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One of the most original stories I have heard in the @femsmicro.org Congress thus far is the proposition by Rachel Armstrong to develop bioreceptive construction materials for functionalizing built surfaces eg catalytic walls with natural or genet eng microorganisms 😱

#SynBYSS Thur 10 am USA CT 167th, Jul 17: Prof Tim Bugg at University of Warwick & Dr Erin Garza at JCVI @jcvi.org 168th, Jul 24: Dr Emma Yee, an Editor at Cell & Prof Miguel Jimenez at Boston Univ. @cellpress.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social Zoom for the audience: us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839

Fantastic opportunity at my postdoc institute 👇If you have any questions about a TT, life in Cambridge, the LMB or the PNAC division feel free to reach out !

We updated our website supervised-morphogenesis.eu! New links to data-sets, code & publications. Check it out! #EIC #EICPathfinder #HorizonEU #gastruloids #embryomodels #EngineeredLivingMaterial @bgerratana.bsky.social

Finally, thanks to the funding that made this dream project possible: @maxplanck.de, Bf3R, Stiftung SET, EIC #EICPathfinder @ec.europa.eu @bgerratana.bsky.social

Mr. Trump—I’ve known Chris Van Hollen since the last century, and the last thing anyone who knows him would call him is a grandstander. He’s a defender of human rights. You should meet with him—you could learn something. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

While we're embedding biofactories in contact lenses to make them smarter, others are integrating electronics and sensors. At our Techtransfer day event, we'll meet the pioneers in this sector and talk to industry experts on their vision of the future! www.linkedin.com/events/techt...

Congrats to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing & prime editing: 2 breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation. hhmi.news/3RA6shj

Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation

2025 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course in Synthetic Biology - apply! Deadline: April 14, 2025 Financial Aid: Stipend awards are available. Notifications: Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2025. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is. So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.

Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...

Deeply concerned about NSF. They fired more people than they needed and now leadership is illegally reclassifying employees as probationary. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London 🎉🚨🇬🇧🫖 If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to El Salvador, arguing that the court should end its “continued intrusions” into the authority of the executive branch.

RFK Jr. suggests the bird flu should be allowed to spread unchecked to identify birds that could be immune.

Trump’s new economic constraints on the NSF and NIH deliver another self-inflicted wound to American progress—derailing decades of biological and biomedical research. Doctoral candidates nationwide are already feeling the sting.

Ben & Jerry's alleges its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker's social and political activism.

Email sent to FDA staff informs that agency leadership canceled the agency's LexisNexis subscription, even though staff need this tool to research legal and regulatory information as part of their jobs. I'm reproducing the text of the email here:

Canadian consumers are responding to U.S. tariffs and presidential musings of annexation with a “Buy Canadian” movement that retailers and producers are swiftly embracing

More than 600 NOAA workers were laid off. This week, federal government reinstated some of them, but they were placed on administrative leave and have not been asked to return to work. No one seems to know what this means - and how it will affect services in wake of severe storms nbcnews.to/4iE0WGj

French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump

This is insane. Arguably the greatest achievement of the first Trump administration was Operation Warp Speed. And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall,” a surgeon who formerly led USAID’s global health initiatives tells TNR. “Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.”

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

"Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"America does not need a 'resistance,' or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates

Great insights into the EIC ELMs Portfolio! LoopOfFun is excited to see the progress made in 2024 and looking forward to more collaboration and achievements within the Portfolio in 2025. Thank you, @bgerratana.bsky.social and SYMMONS Orsolya for all your supports! #EUeic #EICPathfinder #ELMs

There is a new #HorizonEU project on Bluesky! This one is special. Like us, they are part of the @ec.europa.eu European Innovation Council’s portfolio on Engineered Living Materials (ELMs)! 🙌 They use fungi to create ELMs with controlled mechanical and structural properties! ⚙️ 🍄 #EUeic

Capitol rioters are arguing that President Trump’s pardons for offenses committed that day should also absolve them of other alleged crimes, some discovered during Jan. 6 investigations

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred FAA employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

Special thanks to @bgerratana.bsky.social (EIC), @Orsolya Symmons (EIC), and Constantinos Ziogas (EMA) for their opening remarks and to Falk Ehmann and Laura Martinelli (INsociety) for moderating the conversations on classification, safety assessments, and clinical trials for ELM-based products. 🙌

Our cross-European team is experienced in synthetic biology, materials engineering, morphogenesis, and ethical, legal and social aspects. Learn more about us at prism-livingtissues.eu/consortium/

We are part of a portfolio of European projects using engineered living materials to produce new sustainable materials for textiles, bioprinting, tissues and beyond! Get to know @sumoconsortium.bsky.social and the other portfolio members at prism-livingtissues.eu/related-proj...

Our partners from the Institute for Science in Society at Radboud University discussed alternative food and materials production in exciting public debates! “Participants shared their views on sustainability and the importance of terminology.” Follow the link for more insights and revelations!

Watch these accounts if you are interested in biofabrication technologies like bioinks for 3D bioprinting self-organising structures! 🏗️🧫 Our EU-funded project pairs some of these techniques with microorganisms to help cells differentiate into hybrid tissues for food and health applications! 🦠 🔜 🥩🏥

A new engineered living material to help study lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. “It includes microbial communities mimicking biofilms from patients…to study the impact of antibiotics.” Read the Matter article at: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/matter www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scienti...