My Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post is online [Gift Link] wapo.st/415HpYM 1/4

Flybase is like the encyclopedia of everything for fly researchers. Extremely worried about how things will proceed....

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

Oh gosh ....

Bye bye Muskwagon - Hello Ioniq .... (if you are considering a switch, added bonus: charges faster, and handles curves better)

Lying scumbag

How can journal editors send back crappy revisions that are >100 pages long with 25 pages of rebuttal??? Just start using F...ing AI to pre-screen. Such a waste of effort.

Jim Corbett wrote of his experiences hunting that a wounded man eating tiger was far more dangerous. Biden & Garland's fumbling created this wounded man eater who is destroying everything precious. In 2020, there was 1 overwhelming responsibility, democracy and they failed miserably 🤬.

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The Trump administration warned 60 universities on Monday that they could face penalties from pending investigations into antisemitism on college campuses, a threat sharpened in recent days by its cancellation of funding to Columbia University and the arrest of a protest leader there.

news.ucr.edu/articles/202... Press release about 2 exciting NIH projects to develop next generation mosquito interventions to protect entire homes/patios. Previous support led to a startup Sensorygen and a safe natural repellent currently in EPA for home pests & mosquitoes. (tax $ at work!)

How about a March in Riverside ? @ucrsom.bsky.social

DOGE = Destruction of Our Government by Elon ........................(copied from FB)

PASS IT ON “The 24 hour Economic Blackout" - Posted by Jon Stewart WHEN: Friday February 28th from 12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M. Do not make any purchases Do not shop online, or in-store: No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy…Nowhere! Do not spend money on Food & Gas; Do not use cards

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

No more AirBNB

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

So how’s it going so far?

Preprint of our honey bee paper out in ELIfe elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

www.science.org/content/arti... Is there any reason to pay huge sums to Open Access journals anymore ?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... First post: new research from my lab. Honey bee specific repellent odorants that can protect them from pesticide treated fields.