A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

More pictures of the brilliance that is (lab manager) Aida de la Cruz with her creation.

Check out our new publication, a collaboration with Giovanni Luchetti and Vishva Dixit @ Genentech. We show that the E.coli effector NleL inhibits intestinal epithelial cell extrusion after #inflammasome activation via degrading the kinases ROCK1 and 2!! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Explainer 1/8

ICE has broken the seal and shot a protester. LIVE ROUND. In front of a SCHOOL.

Meta on Tuesday removed a Facebook group that was used to share information about ICE agents in Chicago after the Department of Justice requested it be taken it down.

When 2 life science discoveries converge: solving a ~3 decade mystery of extraordinary longevity and healthspan + an essential cell danger sensor And related ongoing clinical trials! erictopol.substack.com/p/a-long-awa...

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

I don’t think this is a controversial opinion but … Indian style mutter-paneer definitely deserves the Nobel peas prize this year www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/matar-paneer...

Please share: I'm hiring a postdoctoral scholar to investigate molecular mechanisms governing Salmonella cell envelope homeostasis inside mammalian host cells. Come join a great microbiology community @oregonstate.edu in beautiful Corvallis, OR! Appy here: hr.oregonstate.edu/open-postdoc...

Job opportunity in my lab! We're looking for a post-doc to come join us for an exciting project exploring the evolution of #AMR and #hypervirulence in #klebsiella. Please share!! @unibirmingham.bsky.social Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV067/r...

This administration is a propaganda factory wrapped around a criminal enterprise

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no. Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600... #microbiology #ecology

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

@lisaguernsey.bsky.social and I are out with a new article for @newamerica.org capturing #student voices that have been caught in funding cuts and grant cancellations over what we refer to as a "summer of despair for #STEMeducation" Please read it and share! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

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Please remember this in the days going forward: Everything going forward could have been avoided if Republican Congress members simply did their job and obeyed their oath to the Constitution. It’s that simple. They abandoned the country. They can say what they want, but that’s what happened.

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Paper accepted, invited back to my undergrad dept to give a seminar, and sent our thesis defense invitations. Good week 🥹😇

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Over 30 years ago, 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell fought and won one of the most important free speech cases in American history. He has some advice for Jimmy Kimmel. My latest piece for. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If you’ve been paying attention to recent goings on at the CDC, the only reasonable conclusion you make is that Tylenol is the safest drug in the history of drugs. Praying on the concerns and anxieties of parents of autistic kids & adults is a low blow even for this administration.

Wow, we're in real danger. I thought this would be a red line for them.

“And yet something in the transformed landscape of this country tells me I’m not supposed to say so.” Powerful, moving piece by M. Gessen that everyone should read today. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

This preprint title for the win! "The First of Us: Ophiocordyceps use a novel scramblase-binding peptide to manipulate zombie ants" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Science is cool too! Authors use #celegans to identify the targets... #cilia and scramblases

Am I paranoid to be concerned that Trump's FCC taking down Kimmel is a step to ramp up toward effectively banning Democratic TV ads from running for the 2026 election?

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

ACIP meeting starting off with the chair (Kulldorf) saying that recently resigned/fired CDC leaders were not experts, never reached out to him, and essentially were not willing to having a "debate" about vaccines. Also denigrates American Academy of Pediatrics for not participating. Orwellian.

Everything's fine.

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Integrative Viromics Lab @UCalgary 🇨🇦 is looking for a Lab Technician! 🔬 Phage isolation & culture 🧫 Anaerobic chamber work 📦 Lab management & student mentoring Apply now & help us explore the virosphere! You must have work authorization to work in Canada already.

Remember, if you don't count carbon emissions, the earth can't get hotter, just as if you don't count job losses, the economy can't get weaker. It's science! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

I know many of you will say, “told you so!” And in my case, yes, you did. But a loss like this — not just Ms Attiah, but the Post Op-Ed page as a valuable platform, is terrible for all of us.

🦪 Oysters fight climate change New research shows oyster farms pull in over twice as much carbon through ecosystem effects as they store in shells. They provide food and act as natural carbon sinks. 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

Lady Gaga tickets are so expensive (grad students and post docs don't get to be little monsters)

Gov. Mills issues standing order to make COVID vaccines available to Mainers without prescription www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gov-...

This you? Just two hours later?

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

South Korea’s president said in a speech marking 100 days in office Thursday that Korean companies would likely hesitate to further invest in the U.S. unless Washington improves its visa system for their workers. https://to.pbs.org/4pfFV8R

ezra klein is a leading voice on modern politics who doesn't fucking remember the violent aftermath of the 2020 election that was stoked by charlie kirk himself

They're called "serodiscordant" couples. One is HIV positive, the other negative. Aid from the U.S. enabled them to obtain medicines and condoms for protection — until this year.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Don't watch the Charlie Kirk video. I was taken off guard and it is very graphic. Turn off auto play