The stick of a champion 🥹

Trump’s theft of nearly $2 billion from the Treasury raises eyebrows in some liberal circles

when you don’t feel like your noodle measures up to the people around you, that’s impasta syndrome

I am not in the sciences - how much does this defunding affect research?

What if we fought like demons to defend our greatest values. What if we avenge the decades of pain from rich grifters and fascists? Imagine that feeling. Chase that feeling. We outnumber them and are ten times smarter. #ScienceSky 🧪🔬🩺

By weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.

Excited to share that my 2025 collection of science-inspired drawings is now live on the Protein Data Bank (PDB) website. Thank you @rcsbpdb.bsky.social! It is free to explore and download. I’d love to hear what you think! pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/bezs...

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

6. It is hard for scientists to think of their field as inherently political and needing political machinery. 70% of the effort is getting over this one, specific issue. 7. See number 1 (and as a candidate, who built SUFS, with a toddler...*eyeroll* its a bs excuse).

NIH is not okay. @nytimes.com highlights how grant-making & ability to obligate funding is at risk from staff shortages and time consuming screening processes designed to censor research to align with the administration's political ideology. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s... Some highlights:

I got invited to speak at my alma mater. Amazing to meet the current faculty and students, wallow in a bit of nostalgia, and end with a call for students to fight for their futures and to @standupforscience.net Also there was dinner :) @haverfordcollege.bsky.social

WormLab content Also, -impeach RKF Jr. -end this war that nobody asked for. -re-fund science.

This tweet is all of us.

The worm community has lost a true legend with the passing of Don Moerman. Don's impact on C. elegans research is beyond measure. A friend to many of us here in MN, his work has been invaluable, contributing >5,400 strains (VC & DM) to the CGC, 20% of our collection!

A photo of the eclipse taken from Artemis II during a lunar flyby. HOLY COW, that is stunning. Bless you, NASA. On an Earth filled with human ugliness, I really needed to take in this celestial beauty.

CSR to continue the one-third triage cutoff for NIH grant review drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/c...

Is it an FCC violation to quote the president verbatim? Asking for a friend

Congratulations to the legendary scientist Judith Kimble!!! We stand on the shoulders of giants. #womeninSTEM #celegans

Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.

No Means No!!! Call your senators here: tr.ee/NoMeansNo

We submitted a manuscript and it is small potatoes, but when you work at a PUI, the small potatoes seem somehow bigger. Also, it was the most collaborative thing I have gotten to help put together in a long time.

I went to the Bellingham, Washington #nokings rally. My favorite sign said, “Nice war, asshole.” Short and sweet, and on point.

It’s great to see our latest microPublication go live! Four undergraduate researchers worked with grad student Kat Yamamoto to demonstrate a correlation between fat storage and survival of #Celegans on pathogenic bacteria! Congrats Alan, Grace, Tiffany, and Daniel! #undergradinthelab #proudPI

I AM ONCE AGAIN SOUNDING THE ALARM THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING TO PRIVATIZE OUR SCIENTIFIC ECOSYSTEM.

This little article doesn't provide any ideas for fixes, but if you need three talking points about the failures of this administration to support research and science innovation, here you go: www.ascb.org/science-poli...

In class today, we reread this nice article about scientific community doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... We talked about the ways in which the #C.elegans community helps research move forward and reach other scientists.

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

@wwu.edu students Stand Up For Science @sufsseattle.bsky.social @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social

Hey Seattle! Come join me to #StandUpForScience this Saturday. I'll be speaking about the administration's attacks on climate science and services and what we can do about it. Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheater, 12-3PM Saturday. @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsseattle.bsky.social

Bellingham, WA doesn't have a local @standupforscience.bsky.social rally this Saturday. But our students at @wwu.edu are tabling on FRIDAY to get the word out for the Seattle event.

@irinakitop.bsky.social Congratulations! Irini, you are such an inspiration! Thank you for your devotion to mentoring scientists at all levels (I certainly include myself)!

And fuck the men's team for laughing along with him.

@thepwhl.com We are waiting to hear your response to this. Our daughters are watching.

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

Tonight my kid’s practice was co-led by members of the Seattle Torrent @pwhltorrent.bsky.social. It was terrific!

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

Yesterday in my Course-based Research class, we probed the age-old question: ER lumen towards the TOP of the model, or towards the BOTTOM of the model? #Celegans science with undergraduate researchers.

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/...