A PhD student with a valid visa studying Engineering at University of Alabama was just detained by ICE. Keep our students safe - Oppose ICE’s budget. Ask your reps to shut the Gov down unless they defund ICE to keep our neighbors safe.

With their new 30 Billion budget (3x the previous year) - ICE will be even more efficient. Shut the gov. down. Call your rep.

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

Hector, a postdoc in the Wittmann lab @microtubule.bsky.social, works on chromosome dynamics in cancer and stem cells and is developing methods to identify chromosomes in live mitotic cells as well as interfering with chromosome segregation by optogenetic approaches. #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Wrapping up National Postdoc Appreciation Week with a big thank you to our outstanding postdocs! #ucsfNPAW #UCSFpostdocs

Santos Edilberto Banegas Reyes died in ICE custody last Thursday on Long Island. He was 42, had two children, and his family is raising money to cover the costs of his funeral and sending him home to Honduras. gofund.me/701178dd6

Ting, a postdoc in the L’Etoile lab @girlsinscience.bsky.social, was recently awarded the BARI Postdoctoral Fellowship to study how nights of poor sleep contribute to age-related memory decline in tiny roundworms, which—like humans—also experience sleep loss and memory deterioration as they age.

No sleep for ICE! The community showed up loud outside the Hampton Inn in Downer's Grove, a Chicago suburb.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Wait, RFK, no vaccines for humans but you’re good with using them on livestock? The AMA is not quite as strong as the Farm lobbies? A Small but Telling Moment in Kennedy’s Hearing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested John Shin, who has played with the Utah Symphony and Ballet West. The Department of Homeland Security cited his 2019 DUI conviction as the reason.

You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

Armando’s loved one was taken by ICE. This isn’t just his story -- it’s a call to action for the thousands of families affected. We fight to keep families together because no one should live in fear due to their skin color or native language. Immigrants belong here. 🦋 #FamiliasUnidas #WeBelongHere

Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due. Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors. Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.

New work from stellar scientists Jeremy Williams and Roman Camarda. Many contributors including the amazing Zena Werb and Atul Butte Work explores how breast cancer cells interact directly with adipocytes via gap junctions, leading to lipid release. @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

A blue print for our present: 1. Do not collaborate with facism. 2. Protect those with less advantage. 3. Call out facism everywhere you find it - constantly. A great read about the Danes in WWII www.thenation.com/article/acti...

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Our latest on cancer metabolism by star student Tonatiuh Montoya @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social Liver cancers driven by the MYC oncogene are reliant on alanine metabolism. Alanine is the second most abundant amino acid and can partially substitute for glucose and glutamine. 🧪

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

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One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Hello, still new here, how do I get myself on these starter packs and become a feed contributor? 😇 #academicchatter

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Nature story about Voyager Declaration is up. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What is the Holdomor?

When a government starts targeting former intelligence officials, law enforcement leaders, and anyone who once investigated or criticized those in power, it’s not just a red flag, it’s a page straight from the authoritarian playbook.

We want ICE out of our Hospitals.

The best revenge is a life well lived. Currently making fresh agar stabs of my open source plasmids, sustaining the spirit of science with unrestricted sharing of research tools for societal benefit. My face rn as I pour agar stabs:

ICE goons left a 13-year-old boy on the sidewalk after arresting the person he was with during a vehicle stop.

$45 billion📈 $27.5 billion📉 It's amazing to think on which is the new 2025 budget for ICE compared with NIH, given the importance and challenges of research and innovation.

big beautiful bill passing would make the budget for ice larger than most of the world’s militaries

Join me at "Trump Must Go NOW!" March & Anti-fascist dance party under the fireworks action.womensmarch.com/events/trump...

This must end now! Everyone needs to hit the streets and fight back ✊ It’s only going to get worse 🤬

AOC: This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt. It militarizes our entire economy. It strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break.. We cannot stand for it. And we will not support it. You should be ashamed

It was epic, Morris and Curtis are masters of their craft

Hungary banned pride and anything having to do with homosexuality. In response the country responded with the biggest pride protest in modern history. Orban is cooked. #3E

#Worm25 How did the Worm Comedy Night go? Any mention of our epic rap battles?

I always love #worm25 CGC updates! But spread this impt reminder (*especially* in this funding climate): CREDIT THE CGC on papers!🪱 Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."

I wasn’t before but just read it. Wow!

Hitched a ride to the #worm25 poster session last night with Villenueve lab folks & Villenueve lab F2 @cahooncori.bsky.social, and lookit what we found in the parking lot! 🪱🪱🪱