"Schreiber said it would require years, and billions of dollars in additional funding, before the team would learn whether its model led to the production of any worthy drugs" oops the vanity project folded well before that and likely more to follow before long... www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/b...

Maybe because if the billionaires and venture capitalists who fund these vanity projects paid their fair share in taxes we could have the robustly funded public research enterprise the country needs?

Not a bad place to work on a paper #libraries

#xenopus 🐸❤️

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Loving my community right now

He is an amazing scientist. But I cannot understand why he and others of his prominence are not speaking forcefully against the destruction of the is scientific research enterprise

On Halloween.

Wait - I thought we were a dangerous hellscape?! 🤔 www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago...

To have a voice yet be silent about the destruction of the US scientific research enterprise by Trump and RFKjr is to be complicit. Funding some science on the side does not absolve that.

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

"So here we are, with higher ed drifting toward insolvency, its leaders stuck in a corporate mindset that can’t pivot back to the actual mission: teaching, research, and public good." Yup

Dropping this here just because 😂😜😇 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

Um... Isn't your entire attack on universities premised (falsely) on "a bunch of kids" doing things you call antisemetic??!!🙄

This was fun! I enjoyed talking with you!!

And that immigrants make us stronger

The Naked Truth about Portlands "War Zone"

So nice (and rare) to see very prominant people pushing back

Let slip the frogs of war

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We like our city Neat - NO ICE

So very sad. Thirteen year after his nobel prize that celebrated his #xenopus work that underpins much of todays stem cell research.

Chicago October 2025😡

Ok but what are YOU going to do about it???

You just can't make this shit up....or I guess you can

Every figure in this paper uses HCR @hcrimaging.bsky.social Such a game changing technique for studying gene expression #xenopus #neuralcrest

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition. Feel free to sign and share this open petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

Thats insane. I am a proud SACNAS member and am speaking this year. Somebody at Ohio State should lose their job

You can disagree with how Eric Adams ran the city, but you have admit that he's all that and a bag of chips..

There is some irony in that they will hurt tRumps own hotel, which btw paints Chicago as the wonderful city it is on its own web site...

Just a Sunday afternoon in the most touristy part of Chicago...😡

This is suburban Chicago folks. We are way down a slippery slope. Terrifying and heartbreaking.

"Head down focus on the science" folks: here is one super easy thing you can do today.

The cruelty is a feature not a bug folks. Past time for that "head down focus on the science" bs - step up and start fighting back

sign!

Continuing efforts to hurt the research pipeline, the very late NSF GFRP solicitation no longer allows 2nd year PhD students to apply. Lots of these students chose not to apply last year because they were told they would have a better change once in their thesis lab www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

There is only one authorarian playbook the they are following it closely www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

The likely new head of NCI actually seems qualified and not a hack.... color me pleasantly surprised (shocked actually) www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

chef kiss 🔥❤️

Just try to wrap your mind around the fact that republicans are linking tylenol to autism but not guns to mass shootings 🤯

If only there was a study of Tylenol and Autism.... oh wait! "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. " jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Had to tell my kids that since they both gave me kidney stones I took copious Tylenol when pregnant with them....🤷‍♀️

This was fun because it circles back to the very first paper from my lab that showed that Myc is required for neural crest stemness (Dev Cell, 2003 Jun;4(6):827-39), three years before Yamanaka published its role in reprogramming cells to pluripotency

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gonna respectfully disagree with you here. These are not normal times. If we and the us scientific enterprise are to survive we ALL NEED TO STEP UP and do our part.

For those of you who might have thought I was exaggerating the seriousness of what we face www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

👏👏👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGD...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.