I found a whole box of save icons!

Excited to announce that I’ll be the Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Genomics Core Facility starting mid September 🧬🧪🧫 www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

Super excited to share my final postdoc paper from Rabinowitz lab- on how whole-body and tissue metabolism changes in viral infection! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40581045/

This would be a great time for everyone to be cool when reviewing manuscripts and *not* request $25,000 worth of new experiments that don’t substantially advance or validate the study...

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

RFK Jr. says he met with Argentina’s president Javier Milei and it sounds like they want to make a fascist alternative to the World Health Organization.

I found the hottest spot north of Havana last night.

I was having a hard time describing how a plate of cultured cells didn’t look healthy to a new undergrad in the lab. He looked at them and said, “oh yeah, the vibes are off.” Thank god for Gen Z.

Apparently forgot to add a topoisomerase to my one of my resistance bands

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

As a follow-up to the Kaiser interview, here is my exchange with Dr. Bhattacharya starting Sunday evening... 1/n

Got a quote earlier in the week for a large piece of equipment we’ve been in a months-long process of selecting. Tariff surcharge: $27,000

Welp, it begins. Sigma Aldrich.

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

A story in four parts.

New AP story about HHS passback budget and NIH reorganization. www.newsday.com/news/nation/... 1/2

There was a red-tailed hawk hunting a squirrel in a tree on campus today. It was quite the chase and still going when I left, but I managed to get close enough for this pic while it was taking a rest.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

I’m at the @asbmb.bsky.social conference in Chicago and there’s a cosplay convention in the other building from our meeting. It’s absolutely hilarious. Two different nerd conventions. I could sit and watch the elevator all day. I feel completely underdressed!

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.

All four of these are poison ivy (genus Toxicodendron). There are only a handful of distinguishing features that can identify poison ivy, because everything about the plant is subject to change and variation, even in the same small area.

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

With the data from NIH Reporter from yesterday, I can now look at the loss of funding up to April 1st budget start dates. It totals $1.62 B for non-competitive renewals. This is less than last month as some more awards have been made (late). 1/n

My first post on BlueSky, I could not access the same handle as my X (someone hacked into that one): So it's @peterhotez for X and @peterhotezmdphd for BlueSky I'm a pediatric-vaccine scientist based in Houston TX at our Texas Medical Center

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

so my favorite dive bar in WI passed up showing tonight’s Bucks game so they could show live poll results. when the election was called for Crawford, the whole bar started chanting, “Fuck El*n”. the bartender pulled out the good stuff and handed out free shots to us all—an absolutely electric nite

Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n

It happened this morning. Every. Single. One. Of my colleagues I know at CDC. RIF’d this morning. When I said that this was only the tip of the iceberg of the catastrophes to follow, I wasn’t exaggerating 😞

Peter Marks was forced to either resign or be fired. archive.is/kZiAo His resignation letter said, "it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Gaslighting is everywhere these days

F mechanisms (New and Competitive renewals) Oof! 3/n

March 28, 2025

It's getting late on Friday, so you know what that means: HHS has just updated its list of cancelled grants and programs. The document went from 14 pages long to 42 pages. Just an incalculable list of cancelled COVID-19 funding. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

Now, which university will win the title of the champion of regressive values? The race has started, and the competitors are highly motivated. "University of Michigan, a longtime champion of progressive values, to close its DEI office." #AcademicSky www.freep.com/story/news/e...

Starting a full day 1. Discussions with program directors whose training grants for scientists from groups historically underrepresented in biomedical research are being terminated 2. Talking with a reporter about the decimation of the public health agencies 1/n

Looking forward to the Transcription/Chromatin Keystone Symposia in Banff next week! I have a postdoc position available as well

Health security is national security. Health intelligence is as important as human intelligence, signals intelligence, and imagery intelligence. Robust public health systems are an integral component of effective biodefense. If you ignore health, you weaken your country.

🚨NEW: Major development. German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet. ‼️It includes details of Signal accounts. “It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

“Elevated ALS rates have been observed around a lagoon in France, surrounding a lake in New Hampshire, within a single apartment building in Montreal, and on the eastern—but not western—flank of Italy’s Mount Etna. Such patterns have confounded scientists”

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

my word cloud on these titles (minus Columbia) - any patterns emerge?

Comparing chromatin contact maps at scale: methods and insights www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Putting an academic department is receivership literally allows the government to dictate what Columbia University professors are allowed to teach and research. It’s the textbook definition of fascist control over education and what people are allowed to know.

On this day in 1879, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario. In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field. Let's learn more about her life! 🧵1/10

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.