This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

“It has also caused concern in the LGBTQ+ community, particularly among trans people who have questioned whether the IDs will contain information outing them.” Digital ID will be challenging to implement, is unnecessary and may endanger minorities. www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/26/d...

In the 1950s, Alabama went after Civil rights lawyers in the NAACP for challenging segregation. Now they're going after trans lawyers for challenging anti trans laws. Nothing ever changes.

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

Also, I know it is a small point in the overall march towards fascism, but the idea that gender is performative and a spectrum is backed by science. The *actual* “gender ideology” is being imposed by the folks who insist, against fact and reason, on a strict binary.

Seen on a map board around Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming.

A genocide prevention organisation is calling on the UN to revoke the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) top-grade status because of what they see as an attempt to ‘erase’ trans people.

Sabrina Carpenter has continued her campaign of pop perfection with a performance of ‘Tears’ at the 2025 VMA Awards that featured RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni and placards fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.

Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So I just found out BMES this year is literally in front of my old apartment this year. Too late to try and present... So that sucks.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

If you’re all in on Newsom, you haven’t been paying attention to what he’s actually done in California. Do better!

I need the 2020s US Democrats to stop reminding me all the time of the 1933 German Social Democrats

Imagine getting elected to office to represent your constituents and then signing over your personal rights to fascists who will jail you if you do your job representing the interests of your constituents

Annnd it needs to be said out loud that the fact that she’s the only one means that besides the Latina legislator who has refused to come back to TX, all their colleagues signed little fascist forms agreeing to be escorted by police who are basically their Texas house arrest prison guards

If you think Gavin Newsom is fighting fascism because his comms people post, but the encampment protesters last year were out of line, or Black Lives Matter protesters went too far, or anti-ICE protesters were wrong because they flew Mexican flags, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FIGHTING FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.

So fucking pissed that she pulled back on this “I want to be clear that I am not accusing Israel of genocide,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark told JNS. www.jns.org/no-2-house-d...

I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...

The right getting bent out of shape over male cheerleaders in the NFL reminds me a lot of the very beginning of backlash to Dylan Mulvaney's Bud Light ad read.

I’m always struck by the journalism that’s on Instagram that I don’t see here. For example, this image of a protestor — a US citizen — being arrested by ICE today at a car wash in Los Angeles. More details here: www.instagram.com/p/DNgex-xyAX...

NFL male cheerleaders have the best response to online hate

Trans youth as consistent in their identity as cis youth, study shows

‘Joslin wrote on Instagram Monday that per Globokar’s letter, they had been fired for “failing to demonstrate acceptable conduct” while still under probation.’ www.them.us/story/sj-jos...

It would have been great if folks had rallied to his side and asked more questions at the time, but now is as good a time as any.

I'm quoted in this New York Times piece on the challenges facing the Trump administration in collecting and publishing quality data on college admissions by race after the relevant Department of Education staff were laid off.

I missed this news before (but suspect we'll see more announcements like this in the coming months): "The department also hopes to resume admissions for the fall 2027 class. However, no new applications will be accepted this cycle." www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

A blistering review of Lawrence Krauss’ awful “The War on Science” book from @sarahjones.bsky.social: “The writers are too caught up in their resentment to acknowledge reality; they do not grasp their own role in the global rise of the illiberal right.” nymag.com/intelligence...

The regime halted all federal grants then told UC administration if they pay $1 billion they could have them back. It’s like ransomware. UC is a public university system and we cannot do this. So, no grants = no research and labs will shut down. Are we great yet? dailybruin.com/2025/08/09/a...

Congratulations Cameron MSc! My first student (who joined me as an undergrad with no wetlab experience) just successfully defended his masters thesis! Currently writing up 2 manuscripts based on the technologies we developed over the last two years! Hope to share more news (in pre print form) soon!

“What will Brown do if Trump sees something on Fox News about some class at Brown that pisses him off, and orders the funding turned off again?” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/negotiatin...

If the Supreme Court grants this stay, not only will it let NIH to get back to what Reagan appointee Judge Young called the most palpable discrimination he’s seen in his 40 years on the bench. It will also put ALL NIH science at risk.

My quote of the day There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. Alan Simpson

The White House's proposed budget would cut NIH research by billions, including slashes to cancer research. My new home state Texas is projected to lose $2.1B in economic activity from the budget cuts, including $353M in losses from cuts to cancer research. How about you? scienceimpacts.org/fy26

This is infuriating, scary, and horrible. NIH needs to support a wide array of science that applies to ALL people. We never know when a finding in one area can apply to another disease or situation.

California peeps, need you to get on those phones to Padilla and Schiff in order to stop another Trump fascist from getting appointed.

USDA will close its flagship, but deteriorating research site in Maryland as part of a major reorganization aiming to shift 2600 employees away from the nation’s capital area. The agency also said it plans to shutter most of its forest research stations around the country. scim.ag/3J2aNZC

So excited to see this and even more so to see that two people who’ve passed through my lab are helping lead this initiative! (Plus, it’s all around an AMAZING team) This is impact that matters! 🙌🏾🎉

Agree with the thrust but I would adjust this thesis to read 'AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because AI tools existed and they *did not ultimately really care one way or the other whether those tools actually worked as long as they provided cover for the firings*'

important context buried in the article

It's not just Proud Boys, Eithan Haim, the transphobic doctor who was criminally charged for leaking the medical records of trans patients to Chris Rufo, is looking like he'll follow the same path to get a large settlement from DOJ. DOJ is clearing the path for him.

Application now open: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over 5 years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career Deadline: 10/07/25 www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo... #bwfcams

Why do these people hate not being assholes so much

Bob the Drag Queen drags California governor Gavin Newsom over trans rights retreat

Every so often, I see people argue that Trump hasn't done anything to attack trans people's rights. This is absolutely wild to me because... well, he has. I'm going to share some examples of things he did in his first 6 months, referencing the @glaad.bsky.social Trump Tracker. 🧵

San Diego Pride was a blast with @queersciencesd.bsky.social! Despite a few hiccups early on, the day turned out amazing. Really thankful to everyone for showing out!