Victor Tatarskiy

Hey! I'm Victor. I'm a cell and cancer biologist. My lab mainly studies CDK8/19, cell cycle regulation, and new anti-cancer drug candidates. I also love history and DnD, so don't be surprised if I follow you. I'm Russian (sorry) with family in the US, so there is occasional politics.

RIP. I know you all are Trekies out there, but he was the greatest space opera villain in the greatest TV space opera of all time - Babylon 5

took me a second to understand that Merck has a Marjorie Green, with no "Taylor" who is "Merck’s head of oncology global clinical development"

It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

"Hollands worked with Prof Caroline Jackson, a leading Roman glass expert, in conducting the initial research. Then came the challenge of embedding into glass nanoparticles of gold and silver – each a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand." www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

🧪🧬📢 With all of the political maddness going on, I forgot to post about our latest preprint. A short thread: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This work was a collaboration with our neighbors, the Pilpel lab. Years ago, our two labs discovered SECReTE, >>

Just going to be straight here — no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

Excited to announce that I have brought on @austinwitherspoon.com to help build, support, and maintain the Hank (and John) Green suite of fun lil games! hankgreen.com/games.html

A billionaire smashing track - a leftists dream :)))))

A billionaire smashing track - a leftists dream :)))))

New post in the Green Fluorescent Blog! 🧪🔬 yes, it's been a long time since I posted, but i figured its time i revive the blog. This time about Imaging the cell membrane using pan-protein labeling greenfluorescentblog.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/i...

Bumping this up because there's still over a week to apply!

This is so sad. A great journalist, and a very kind and compassionate person

Come one, come all, there is a couping pirate Doge archbishop, and a shadowy bank that is also a goverment, and several other fun Renessaince shenanigans (which are all Genoa for some reason). My favorite podcast right now.

This is a bop youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8?...

Is there anything good derived from the Internet of Things? www.reuters.com/business/ret...

The president is actually doing the same thing in the third to last panel. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bet-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

One for the academics, from @ellisjrosen.bsky.social 🧪🎓

I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!

Housing and childcare?? Who are you - Stalin?? [Overview in google news]

I LOVE this episode of @99pi.org , not just because it’s a great story and the field jacket became a model for jacket design. Why do all jackets look like the M43? Because it was based on science and science works! If you design a jacket, given the constraints of materials and function and the

We did a lot of educational hematology visual storytelling last year which was pretty cool: visual-science.com/projects/14-...

This is fun crawlerzoo.com

With the Nikon Small World competition AI scandal, at least we can enjoy the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/10/come... (I hope no AI here, or I'm smashing our Nikon inverted microscope, and going to jail for property damage)

Well, I am actually very impressed that someone can make an app that is worse that Microsoft Teams!

Two extremely cool new papers on how AID gets targeted to appropriate genes for somatic hypermutation: paper 1 from Schatz lab at Yale shows that NELF and elongation components of the SEC are required- and suggests NELF can travel into genes /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy [Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]

tracking the Ring

is there a faculty member from University of Washington Chemistry here? if so, please DM

A PI tring to get a grant :)

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/7b0...

Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/

This is a wonderful story, weaving together historians, hippies, old apple tree fanatics and DNA sequencers to reveal how French immigrants in Maine brought along one of the ancestors of American apples 🧪

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

It's parliamentary election in Russia. Did my civic duty, lol.

Expansion microscopy