“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

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🧵@carpentries.carpentries.org was set to get an US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to make an open source (computer coding) ecosystem from a proposal submitted last fall. The Trump administration told them they had to cease all DEI activity to receive the funds. They withdrew the grant.

Congratulations Grace!!!! So great to talk with her this summer in Portland about symbioses in non-model systems :)

#resistance Over 5000 US government health employees denounce “dangerous and deceitful” RFK Jr statements www.bmj.com/content/390/...

These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The federal government has put up .gov websites claiming the NIH and CDC killed millions. They either wanted this to happen or are so cooked by living on Twitter that they forgot to assume rhetoric would have physical consequences.

The Trump DOE (Energy) misrepresented a scientific finding about climate change undergirding the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave to attempt to claim carbon dioxide emissions are not a problem. Our impact on nature cannot be erased by decree. www.linkedin.com/posts/karen-...

GUESS WHO PASSED THEIR MF'ING A EXAM TODAY? @alexlando.bsky.social is officially a PhD candidate in the #CornellPPPMB program. #TheFast&TheFuria #EntomophthorAlex #PhD @lovettbr.bsky.social

Skyline cleanse feat. the newly-fledged green heron babies that have been hanging out in town 💚 #birbs they still have cute lil fuzzies on their heads!

What happens when science's greatest strengths (openness, humility, self-criticism, self-correction) are exploited for political gain? @briannosek.bsky.social calls on scientists to affirm the application of those strengths as the source of its trustworthiness @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4l8rNuE

Don't you hate it when you spend 20 tedious minutes doing something by hand that you know you could write a script to do for you in just a couple hours?

The Olympics dropped SRY sex testing in 2000, but a quarter century later, World Athletics brings it back as a 'reliable proxy for determining biological sex'. Biological sex is much more complex than one gene, writes Andrew Sinclair who discovered SRY theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Owl enthusiasts, unite. It's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉

Neuroscientist Michelle Chen writes home to Colorado: Inspired by the loss of a Broncos legend and the support of her public school teachers, she’s training to become a doctor-scientist to fight brain disorders and help serve her community. 🧪🏠 sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/chen...

gm to the bird crew

"Part of what we're doing here today is working with citizen scientist anglers who know how to catch these fish, and get samples that will contribute to our data to better understand these populations, their ecology, life history.” www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/local... @garlab.bsky.social

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

NEW: The bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee has rejected Trump’s proposed $18 billion, 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget and endorsed a $400 million increase. DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. Keep speaking up and calling your elected officials.

Researchers have shown that the Bogong moth uses constellations of stars to migrate hundreds of kilometers across Australia, making it the first known invertebrate to rely on a stellar compass for long-distance travel. 🌟 🌏🧪Read more:

The what, when, where, and why of wrinkly morphology in biofilms -in Biophysics Rev pubs.aip.org/aip/bpr/arti...

SPUN is featured in @science.org in a piece written by @humbertobasilio.bsky.social. Learn where some of the most unique fungal communities exist, such as West Africa’s Guinean forests, Tasmania’s temperate rainforests, and Brazil’s Cerrado savanna. Read here: www.science.org/content/arti...

Nature research paper: Spatiotemporal faunal connectivity across global sea floors go.nature.com/3H3HPbf

Members of the Citizens' Climate Lobby met with staff in Rep. Raskin's office yesterday to discuss clean energy legislation. We were honored to sit at the table the congressman inherited from John Lewis. Thank you for meeting with us! #CCL2025 @cclusa.org @raskin.house.gov

Painters often prime a canvas with a layer of white to make it smoother, stronger and to enhance the colours they will later layer on, but it seems this is a mechanism that birds were using long before humans picked up paintbrushes.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday !!! Pt 2: fungal hyphae challenged with various oxidative stressors; nucleic acids - yellow, ROS - magenta feat. bubbles induced by H2O2 from earlier imaging experiments when I had no idea what I was doing :)

Happy #FluorescenceFriday !!! First up: nuclei (cyan) and nucleic acids (yellow) just zooming through fungal hyphae!! In fungi there are thousands of nuclei per "cell" and they just zoom around!!! I honestly don’t know how they’re even alive they’re just so weird! This is pretty close to real time.

This is who you REALLY are. You are not a reflection in a mirror. There are no liposuction or fillers to prevent your neurons from showing your actual age. Support basic scientific research so that one day we may learn how to grow new neurons in the brain. #FluorescenceFriday

Some personal reflections on the role of California in science and my scientific career in light of massive proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration. This was inspired by the McClintock Letters campaign. daniels-newsletter-42563f.beehiiv.com/p/golden-sta...

Highly recommend this episode of The Bully's Pulpit about the cancellation of federal grants to universities and the implications for science. Features @katygb.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social and of course @cristianfarias.com. knightcolumbia.org/content/the-...

Facing existential threats, scientists are finding ways to communicate the importance of research. Farias talks to @cornelluniversity.bsky.social's @isakoditomassi.bsky.social & @emmascales.bsky.social about an initiative to get researchers to write local op eds shedding light on this issue.

This is a good time to remember that Moas, Emus, and the other ratites diverged so long ago, they FLEW to different continents, and then lost the ability to fly and became giants independently. You can't just sprinkle a few variants to make one into the other. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own. Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.

i'm thinking about that shrew

Will the Senate actually push back to save funding? They keep talking a big game then failing to show up. Keep up the pressure and let them know we haven't given up on this democracy thing, and neither should they

Coming down the home stretch for #McClintockLetters! If you signed up to participate, there is still time. Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! We are here to help. blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

In their Cell Science at a Glance article and poster, @manondepierre.bsky.social, @chiarapompili.bsky.social and @florenceniedergang.bsky.social @institutcochin.bsky.social take us through the key features of #phagocytosis. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

An honest and excellent portrait of trailblazing National Academy of Science President Marcia McNutt, the first woman to hold this post. Science academy's new president cleared many hurdles on way to the top | Science | AAAS share.google/hoLqfKlRw8jc...

Proud Delaware County native Megha Nagaswami, now a clinical psychologist, writes about how her research supports groups in her hometown like the Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County. Recent funding cuts threaten the science that helps keep our communities safe. 🧪🏠

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Pathetic!!!! I hope more scientific leaders speak out. Excerpt: "The WH seems to be intent on telling funding agencies what they can fund, universities who they can hire, & researchers what they can study. Research grants are being slashed, with ... 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...

It's official. With no notifications to National Science Foundation employees, Trump is moving the HUD in and NSF out. There is no announced plan where to send NSF. Science is being deported by the Trump administration. share.google/LVmoUjzPK0zR...

“Damage caused by the Trump administration, science-policy experts warn, could set the United States back for decades.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

a midsummer night's dream or understanding chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots #MicroSky #Archaea #ArchaeaSky #ProtistsOnSky et al.

What a week!!! First @nytimes.com, and now we are so honored to have the McClintock Letters initiative featured in @science.org ! Let’s keep the ball rolling on public-facing sci comm :) www.science.org/content/arti...

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"