Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

Despite what Trump says, there is no link between paracetamol (tylenol) and autism.

“Medical experts are raising alarms after Donald Trump warned pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol, baselessly linking the painkiller – also known as paracetamol - with a rise in autism among children.“

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I am very sad to hear this news about Steve Long who I admired greatly and had the pleasure to work with on several occasions on various panels. He was a wise man of great intellect, a kind and thoughtful nature, and was an exceptional scientist. www.essex.ac.uk/blog/staff/p...

Color changing flowers 🧬🎨- attempt #2 Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Farage has been targeting my immigration group since the early 2010s. I'm confident, that, just like during the run up to the Brexit vote, my English colleagues will completely downplay my stress and fear, xenophobic threats made at my family, proceed to ghost me and provide no help and support.

Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted". The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism. The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

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Imagine that... comedians fired for making jokes about the regime... The Montreal Star Saturday, 4th of February, 1939. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

Re-upping this: For those of you having new students in the lab, I have curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.

Compared to the costs of training LLMs, the education system is so cost effective, energy efficient, and environmentally friendly.

Have you ever wondered how the exact location of a gene affects it's activity? The main story of my PhD deals with exactly that question, and is now published in Science! ✨ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... My amazing co-author and friend @mathiaseder.bsky.social summarized the highlights for you

Between this & zero traffic deaths in Helsinki last year.... The simple truth that's somehow utterly unintelligible to capitalism & those in its thrall is that doing the right thing by the vulnerable (be they houseless, pedestrians, or anything else) makes the world BETTER FOR EVERYONE.

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds So excited to be quoted in this article about our resurrected #ghostponds with members of our fantastic team @carlsayer.bsky.social, @hburningham.bsky.social, @timholtwilson.bsky.social

Georgia's propaganda behemoth is UK-based. And needs to be sanctioned as soon as possible. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Best short read title in a while "The path to discovery runs through presence, not prestige" leaopel.substack.com/p/humility-a...

And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

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Self Portrait at the Dressing Table,1909 by Zinaida Serebriakova #WomensArt

Inflorescences of #Lolium perenne heavily infected with ergots of #Claviceps purpurea, themselves colonized (hyperparasitized?) by #Fusarium heterosporum (syn. F. lolii), which form orange sporodochia at the base of the sclerotia (Villepreux, FR) — see Gay & Shattock (1980).

Interesting segment on Shared Parental Leave - the point that parental leave *in general* should be better paid - is key. Signposting is also vital. When I took it for our now toddler, the policy was listed under 'Maternity Leave' [It is NOW under 'Shared Parental Leave as a separate heading]. 1/2

Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

Can't wait for my employer to tell me "sorry Li we have to take 100k out of your startup to do your visa."

This little shit has had quite the journey. Some pieces can be easy, but some drag you kicking and screaming the entire way. I got there. And I'm happy with the end result, but boy am I glad to be done.

The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism." I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

Spectacularly good Substack article by Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social, whose work during the COVID pandemic was so essential, logging Trump’s 172 actions against perceived enemies since Jan 2025. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

If one politically motivated student can sink a professor, a department head, a dean, and a president any time a single employee of a 50,000 person university says something controversial, there can be no university. It'll just collapse.

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It's important to be clear that what right wing protestors complain about as "cancel culture", things like student groups cancelling invitations to right wing speakers, is an insignificant threat to free speech compared to a government using the threat of regulatory action to silence media critics.

The postdoc position is open until filled, but I will start reviewing applicants this coming Monday. If you know someone who is looking, please share. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

I gotta give them props, the opening to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was pretty good. 👇

Announcing a New Integration Between openRxiv and Dryad (via @datadryad.bsky.social) blog.datadryad.org/2025/09/17/a... #scholcomm #preprints #publishing @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

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Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

I was far from the first to say this, & I definitely won’t be the last, but it isn’t the evil of Trump, MAGA and the GOP that’s been surprising. They made it clear what they were going to do, for everyone who paid attention & didn’t self-delude. The surprise has been the surrendering, the weakness.

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe! Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾 #plantscijob

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!