Great inspiration from @hormiga.bsky.social. I’m working on mine this weekend. . .

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 3 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/J92d9

I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...

Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...

Years ago, a friend reached out for advice: she was in a chat group with nine women who had all been sexually harassed by the same colleague. Even with all of them having found each other, it took weeks for them to muster the courage to speak up, and they very nearly didn’t do it. This is why 👇

RIP 🕊🕯 Martha Ann Lillard (6/8/48 – 6/26/26) was an American polio survivor who, following Paul Alexander's death, became the last known person who still relied on an iron lung. She contracted polio in 1953, when she was 5 yrs old. Lillard died from complications of long COVID-19 at the age of 78.

Cumulative xG plot great way to see how the red card changed the game

NEW: The six opinions in the birthright citizenship ruling have a lot to teach us about the U.S. today. The 5-4 decision was the least the court could do to keep the United States of America on a constitutional path. Tonight, at Law Dork:

U of Tennessee to Pay $1.9 Million to Prof Fired Over Charlie Kirk Comments https://bit.ly/4eFfWEz

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville reached a $1.9 million settlement with Tamar Shirinian, a former professor who was fired after she criticized Charlie Kirk. Shirinian claimed that the school violated her constitutional rights.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council will provide the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) with $323.8 million, its highest-ever yearly appropriation as part of the city’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget.

Those allegations did tremendous damage — to our reputations, to grant funding for work in our field, to the broader discourse about what "free speech" means and whose speech is protected. The team who did this work at Stanford was dissolved. Our funding took a big hit. But our work at UW continues.

Structural insights into RNA recognition by the Staphylococcus aureus exoribonuclease YhaM pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42301784/ #cryoem

I love everything about this editorial by @dereklowe.bsky.social. Silence won't save anyone in the end. www.science.org/content/blog... "So the CEOs have decided to lie very still and hope that no one notices them.... But will it work? Only so long as Trump and his creatures see a benefit in it..."

This was a really fun collaboration with the Yap lab at Northwestern @ribo1214.bsky.social. Congrats to Jacob Mattingly who led our structural biology efforts and Anna Lipońska from the Yap lab who performed the virulence assays! @pnas.org @emorycollege.bsky.social

inpreparation.substack.com/p/frances-ar... I love satire!

This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

God i LOVE experts. This is GLORIOUS.

"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless...a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

A column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Please share this gift article from The New York Times with friends, family, sceptics, and People who think that studying weird things is a waste of money. Then follow up with meaningful discussion about what I call 'free range science'. Free without subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

@cenmag.bsky.social article about St. John’s current attempt to sunset the chemistry major. It describes how the university is basing its decision on a consultant report that doesn’t take into account the actual chemistry job market. 1/ cen.acs.org/education/un...

1/ Out today in Science (@science.org): a result a decade in the making, and one that changed how I think about what cells are doing when they grow. We found a bacterium that grows slower than it could. And we found the molecular switch that lets us reverse it.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Might be a hot take but I think Senators should experience consequences for lying

Celebrate RNA Day 2026 with creativity! The @rnasociety.bsky.social Junior Scientists are excited to announce the 2026 RNA Society Society Art & Baking Contests, proudly sponsored by Lexogen. Showcase your RNA-inspired visual art or culinary creations for a chance to win cash prizes!

On Monday, there were 18,800 comments. Right now there are 22,150.

I could have been accused of vagueposting earlier; here's the news in full. I can't count the number of times I have heard Rick Van Kooten referred to as "a saint." He started as Executive Dean of the College in Fall 2019 and has been thru it ALL with such equilibrium www.ipm.org/2026-06-16/d...

Excited to share our work describing structural ensembles of protein folding intermediates on the ribosome is now published in @natsmb.nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Very grateful to co-first author @sammyhschan.bsky.social, our supervisor John Christodoulou and all our co-authors.

If you haven't posted a comment, now is the time. If not, you are enabling the destruction of science in America

Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal here 👉 zurl.co/Q8eBE #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #Science

1/ A new preprint from my lab is out now: “The E. coli DEAD box ATPase, CsdA, is a NAD+ capped RNA binding protein” lead by my graduate student Kaustuv Das with the assistance of @childerslab-pitt.bsky.social -pitt.bsky.social and @schraderlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

When an expert on authoritarianism (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) is writing about your scientific meeting, alarm bells should go off. Write to American Diabetes Association CEO Charles Henderson at [email protected] and Chief Medical Officer Rita Rastogi Kalyani at [email protected].

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  A deep dive in tonight’s special and urgent issue on the OMB’s gambit to achieve by rule-making what the administration fails to win in court. buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."

1/ 🧵 OMB is advancing a proposed rule that would destroy the American scientific enterprise. Randos keep disagreeing with my 'here's how to fight it' I do this for a living. So before the "how," here's the "who" --- and why you should listen to me on this one.

I’ve been thinking about how to argue against this in my response. do people have good references that demonstrate the value of peer review for an evidence based argument?

Email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the proposed OMB regulations. 1/5

Some more Jr RNA Scientists showing off their completed RNA pin collection at #RNA26 #RNA2026 🧬🎉 Shoutout to Anna Pitas, Natalie Sofia, Elise Iracane and Diba Rafii for joining in the fun and activities throughout the conference!

If you are a member of a scientific or educational society, please contact them and ask them what they are doing to fight this. They should be releasing statements, calls to action, explainers, talking points, or drafting letters for their members to sign.

1) I have never once trusted western blot data from any antibody company. 2) Thermo should be sued into oblivion.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Only 102 public comments so far on the biggest threat to publicly funded science in my lifetime. Please comment if you can. I know this sounds like "vote harder" but we have to keep fighting www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Here we go….

OMG this proposed regulation has a lot of troubling passages, like THIS: "make publication costs unallowable unless such costs are expressly required by statute or approved in advance by the Federal agency on a case-by-case basis...." 1/2

Y’all done pushed @dereklowe.bsky.social over the edge! He’s fed up! www.science.org/content/blog...

Thanks VERY MUCH for covering this--its so appalling

Reposting for the afternoon folks. My student & I need to interview people at companies to figure out what it takes to get our product from academic laboratory to commerical use. If you work for a biotech company, ecotoxicant cleanup co, or even something tangentially related, please dm/reply. Thx!