At this exact time and date — 14:19 Eastern US time on September 22, 2025 — the center of the Sun is directly over Earth's equator (in technical terms, it has a declination of 0°), marking the moment of the September equinox. Happy equinox!

Although this bill passed both legislative chambers, nine legislators—champions of CFA—sided with California teachers and abstained from voting. We urge you to tell Governor Gavin Newsom to veto AB715 by adding your signature here. 📩 win.newmode.net/caircaliforn... #VETOAB715

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

🔬 Join the EMBO Workshop: Evolutionary Approaches to Chromatin in St Feliu de Guíxols, 9–12 Dec 2025! Explore chromatin diversity, dynamics and genome evolution with leading experts. ➡️ Organizer @arnausebe.bsky.social 📝 Abstract & registration deadline: 30 Sept 👉 meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

The Advisory Committee on Immunizations Practices (ACIP) meets on September 18-19. Public comments are open until 9/13: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD... Read more here (or elsewhere): A Precautionary Path with Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD precaution.substack.com?utm_source=n...

Speak up before more is lost. UCLA lost $600M in federal research grants, freezing work on cancer, neurodegeneration, pediatrics & more. Entire labs, careers, and patients remain in limbo. A devastating blow to US science. Trainees are hardest hit, the community must speak up before more is lost.

Breaking genetics news‼️🌱🌽 A natural DNA trick triples recombination in maize. What we first saw in Arabidopsis (@hendersi lab) a decade ago is now confirmed in crops—opening new doors for plant breeding. Published today in Nature Plants! More details 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey. You know what. Maybe don't say the CDC "needs new blood" weeks after a shooting that could have been a mass casualty situation. SHAMELESS. #ImpeachTheQuack

A stunning application of SPY650-FastAct_X (actin)/SPY555-DNA (nuclei) staining iPSC cells and imaged by light sheet microscopy at UCSF. Thank you ‪@microtubule.bsky.social‬ for sharing it!

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Advice to students writing to inquire about potential research positions… you should at least read over your email and remove AI prompts before sending.

@scottwiener.bsky.social Since you can actually see that what the Israeli government is doing is a crime and a “cancer,” why are you trying to pass legislation to ban discussion about it in California public schools? Focus on issues that help Californians, not censorship!

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

Please read all three senior officials’ resignation letters in full. I couldn’t even find quotes to pull. All three are cornerstones of modern public health. Dan Jernigan’s been at CDC longer than I’ve been alive. Department leadership left them in an impossible position.

@drdemetre.bsky.social please share your resignation letter here.

Public health is under assault. The purge of CDC leadership, people with decades of experience guiding the nation’s response to health threats, dismantles the very programs and direction that keep Americans safe from infectious diseases, chronic illness, injuries, and violence.

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

more of this please.

Millions have hit the streets to protest Trump’s authoritarianism — but marching isn’t enough on its own. Here are five steps you can take to make a difference.

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

My son said his HS assigned class schedules using AI. He got 2 classes that don’t exist 🥸.

NIH progress on new R01s in FY 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/n...

The most pleasurable way to be wrong is when you think an experiment won’t be interesting and someone in your lab thinks it will and they are right!

NIH scientists say that mRNA vaccines have saved untold thousands of lives. A heroin addled nepo baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says mRNA vaccines are worthless and even dangerous. For busy medical patients, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Dan Quayle's political career ended when he misspelled potato. Meanwhile, RFK is out here replacing germ theory with the four humors as federal doctrine. It's so stupid.

Apparently it’s International Cat Day.

"Presumably, researchers who work on the hermaphroditic worm C. elegans are out of luck."

I see they’ve chosen UCLA to be their whale. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...?

In case you ever need information about how to mail live bees or day-old poultry, the USPS has it here: pe.usps.com/text/pub52/p...

It’s been one of those weeks.

For who still thinks this can’t happen here… it’s already happening. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

It’s the end of an era! 🙁 Announcing the Final Release of WormBase blog.wormbase.org/2025/07/23/a...

Current view from our Airbnb near Hellesylt, Norway

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

This wasn’t about what I thought it was about.

Very happy (and frankly relieved) to see this paper finally out in peer-reviewed form. (Preprint was posted in August 2021, but this is the world we live in now). rdcu.be/erMk6

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

A photo that I snapped an hour ago of the San Francisco #NoKings protest. I estimate about 150,000 people in total.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Wow, this is a massive increase in the last 2 days. Strong work, people! Keep ‘em coming!

NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.

Only 2 more days to comment on this. So far 14393 comments have been received, which seems pretty robust, but if you haven’t weighed in against this effort to further politicize federal granting agencies, please do it today!!! Click the green box🟩: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...