I believe that this family is in anguish. I also believe that the thousands of other families who have had members taken "against their will" by ICE and DHS are in anguish. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

“My teacher told me to keep this kind…”

I have NIH funding to help foster the growth of undergraduate researchers. I will continue to teach my students about science and society. Here is a clear connection for them (and us) to take in.

You gotta admit, their names sure are a cosmic coincidence.

Gutless little insect

Thousands here at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, the site of deportation flights. Clergy have blocked the road at terminal 1 departures singing “before this campaign fails, we’ll all go down to jail. Everybody has a right to live.”

F1 made some C. elegans art with a message for me.

Visit us this weekend at Activists Assemble, hosted by North Seattle Progressives! Learn what important work is being done in and by our communities, and how you can get involved. Attend a workshop, listen to talks, and browse the tables of 80+ local groups. More details at mobilize.us/s/viZb8X

science peeps.

Extraordinary photo and photojournalist. Imagine being attacked on all sides and still having the presence of mind to try to save evidence of the oppressive encounter.

Oh God, this is good news. I had been trying to bring myself to blog about this trial, but every time I was too enraged to get something together. This was a hideously stupid and unethical idea, and no one promoting it should have anything to do with medicine or public health.

The scientific (bureaucratic) uncertainty over what constitutes gain of function research is going to stymie important research into pathogens, just as the US & Canada are poised for a dramatic resurgence of infectious diseases thanks to the ‘wisdom’ of non-scientists who have abandoned reason.

Trump & RFK Jr.'s coterie of bootlicking doctors are real pieces of shit, we argue in the British Medical Journal, essentially. Link: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

Congratulations, Sura!!

I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Hot off the press at EMBO Journal. The culmination of several years of work and hopefully useful to people in the field! BIG Shout-out to Review Commons, who handled the submission. It's a sensible and efficient model and all the journals I like (Society and NFP) are already participating. 🙏

This…article? … is utterly gross. Removing diversity, equity, and inclusion from our goals as scientists leaves the discipline homogeneous, inequitable, and exclusive—the opposite of why I educate and do research with the next generation of scientists.

If you're at #CellBio2025, please join us tomorrow at 9AM in Room 122 for a fantastic speaker lineup at the #EndoplasmicReticulum Minisymposium! Immediately following our session will be the keynote presentations by Eva Nogales & Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz! @ascbiology.bsky.social

I quoted Janet Iwasa in my talk at #cellbio2025: “All of these animations are really just hypotheses.” Just love the beautiful hypotheses here….

Amazing video. Highly recommend.

Powerful words from Dr. Bryan Dewsbury (@dewsbury.bsky.social) from the #CellBio2025 Education keynote: “When I stand in front of a classroom, I tell students that I am interested in being more than their destination to a final grade”

If you aren’t at Bryan Dewsbury’s talk on Transformative Change at #cellbio2025 right now, you really should be.

Another wonderful undergraduate poster session at the Mentored Undergraduate Research Showcase at #ASCB #CellBio2025. Bravo! And if you are at the meeting in Philly, check out those folks' posters at the main poster sessions!

Are you interested in learning more about #micropublications ? Check out the roundtable at #CellBio2025 Monday, December 8, 12:00 pm @ascbiology.bsky.social, @micropub7n.bsky.social

I ❤️ my community.

Dahlberg lab got to present at the Seattle Worm meeting! Proud of my undergrads and SO happy to see so many alumni in the audience.

I deeply appreciate this post. But I must say, as a resident of DC: subway was a sandwich of convenience, not necessarily our best representation. We’re used to not having representation, though…

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years. #AcademicSky

Science needs to be part of our day to traditions. For many years - I have continued to give Foldscope @teamfoldscope.bsky.social with the candy on Halloween. Try it out and surprise the kids with the capacity to see and discover real #microMonsters crawling on our planet. 🎃👻 #FoldscopeHalloween

Heading to #NDiSTEM2025 to present work on ER-stress in _C. elegans_ from our undergraduate-powered lab!

This is a great commentary with useful historical context and perspective. We lose when we don't give everyone the opportunity to participate fully.

Our student-led Molecular Biosciences club (which includes Biology, Chem, and Neuroscience majors) at WWU will be hosting a screening tomorrow night as part of the nation-wide screenings happening this week! www.pbs.org/independentl...

Speak out for yourselves and our colleagues who cannot yet speak up!

If you are a scientist and not out in the street Saturday, you are jeopardizing your own future. Join us! We have power when we band together

Cool Postdoc opportunity alert! UNC SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education)-it provides scholars with both high quality research training & the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 1/n spire.unc.edu/program-info/

Who, specifically, advised this? Is this in writing? I ask as a white American of eastern European ancestry and a proud SACNAS member. It is a great organization.

Full statment here www.instagram.com/p/DPDMbfuDrq0/

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m... Also shutting down huge swaths of scientific research across disciplines.

I want to note, because the initial article doesn't make this clear, that the professor being taped in the video is calm, clear, and patient with the student. Furthermore, the professor appears to be teaching absolutely basic medically accepted science & history of gender expression.

The same Supreme Court that said it is unreasonable to consider race when giving kids access to education, has said it's reasonable to consider race when looking to remove someone from the country. Funny how that works.

Covid-19 vaccines are now accessible, but not guaranteed to be available, for all Washington residents over 6 months according to a new state order.

New LSE study from Dr. Cynthia Brame (Vanderbilt) shows Learning Assistants boost STEM student belonging & confidence. Group time reduced isolation, while lecture roles emphasized feedback, shaping more inclusive classrooms. 🔗 www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/... #ScienceEducation

More dangerous disregard for science and research. US disregards scientific consensus on race | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New York Times story about reactions from Columbia faculty to the settlement [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n... 1/2