Just got the news that Vanessa Ruta, Steve Liberles, and Uli Mueller are all elected to be members of the National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org. All 3 are incredibly well-deserved. Congrats to all the new members! 🎉

Reprehensible

Thanks @carlzimmer.com + colleagues for covering this. Science in USA is being strangled. Labs closing highly skilled personnel with specialized skills being let go since no $ to pay them. Cancer Pediatric diseases Alzheimer +++ research programs are damaged beyond repair.

Congratulations to Jodie Foster, Rita Moreno,William Christie, Doris Tsao, Leslie Vosshall @hhmi-science.bsky.social and all newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences www.amacad.org/news/new-mem...

Congratulations!

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

What an idiot

oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry

Why do Republican voters hate American troops?

ICYMI: The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

No Kings protests in Barrow, Alaska- the most northerly town in the USA. #nokings

Kathy, thank you! I'm a working scientist and I have know-how to battle Project 2025 attacks on science *and* democracy. NJ-12 is safely Democratic. If you think all D's are the same, move on. If you love science, this is different. Right now is critical. secure.actblue.com/donate/sam4n...

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

The NYT did a deep dive looking into trump's ballroom design and found that it was poorly designed with staircases leading to nowhere...

New Fox poll finds that 75% of independents disapprove of Trump's performance as president. That's bad, right?

Congratulations Bob!

This is such great messaging. Cc: @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Horrible

Surprise surprise!

Grant terminations had deep impacts on all early career scientists, running counter to Bhattacharya’s stated interest in supporting them. The terminations disproportionately harmed early career women. www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...

Miss Dave so much!

Very nice!

‼️ We are on track for a staggering 98% reduction in posted NIH funding opportunities this year relative to historical norms. Political review and red tape are blocking approval of funding announcements across the board. See Elizabeth Ginexi’s analysis: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-re...

Republicans and Dems are aligned: Don't mess with NIH funding

Generational talent

Here is the thing about basic science research. You never know where it will end up. But you can be guaranteed that there would not be the progress we have had were it not for robust support of basic science research. All of this is now threatened.

Mar Espinar, Spain’s PSOE deputy, on Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s support for Trump: “Take your mafioso chief of staff, go to Mar-a-Lago, and leave us here — because we are more like the brave ones from Minnesota”

nearly a 50% cut in basic science, which underpins everything no Wright brothers, no Apollo mission

Neural crest cells beginning their long trek out of the neural tube in a quail embryo. Beautifully captured by the fantastic @siewzhuan.bsky.social 🧪🐣🔬

Another amazing story by @edvardmoser.bsky.social and @m-bmoser.bsky.social on the developmental emergence of spatial navigation : I am so thrilled to see a new, and surprising example of instinctive circuit function 🤣 We still have so much to learn on behavior circuit development: congrats! 👏🧠

Bering

How exciting!

I ALWAYS plug my hybrid in

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

Congratulations David! Wonderful news

Congratulations to David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors for receiving The Brain Prize! 🎉👏 You can help David celebrate at this conference: www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of David Botstein, a towering figure in modern #genetics and a foundational force behind SGD. www.yeastgenome.org/blog/in-memo... #yeast #modelOrganism

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

This is hanging at DOJ

Many of the working poor can never seem to break even and live a decent, safe life. And yet Trump has effectively ended taxes for billionaires. It's both horribly sad and infuriating. www.facebook.com/reel/1760652...

There are 70,000 people in DHS concentration camps. 3000 are children. Close the camps. Being our neighbors home.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

HORRIFYING - Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025 🧸Most were children ⌛️ Many died within the first year 😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from: - HIV, TB, malaria - Maternal & fetal deaths - Malnutrition news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

"The only thing more powerful than hate is love" #BadBunny #SuperBowl

Breaking News from @theathletic.com: The U.S. won the gold medal in the figure skating team event behind Ilia Malinin’s captivating performance. nyti.ms/3O0Rfri

Ilia Malinin's stunning free skate helps the U.S. defend its team figure skating gold medal.

So Trump fired a Cuban-American secretary of the Navy and replaced him with a white guy on the Epstein list. That tracks.

From @theathletic.com: Team USA beat Japan by just one point in the team figure skating event at the Winter Olympics. Ilia Malinin, also known as the “Quad God,” won the Americans gold with a captivating performance, resulting in a 200.03 score. nyti.ms/4a4lru9

It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.