Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face. youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...

👇New biosketch requirement update. “After evaluating the number and types of recent technical inquiries we received to both the SciENcv and eRA Service Desks, we recognize the difficulties these issues have had on the community’s ability to comply with the original timeline of January 25, 2026.” 👇

Just donated on behalf of @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social & myself ✊Let’s goooo!!

Accept no less than repeal of massive DHS funding increase in BBB. Demand zero funding. Accept return to 2024 levels with other reforms (no masks, judicial warrants only, judicial supervision, on-demand inspections, etc)

Professors/PIs! Please donate on behalf of your labmates/ECRs #standupforscience

Donate some $ if you can to @standupforscience.bsky.social It takes money to run an advocacy group, to run campaigns to win back public trust and fight for public health. Emphasis on "the fight." Surrender or negotiation is not a viable option at this point. #ScienceSky 🧪

Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)

Thanks! We were really happy with how it turned out! I got a lot of emails asking for advice about the AID system and it felt like this primer was lacking. It was great to work with Dave, Ann, and Aric and I love the idea of the curated strain collections!

Because of technical issues with the SciENcv website, NIH is extending a period of leniency accepting old format biosketches through May 2026 (see FAQ #5): grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...

The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center Curated Special Collections: a guide to protein degradation systems academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Here you go Pam Bondi www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

At the neural level, both sensory pathways converge in the same IL2 neurons. These neurons form the first point of contact with prey and act as a hub that translates combined sensory input into attack.

How does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator? Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵below!

New and Competitive renewals These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26. These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)). 3/3

Woman We Need!

For the record, I am not “pro-climate change” 🤣

“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

Congratulations to these ECRs!!!! Any on here?

The NAACP has set up a simple way to contact your Senators and demand an end to funding for ICE--it literally takes less than a minute naacp.org/actions/tell...

If you're in NY and not making his phone ring off the hook, what are you waiting for--I know he makes it difficult so call a local office or use the "constituent services line"

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

Grad school friend is trying to get out there! They are a great and passionate communicator!

Congratulations to @marianneroca.bsky.social on this great paper 🎉 The study shows how P.pacificus detects prey by integrating mechanical&chemical cues in the same sensory neurons, revealing how evolution rewired systems originally used for avoidance to enable hunting. mpinb.mpg.de/en/press/pre...

Using genetics and behavioural assays, we show that P. pacificus relies on both mechanosensory and chemosensory cues to detect prey. Strikingly, genes from the mechanosensory (blue) and chemosensory (magenta) pathways converge in the same neurons, the IL2 neurons.

How does a predator sense its prey? 🪱The nematode Pristionchus pacificus preys on other nematodes, but how it detects them in its environment? That is what we have been exploring : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

There’s a deep rot to the core of this administration and Stephen Miller is one of the most dangerous people in the country right now. Noem’s got to go, but so does he.

Republicans are holding our government hostage to cover their tracks.   I will be voting NO on a funding package that includes DHS and continues to fuel this administration's lawless actions.

I have NJ @kim.senate.gov and @booker.senate.gov on speed dial and say "vote NO on any bill that includes DHS funding" Kim's Jersey City office line went to voice mail 201-377-0900 Booker's DC office staffer is answering the phone 202-224-3224 Find your senators here: 5calls.org

"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme."

Your Iranian colleagues are cut off from family back home & are in a state of collective grief, which has many faces. We may appear more aloof or be more impatient, may self-isolate, have more typos, may freeze or overwork to numb the pain, or find fear, memory, or hope in unexpected moments.

If you need a 6 minute break from the sh*tshow of now, enjoy this Gene Kelly tribute by Christopher Walken www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxmh...

This is also not at all relevant to our current moment... www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

This one might be even better @barrlab.bsky.social

Leadership is everything — Colette Delawalla and the team at Stand Up For Science provide inspiration and practical framework for community action. We are in a historic stress-test of all our democratic institutions, including Science. We are learning from this and will emerge stronger.

Thank you for saying so Victor! Let’s hope what doesn’t kill snakes is stronger.

And for this, I admire them both so much. No one is coming to save us. We have to be the change we want to see in the world and that always starts with making some changes within ourselves. We can start by reimagining ourselves to meet the moment. If Victor can do it, we can do it too. ❤️✊🏼

one of the many reasons why we fight on

I just called Sen. Tillis, thanked him for demanding an impartial investigation of the ICE murders, Sen Budd, and Rep @foushee.house.gov , thanking her for voting against the DHS/ICE bill. I urged all to vote against the DHS bill

Just talked with a staffer of my NJ congressman Frank Pallone. I thanked him for voting against the DHS spending bill & asked to endorse impeachment of Kristi Noem Next, calling my senators @booker.senate.gov & @kim.senate.gov Please call your representative & make your voice heard 5calls.org

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

I'm going to say a couple of things about Alex Pretti's handgun, that I don't think people who do not shoot will initially understand. This photo was almost immediately distributed by the feds. I think that doing so was, for them and their attempt to whitewash the murder, a *huge* error.

“I hear the anger from my constituents and I take responsibility for that.” The killing of Alex Pretti was the predictable, tragic outcome of allowing a violent, unaccountable secret police force to operate in our communities and then continuing to fund it. We need leaders who will stand up for us.

The DHS and HHS appropriations were passed separately in the House. They could be considered separately in the Senate. At this point I see no way for Thune to salvage DHS by pairing it with HHS. That ship has sailed. Everyone (me included) says shutdown the govt over DHS/ICE. No ifs ands or buts.

38 years of funding here waiting for a renewal budget for a funded project. I also endorse.

As someone who is literally waiting for one button to be pressed to give me $2.1m of NSF funds six months late: I’d rather shut my lab down than have another person killed by ICE - in the street or in custody, citizen or non-citizen

Seriously If I get murdered in the street by ICE, I won't finish my K23 anyway

As someone with 25-year NIH funded lab, I endorse. Linking NIH and DHS/ICE funding in the same bill is blood money

If you are a scientist funded by NIH and agree that if the HHS/NIH bill is held hostage by linkage for funding to DHS/ICE, we need to shutdown both and save lives, its time to speak up. Right now, with a few exceptions, the silence is deafening