for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

💥 🍃 🧪 Mary-Claire King: Discoverer of BRCA1 Gene "She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called BRCA1" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary-Claire_King

Always love a great open access review 👍 Targeting pathological ERK1/2 signaling in cancer and beyond: Trends in Molecular Medicine www.cell.com/trends/molec... #RASopathies #RAS #MEK #Medsky #Oncosky #Pedsky 🧪

“Supporters of the proposal said it would effectively create a state version of the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, two of the nation’s largest institutional funders of scientific and public health research.” 🧪 #giftarticle

🍂 🏛️ NEW NIH Review of Agency's Entire Research Portfolio Called For by NIH Director 🧪 Activities that don’t align with agency priorities "may be restricted, paused, not renewed or terminated"

This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday. It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever. I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

Collectively, research institutions are witnessing unprecedented attempts to bully academic institutions with the administration’s ideological aims. These attempts challenge long-standing norms of academic freedom. We cannot afford continued public apathy. #StandUpForScience 🧪🧬🔗 zurl.co/F0Wyk

Academics and scientists take note: We are in the fight of our lives for education and freedom. Penn and UVA are losing that fight, in part because faculty were not unified behind their leaders. The fight for science is the fight for universities. They are the same. 🧪

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If you need some talking points to share with your elected officials, I wrote some here and got dozens of scientific professional societies to sign on www.ucs.org/about/news/s... 🧪 @ucs.org

There is a surprisingly large amount of literature about why curly hair is curly and straight hair is straight. There are multiple genes involved, and complex cellular mechanisms... No wonder it's so hard to come up with a good conditioner. 🧪 Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Happy #Juneteenth! We honor Black feminists who fought for freedom: 🖤 Maria W. Stewart ❤️ Sarah Mapps Douglass 💚 Sarah Forten They didn’t wait for freedom—they demanded it. 🎧 Listen to our Juneteenth playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/5AI... #BlackFeministHistory

🚨Research alert! Two new studies, led by Museum scientists, suggest that biofluorescence in fish dates back ~112 million years & has evolved independently 100+ times, with the majority of that activity happening among species that live on coral reefs. Learn more ⬇️ amnh.link/4nlyBrk

The NIH has not issued a single new call for proposals since the end of January.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

Universities hold patents on 50% of FDA approved drugs, and research done at universities contributed to 90% of current medications. Think about what we stand to lose if federal funding is cut by 50% 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

Experimental evidence rules out mosquitoes as vectors of Lyme disease Excellent study! The myth of mosquito transmission was based solely on a few reports of spirochete DNA in mosquitoes, but never evaluated transmission parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #MicroSky 🦠

Time for one minute of Clickens! Take a break from scrolling. clickens.chicken.pics

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mignon Talbot (1869-1950) - a champion of women’s education. - 1st woman PhD at Yale 1904 - 1st to discover a dinosaur 1910 - 1st woman member of the Paleontological Society 1909 - 1st woman vice-president of the Paleo Soc 1926 www.geological-digressions.com/mignon-talbo... ⚒️🧪

This budget proposal if passed will devastate the US leadership in science, engineering and medicine. The public needs to speak up. 🧪

We asked the staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute what their favorite space movie is. These were some great choices. What's your favorite space movie? 🔭🧪

Join me in sporting & supporting this lovely shirt, for science! 🧪

👏 Official statement from Center for Open Science: "Demanding perfect evidence before action can be taken is often a way to avoid using evidence at all. Rigor and reproducibility should not be weaponized to gatekeep certain fields or findings."

“Thinking of the dolphins' key signal, a signature whistle, as informational equivalent of our faces, may help us see (and hear) the world from a dolphin's perspective.” #scicomm #sensoryecology #animalcommunication #bioacoustics #language www.sciencealert.com/dolphins-giv... 🧪 🐬 🦊 🦑

Amazing sight captured eight hours ago by Perseverance #Mars May 25, 2025 - Sol 1515 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 🧪🔭

The Max Foundation is Seeking a Program Coordinator Based in Yerevan, Armenia @themaxfoundation.org oncodaily.com/blog/the-max... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #ProgramCoordinator #Yerevan #Armenia

The choice is yours.

i am thinking about how many people who came into activism through this movement, who were too young or disconnected to really see or experience the repression from 2020, and who are about to get their shit rocked because anon accounts online are encouraging them to talk way too hot.

Ah yes, pre-emptively punishing students who haven't even been at Harvard yet. The American way

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's not just Northwestern and Harvard, I have gotten credible (confidential) reports from several other schools (including state schools) that the NIH is defaulting on federal commitments there too. Seems like there may be a big story here for an investigative reporter willing to take it on

I've spent the last 7+ years trying to connect academia to K-12 & create #openaccess curriculum w/ scientists through NSF funding for Broader Impacts. We've created 100+ lessons & videos about diverse topics that are free for all @galacticpolymath.com #saveNSF #scicomm 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/0ICu-...

Santosa et al. @mskcancercenter.bsky.social‬ reveal a divergent transcriptomic & epigenetic landscape between conventional & inflationary memory responses in spleen & liver during latent infection, while these molecular programs converge early in salivary glands rupress.org/jem/article/...

Solid takedown of Vinay Prasad newrepublic.com/article/1949...

💥 🧡 🧪 Wonderful new and exciting Cell Biology project by the Allen Institute!

A MUST READ: time.com/7285045/resi... This is the public transparency required for future accountability- @alondra.bsky.social's account of the undermining of our democratic checks and balances is incredible. 🧪 @aaas.org @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social #SciSky #PublicAccountability #STEM

99.999% of the global deep seafloor remains unseen, new #ScienceAdvances research estimates. scim.ag/4kiibxl

Want to contact your US elected officials about federal science cuts? Pick your state and APS will give you sample language with state specific NSF, DOE, NASA, NIST, and DOD science funding numbers. 🧪 www.aps.org/initiatives/...

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Survey of hundreds of scientists’ work suggests that cutting off funding disrupts focus and reduces the novelty of research. #academicSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Prasad is a dangerous choice on his COVID stances, yes, but I fear for the mRNA cancer vaccine research. Very close to preventing horrible illnesses and deaths, and this guy is “vaccine hesitant.” Yeah.

I the midst of the most anti science era I have ever experienced, this 12 minute impromptu podcast with Girl Scouts of all ages gave me hope. It’s full of 🌈☀️🦄. And they have better science literacy than many adults. 🧪 m.youtube.com/watch?v=cS6H...

This is awful news and will render the NSF even less effective at supporting science and science education in the US (which seems to be a goal of this admin). 🧪

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"A good idea is like a good joke." Molecular biologist Jeremy Nathans compares promising scientific ideas to well-crafted jokes in this #AskAScientist @nationalacademies.org @hhmi.bsky.social #Lasker 🧪