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Jeff Hollett
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Liverwort Athalamia hyalina, looking like the advance party for a goofy alien invasion. The liverwort structures are about 1cm high.
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Jonathan Howard
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Here's what Vinay Prasad said about the new CDER chief, h/t
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Earth
2 days ago
🌎 2025 🗓 6th - 7th December 🕔 17:00Z 🛰 GOES19
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Jeff Youngblood
5 days ago
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
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The Marine Biological Association
8 days ago
Meet the veliger larva - a tiny ocean drifter with a delicate shell and two ciliated “velums” that look like fluttering ears. These velums help it swim through plankton and capture food. 🎥 Video by
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AFL-CIO
8 days ago
Starbucks
@sbworkersunited.org
baristas are still on strike at corporate stores nationwide. In the snow, rain, or sunshine, America’s unions have their backs. One day longer, one day stronger!
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AFL-CIO
15 days ago
Congrats to the 21,000
@uptecwa.bsky.social
health care, research and technical workers at the University of California on voting to ratify their new contract! After 17 months of negotiations, this new contract is a testament to the power of our solidarity.
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UC Workers Ratify ‘Best Contract Yet’ After Four Strikes and 17 Months of Negotiations
The union representing 21,000 healthcare, research, and technical professionals celebrates what union leaders are calling a historic win.
https://www.independent.com/2025/11/23/uc-workers-ratify-best-contract-yet-after-four-strikes-and-17-months-of-negotiations/
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🍂 🏛️ 🧪 New NIH Guidelines for Rescheduled Study Sections New triage line at 65-70%
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
22 days ago
This is brilliant! 🧪“The Monster Slash” By
@ellecordova.bsky.social
on IG She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.
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Shicheng Guo
26 days ago
Complex history! Barley domestication traced back with haplotypes. Studies suggest not one, but multiple wild origins influencing today’s genomes. Fascinating! PMID:40993384, Nature 2025,
@Nature
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09533-7
#Medsky
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A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication | Nature
Barley is one of the oldest cultivated crops, with a complex evolutionary and domestication history1. Previous studies have rejected the idea of a single origin and instead support a model of mosaic genomic ancestry2,3. With increasingly comprehensive genome data, we now ask where the haplotypes — the building blocks of this mosaic — originate, and whether all domesticated barleys share the same wild progenitors or whether certain wild populations contribute more heavily to specific lineages. To address these questions, we apply a haplotype-based approach to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure of wild and domesticated barley. We analyse whole-genome sequences from 682 genebank accessions and 23 archaeological specimens, tracing the spatiotemporal origins of haplotypes and identifying wild contributors during domestication and later gene flow events. Ancient DNA supports our genome-wide findings from modern samples. Our results suggest that a founding domesticated
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Dan Jagger
26 days ago
Open access link to new study in Science magazine: The emergence and diversification of dog morphology. 🧪🐶
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0995
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CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
26 days ago
As always,
@cplberry.bsky.social
is an excellent source of knowledge for
#GravitationalWave
science! Just stumbled across this infographic and link in this thread. It outlines what’s encoded in the GW signal and what scientists can learn from them. Very good! 🔭🧪
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Corey S. Powell
29 days ago
I find this remarkable: The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century. 🧪🔭
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Sean Kross
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DaylightCounter
about 1 month ago
We continue losing daylight for 45 days.
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ashley juavinett
about 1 month ago
Want to see the impacts of FY26 budget cuts to science on YOUR community? Check out this incredible resource by
@scienceimpacts.org
which not only shows the current impact of the federal health research cuts, but also the implications for the new proposed cuts.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH
https://scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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🍃 🧪 Science Foundation Small Curiosity-Driven Grants
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Kara Swisher
about 2 months ago
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Galactic Polymath Education Studio (GP)
about 2 months ago
Time to stop doom scrolling & check out some AMAZING 3 min science videos. Your thumbs up could decide who wins the
#MySciJourney
challenge! 🧪🐸🪶🔊 Thanks to lead funder
@ncse.bsky.social
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@mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com
@scitalker.bsky.social
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www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...
