Boom! A good deal of my time spent on the beach at Jökulsárlón is trying to capture waves hitting icebergs, without the iceberg moving (and being blurred). Occasionally it all comes together :) #Iceland

8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

From @ngehlenborg.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for making biomedical data resources accessible | I like Rule 10:Focus on progress over perfection | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Credit where its due...though "Susan Collins votes to let Trump kill whoever he wants" would've been snappier! #MEpolitics

ATTN: If you were on the Sandwich Guy jury and you'd like to chat, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous! Please share this post!

7 November 1927 | Dutch Jewish girl, Edith Rebecca Pachter, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943. She did not survive. --- Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

This is more apparent in this graph of the timing of new forward-funded R01s grants for fiscal years 2015-2025. I colored the FY2025 in red to make the difference apparent. 😜 22/25

Thanks to all who attended this year’s Annual General Meeting. Congratulations again to our Early and Advance Career Award Winners, Tiago Lubiana and Kimberly Van Auken! You can find their excellent talks at around the half way point of the recording of the meeting. youtu.be/A7je5cR_2IA?...

WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."

BREAKING: Donald Trump just announced he will withhold SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans throughout the duration of the Republican shutdown, DEFYING previous court rulings. The cruelty is the point.

The government is shut down & the Speaker of the House won’t open the chamber or the government & is denying a duly elected Democrat her seat. But the president who is monetizing the presidency, bulldozing the White House, & murdering people on the high seas, is allowed to stack the judiciary 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

FINAL!! 24!! HOURS!!

Soooo close to 6000!

Common raven is uncommonly angry

Seriously, what the f*ck do you want?! #BirdsCursing

Happy Halloween

muppetized horror movie posters: thread

1 November 1889 | A Dutch Jew, Raphaël van Weren, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

#NatureIsArt Pumpkin king sunflower - 2025 #Phonetography #flowers #FlowersonFriday #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #dewycenter #pointy

This is so wrong. Donna Hughes-Brown is a legal resident who has lived in the US for 47 years. She has 3 American-born children and a husband who served in the US Navy.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Someone asked me the other day*: How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed? The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible. The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research. 1/ 🧪 #neuroscience

will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he's been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.

IMPC Strategic Conference ‘Insights from the Past, Shaping the Future’ Program and key information 👉 https://www.mousephenotype.org/news/2025-virtual-impc-conference-registration-and-agenda/ Free Registration 👉https://tinyurl.com/yz7znkde

@andersonfbrito.bsky.social and I are seeking input from the community on hosting/sharing arbovirus sequencing data (DENV, CHIKV, OROV, ZIKV, & YFV) on @pathoplexus.org. Please consider filling out this VERY SHORT survey about your interest and/or concerns. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

$360 million. That's how much Americans who were cheated or scammed could have gotten back. But Trump is dropping lawsuits that could have put money back in YOUR pocket. I wrote about what Trump's attacks on the CFPB are costing Americans.

Welcome to the 2025 #Nudivember art challenge! Like last year, here is a list of some lesser known, yet always fabulous, nudibranch species. Participate as much or as little as you want in any art form you like. Make sure to use #Nudivember and use alt text!

Applications for travel grants to attend #Biocuration2026 in South Africa close tomorrow, Oct. 31. There is still time to get your application in: forms.gle/VK6kjNXZKQpp... Find out more about the conference here: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19t...

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

Maybe @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social should ask some questions about why there was no FY2025 funding for the GuLF project, whether Walsh was involved in that decision and what Walsh's consulting arrangement with BP America was for? reporter.nih.gov/search/3x8Tg...

Here are some of the scary jack o'lanterns I've made for our cats over the years. First: the cone.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies. Trump just won’t release it. 440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."

========================= WHAT ARE WE VOTING ON IN NOV? ========================= For info on Questions 1 & 2 in Maine, (live link): isledems.org/maine-electi... VOTING DAY is TUES NOV 4, 2025

#SaveMaineAbsenteeVoting #VoteNOon1 Here's the list of events for the big weekend push. Go here for the webpage with live links and scroll down a bit: saveabsentee.me/events/

Excellent clip on the history of hostile architecture in NYC-it’s current form seen in the leaning benches in subways &lack of any seating (except Amtrak Lounge) in Moynihan station impacting ppl who are unhoused, older, and/or disabled. Of course, Robert Moses & his legacy are responsible for this.

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids. www.lawdork.com/p/the-kavana...

For anyone planning to run against Jared Golden in the primary or as an independent, a quote for you "I imagine that’s because most of my colleagues believe, as I do, that the president's actions thus far — even those with which I strongly disagree — do not constitute impeachable acts." 10/25/25

Join us for a concert and rally featuring The Ballroom Thieves and Griffin William Sherry as we fight to SAVE ABSENTEE VOTING IN MAINE! Afterwards we’ll be knocking on doors before the critical November 4 referendum.

miss piggy in music videos: thread

The Trump admin won’t tap emergency funds to pay for federal food benefits, imperiling benefits starting Nov. 1 for nearly 42 million Americans.

The most recent, and arguably the most in-depth and interesting, article about Graham Platner, his past, and the tattoo controversy. Sums up and refers to a lot of the other articles. I urge reading through it all before jumping online to quote bits. #Maine #MEpolitics #GrahamPlatner

The federal government shutdown has reached a tipping point. On November 1, people across the United States will lose access to food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. The choice by the USDA to not access the $6 billion contingency reserve is deliberate.

Great points from @leahlitman.bsky.social explaining how conditions for Trump's $230 million heist were partly created by SCOTUS, the immunity decision, and unitary executive theory. Trump cited immunity ruling in docs seeking this money. So much packed in here: newrepublic.com/article/2022...

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

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24 October 1911 | A Czech Jew, Raul Zeisner, was born in Znojmo. Deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.