Also, at Newark. www.nj.com/healthfit/20...

December 27, 2026. A bright beautiful, frigid 15 degree day in Knox County Maine. WE THE PEOPLE standing in patriotic support of Democracy, 70 people on a freezing day and proud to stand together. Gratitude to Audacity CAT for bringing us together each week at noon in Rockland, Maine.

Spent the last week dramatically dying from a mild cold, so I think it's okay to recycle a little festive doodle from 2 years ago. Arty's evergreen anyway. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 24 Fused / Kilncast glass plate

✅ 2025: Victories for disease control! The world scored major victories for disease control and elimination. 🥳 Maldives became the first country to achieve “triple elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B. 🥳 Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma.

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🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨 I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany. www.bischofflab.com/jobs Fully funded ✅ #Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy #Drosophila #PhD (Details Below) Original Posting: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

For my final #ArtAdventCalendar entry: a mighty feast with family and friends. I pity any poor fish cruising by beneath this pelican clan, on the Red River just north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. #birds

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🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇

Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

The Trump admin is gearing up to use AI to delay and deny Medicare benefits for seniors. This is outrageous and should be a national scandal. We’re talking about a backdoor effort to privatize Traditional Medicare and cut benefits. I introduced legislation to stop it.

Happy Yule ✨

23 December 1922 | A Czech Jewish woman, Margita Ledererová, was born in Liberec. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz: 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

This campaign is bigger than me, it’s about all of us in Maine who believe in a better future. I am so grateful to all the Mainers who are a part of this movement.

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☀️ Octopus Cyanea 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

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Which is why we are fighting for his impeachment. Sign the petition, yell at your Congress critter, and send a quack-o-gram here: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

20 December 1932 | Dutch Jewish boy, Josua Leendert Sanders, was born in Rotterdam He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

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As a final nod to 2025, #GeneOntology announces our latest paper in @narjournal.bsky.social! Updates include expanded #Ontology & annotations in #Metabolism, multi-org interactions, #chromatin remodeling, & more. Also ft. #Functionome v2 and 1500+ GO-CAM pathway models! 🧬🧪 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

New data shows that 64 non-citizens were arrested by ICE while taking domestic flights at airports from January-October 2025 — nearly twice the number arrested during a similar period in 2024. Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

From the @rnacentral.bsky.social team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | RNAcentral in 2026: genes and literature integration | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Genomics #RNA #ncRNA 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

More insights on this unethical vaccine study - which is paid for by the CDC and involves experimenting on a vulnerable infant population.

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

The 2025 Agar Art Contest winners have been selected! This year’s theme, “Microbes Make the World Go Round,” inspired 557 global entries—from food fermentation to antibiotic production. See the masterpieces and finalists! asm.org/press-releas... #agarart

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Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man

Hearing for Thakur v. Trump (over terminated grants for University of California researchers) starting now: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459... Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l... I'll try to follow along live.

It's our birthday! Twenty-five years ago, in December 2000, the Arabidopsis thaliana genome was published and #TAIR was born. Now, we're preparing for the release of #TAIR12 early in the new year. What a long way we've come! bit.ly/3KDJciT #plantbiology #plantscience #genomics #Arabidopsis

Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities. 28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17, Desert Botanical Garden

Calling all beautiful Black roleplayers, dice rollers, friend and allies! We're raising funds, we're streaming games, We're celebrating our Black history and the Black history we create everyday through actual play and #TTRPGs! #Blerd #BHM26 #BHM

It is time to bring an old tradition back from the dead. A thread of Benoit Blanc as different cephalopods. First up, Benoit Blanc as a Blue Ringed Octopus. CC: @rianjohnson.bsky.social

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Also, recall that I examined grant title changes for evidence of “remediation” and found 777 grants with titles changed from 2024 to 2025. Here is a word cloud of the removed words.

This is extraordinarily effective (buying bundled medical debt), and life-changing for the people it helps. It’s just ludicrous that we are in these situations to begin with - www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

Usually, when I need an appointment at the VA, I can get one within 2 weeks. Today, I called for an appointment and the next available is in May, 2026. Firing 35K people will do that. The Trump administration hates veterans.

There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you. Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games: "There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"

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We have recently updated FlyCyc biocyc.org/DMEL/organis..., the pathway-genome database representing Drosophila metabolism, to include enzymatic complexes as well as further improvements to enzyme annotations. #FlyCyc is now classed as a ‘Tier 1 Highly Curated Organism Database’.

Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar, an older chickadee sketch. This was digital, drawn by hand on a Wacom tablet, back when I was still using Photoshop. 🪶🐡 #BirdArt #drawing #art #DigitalArt

I posted this shot yesterday, gives you more distance on it. It has one small door and no windows, so it's not easy to judge how big it is. Nobody lives there; the interior is just ladders (or a staircase?) in case someone needs to change the big light bulb up top. Teide volcano in far left.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 14 #BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings