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“.. a fivefold increase in U.S.-based applicants seeking to relocate to European institutions ..” 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Free, professional illustrations of research organisms! 🎨🐁🪼🧪 We compiled original vector/raster graphics of 70+ organisms & viruses into a CC0 library. All by @arcadiascience.com's Audrey Bell Check it out & show us how you use them! research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource... #SciArt #OpenScience

#MusicSky #ThunderclapNewman #Somethingintheair I always thought this a Beatle song 🎶 when I heard it back in the day.

Pumpkin ginger bread made with spelt and bread flour.

In light of reports that the Trump Admin has asked SCOTUS to decide the merits of its effort to end birthright citizenship, I’m re-upping my assessment - reluctantly arrived at - of the majority’s likely response to Trump’s unconstitutional demand. I pray I’m wrong. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I hope this catches on. 22 CDC websites are down. All are LGBTQ/DEI related. We are not free. When science is silenced, we all pay the price. Science has been censored in the past. Like before, it will not end well. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

1/5 #MammalMonday: Meet the European hamster (Cricetus cricetus)! 🐹 Unlike its tiny pet-store cousins, this wild hamster can reach up to 30 cm long, with a bold coat of chestnut, black, and white patches that makes it truly stand out. 🧪 🦊 🦤 🌍 Photos: ©Frank Zachos

Just had a small, but very noticeable quake jolt me out of bead. San Francisco.

EXCLUSIVE: In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents, who were posing as business executives, win government contracts in a second Trump administration.

From Caltrans District 8 on Facebook and CHP reports: Highway 38 to Big Bear "completely washed out" from mudslides according to CHP on QuickMaps. "Closed in both directions from Valley of the Falls to the bottom of South Fork," Caltrans said on Facebook Photo credit: Caltrans

Let’s review. X: owned by Trump’s largest donor Facebook: owner gave Trump $1M TikTok: soon operated by billionaire Trump donors ABC: fired Kimmel, gave Trump $15M CBS: fired Colbert, gave Trump $16M This isn't normal. Free speech doesn't belong to billionaires.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Gov. Hochul is in Manhattan getting her Covid shot after signing an EO clarifying that NYers can get the jab, regardless of what the feds say. "Here in the state of New York, we actually believe in science," she says

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

So much for the justices’ promise of a “colorblind Constitution.”

“Supporters of the proposal said it would effectively create a state version of the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, two of the nation’s largest institutional funders of scientific and public health research.” 🧪 #giftarticle

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Texas Professor Fired After Accusations of Teaching ‘Gender Ideology’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

This isn’t stupidity, it’s a deliberate frame meant to convince people that solar&wind are unreliable at the exact moment that they have become cheaper and better in every way that fossil fuel & nuclear.This is about creating public opinion that can cut against the obviously better economic choice.

Whey country white loaf. I’m asking some cream cheese and some of the whey went straight into this loaf of bread.

Big news! As experimental hematology evolves, so do we. ISEH has been hard at work creating a new website that reflects who we are today — modern, mobile-friendly and built for you. 🚀 The new ISEH website launches next week — get ready for a fresh, streamlined experience!

With fewer science students and researchers considering the US as a destination, there is concern of a brain drain from the American STEM community. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Marc Zimmer, chemistry professor at Connecticut College, about these concerns.

Had a chance to see a drone light show recently with string quartet in accompaniment. I really think drones should replace fireworks, so much potential. Less pollution and animals will likely find it less stressful.

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇

Spiders make #webs with their silk, and use trapped #fireflies as glowing #bait [via Brit Eco Soc] 🧪👩‍🔬🕷️🕸️🪰💡 " findings confirm that captured fireflies left as bait increase the hunting success rate of the #spiders." www.britishecologicalsociety.org/spider-uses-... #tools #hunting #intelligence

This is from Dr Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at CDC and resigned today. He specifically blames RFK Jr, the COVID vaccination recs, and decisions forced down from HHS onto scientists. Please read the whole thing. 🧪

Everyone should get vaccinated barring medical conditions that prevent them from doing so.

Saturday thoughts: I don't know if you've ever been to Versailles, but I thought some things about its history were interesting. Here's a bit of wall decoration for attention.

How much more of the future do we want to let them destroy?

Working at home with some bread baking on the side. Buttermilk & Honey bread.

Captain Landon Johnson

US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children… www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Blithering incoherent moron.

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll..... 13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

Pls someone dig up the Budapest Memorandum and point to the signatures.

We are spoon deep into gazpacho season, so I made another loaf of Pan Candeal. We like this bread the best for gazpacho. It is made with a very low hydration (50%) and I make it with half bread flour and half semolina flour.

We had a deal. Russia violated it. Now, no deals should be accepted.

Made some sourdough bread for dinner tonight. Mostly bread flour with 10% whole spelt flour. #BreadSky

Worth keeping this in mind.

Here is the Science story on the "priorities" memo... www.science.org/content/arti...

Wow! Look at the little hairs on its legs! This animal was 21mm long, thumb-sized. Published 2024, but new to me. Technical article: doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧪

My report for MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...