One of the best DOGE report cards I’ve seen is from @petridishes.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA." This is what's happening in epidemiology.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Seems like a good day to share one of my favorite videos on the internet 🧬

In honor of Halloween, one of my all-time favorite cartoons by @katiemckissick.bsky.social #MedSky #IDSky #HappyHalloween 💊👻🎃

STOP ASKING MIKE JOHNSON ABOUT THE NEWS! HE IS PROTECTING HIS MENTAL SPACE!

Public Citizen has an annual pumpkin carving competition. The Litigation Group won this year with this portrayal of the White House with the East Wing having been demolished. Entries from other groups to come

chef's kiss 😘

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”: “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone” orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10

Loyola Marymount University claims religious exemption with the NLRB, claws back recognition of NTT faculty union The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.

DUCK AROUND, FIND OUT! With our duck delivery in tow, we waddled up to the Hill to let our representatives know that it's time to send the Quack-In-Chief packing. #ImpeachRFK

Update on this story: As many of us feared, it turns out that Berkeley wasn't the only UC to release personal info on its pro-palestine anti-genocide professors to the justice department, it looks they they all did. Berkeley was just the only one to tell profs they did it.

NSF GRFP announcement was posted! Have not read the details to see if any changes from previous years... www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

UW Tacoma is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and a teaching Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry. Please share widely and consider applying. Biochemistry: apply.interfolio.com/172884 Organic Chemistry: apply.interfolio.com/172940

Join the PUI Network for "Pedagogy for the PUI," a networking event where you can connect with your fellow PUI faculty September 29, 12:00-1:30 PM US Eastern time my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...

Kudos to @ucsf.edu for fitting and providing all researchers with PPE. It should be the norm.

"We should not be naive. Will those of us named now be branded on a government list? Will our travel be restricted? Will our email communications be surveilled? ... To allow universities to be bossed by political operatives in this way undermines the basic ideals of the university."

WOW, New Mexico! That is a game changer: free childcare for everyone in the state - no income limits, no copays, average family savings of $12k per child per year 🤯 www.nmececd.org/universal/

If you didn’t know, now you do! Sunny days are headed our way!

Incredibly excited for this year's iteration of the Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25! This is a fantastic opportunity to hear 10 minute talks describing fantastic cutting-edge science from researchers preparing to launch a faculty search. Please register (link below) & forward widely :)

I look forward to the annual exchange of top science and connecting across boundaries!

thank you CDC staff ❤️ for your courage

We LOVE our trainees ! From @nihvigils.bsky.social today ❤️❤️

Have you signed yet? Have you reposted and shared on other platforms? We need a massive response to protect the FEMA employees courageous enough to sign their names to this petition. So far -2k, we need many more. #SecPuppyKiller is hot (and I am not talking about her looks). #FEMA #Resist

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail. 1/14

“Historically the best & brightest in the world came to the US to study. Now under Trump’s destructive policies, the best & brightest are fleeing the country. We need to reverse course & reclaim the values that made this country a beacon of research & free inquiry.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

"Shock and disbelief does not even begin to describe the reaction from mRNA and public-health researchers. “Secretary Kennedy’s unscientific and misguided vilification of mRNA technology and cancellation of grants is the epitome of cutting off your nose to spite your face.”"

Repercussions from this administration will be felt for DECADES.

what is the most terrifying piece of lab equipment (for rational or irrational reasons)? (inspired by discussion with my lab regarding autoclaves)

Today in "You can't unplug 1/4 of the budget of research universities & do the same things, & there doesn't seem to be any backup plan other than to cancel things, & WHERE ARE THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS SPEAKING OUT LOUDLY & COLLECTIVELY ABOUT THIS EXISTENTIAL CRISIS?" bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE. Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️

funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body

"The public health field has been the punching bag for six straight years, yet some of us are the very ones who are trying to change and reimagine the systems. Many of us are choosing listening over judgment... To extend empathy and then be met with bullets feels demoralizing, to put it mildly."

"The perpetrator was shooting at public health workers—the people who devote their careers to keeping communities safe. The ones who work to stop the spread of disease and reduce gun violence. And in this case, targeted because of their work on the Covid-19 vaccine."

"If China is able to capitalize on our self-inflicted wounds to invent and secure the future of the 21st century instead, we may find that we have squandered the greatest gift of the Manhattan Project." 🎁🔗

I know I've shown this globe before Dates somewhere between 1956 and 1959 Thank you @xkcd.com

@lynnkamerlin.bsky.social & I argue @emboreports.org: students/postdocs must not be victims of immigration clampdowns. This is ethically indefensible & will undermine the knowledge-based economies of countries following this path. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

As a Jew, I am SO ANGRY that the feds are pretending they care about me, as a pretense to extort universities.

Not insane. Just knows that if everyone says this over and over, voters will remember it and think defunding the NIH is fine. These Sunday shows are just giant propaganda fests enabled by networks.

My quote of the day There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. Alan Simpson

The "arsenic life" paper finally got retracted by Science after 15 years. RIP As-DNA. #microsky Story time! When this paper came out in 2010, I was neck-deep trying to grow SAR11 on defined medium. Everyone thought there was some magic "missing" ingredient. Maybe nucleotide monophosphates? 1/6

The double standard here is stunning. Universities are losing grants, student aid, and endowments for being "too woke." But churches (which also receive federal funds, eg, for school vouchers, food banks, and marriage promotion programs) are now allowed to openly endorse political candidates.

Every evening I take the "You'll make it to tomorrow" sign off my bedroom wall, and put it in my time machine. Every morning, I get into my time machine, go to yesterday before I woke, and hang the sign up. It's nice to have something to be certain of, these days.

White text on white background instructing LLMs to give positive reviews is apparently now common enough to show up in searches for boilerplate text.

My quote of the day Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

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