Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠. Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death. None of this is pro-life.

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

toddlers everywhere:

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

Okay now this is impressive! Sound on!

It didn’t “leave them dead.” Navy SEALs slaughtered three innocent people.

Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office

Tomorrow, when you call your senators and representatives again to demand RFK's resignation, remind them that the nation's major medical societies (and our largest nurses union! @nationalnurses.bsky.social) demand it, too.

If your state has elections this month, this would be a good time to make a plan to get out and vote. Every election, little to big - including recall elections, matter a lot.

As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

No one is acting as if this in an emergency, except those of us who work in these fields. But we see the tsunami approaching--a wave of sickness and death that will wash over us all in growing numbers down the months, down the years. 15/

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

I decided to look at all 66 prosecutor elections this fall. Why? Prosecutors have huge power over sentencing, charging, second chances, and even immigration implications. Here's everything you need to know, from East to West Coast. New from me:

Tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience or physiology at University of Michigan LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB): lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

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/

From former PhD Student Jordan Lin (now a postdoc w/ Ami Bhatt), in which we describe a contact-dependent, cell-extrinsic response to genotoxic stress. #MicroSky. A bacterial toxin-antitoxin system involved in an unusual response to genotoxic stress | EMBO reports www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

There is no common ground with those who don't see you as a full human being. You can't change minds but you can make their goals untenable. While the attention economy has rotted our collective brains, use it. Fight smarter and be vicious. There is no high road in hell.

what's happening in Baltimore really gives the game away. a Dem major has drastically cut violent crime with a services-focused approach, even including police too, and none of these people give a shit popular.info/p/the-secret...

So much about our current national situation is explained by the fact that a substantial proportion of Americans truly believe that “feeling somewhat uncomfortable” is the same as being the victim of an actual crime

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

Ohio managed to get thousands of people to hold hands and link arms in a human chain that stretched 8 miles to stand against ICE. 8 miles of humans linked together.

Shout out to the colleagues who ask why I bother studying a settled issue like women’s suffrage.

One of my favorite types of interactions on the social medias is when someone says “hey I learned a cool fact today” and a scholarly person in that field goes “oh it’s even cooler than that, did you know…” and we all gather round like those aliens around the claw in the Toy Story movies.

And Congress certainly did not grant these authorities with the Director of Management and Budget, no matter how much he wants to be a deputy dictator. 3/3

To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable. For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.

we need to stop letting them set the parameters for discussion of their attack on vaccine development, just because they want to talk about mRNA vaccines exclusively as a COVID/other respiratory virus thing doesn’t mean we have to mRNA research is about CURING CANCER and they are against that

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

There are no "good genes" without eugenics.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. & Community College is FREE! Ma is rich, but so is the US in aggregate www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Each Friday I summarize what happened in science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 28: - $300M frozen at UCLA + updates on university “deals” - jobs report, Bureau of Labor Statistics firing & data quality fears - Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down + more at buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

My lab is 6 years old today! I am very grateful to my lab and for the chance to do the science that I love.

The University of Michigan’s Department of Epidemiology, one of the best IMO, will not be admitting any PhD students for 2026 due to funding concerns brought about by the Trump Administration.

Why should Democrats support a “bipartisan bill” just for Republicans to turn around and delete the parts Donald Trump doesn’t like?

One might think, oh the fiscal year is only two months. But many of our grants are already delayed by weeks to months and we are on borrowed time as is. This is devastating and heralds darker times ahead.

Oh perfect. I was waiting to get the NoA for renewal funding that would sustain my lab. I am most certainly not alone here.

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share! More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

I'm seeing lots of these stories and they ALL need to be sent to members of the appropriations committee. Many of these members have been asking good questions in hearings, and some GOP members have signaled clear support for NIH www.appropriations.senate.gov/about/members

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Dems should strongly consider impeaching RFK Jr if they take back the House — and maybe should campaign on a pledge to do so

Today is a good day to read our preprint about Candida albicans interactions with its neighbors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by the amazing Faith Davis and a fantastic team of collaborators @kylaost.bsky.social @shannonrighi.bsky.social @balunaslab.bsky.social @tuowang.bsky.social

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly. Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent. You can sign up at the link below! www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

It's really wild how this doesn't seem to be widely understood on the other side of the border. We get all these ads now from American businesses pleading with Canadians to visit as if the issue is just that we're mad, but every Canadian I know who's avoiding the US cites safety concerns.

Donald Trump is ripping away America’s role as a world leader in science and innovation. Cuts to health care breakthroughs. Cuts to tech development. Cuts to energy research. How is this America first?

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