Our preprint describes how #EffectivePopulationSize affects #AminoAcid usage. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.01.526552v2. Within highly exchangeable pairs of amino acids, high Ne species are able to prefer #arginine over #lysine, and #valine over #isoleucine. This matches #thermophile preferences, as expected from theories of marginal protein stability at mutation-selection-drift balance. 1/6
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On National Kickball Day, here's a look at one of Valine's games. Invented by our signature technologist character, the Felian Alchemist Hyrokee Bit-Oster, Stones of the Wild is played with a slingshot, a small ball of hardened rubber, and three standing stones. Simple enough, you might think, but the catch is that the stones are imbued with low levels of wild magic, which trigger under conditions not disclosed to the players.

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On National "That Sucks" Day, meet another inhabitant of the world of Valine. Thyichar is a tiefling warlock (rather unfortunately perpetuating the myths about demon/tiefling connection) who is also an accountant and moneylender. Very much someone who can make your day suck, if so inclined!

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