And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry. It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going! bsky.app/profile/cram...

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

If you think it is necessary to provide “nuance” or “context” about the life of a horrible person who has passed they will not see it. But the people this horribleness hurt will wonder why you feel it necessary to continue that person’s malign impact on the world.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

What happened when I dug into some of the key studies and ideas quoted in The Tipping Point and its sequel… kucharski.substack.com/p/the-real-r...

“The dual class action suits allege that the functions—which followed thousands of sexual harassment and assault lawsuits against Uber and Lyft over the years— have limited the economic opportunities for men and discriminated against them because of their gender.”

The hitchhiker’s guide to cross-species DNA delivery @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight by Kotaro Kiga and Rodrigo Ibarra-Chávez www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

If you look at the text of the Double Helix, that ‘eureka’ moment implies a man with no depth in crystallography could magically glance and see a structure where Franklin could not from the photographs of the B form of DNA. (Watson’s book only says B form) Read below. bsky.app/profile/matt...

I recommend reading this thread from F. Crick’s granddaughter. Apparently even the scene at the Eagle pub, where we all went as scientific pilgrims, is not true? Just mythology

Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language. Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day. Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)

A nice write-up on the latest paper from my lab: news.ku.edu/news/article... More commentary to come! #PlantBiology #Drought #Corn #Maize #Microbiome #PlantScience #SoilHealth #PlantHealth

One of the best things that has happened on this platform for me so far is that on the day that Watson died I saw nothing positive about him but a wall of posts about Rosalind Franklin. This is the way. This also seems as good a time as any to announce that this summer I got my first tattoo!

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

1. Postdoc in plant-fungal interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 2. Postdoc in molecular plant-microbe interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 3. Research technician: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici... (Pls share!)

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1

Can’t help but think Trump’s brain is convinced SNAP benefits are just used by Democrats

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.

Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

He definitely almost ran me over 😂

James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

Holy fuck

Might finally have found a function for Streptomyces phage tail things

#microsky #phagesky on #phage -like contractile systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

OMG

Chriiiiiiiist

Re-boosting! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫 at the University of Tennessee is hiring two 9-month faculty! Come join a vibrant and growing department located in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains! #microsky

incredible pun work in the replies. bluesky, the official social network for dads

gotta teach this case in trial advoacy

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

Even if they were exclusively weightless drugs, they’d be fucking miraculous. A lot of people view obesity as a moral punishment for gluttony and GLP-1s helping people eat less enrages them because they’re denied God’s punishment of the fat sinner.

Looks like the Sandwich Guy trial is a wrap. Hot dog!

barely a metaphor lmao

What an amazing article - @prosanta.bsky.social, you are an absolute rock star. Sending lots of healing vibes to you, and hugs to your family.

He's turning the White House into a tacky wedding hall. This is so awful.

So, so cool to see all these microbial culture focused people all in the same room (in-person or virtual) at the @jgi.doe.gov Cultivation Jamboree!

To all visionary microbe enthusiasts: @femsmicro.org is looking for an editor-in-chief for their flagship journal FEMS Microbiology Reviews! More details can be found here: fems-microbiology.org/opportunitie...

The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

#microsky #phagesky CRISPR-cas galore www.nature.com/articles/s41...

we will never cede the m-dash to the machine — not now, not ever — because it is legit good punctuation and I love interjecting with how I have ADHD — 6 thoughts a minute, nonsense and quality — thoughts

Bacteria can sense when a virus starts shredding their genome — by detecting methylated mononucleotides. Here’s the story of how we discovered the Metis defense system 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Klebs can evolve resistance to Colistin through mgrB mutation or by acquiring the mcr-1 gene. Both routes have similar fitness costs against a bacterial competitor, but mgrB mutations are associated with enhanced virulence.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...