Now free to read in Genetics (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social): "Preventing evolutionary rescue in cancer using two-strike therapy" #mathonco study by @srishtipatil.bsky.social, @armaanahmed.bsky.social, Yannick Viossat and me, determining the optimal time to switch treatments. doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Elizabeth Warren has urged Harvard to oust Larry Summers after revelations that he solicited advice from Jeffrey Epstein on how to abuse his position and coerce his mentee to have sex with him. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Some really good news from my home country. After 15 years of protests against the zwarte piet / black face character, the last protest is canceled because it's no longer needed. Cultural change is possible. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/d...

Does anyone know how many research jobs have been lost since Jan 2025? @altnih4science.bsky.social @altcdc.altgov.info @jeremymberg.bsky.social

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

I started a new job in Montpellier, France! Happy about new opportunities, sad about the state of things in the US. abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/w...

I love the #dogman books #nokings

Welcome to the largest day of peaceful protest we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes. Today, we’re gonna speak out on a grander scale than Trump has ever seen. No Kings Day is going to be big, loud, boisterous, and joyful. Find your local event and let’s make history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE #NoKings

Up early to drive to my hometown of Lexington MA (where the first No Kings day was arguably held in 1775). If you don't know where it's happening near you, here's the guide. Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...

If you need a sign to print out for this weekend's No Kings protest, find a two-page or 4-page version here: abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/n... Perfect for B&W printers. #nokings #indivisible @indivisible.org Find a protest near you: www.nokings.org

The Women of Color in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology community (WOCinEEB; non-binary inclusive) is doing another round of matching for one-on-one mentorship! You can sign up here: forms.gle/Cfk3Y5CZksSS... I'm also happy to answer any questions! #Mentorship #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology

If you need a sign to print out for this weekend's No Kings protest, find a two-page or 4-page version here: abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/n... Perfect for B&W printers. #nokings #indivisible @indivisible.org Find a protest near you: www.nokings.org

This weekend's #NOKINGS protest is expected to be even bigger than the one in June. I hope you have the chance to join. Find a protest near you: www.nokings.org

250000 people at protest in Amsterdam against genocide in Gaza

Every day you wake up, you make a difference in the world. And you get to choose the difference that you make. 💞

Narrator: This is fascism.

Do you want to study #Quantitative #Ecology & #Evolution? Are you interested in a research-oriented #MSc program? Apply & join us at @umontpellier.bsky.social in the #IDIL program. #Fellowships available for #international #students

Wordpress and Bluesky don't work super well together yet. The post below was supposed to have an image of our house! ruthkrishnan.com/property-lis...

We are selling our house in San Francisco The front of our house in San Francisco. After having lived in San Francisco for 9 years (and in the US for 15), we decided to move back to Europe and landed in France. More about that in a future post! For now, I wanted to share that our wonderful house…

Hi everyone, we are selling our house. It's a great place for a family in San Francisco. I feel sad about leaving the house and the neighborhood but hope that another family of people and/or pets will make it their home! Please share!

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Just cancelled #disney - kids are sad because we loose Bluey #kimmel

The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel is truly awful and yet another clear sign of the end of democracy in the US.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

I also looked up Nowak in the Epstein book. He lists himself with "Epstein Institute, Harvard" as his affiliation. (No Epstein institute exists). Epstein donated millions to Nowak over the years which funded Nowak's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.

Such pretty mini-videos and cool science too!

Some things are getting better. Bullying in schools in the US on the basis of sex, race and disability has gone down a lot from 2011-2021. All that "woke" and DEI stuff, it helps! #usafacts usafacts.org/articles/how...

Cool data science paper on drug resistance evolution!

Amazing new work and video from Pleuni!

This is so good Pleuni! I’m going to save it as a science communication example where communication aimed at the public is also better for scientists (I just learned a lot), and share with this year’s ramp cohort!

I have been a fan of @pleunipennings.bsky.social's videos for years and am so stoked to see a new one! Such a clear communication with the bonus of an optimistic message

I made a video about my new paper. I hope you enjoy it! vimeo.com/1113132836?s...

A new paper and video about levels of drug resistance in different countries I am so happy to share a new paper and a new video (see below). The paper describes a simple mathematical model that describes levels of drug resistance. I called the model the Resistance-Acquisition-Purifying-Selection…

Microsoft employees protest www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

Mijn strip vandaag in de @groene.nl. #rodelijn

@kgandersen.bsky.social is right on target. We have to be clear eyed about what we’re dealing with even as the media keeps talking about all this as negotiations, deals, settlements. This is authoritarian extortion.

Germany taking action gives me a little bit of hope. Maybe the EU follows? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Hier in het Nederlands: 200 miljoen uur telefoongesprekken van palestijnen zijn opgeslagen in Nederland. www.volkskrant.nl/tech/the-gua...

Alle 153 landen die het Genocideverdrag uit 1948 onderschrijven, hebben een ‘inspanningsverplichting’ om een dreigende genocide te voorkomen.’ Een glasheldere vaststelling en VVD, BBB, PVV en NSC verzaken op schandalige wijze. #sancties www.trouw.nl/poltiek/comm...

Happy RNA Day to those who celebrate! 🧪 It’s AUG 1: the day we Met 🤓

Today I received notice that my appointment to the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC--a committee whose existence is mandated by Congress--has been terminated.

If you're a UCLA researcher (PI, grad student, etc) with an NSF, NIH or other suddenly suspended grant, please email or DM me. I'm trying to confirm what the suspension letters say and how extensive the NIH suspensions are. Email: Mikhail at calmatters dot org