I now have an SSN (USA) and a BSN (NL) 🥳💃🏼

Second pair of wool socks with a hole. You know what this means 🏆😆

Bowhead whales use a protein called CIRBP to meld broken DNA back together in such an efficient fashion that these guys live to be over 200 years old. This goes against what one would expect from such a large animal with so much DNA; we would expect more mutations and a reduced life span (Peto's paradox). While humans also have CIRBP, ours is much less efficient at repairing DNA and preventing mutations. Scientists took whale CIRBP and put it in human cells, and found that it worked to reduce DNA mutations in our cells, just like it does in whales. This has big implications for cancer research. Whales are cool. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09694-5

Studying for Network+ now 😅

Whoa #flowerstr View quoted note →

It is like really, really snowing right now! I am so grateful to get to experience all the seasons! View quoted note →

Bo is lovin' the snow and cold weather. Needless to say, a bath was necessary today 😆 #dogstr

I found crawfish here! Étoufée here we come 🔥