“There has been erosion of trust in science & public health & medicine,” vaccine & infectious disease expert @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social said in response to the Trump administration’s cuts to vaccine and medical research. “It’s a terrible tragedy,” said Dr. Francis Collins, former NIH director.

Rio della Salute - 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11030

Poplars on the Banks of the Epte - 1891 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10460

The Reck-Peterson lab at Weill Cornell Medicine is seeking a technician or staff scientist to work on Aspergillus projects. Broad background in fungal biology and techniques required. Bioinformatics skills preferred. Find out more at: reckpetersonlab.org.

The Cliffs in Pourville -1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110009

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Microbiology Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word! hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542

Hamilton O. Smith, Who Made a Biotech Breakthrough, Is Dead at 94 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/s...

Born #OnThisDay in 1906 was American computer scientist Grace Hopper. She was a pioneer of computer programming, developing programming languages like COBOL. She was one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer and is credited with writing the first computer manual. #WomenInSTEM

The Avenue - 1878 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9008

Attacking formula is a 2-for-1: they can make women's lives much worse while also making it likely that more kids will die

Fishing Boats, Calm Sea - 1868 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6886

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Note how the Kennedy Center ribbons are blue, instead of the traditional rainbow colors. Because the Trump administration never gets too preoccupied with its racism to overlook its homophobia.

Entrance to the Port of Trouville - 1870 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7295

Wait. Kash has a girlfriend?!?!

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

Telling people “prices are going down” while they’re in the checkout line is like telling someone on a treadmill they’re sitting on a couch. Their legs know you’re lying.

What made Trump's use of that word in regard to Tim Walz is that Tim's son Gus has a non-verbal learning disorder. Donald Trump is such a vile, damaged man.

We have people everywhere.

Happy Thanksgiving! Also, this 👇 wapo.st/43SMBR8

Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is true. I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems. Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.

Wait a minute...you mean to tell me thousands of the most beautiful women on earth didn't all randomly decide to join Twitter in 2023?????

Yes: AI does not introduce anything fundamentally new. IFs/blots could me made up well before ( remember E. Racker!) and the bottom line is trust- within labs and among peers

hahaha!!😂

Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CNIO: El mayor centro de investigación del cáncer se sume en una crisis judicial meses después de cesar a sus máximos responsables elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Also presented here as an op-ed www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/o...

This may be the death of me.

[RAUCOUS BOOING] "I, and say your name, do solemnly swear..." [RAUCOUS BOOING] What a moron.

Oh! Here's a combined PDF of all three papers: www.mskcc.org/teaser/1953-...

I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA! In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.

Sliwa can show different facets but my favorite is his clown show on NY1 with Borrero- esp. when they were joking about “King Cuomo the 2nd”

And, Donald Trump throws Republicans under the bus. Shutdown ending soon.

Maria Riva, actriz y escritora, quien fue la única hija de Marlene Dietrich y cuya explosiva biografía de su madre, publicada un año después de su muerte en 1992, exploró el terrible costo de su fama, murió el miércoles en Gila, Nuevo México, a los 100 años.

If you agree that no one should have to go hungry in America, hold your Republican elected officials accountable and otherwise help end this shutdown. indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

Over 40 million people woke up today without enough money for groceries. More than a third of the people who rely on SNAP are children.

Not a word from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt on Tucker hosting Fuentes. Amazing. I just checked his Twitter feed and plenty on Mamdani and even Norway (!) but not a word about a top conservative podcaster hosting an infamous Holocaust denier. Greenblatt is beyond parody at this point.

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

We also know that his use of the term “very suggestive” still overstates the what the data show, but that it is also more than enough for at least 1/3 of Americans to continue to believe this lie. Makary, Oz, Bhattacharya and RFK Jr. stood in front of the U.S. with the president and lied to us.

By a fun coincidence, the estimated total number of observable stars in the Universe is about a mole (1E23) But 1 mole of water molecules is about 1 tablespoon, 18 mL. So, there are more molecules in a tablespoon of water than all the (observable) stars in the Universe! Happy Mole Day 2025!

Happy Mole Day for all who celebrate

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.

“Les rumeurs sur ma mort sont hautement exagérées”

Interesting list with 1 horror/thriller for for each state: lots of good ideas—> 50 Scary Books to Read for Halloween www.nytimes.com/article/horr...

I learned “stigma” comes from the mark Roman slaves were left with from being branded & “stigmata” is the plural which was later used for Christ’s wounds.

Today I kicked off No Kings Day with hundreds of fired up patriots at NIH who are standing up to this lawless president. Together we said NO to his attacks on public health. NO to his assault on our Constitution. NO to kings in America. And YES to standing up for our democracy.

Interesting…🧐