The latest #GENETICS study shows that the sisters separate (Ssep) gene in #Drosophila is essential for centromere cohesion during meiosis and is probably a new member of the cohesin complex. buff.ly/Qo75cpB

Jose y Maria by Everett Patterson #ArtSky www.everettpatterson.com?p=1835 Alt text: illustration of a Joseph and Mary, at a payphone trying to find shelter for the night in the rain. References to the birth of Jesus are dropped all over the illustration including a hotel sign that reads: "man ger"

A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...

They want us to not want to be professors: So our students don't question their propaganda. So our research doesn't challenge their lies. So our institutions can be replaced with so-called AI.

The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks. This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Rare winter bloom in the Anza Borrego desert @anzaborrego.bsky.social

AMTRAK Pacific Surfliner (765) SAN->GTA [2025-12-11] Alert: Route Obstruction: As of 7:45 AM PT Train 765 is stopped at San Juan Capistrano (SNC) due to municipal services investigating an incident involving a commuter train.

AMTRAK Pacific Surfliner (562) LAX->SAN [2025-12-11] Alert: Route Obstruction: As of 7:23 AM PT Train 562 is stopped at Irvine (IRV) due to municipal services investigating an incident involving a commuter train.

A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...

Gift link to article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

aw. Somewhere, I have pictures of Claude that I took maybe 15 years ago.

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.

Gentle reminder that everyone should read Jacob and Monod, 1961. And then read it again every once in awhile. A master-class on clear writing (and, ya know, Nobel Prize winning stuff, too). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 at 63°C 🔥 sure enough, wheels on fire... and faaast like the ayrton senna of amoebae

The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is, of course excellent.

1. Will Bunch’s recent column in the Philadelphia Inquirer has stayed with me, because it weaves various threads of history and politics into a clear and compelling tapestry with which ordinary people can act. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Some nice thoughts here. Of course Meselson and Stahl (my personal favorite) make an appearance, as well as Nirenberg and Matthaei and many others. If you need inspiration today to keep plugging along (which I do!), this is for you. www.asimov.press/p/beautiful-...

CAN LLMs write about science? @science.org decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment. Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...

Just a fundamental misunderstanding of how the scientific method works: It's not that someone *disagrees* was theory or finding and then argues with it, it's that you've got data that doesn't align and you go from there. Science isn't really about agreement or disagreement in an emotional sense.

I never imagined I’d need to turn to our judicial system to explain the importance of America’s scientific research, but here we are. Thanks to @BrennanCenter.org for highlighting my amicus brief 1/2

If any Senator caves, never ever vote for any of them again. Any of them.

The premise of generative AI is that so much has been written, painted, drawn, and composed that we no longer need to make anything new and can be happy with regurgitations of everything from here on out.

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

I just discovered i have a Wikipedia page. I didnt create it and it’s not entirely accurate. Now what.

I want @dieworkwear.bsky.social to comment on #dapperguy

@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"

Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage. This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.

“Meritocracy” www.science.org/content/arti...

My contribution today

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

as well as I5 freeway, the railway will also be shut through Camp Pendleton tomorrow to avoid the live ammo being hurled onshore. Just severing the ENTIRE transport connection between the 2nd and 8th largest US metros

FIGHT ON!!!!

Are you kidding me???

Incredible new paper from @schacherer.bsky.social et al rdcu.be/eLcTH

Phages evolve fast, or do they? In oysters, some stay identical for years. With >1,200 phages & 600 Vibrio genomes, we reveal long-term stability and new mobile elements. Proud of this collaborative work across our teams (Roscoff-UdeM and @epcrocha.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Proud to be an MIT alum today.

This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk. Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.

Craig Taborn is a genius, and a Genius: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

This year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. https://scim.ag/3Wt5rdi

Opinion | Anything but Basic The push to reduce spending on foundational research is shortsighted, Tesla A. Monson and Marianne F. Brasil write. https://bit.ly/4nZ4BAX #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

And please also thank the grants management specialists (GMS) who handle the business, non-programmatic matters of awarding grants!

A randomized trial of patients with advanced cancer who had genomically matched treatment vs standard of care showed substantial outcome improvement for the former www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video