid it, don't work for or with assholes. It's never worth it in the long run.

Flyer advertising the CSMB seminar series on February 11, 2025 at 9am PT or 12pm ET. The two speakers are Dr. Sidhanth Chirukandath from the University of Ottawa speaking about "Proteomics as a tool to identify posttranslational protein modifications in rat ventricular myofibroblasts and mouse myobloast cells" and Zaid Sahid from Toronto Metropolitan University speaking about "You win some, you lose some; gene loss as a pathoadaptive strategy in Shigella flexneri".

The @csmb-scbm.bsky.social seminar series is back for 2025! Make sure you sign up for our February seminar, happening February 11th at 9am PT/12pm ET. We will hear about proteomics and PTMS as well as pathoadaptive strategies from two great Canadian researchers!

Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5n9xtrmw

🔬 From COVID-19 to bird flu—U of R researchers are using wastewater to track H5N1 before it spreads.

By detecting the virus early, they aim to protect public health, food security & ecosystems in the fight against the next big health threat.

Read more: www.discoursemagazine.ca/from-covid-1...

Here's the thing. Horrible people feed off each other. Every horrible person uses other horrible people to justify themselves. So be decent. Try to seed a little goodness around you. And let's hope that, eventually, the horrible people will burn each other down and we'll have built something.