What is cell death? Honored to participate in this article where the question was posed to a dozen experts. Thanks to the fantastic team at Nature Structural & Molecular Biology for organizing this discussion. rdcu.be/eG1Nm

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “We have blood on our hands.”

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

This is the first example I've seen of a university trying to mobilize constituents to stand up against Trump threats. There's been a lot of "wHaT eLsE CaN AdMiNiStRaToRs Do?" in The Discourse when this is exactly the thing they haven't been doing. Good for UCLA for trying. Others should follow.

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ [yeah, that was me] | Mark Oliver for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Given the state of things, self promotion is weighed down by extra shame and dissonance these days, but here is some personal news anyway: I have Emerged, per @weillinstitute.bsky.social! Very grateful for this award and the opportunity to share my work from @craigmcrews.bsky.social's lab.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Zohran Mamdani just caused a political earthquake. What happens next is anyone's guess. Read John Nichols on a seismic night for New York City and the Democratic Party.

I'll be on #BBCWorld News America tonight ~6:40pm ET to discuss the rapidly shrinking window of opportunity to avert dangerous 1.5C/3F planetary warming, and our new research tying rise in persistent summer weather extremes to human-caused warming. Please tune in: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n...

In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why The public discourse is not keeping up. Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵

no kings, no billionaires, no genocide!! today at 1pm on the New Haven Green www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... @standupforscience.bsky.social

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

The Americans are doing to Kseniia what the Russians did to Brittney Griner for having 0.7 grams of cannabis oil. Except no one is coming to negotiate her freedom and Harvard is sitting on their hands. I am so ashamed. Please share this story. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

The courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process. They may not do that. But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.

Guess what?? Investing in climate solutions actually grows your economy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

Six masked agents in street clothes disappearing a Tufts Ph.D. student in broad daylight on the streets of Somerville. There is video footage out there every person should watch.

both the financial and the moral math point in the direction of resistance and not capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

13. And anyone who has been part of this grand humanist tradition is someone who will not lie down and cower before these sad bullies. I don't know what happens to science in the US over the next four years, but I have no doubt as to where the arc of history bends. We aren't going anywhere. fin

"Columbia did not do enough....shrugged their shoulders, looked the other way. So what did [Trump] do? Took away $400 million. ... I think we have to see." @schumer.senate.gov to @nytimes.com. Oh, my word. This is a punch in the stomach. Schumer is not standing up for science, or universities. 1/

After the election, I was hit with pretty bad existential dread - more than I already had. And yet still, every day, the state of affairs becomes even worse than I had imagined. This is not normal. This is very bad and historically dumb. I hope we can find strength to face this head on. We need to.

Pissed off at this lying asshole’s speech? May I suggest taking to the streets in protest? Tweeting about him does nothing.

Let’s GO CT!!!! Let’s stand up for science!

Connecticut friends -- we're one week away! I hope to see you at the Capitol in Hartford on March 7. Let's bring some light to these dark times and stand up for science. @standupforscience.bsky.social @mcdb-yale.bsky.social

Do you want water that’s safe for your family to drink, air that’s safe for your family to breathe, or a livable climate? We’re apparently cutting 2/3 of our capacity, so pick one of those three. 🤷 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...

Such a fun collaboration with @michaelnadbio.bsky.social! Check out the latest form of #ubiquitin modification- MARUbylation!

It’s time to #standupforscience2025 - We’re making our voice heard about the importance of the American science ecosystem, and want you to join us. More information at www.standupforscience2025.org #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

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Check out this list of ubiquitin and Ubl profiles to follow. Repost if you want me to add you to it. Let’s create a good community here ☁️ go.bsky.app/3VPQofn