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

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

Super happy to see also this story out! 👇 7 years of amazing perseverance from @gaowen.bsky.social, who not only performed experimental evolution showing tradeoff between sexual and asexual reproduction, but also identified all key transcription and genome changes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

"in the largest sample of medical advances for which we have good data...we found extensive connections between medical advances and research that was funded by grants that would have been cut if the NIH budget was sharply reduced."

Really cool, conceptually simple approach here: cross-referencing grant proposal scores with literature citations and explicit acknowledgments in drug patents to identify patents linked to projects that wouldn't have been funded given a smaller budget

Super excited that this story by @borissieber.bsky.social is now on BioRxiv! For decades, we thought there was no MAPK scaffold for the ERK-like cascade that promotes sexual reproduction in fission yeast ... until Boris found it ! See the thread 👇 and enjoy the paper! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history. "The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

This is interesting — in a paper out today, researchers created an alternate history to estimate what Trump's desired cuts to NIH would look like. Of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023, *more than half* are at least partially linked to NIH research that would have not happened under a 40% reduction.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

. @adamserwer.bsky.social is correct. A major difference between Trump I and II is that lots of people decided not to fight this time around. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

By munching on fermented fruit, chimpanzees consume the equivalent of roughly 1 alcoholic drink per day, new #ScienceAdvances research finds. https://scim.ag/4nIu55z

Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

The VC model is the antithesis of good basic science. Basic science is best when many labs are funded over the long-term, when many different scientists pursue their own ideas. Let a thousand flowers bloom —and support them. VC investment is about relentless, exponential growth.

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

Congratulations Lucy Shapiro @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

ICE and DHS have proposed capping F and J visas at 4 years, threatening international students and postdocs who drive U.S. research. Share your comments to oppose this harmful policy: www.ascb.org/science-poli...

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Tennyson, Ulysses

Just heard from someone who had a 1% grant not funded through NIMH. Why? Perhaps no payline for 2026? 2025 all full up? Unclear. But totally bonkers and indicative of the complete gutting of the NIH/NIMH senior and grants processing peeps. The ones who remain are working so hard.

For our scientists. By @ellecordova.bsky.social

Ok phew, @kffhealthnews.org has the confirmation, Sept 3. Bhattacharya’s “memo stated, NIH institutes and centers should not rely on the scientific merit rankings “in developing their final pay plans.” Arthur Allen @ KFF

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These statements about corruption in science are egregious lies. Kennedy is a tsunami of anti-science propaganda. This isn’t just a moral injury to scientists, it is downright dangerous. It is devastating that the U.S. Senate is permitting this.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!