A friend from college texted me asking for advice and this was my first and immediate response.

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal by the Genetics Society! genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

New preprint! It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stoked to share our latest work entitled: “Large-scale discovery of neural enhancers for cis-regulation therapies” shorturl.at/H3Qww This is an enormous team effort that I had the honour of spearheading with Nick Page and Florence Chardon. Bluetorial below.

A parts list of promoters and gRNA scaffolds for mammalian genome engineering and molecular recording - @jshendure.bsky.social @troymcdiarmid.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social go.nature.com/49eTPCu

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

It’s time

Make males live more than 400% longer and prevent sexual disfunction late in life?! We're down with it. Our latest preprint: Disruption of the insulin signaling pathway in C. elegans dramatically increases male longevity and enhances reproductive health late in life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally watched Zohran Mamdani's victory speech and I almost fuckin cried. I got real goosebumps. This is what we need. Stop listening to the loudest and most out-of-touch pundits screaming about moving to the centre. Be bold and unrelenting in caring about each other. TURN THE VOLUME UP!

Thrilled to share I’ve started my lab at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine! We focus on mapping cellular trajectories & TF networks in development and Mendelian disorders, exploring new therapies. Join us—postdocs, grads, and scientists welcome! sites.dartmouth.edu/qiulab/

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

“Salt Lake County health officials say it’s probable they have found the county’s first measles case since a national outbreak…They say “probable” because the person officials believe is infected has declined to be tested or take part in an investigation, the Salt Lake County Health Department said”

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

As a science communicator who built my professional career out of understanding "Science Twitter": I'm confident Bluesky will be the scientific community's social media home for a while Tell your friends at #ASHG25 to get over here, whether they're on X or not!

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/... Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

Super excited about first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to the brilliant Chase Suiter (not here) & @greenahn.bsky.social on the work! Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

No words

Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit. Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages. If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Very nice reporting on the importance—and the vulnerability— of model organism databases www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :) www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...

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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

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I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool

Outrageous.

Openness means more than access. We’re pleased to announce that we now publish Replication Studies, helping make science more reliable, transparent, and trustworthy. buff.ly/Gebypvq

Learn all things C. elegans #research at the EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "C. elegans Biology: IV LAWM" in Merida, Mexico, 24–28 February 2026. Registration by 16 January 2026 Abstract submission by 17 October 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm #EMBOWorms2026 #EMBOevents 🧪

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Finally managed to get our COVID shots over on the WA side of the border. No questions asked. 6 miles. Major difference.

Our BioE dept at @uoknightcampus.bsky.social has an open rank search for two complementary tenure-track faculty positions in Neuroengineering focused on: 1) Experimental & Translational Neuroengineering and 2) Computational & Data-Science Neuroengineering. careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53... ...1/n

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSky

Let’s go governors!

Just out in press in eLife, a cool and brilliant piece of work by @amywebster.bsky.social: Gene expression variation across genetically identical individuals predicts reproductive traits. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege

Another ad for American tourism www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"An 'overwhelming majority' of respondents said that Bluesky has a "vibrant and healthy online science community," while Twitter no longer does.." #BlueskyforScience 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

WARNING WARNING WARNING #ResearchAdmini I am hearing reports of NIH Awards being issued with ~15% indirect cost rate without comment. I believe the hope is that they will be accepted with noticing this.

New position in Developmental Neuroscience in the University of Oregon Department of Biology. There is also a neuroengineering search going on in the Knight Campus at the same time, so exciting buildouts in that area at the UO. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30255