**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

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The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

"St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will close its labor and delivery unit next month... "The closure is one of Georgia's first casualties of the GOP budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the 'big beautiful bill'... www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rura...

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

One of my MD collaborators said something like "I don't care what the proteomes are like in cells that incubated in organ dissociation enzymes for 1 hour" 💡I'm happy to report my team can now dissociate cells for single cell proteomics without long enzymatic dissociation! Paper coming fast!

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

A molecular-resolution look into the near-native architecture of the spinach chloroplast🌱. This one was a long time in the oven, but we're happy to finally share our "version of record". What long-standing debates did we settle? Check back for a short thread🧵 on Monday. #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪🧶🧬🔬🌾

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Kalli Kappel and Anna Maurer are starting their new lab as changed people. Broad Inst.>UCLA; UCB>U of MIchigan. Story is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... openly accessible story is here: rdcu.be/eHpn6 Happy New Lab Day/Month/Year to them and all others with new labs 💐: youtu.be/-GEiOAk4AqU

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Die Sendung gibt es nun hier zum Nachhören! www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-viele-ku...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

I have a 12:15am email from my academic institution with the same guidance (and a note that they're not paying 100k for you we don't have the money)

I was sponsored by a biotech startup on a H-1B visa in 1999. What’s the plan to offset the impending collapse of highly skilled legal immigrants? Robust investment in American higher education? Nah, AI will probably obviate the need for these foreigners, right?

#physics 🍝

You up? Find a #CoastalCleanupDay site near you and spend a couple hours outside with others making a difference this morning. It will feel good. Do the grocery shopping later. The laundry will wait for you. Promise. See you out there at 9am.

I have gotten a bit behind at sharing the lab’s latest work - this paper is now published - check it out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... Long story short: insulin is the major determinant of female fat storage, with a relatively minor effect on males.

Important story! Gift link! The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

This is an excellent development – and the fact that the organization will be hosted in Switzerland and not in the US is even better

The group was chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. amid controversy over their credentials. It's changing guidance for vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.

With the caveat productivity is defined as the number of papers published, it's notable to see that the gender and English proficiency gaps are about the same overall. Then the gender gap decreases along the career, while the English proficiency gap widens

It bugs me when people say that RFK Jr. and the members of ACIP aren’t “serious people”. They are DEADLY serious about taking vaccines away from the people of the United States, and they have the power to do so.

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My thought on why the ACIP HepB vote was postponed. The scientific evidence that was presented by career CDC scientists as well as from the numerous expert public commenters inarguably demonstrated why the birth dose is NECESSARY. RFK Jr.’s ACIP couldn’t come up with a way to deny it in time.

While Canada plans for another round of CERC hirings (which costs millions); support to retain international talent & support 🇨🇦 researchers may be cut! Sign this letter to request @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social to stop the proposed cuts to research & innovation!

I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich

Ecologist Rob Dunn has long been fascinated by mutualisms—the win-win relationships in nature. In his new book, he explores how different species have teamed up with humans and what those partnerships say about us.

Josephine Silone Yates was a professor of chemistry & among the 1st women in the US to head a university science department. She was also a journalist & editor & served as the president of the National Association of Colored Women in 1901.

Really disappointed in @chronicle.com for this choice. www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Nvidia bets big on Intel with $5 billion stake and chip partnership reut.rs/46l2lhD

Near-complete local extinction on Red Sea reefs! During the 2023 heatwave, 100% of host anemones bleached, 94–100% of anemonefish disappeared, and 66–94% of anemones died, collapsing an iconic mutualism. @natureportfolio.nature.com #coral #bleaching #RedSea www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Mina kollegor som driver Queerseminariet vid Stockholms universitet har bjudit in Sam Hultin för en stadsvandring i Eva-Lisas spår – imorgon kl 17.30. Registrering här för att delta: www.su.se/institutione...

Genome evolution of Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 during laboratory domestication: acquired mutations impact competence and metabolism #ApplEnvironMicrobiol from Jeff Barrick journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

“We may soon face a patchwork of immunization governance across the country, where children’s protection against vaccine-preventable diseases will depend on where they live. The immediate consequence would be a fragmentation of our immunization social order.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

One Week until 'No Ordinary Deaths' Talk and Book Signing with Molly Conisbee 🖤 📆 Thursday 25th September: 6pm-8:30pm 🔗 Purchase your tickets here: oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/... All ticket sales support the museum as a registered charity

José Graziano da Silva, ehemaliger FAO-Chef & Ex-Minister für Ernährungssicherheit in #Brasilien, senkte die #Unterernährung im Land um 25 %. Im Interview mit @latamreporter.bsky.social#Brasilien#Unterernährungpricht er über Hungerbekämpfung, gesunde Ernährung & die Macht der Agrarlobby:

One of my fave #stm #Montreal metro changes has been the adding on the floor at exit doors of cardinal direction circles with arrows showing directions to closest city streets. For metro stations with multiple entries from different directions, like this one […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.

The Open Targets Platform autumn release is out! 🍂 We have ingested the full dataset of over 13 million enhancer-gene regulatory interactions in the human genome across 1,458 DNase-seq experiments covering 369 cell types and tissues from the ENCODE-rE2G model blog.opentargets.org/open-targets...

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread 🧵

Structural bioinformatics is incredibly powerful on its own or when paired with theory or experiment. One of the PDB's superpowers isn’t from one structure, but comparing many to uncover folds, binding sites, and subtle conformational shifts. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

US measles cases near 1,500 as new case confirmed in Chicago area Eighty-six percent of cases have been linked to one of 38 reported outbreaks.

This CHASM program reflects the importance of Medical History & Bioethics: exploring the intersections of medicine and society, learning from the past, and fostering dialogue that supports compassionate, equitable patient care. #MedHum #Bioethics

Racism makes no sense. Why in the world would any hospital hire a physician who isn’t qualified, endangering patients and exposing themselves to reputational harm and financial loss, just for the sake of “woke”? Be serious, please.

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”