One fun fact about me is that I am 26 and my dad still pays for my car insurance and phone bill. If you think I should grow up and pay my own bills then, yeah, me too. That's why I'm voting to unionize today. 🗳️

For the first time, scientists have filmed microscopic worms called nematodes in the wild as they glom together and form large wriggling masses. Learn more: scim.ag/3FBwSx3

How do other computational-ish labs handle data storage/sharing? The amount of times I have used scp to get stuff from a random machine in the past week is too many and it's ruining my life

New study reveals how M. tuberculosis PdtaS, a constitutively active kinase, senses both copper and nitric oxide by inhibiting dimerization, not binding. A fresh twist on two-component signaling! ✍️ @michaelglickman.bsky.social and coll. 👏👏👏 📖 shorturl.at/DiWXp #Tuberculosis #MicroSky

This cool paper shows which functional gene groups were enriched as fungi and animals diverged. I like how animals gained a bunch of genes for signal transduction. Is complex signalling what makes us animals? 🤔 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (Ocaña-Pallarès,..., Ruiz-Trillo et al; Nature 2022)

The US Constitution guarantees due process. Donald Trump is eroding it in real time – we must fight back to restore the balance of power. Today, I’m announcing a series of measures against El Salvador for aiding his unconstitutional deportation scheme.

Brad Smith either does not understand how indirect costs work or is lying. (13:44) A 40% indirect cost rate does not mean the money is split 60:40 to the researcher:university. It means the researcher gets 100%, and the university gets an extra 40% for infrastructure. NIH pays 140% total.

From the bottom of my heart I wish you fierce, fierce competition for IL-09 ❤️ The people of IL deserve high quality options for representation and I am so happy to see someone MY AGE running for congress. If you ever want to talk to grassroots science activists at various IL universities hmu :)

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

Thanks to Chambana Today for covering us :) #standupforscience2025

#StandUpForScience in Illinois

Spreading the word of this GEO townhall. The poster is very 'rah rah' but I think it's mostly going to be an information session followed by an open discussion about what to do (also some advertising for their research assistant unionization campaign). Bring your knowledge and opinions!

I'm looking for people who have been affected by the anti-science executive orders to speak at UIUC's stand up for science rally on march 7 - if you or someone you know has a good story please DM me! (it's also okay if you don't want to publicly speak <3, let's connect anyways and swap info)

Extremely heartening to see industry step up in the wake of attacks on American research.... Every $1 spent by the NIH on research generates $2.46 in economic activity. Cutting NIH funding is stupid. We need more biotech companies saying this!!

So so so proud of my fellow grad students and friends in Chicago www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

This is why I keep saying- if you are at a University, keep hounding your research office

I was impressed with the UIUC Physics Town Hall last night about the impacts of the federal government’s actions on the program. Here’s what I learned🧵(1/8)

Just called my congressman and told him about the Good Science Project's idea for reducing the administrative burden on research goodscienceproject.org/articles/how... This would improve "government efficiency" of NIH funds, AND actually help (not cripple) research universities.

They're scrubbing health disparities information. This isn't "gender ideology." This is public health data. We need to be outraged and demand the assault on public health stops.