SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

Conserved TIR-only proteins drive transcriptional defense and basal immunity in dicot and monocot plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.07.730676v1

Out today in Nature, new research from Jennifer Doudna, postdoc @jingkunzeng.bsky.social, and collaborators shows a #CRISPR-based method for selectively killing "undruggable" #cancers by recognizing cells with cancer-causing mutations and shredding their DNA. Learn more: https://ow.ly/NRss50Z8tQK

The actual challenge in slide preparation is how to structure the story and what evidence to use to support it. AI cannot help with either. We're failing students by not teaching what matters in slide preparation.

Got a conference coming up? Try to have at least two people who aren’t super familiar with your work look at your slides and ask them for feedback on these issues (too much content? Useful text?) Good luck this summer! /end

“As the annual Pride parade weaved its way through Durham… the rainbow flags were almost matched in number by trade union banners, as miners, postal workers, and train drivers swelled the parade’s ranks in solidarity, making it the biggest in Durham Pride’s history.” Solidarity is our strength. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The US emits ~13% *more* climate pollution per year than it did in 1990. Meanwhile, Denmark pollutes ~51% *less* than 1990 levels and just set a new goal of 85% less than 1990 levels by 2035, supported by a raft of new, industry-specific rules, taxes, and funding.

The US could clean up its polluting systems. The technology for deep pollution reductions has existed for decades. Deploying it would cost less than the status quo and lead to far better public health outcomes. But we're stuck using last millenium's tech, breathing its fumes, paying its high costs.

Everything is connected; human health is deeply interconnected with ecosystem and planetary health. Human impacts on ecosystems are inseparable from social-political influences, systems of government, and power.

Necro-politics/capitalism - where profit is made when ppl get sick, die, are killed at work, are denied healthcare, famine, WAR is the big one. Military industrial complex is Necro-Capitalism at its most horrifying. As is resource extraction. And politicians are failing to protect lives.

Corporations are treated as individuals in the law in terms of rights, but do not face severe consequences (apart from meager fines) for killing people, stealing their resources, and destroying their communities. this "modest proposal" makes a lot of sense.

“Those who seek minerals, in contrast, plunge deep into the core of the forest. The rising price of minerals attracts people from all over, including those who don’t enjoy the acquired immunity of regular forest-dwelling people.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) of 𝘝𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪 are apparently piñatas full of goodies for its host, 𝘌. 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘴. earlier we featured SsrA (tmRNA), now comes SypC protein - both required for proper ldevelopment of the squid's light organ. #SymbioSky

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

The potato leafhopper has a reference genome! 🧬 🔗 NCBI: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen... I am confident this genome will help advance research on one of North America's most important crop pests 🌱 The science behind is coming soon! Our revised manuscript is under review (please Rev#1 🤞)!

“But while the need for better tests has been clear for years, there has been little investment to develop them because there is no high-income market, said Sonjelle Shilton, who works [] for the aid group Doctors Without Borders.” Great story on Ebola diagnostics in current outbreak 🧪 #giftlink

Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Zoonotic viruses evolve in reservoir hosts, and each jump to humans is an independent sampling of that changing virus. Endemic and (especially) pandemic viruses evolve in human hosts and change over time, sometimes rapidly. Variation is not noise. Evolution is the signal.

Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics Tl;dr: stop destroying bat habitats. 🌍 🧪 🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Those who seek minerals, in contrast, plunge deep into the core of the forest. The rising price of minerals attracts people from all over, including those who don’t enjoy the acquired immunity of regular forest-dwelling people.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This graffiti we passed today.

Hopping on a plane to DC tonight, because @standupforscience.net is fighting this new OMB rule proposal with everything we’ve got. My calendar is literally booked for 12 hours of meetings, on the Hill, in a row for three days. Wanna sponsor the trip? secure.qgiv.com/for/stop-vou...

Accuse Democratic states of fraud but pardon a Republican for insider trading. Let’s remember to reexamine pardon power! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The 'knowing' has been outsourced to a machine; we just retrieve the bits we want + leave the rest behind. Whatever that is, it isn’t knowledge, + one of the truly astonishing things abt this moment is the fact that so many ppl are perfectly happy to know so little. Again Bishop comes to mind..."

everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.

❗️FBI is reaching out to people who were previously arrested by NJSP during protests outside Delaney Hall. Some have received phone calls or door knocks. National Lawyers Guild is spreading an advisory for people to contact their hotline if feds come knocking:

The commanding heights of universities are not liberal spaces

Competent public systems can be cheaper and more humane. Socialism is the answer. #socialistsunday

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Scumbag glasses, as worn by glassholes. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

Related: if you know a great undergrad interested in grad school (or if YOU are interested), & they'd like to work in fungal biology using population genomics to study pathogenicity and genome plasticity, please encourage them to reach out! See annehatmaker.com/contact/ for more info on how

I shared on LinkedIn already, but I wanted to post here as well since I've got a different audience: I will be joining the Department of Plant Pathology at the @universityofga.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor on Aug 1!! I will keep studying #Aspergillus & #Fusarium that infect plants & humans 🥰

I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today.

now reporters will have to write "ASM, formerly the American Society of Microbiology, or ASM" and that's just silly

noooooo this is a journalist's nightmare. do you know how much time i spend on random org websites trying to figure what their stupid acronym stands for? and an acronym without meaning is like truly the worst thing in the world

Coal has small d!ck energy. Tell every coal supporter that

No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").

When we show up, we win. @ucs.org blog.ucs.org/julian-reyes...

The Perambulators of Sauron.

This validates my perception of people wearing smart glasses as “the eye of sauron on legs“.

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

Best reporting I've seen to date on what last week's @airresources.bsky.social vote could mean for Muni: cuts to free and reduced-fare programs, and a big gap in capital funding for the upgrades to the train control system.

I'd like to remind people that hundreds of millions of people live within the natural range of screwworm, and it's fine. Buenos Aires, Rio, São Paulo, Cartagena, all great cities where people go on with their lives never once thinking about screwworm. It's a cow problem, human cases are marginal.

Tech executives are warning that AI could lead to “a level of wealth concentration that will break society.” Those are their words. I won’t accept that future.

Orbán’s oligarchs on edge as Hungary poised to launch wealth tax

"Wealth inequality Zucks" Banner hung at the dock in front of Zuckerberg's yacht the same day he announced 1,400 layoffs in the Seattle area, about 20% of the workers.