Beer is more expensive because of Donald Trump's tariffs.

Please, please watch this. Pete Buttigieg as president will be the best, best, best way to build a better future. Or if you are a pessimist, best way to build a less bad future.

Larry Summers, dude who hangs out with pedophiles and child sex traffickers, was also a misogynist in his role as Harvard president and professor. Byeee

Something I bought from the UK: a Rosalind Franklin mini-fig, complete with Photo 51. I am super fond of it. #HistoryOfScience #DNA

A shovel for all that bullshit: www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/... Thank you Rep. Omar for meeting the moment. Trump's administration has killed Americans with ICE. We need to be loud about this.

In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.

Sclerotinia stem rot is a plant disease caused by the soilborne fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. The disease causes stem rot or white mold on winter canola when conditions are favorable. The pathogen forms black hard resting structures called sclerotia. The disease also affects soybeans 🧪 🌱

Mulling with the idea of making a large enrollment genomic epidemiology course for students (1) Talk me out of it (2) Give me ideas to make it a feasible task. Like... Can I get an Illumina, Nanopore, and PacBio to each give a Zoom guest lecture about how their technology works?

Ross, Ochoa, and Gutierrez have had no professional consequences for undisciplined murder of nonviolent community members. This is state sanctioned murder in behalf of a executive branch full of billionaire pedophiles.

The untrained agents is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem are the long time ICE agents who murdered people. Johnathan E. Ross (2015-current) murdered Renee Good. Jesus Ochoa (2018-current) and Raymundo Gutierrez (2013-current) murdered Alex Pretti. Abolish ICE.

Some thoughts before the President's speech tonight.

This directly relates to the farce of universities suggesting faculty pivot from unpredictable federal funding to private funding. The federal agencies aren't perfect, but they have processes for minimizing these cronyism biases

Epstein and his academic old boys network. 🤮.

I appreciate the proactive approach to pathogen surveillance in Europe

Donate to your local or state public radio affiliate. Local, independent journalism is important for documenting the impact of fascism against Americans (immigrants included in this noun).

Awesome Master’s degree level #Phycology job at UC Berkeley! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05258?fbc...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

giveto.ucdavis.edu/schools/Univ... If anyone would like to donate to a good cause, consider this crowdfunding for the UC Davis chapter of SACNAS

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Does Archaeal genetics follow the genetics-grammar conventions of bacteria or the "ALL CAPS SHOUTING GENE NAMES" conventions of euks?

The correct response to concentration camps is not “reform” and “better training”.

Pop quiz: plant or insect

Thank you, Rep @mikethompson.house.gov , for securing funding for public infrastructure in Davis and Yolo. I commuted by Amtrak from Davis to Berkeley for a year. But the location of Amtrak creates logistics issues for city of Davis. Looking forward to improvement 🇺🇸 www.reddit.com/r/UCDavis/s/...

Fake pro-family, pro-life, Christian nationalist party Leviticus 19:34: “The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

I was today years old when I found out that Priestia megaterium (used to be Bacillus) can have dozens of plasmids? Pretty crazy! Thought it was an artifact but there’s literature to support…

Modern day entries into Anne Frank's diary. This is what fascism looks like

I like doing peer review. I haven't done the math for myself, but I've heard that PIs/labs should do 3x reviews per paper they submit. I don't think that I'll ever be an editor though. I like to have the opportunity to decline reviews when my to do list is too long.

My campus did this last year. Now my building is infested with cockroaches...

Lack of coevolution should be default assumption, but it’s not, because it’s easy to imagine coevolutionary scenarios But most microbial populations live very complicated lives Multi level selection is hard when generation times orders of magnitude different and microbial environments are complex

<steps to microphone> <taps microphone> Most microbes do not coevolve with *hosts* even when found associated with hosts

"I never want to see a child run away from our own government ever again"

Resist narratives of inevitability.

A blast from the past. It is not perfect but I still really like this guide to Open Access made by Jorge Cham. youtu.be/L5rVH1KGBCY?...

And yet more reporting showing the gravity of the problem when federal agencies terminate grants or return applications without review for reasons unknown. The absence of public accountability continues to have cascading impacts on science and scientists. www.science.org/content/arti...

also some more recent evidence that EBV causes lupus. A vaccine that could wipe out TWO autoimmune diseases and we're not leaping at the chance to get it into people as soon as possible?

DOGE cut the funding that was providing biocontrol to keep screwworm from moving northward. Human health and livestock are at risk of this pathogen.

I think it’s the same lack of humility and/or understanding that leads people to believe that “AI will solve cancer” Like, no…it’s way more complicated and nuanced and you need to be practiced in critical thinking to be good at science. Being a scientist isn’t just about memorizing facts

Teaching a Nature publishing group paper in class and it's ridiculous that a journal with such high publishing fees allowed typos like "gThe" instead of "The" in the formatted version of a paper.

Corn smut is a fungal disease that creates tumor-like galls on corn (ears, leaves & stalks). It can reduce yield. The galls are edible and considered a delicacy called huitlacoche in Mexico.The fungus spreads by wind-borne spores that enter plants thru wounds and silks 🌱 🧪 @cropnetwork.bsky.social

This is what fascism looks like www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bon...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Excited to share that PNAS published our research article focused on "Why are Ralstonia goofy?"

This is not making America safer

AI without some sort of good-for-society policy (maybe universal basic income?) is going to increase human misery.

I am a member (regular donor) of Minnesota Public Radio. They shared a poem" Members power MPR. Some live nearby; others live afar. Your donation keeps this service free For your neighbors, friends, and family. No matter where you listen or live, We are so grateful you choose to give.

The Metagenome Stability Diagram uses gene markers across ecosystems to understand how environmental conditions constrain metabolic activity in microbiomes. 🖥️🧬🦠 https://jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/data-discovery-tool-helps-identify-microbial-roles-within-metagenomes

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_C... Inaccurate government accounting of agricultural outputs contributed to the Great Famine during Mao's reign in China.

Trump is actively making our goods more expensive by blocking a piece of key infrastructure - apparently all because his most Epstein-linked Cabinet Secretary conveyed a request from a billionaire GOP donor. America does not have to tolerate this kind of corruption.

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

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