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Bring Authentic Science Into Your Classroom and Decide Who Wins the #MySciJourney Challenge! — Galactic Polymath
Peek behind the curtain of cutting-edge research AND help decide the winners of the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge! (Scientists, we’re accepting late entries until Nov. 3!)
https://www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scijourney-science-video-competition-2025
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
about 2 months ago
"...much of Higher Education has lost its way, and is now corrupting our Youth and Society with WOKE, SOCIALIST, and ANTI-AMERICAN Ideology...” -DJT on SM Brown University joined MIT & USC in rejecting a trap that would claw away at academic freedom. 🧪🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/brown-university-trump-compact-funding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.Ayh3.grHe1AlF9pUu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Ho-Ho-Hoover! Street Rag
about 2 months ago
John Lewis' "March" trilogy. The Gettysburg Address graphic novel. Both brilliant.
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Raider
about 2 months ago
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David Ho
about 2 months ago
Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭
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Margaret Harris
2 months ago
Ahead of tomorrow’s
#NobelPrize
announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1 (1/n)
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jamelle
2 months ago
for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-art-of-replacing-law-with-deal.html
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2 months ago
💥 🍃 🧪 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
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RASopathies Network
3 months ago
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...
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#RAS
#MEK
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Targeting pathological ERK1/2 signaling in cancer and beyond
Dysregulation of the RAF–MEK–ERK1/2 pathway is involved in the pathoetiology of many diseases. Its central role in cancer has led to the development of drugs targeting upstream receptors, RAS, and kin...
https://www.cell.com/trends/molecular-medicine/fulltext/S1471-4914%2825%2900189-3
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Kai Kupferschmidt
3 months ago
“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.” 🧪
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California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/california-scientific-research-bond.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk8.KTMA.lT1NjIEA49Gx&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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4 months ago
🍂 🏛️ 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"
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Josh Johnson
5 months ago
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.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
5 months ago
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
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zurl.co/F0Wyk
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Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science a...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪
5 months ago
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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Dave Palmer
5 months ago
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
5 months ago
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...
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@ucs.org
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️
6 months ago
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:
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Women’s March
6 months ago
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...
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American Museum of Natural History
6 months ago
🚨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
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Studies Reveal Fish Biofluorescence Dates Back 112 Million Years | AMNH
Fish biofluorescence evolved more than 100 times, has ties to coral reefs, and involves more colors than previously thought.
https://amnh.link/4nlyBrk
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Denis Wirtz
6 months ago
The NIH has not issued a single new call for proposals since the end of January.
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California Fast Food Workers Union
6 months ago
This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
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Svasti Haricharan
6 months ago
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...
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We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us
From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/us-universities-fda-approved-drugs-research-patents-orange-book/
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab
6 months ago
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....
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Experimental evidence rules out mosquitoes as vectors of Lyme disease - Parasites & Vectors
Background Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), is the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere, with Ixodes ticks as its primary vectors. However, many p...
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-025-06823-x
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Erika Hall
6 months ago
Time for one minute of Clickens! Take a break from scrolling.
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Carl Zimmer
6 months ago
“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
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Jeremy Berg
6 months ago
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU8.U2JL.z3BXY3hj-08t&smid=url-share
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Brian Ricketts
6 months ago
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...
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Mignon Talbot (1869-1950)
Mignon Talbot was a force of nature who championed women’s formal education; was the first women to discover a dinosaur
https://www.geological-digressions.com/mignon-talbot-1869-1950/
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William C Phelps, PhD
6 months ago
This budget proposal if passed will devastate the US leadership in science, engineering and medicine. The public needs to speak up. 🧪
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Space Telescope Science Institute
6 months ago
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? 🔭🧪
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