My first post for Round 3 of Slate Movie Club was written the day after the news of Rob & Michele Reiner's deaths. So I knew it would be published two weeks after that "news cycle" (ugh) was over, but I couldn't not write about all his work meant to me & to so many others. slate.com/culture/2025...

Worth a read, like everything @katherinejwu.com has written about the savaging of NIH and other HHS and science agencies.

The utterly fucked thing about this is that if any of that happens it's because of basic life science research investments (currently being gutted), not because of large language models. Dario Amodei can eat shit and then do whatever it is that Bluesky would ban me for saying

One of the wilder Texas Hold’ em hands I’ve played. (I did not win.)

FFS🙄

The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

It actually causes more deaths; a study showed that hurriances given female names are more deadly because people take the threat less seriously. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If you are pissed at the recently publicized demand letter from the Trump admin to UCLA, I warmly invite you to join us tomorrow at noon. We need everyone to fight this with everything we have. There is a plan, and you won’t hear it from administrators.

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BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE! That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted. Stay tuned! 🍿 #DefendHigherEd #StandUpFightBack

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

Got plans on Saturday the 18th for #NoKings, 9 AM ET? Come hear @allstrike.bsky.social at @nihvigils.bsky.social ! Food bank donations accepted. Come to the #NIH Metro off the red line.

A timely reminder that investment in R&D fuels economic growth.

October 18 is NO KINGS Day! Come in your favorite costume and scare the Big Bad Baby Kingy. Meet north end of Embarcadero Plaza at 1:30 PM.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

3 new Physics Nobel Laureates from the University of California! 🥂🤙 (and one less parking space for the rest of us at Berkeley 🙃)

UC’s Academic Council calls on the Office of the President & the UC Board of Regents to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom. This is the way. #DefendHigherEd

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” https://bit.ly/3VOEJvx

Please consider making a small donation to reimburse the SUfS-SF organizing team: www.gofundme.com/f/reimburse-...

THIS IS THE WAY. Everyone gets their knickers in a twist when I say we can’t sci-comm our way out of this mess…but maybe you’ll listen to the more eloquent and measured @edyong209.bsky.social! This isn’t happening because people don’t appreciate the brilliance of the double helix structure.

Are you a healthcare worker or scientist (or know someone who is)? #RFKJr is bragging that he has your support. Time to let Congress know HCWs and scientists do NOT support this man. Take a few minutes to send in a postcard. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/hel...

This is an embarrassing way to cover a paper that is basically negative results (spoiler alert: this did not go as the investigators might have hoped). bbc.com/news/article...

NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

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.

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