Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am grateful for every person taking action to prevent these f*cking a**holes from rewriting history

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Excellent summary of how Vought’s proposed rule will destroy science. Please be ready to comment tomorrow, call Congress, tell your friends. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to speak up, that moment is now.

I am so tired of these disgusting, selfish people who don’t believe in humanity. It cost us next to nothing to provide aid that could help contain this type of epidemic.

The shame of it is that Trump's failure is America's failure.

“Memorial Day reminds us that it is possible to sacrifice for people you disagree with, and that unity does not require total alignment.”

Yeah, I know. I know. Print is dead. This is still a thrill for me.

Hands up if you know what they're talking about.

It’s pretty surreal to see my name on this list… I am so fortunate to be at the Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting this week celebrating with the best community of scientists Wins are harder to come by these days and this is a big help for keeping motivated!

Most people at NIH who comply do so out of fear or a misguided (IMO) sense that this is the best way to save science & NIH. Then, a few over zealously leverage the recent changes into career opportunities: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w... And then of course there’s Jay Bhattacharya himself.

Jared Polis is so completely full of shit. His commutation of Tina Peters' sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech. What a joke. What an insult to the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. What an assault on free and fair elections. An embarrassing profile in cowardice.

Piece is from two months ago. Abrupt pushback in March forced him to delay. Now it’s apparently time for accountability. Paywall has been removed, and it’s up to @coloradodems.org now…

Glad to see the attack on scientists getting traction at broadly focused media outlets. Sh*t is bad, folks

This is pretty f*cking shitty

Well this is bad

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Fantastic paper from @jollylab.bsky.social at QMUL. HIV-1 env-mediated signaling through CD4 on resting T cells during cell-to-cell transmission primes the cell for infection by remodeling nuclear pores to make viral core nuclear entry more efficient www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Faculty everywhere should be incredibly concerned that our employers will steal our teaching materials just as Arizona State has. Absolutely shameless.

What a state of affairs. We don’t believe the President or the Press. We’re right.

A wave is building, the kind that comes once a generation, when people have been pushed too far and they decide all at once and all together that enough is enough.

It’s insulting to suggest that Americans are indifferent to the spectacle of a sitting president laying siege to their democracy—especially when the evidence of Americans’ awareness and alarm is greater than ever.

It *could* happen to you. And even if it couldn't, you should care.

"Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order."

HANK, 49 Twice divorced, twice widowed, and looking for fun. Are you a buxom seventeen-year-old and also first cousin to my late second wife and also willing to ignore that I am nearly thrice your age and also in my direct line of sight?

One image to explain why I finally cancelled my Washington Post subscription this year

We’re absolutely going to have to have something like the Nuremberg trials

Multiyear funding is an intentional scheme by Russ Vought to follow the letter of the appropriations law while still absolutely devastating American scientific leadership

The USA is NOT "destroying itself". Its being systematically dismantled by a criminal enterprise who has hijacked the country. Let's keep it simple, folks. #endthegop #criminalenterprise #humantraffickers #moneylaunderers

Hey - remember Trump’s $10B defamation lawsuit against The WSJ over its lewd birthday card to Epstein reporting? It was just dismissed by a Judge in the Southern District of Florida who stated that Trump had not "plausibly alleged" the WSJ acted with malice or reckless disregard. LOL.

What are the odds that the president can draw a clock? We should always be pretty f*cking sure the president could draw a clock.

This administration is causing so much unnecessary suffering and death - at home and around the world

This is horrible. We are responsible for uncountable tragedies

A compelling call for our representatives to f*cking do something open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

It’s pretty weird to take an extra deep breath because the president didn’t order our military to commit horrific atrocities and to then think “well f*ck, I’m pretty sure my country deserves some serious sanctions and whatnot for what our government is up to”

When a robber holds a whole bank hostage, but then decides to free them, he still goes to jail. Just saying.

Wait, you don’t want just anyone to use your intellectual property for LLMs? 🙄

LEAK THE EPSTEIN FILES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

Yup. As I sit comfortably in my home while people elsewhere struggle, I don’t know what to say or do at this moment except be extremely ashamed of my country

I’m here for a minor and petty grievance, which is that Top Chef allowed a contestant to refer to chadon beni as a condiment - in which he substituted the actual fucking chadon beni with collard greens - and even put text up describing it as a sauce/condiment

I think you should instead stage a "strike" on reviewing. Said during my free time on a personal device and not as a government employee. You could also spam the shit out of Jayanta Bhattacharya with as many PIs as possible.

Five Reasons Why It Still Wasn't a Lab Leak Time for some of that civil disagreement that the NIH Director can't get enough of rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso... Dr. A. Rasmussen took the time to put this together, to set the record straight. @angierasmussen.bsky.social Worth reading!

Our elected officials have an obligation not to sit by while a wannabe King plunges us deeper into an unwise and unconstitutional war. We said no kings, not no spines.

They’ve tried to pitch this as being less restrictive, but it’s lipstick on a dumpster that’s on fire and contains the remnants of the US scientific enterprise

Good story in C&E News about damage to the scientific enterprise and loss of confidence from researchers about having a trusted partner in the federal government. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Comments due by May 16, 2026

'Things Are Not Okay': US Threatens to Withhold HIV Funding Unless Zambia Allows Plunder of Its Minerals www.commondreams.org/news/us-blac...

The death penalty is wrong

The death penalty is wrong