Thank you Dr Goodall for teaching us that non-humans can be sentient, that non-humans make tools, and that deep empathy with a being so different from one’s self is the path to wisdom. But most importantly, thank you for inspiring my daughter and for inspiring me. youtu.be/X-i9kV2Htuc?...

NEWS: The federal govt is sending NYC’s top disease control official to Arizona for a months-long stint at an Indian Health Service facility. That could complicate local infectious disease response efforts. “If we have an outbreak, then we’re fucked,” a city health department staffer told me.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Just a reminder that the plan always was to fire federal workers until every agency’s staffing is at the same level as during a shutdown. They put it in the original DOGE EO. So, please remind your representatives of this when they get worried about firings instead of furloughs.

Today in 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty opened for signature at the United Nations. President Bill Clinton signed that day, as did representatives of 70 other states, including nuclear-weapon states China, France, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom.

Thinking about and sending good will to all H1B holders abroad at meetings or visiting home etc, scrambling to make it back to the U.S. in the next 2hrs45min. This is unbelievably cruel and self destructive. H1B visa holders are the backbone of US dominance in science, engineering, & tech.

TikTok misusing our personal data is bad. Selling TikTok to a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors is even worse.

What the hell? @npr.org is right now platforming Curtis Yarvin on its show ‘open to debate’. The topic of debate: would the U.S. be better off as a dictatorship? This is insanely dangerous and stupid. We fought several wars, including our foundational war, that already answered this ‘question’

I’m returning from being on a panel at a conference in San Diego, and TSA is at the gate questioning everyone boarding the plane and checking IDs. I’ve never seen this before. They just questioned 4 active duty military personnel as they boarded

As I fall asleep 24 years later, I know I will never again smell a structure fire without being instantly transported back to that day and the month of smoke that followed. Fuck all of these narcissistic performative little men. And I mean all of them. In every place & for any ‘cause’ they claim.

Brooklyn golden hour remains undefeated

Boston is fired up and ready to get out the victory for @wutrain.bsky.social! Vote in person tomorrow from 7am-8pm to send our incredible mayor back to City Hall.

On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

This was a wonderful project to work on! It also, in part, sparked a lot! Beyond just our handles: @trackingskills.bsky.social aka trackingplumes (Bluesky and X), when I wanted to track mouse hands & Alex noses, we teamed up in 2017 to make @deeplabcut.bsky.social 💜 Delighted to see this out! 🙏🏼

Always great to see nice work by good friends published! Congrats Olena, Hemali, and Neil! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The endoplasmic reticulum donates lipids through a tunnel-like protein to help lysosomes expand. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/45GWQrS

YO, what's up with all these almost-witchcraft techniques?? In this paper, they develop a way to freeze cells so quickly that it preserves Calcium waves midway!! WHAT??? HELLO??? So now you can do 3D reconstruction of calcium waves with just a normal confocal. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

big one! a decade in the making. nadler & team develop tools to track lipid transport in living cells at single-species resolution. turns out non-vesicular, asymmetry-driven transport is the main architect of organelle identity. feels like the dawn of a golden era for lipid biology. rdcu.be/eBGJv

Shiny new probabilistic model, gruyere 🧀, for powering up rare variant associations w/ DL effect prediction! We find novel associations for Alzheimer's disease, e.g. nuclear pore protein NUP93 in microglia. Big thanks to NIH/NIA/ADSP and Anjali for the hard work! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ldzwgeXDzHj

Congrats @kieranrcampbell.bsky.social and co!

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin. Simply incredible.

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

What a disaster for the United States and the world. Not only does this purported policy inject political nonsense into rational decision making and claim to give the authority to revoke funding at any time, it fundamentally undermines the credibility of American science and scientists…. /n

Good chance I would not be a scientist if CPB had not funded @pbs.org programs like Nova and Nature. 3 2 1 Contact, Electric Company, and McNeal Lehrer News Hour were pivotal in my intellectual development too. What a crime against this country this nihilistic nonsense is. cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Congrats Megan, Harm, @davidaknowles.bsky.social @nevillesanjana.bsky.social and co! Really nice paper and a great toolset for the community to interrogate the biological relevance of isoform usage!

Former @1199seiu.org member here… Great to see that unlike DNC leadership, my former local gets what’s up. Even if you made the mistake of thinking corporate Dems were the way to go in the primary, you get behind the guy energizing the base.

I am extremely pro-union… however, please remember that only 48% of NYPD personnel actually live in the 5 boroughs… soooo, they can take their endorsements back to LI and NJ and vote for the most corrupt NY mayor in modern history to run Levittown or wherever. gothamist.com/news/several...

Loved the preprint, congrats on the paper!

"ICE arrests jumped 46% this May, to 409 up from 281 last year. In the first 10 days of June, ICE agents in NYC made 495 arrests— more than 2x the 247 arrests it made in all of June last year.” 👇See how ICE's access to our immigration courts is increasing this trend. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/i...

ICYMI: New online! Brain–computer interface restores naturalistic speech to a man with ALS

I'm growing confident that the latest policy to limit use of animals in HHS research is motivated to move $$$ to Palantir. Palantir co-founder says this: blog.joelonsdale.com/p/engineerin... NIH says this: grants.nih.gov/news-events/... Pure grift by tech-bros who don't know biology...

In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant applications for the US agency, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3TEw7GN

8:00 summer BK vibe is undefeated

this seems like a pretty big deal

Just noticed that Stavros has put out another 'solid' paper last month. 🔥 Impressive given what he has to deal with these days. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line: Total, Climate Research: $0 www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Tahoe-100M Single-cell transcriptomic perturbation atlas🤠 ~100 M cells ~50 Cancer cell lines/spheroids (any normal cell for toxicity?) ~1100 small-molecule agents 52k cell-drug interactions Mosaic platform #OpenScience #VirtualCell bioRxiv 2025 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

If this has happened to you today, get in touch with us at [email protected]. Read more on our live blog: hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-ny...

Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

Oligarchy, baby.

🔬In this month's Editorial, we announce a cross-journal pilot at @natureportfolio.nature.com journals aiming to implement standardized light and fluorescence #microscopy reporting to improve methodological description and aid in #reproducibility efforts. 👉https://rdcu.be/esnOK bit.ly/3TAzZIK

Without making any endorsements, it does seem like in a city of 8.5 million residents, it’s not too much to ask for the mayor to actually live in New York City.

BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...