David Shechter
@DShechter
Epigenetically engineering a kosher pig or how I stopped worrying and learned to love charge, grease, and intrinsic disorder Opinions are my own
Why can’t cells live without PRMT5? Our new transformative work inspired and led by @JacobRoth13 shows that this arginine methyltransferase is critical for histone production and genome stability. Full story: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/5
criminal behavior by masked thugs from the Trump administration
Another legal immigrant arrested. We can't ever become numb to what is happening. This is wrong. It's not "normal" wrong. It's civilization-altering wrong.
Amazing crowd at the New York City Chromatin Club symposium today!! 🧬🧬 A special thank you for o the team of David Shechter for the organization @nycchromatin
I see a lot of people commenting on this definition of Zionism from Wikipedia. I don't agree with it. 2 main issues: 1/ Defining Zionism as colonisation. Jewish people always lived in Palestine, throughout the ages to a lesser and greater degree. This wasn't some random…
Instead, what I hear from leftists is a constant semantic argument about what constitutes antisemitism. Let me be blunt: I don't give a shit about your definition of antisemitism when your comrades want me dead and have a track record of trying.
My fear, which *not a single Mamdani supporter has addressed* is that when leftists incite violence against New York Jews again, Mamdani will not lift a finger to help us.
Mamdani's refusal to say "globalize the intifada" is a call to violence is not a disagreement about what words to put in what order. It speaks to his political instincts. When people do things like this, will he deploy the police? I believe no.
I was proud to edit this new essay by David Shiffman in @AmSciMag. Many people ridicule public funding of basic research, often unaware of what it achieves. Shiffman discusses how to explain its value--and why the looming cuts will be so devastating. americanscientist.org/article/%E2%80…
My lab was totally destroyed tonight by an Iranian missile. Nobody was hurt. Flies, plasmids, cells, equipment - all gone. Heart breaking. If during the course of the past 16 years, you have received something from my lab - please keep them safe.
Our lab at the Weizmann Institute was hit tonight by Iran We will rebuild and return 💪
Here's the NYT article from three years in the future about the failed free grocery stores
Two-thirds of NYers support city-owned grocery stores. Three-fourths support free buses. Nearly 80% support a rent-freeze. I'm running for mayor to deliver these exact policies. Our campaign is surging because unlike Andrew Cuomo, we know what working people need and deserve.
When you expand the supply of housing—as Austin has done—you drive down housing costs and lower rents. That’s the simple magic of housing abundance at work. Austin builds roughly 10 new homes per 1,000 residents. New York City? Fewer than four.
A New York State 10th grade Regents exam study guide demonizes Zionism—the belief that Jews have a right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland—as “extreme nationalism.” Yet it does not label as extreme the anti-Zionist ideology that inspired the October 7th…
We experts are not telling you that New York City buses could never be free. We're telling you that if they were, there would be a lot fewer of them.
When someone tells you buses could never be free, ask them how much they pay to take the Staten Island Ferry.
Arabs in the Jewish state enjoy far more rights than Jews ever did—or still do—in Arab states, to the extent that any Jews remain there at all. The ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Arab world was so thorough that virtually none remain. In 2021, for example, the last Jew fled…