that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

As a longtime NPR listener it’s been tough the last ~6 months not to feel like they’ve been drifting further right— what I think is actually happening is that as authoritarianism rises, they are failing to meet the moment at the same speed that it’s happening. Not that they aren’t trying:

I want to put out there some Goodreads shelves I've taken the time to curate of books which I've read and which I strongly recommend! A book's absence isn't, by the way, intended to convey any specific meaning. Read on for categories:

@lutimestwo.bsky.social ’s Why Fish Don’t Exist is a triumph of compassionate science journalism, as well as a great examination of the complicated life of David Star Jordan.

Big shout out to @llepodcast.bsky.social for inspiring my first tattoo! Best piece of LLE merch I could’ve asked for Thanks for making such a great piece of science communication <3 @ellahubber.bsky.social @tomlumperson.bsky.social @carolinethebug.bsky.social

I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.

Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...

I’d be curious to hear @adriandaub.bsky.social or @moiradonegan.bsky.social ‘s take on John McWhorter’s recent “Wokeness Will Always be With Us” in the NYT opinion section… both the piece itself and its publication in @nytimes.com . www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

Come visit our booth this Saturday at Out in the Ozarks: West Plains Pride, Sunday at People's Pride KC, and all weekend at St. Louis Pridefest! We'll have initiative petitions you can sign to protect same-sex marriage and expand anti-discrimination laws in Missouri!

We need YOUR help collecting signatures for our two initiative petitions to protect LGBTQ+ rights in Missouri at these upcoming pride events!! Tag a friend you'd like to volunteer with and DM us to get involved! Signature collectors must be registered to vote in Missouri. #Missouripride #molgbtq

You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social. In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much! Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Every UC faculty member should be aware of this incident, especially now that we're facing changes to our faculty disciplinary processes for the second time in as many years.

The STARLING has landed - excited to share new work from @bornanovak.bsky.social and @jefflotthammer.bsky.social in what is also Borna's first Bluesky post! If you're at BPS, I'll be speaking about this this afternoon in IDP SG, and Borna and Jeff both have posters (Sunday B112 and Wed B152).

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

NEW: Formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant in the US. It comes from cars, trucks, planes and a combination of emissions cooked in the atmosphere. For the first time, EPA modeled this risk down to the census block — and we mapped it.

Such a good data viz of the shifting distribution of climate anomalies - first I focused on the center inching to the right, but perhaps more important is the thickness of the right tail of the distribution by the end - yikes 😳

All cells are encapsulated by a membrane of complex lipidic composition, right? Not anymore! @JamesSaenz.bsky.social et al. show that a ‘minimal’ bacterial cell only needs 2 lipid species #microNatComms #Microbiology #CellBiology #lipids Read the paper: www.nature.com/artic...#microNatComms

Big congrats to @idpemery.bsky.social for not one but TWO first-author papers out in the last few days! Molecular biophysics of IDP:RNA interactions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Impact of phosphorylation on IDP conformational ensembles and new phosphoparameters doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

The House has passed the “nonprofit killer” bill. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Always a (re)treat to be involved in Holehouse Lab happenings!

Have a protein for which you want to predict disordered regions? Why not try metapredict V3? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... State-of-the-art accuracy, proteome-scale predictions in seconds, command-line tool, webserver, colab notebook, Docker container, etc. Check it out here: metapredict.net