Oh yes she did! Nancy Hopkins & other female scientists at MIT experienced sexism. One night in 1994, she carefully went into each lab WITH A TAPE MEASURE & calculated the area. It turned out that even a JUNIOR faculty member had more sq footage. MIT admitted fault. 🧪 news.mit.edu/2023/measuri...

@StrPhy.bsky.social #StrPhy #StrPhy26 #StructuralPhylogenetics APSPM 2026 Meeting, Brisbane: The SMBE Australasian Protein Structural Phylogenetics Meeting

@StrPhy.bsky.social #StrPhy #StrPhy26 #StructuralPhylogenetics APSPM 2026 Meeting, Brisbane: The SMBE Australasian Protein Structural Phylogenetics Meeting

Amazing to see all the approaches to structural phylogenetics at APSPM 2026 Meeting, Brisbane: The SMBE Australasian Protein Structural Phylogenetics Meeting @StrPhy.bsky.social #StrPhy #StrPhy26 #StructuralPhylogenetics

Linking to the APSPM 2026 Meeting going on right now in Brisbane: The SMBE Australasian Protein Structural Phylogenetics Meeting @StrPhy.bsky.social #StrPhy #StrPhy26 #StructuralPhylogenetics

Amazing talk by @martinsteinegger.bsky.social at the #StructuralPhylogenetics meeting in Brisbane @strphy.bsky.social The meeting is going to be live for the next 2 days. Excited to see what happens next. #Evolution

APSPM2026 - Today's session starts with @claudiaalcar.bsky.social Charting the protein universe: Deep evolutionary signals in sequence structure space (remote). She'll present her work on exploring how protein folds emerged and diversified over billions of years. #StrPhy26 #StrPhy

APSPM2026 #StrPhy26

Thrilled to introduce TEDLH, a library of profile HMMs built from TED’s structure-derived domain annotations of the AFDB. Explore 765K HMMs capturing CATH superfamily diversity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

On my way to Nashville for the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial!! pandasthumb.org/archives/202...

My @BASkeptics talk on the Kitzmiller v. Dover 20th/Scopes Monkey Trial 100th: "The biology class you WISHED You Could Have Taken. Bay Area Skeptics, June 14, 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7UK...

The Scopes Trial was a piece of performance art where nearly all the principals were playing a role to bring attention to a small Tennessee town. The lesson is that our ancestors could be far more cynical and conniving than we often give them credit for.

July 10, 1925: The much-anticipated trial of schoolteacher John T. Scopes for violating an anti-evolution law gets underway in Dayton, Tenn. While monkey-related publicity stunts are staged in the streets, jury selection is completed in a stunningly swift 2 hours, 20 minutes. 1/8

The 12 members of the panel that will decide Scopes’ guilt are all male, all white. Ten are farmers; the remainder are a retired farmer and a shipping clerk. They appear “unanimously hot for Genesis,” in the words of H.L. Mencken, one of the many famed correspondents there. 7/8

John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes trial, and was found guilty and fined $100.

100 years ago this week, we defended John Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey Trial" after he was charged with teaching evolution, which was banned under Tennessee law. Today, we're still fighting to keep religious doctrine out of public education.

NPR story on 100 years after Scopes, quoting Ken Miller www.npr.org/player/embed... NPR stories on 80 years after Scopes, quoting...Ken Miller! www.npr.org/series/47265...

100 years ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial began! Here's an essay by Glenn Branch of NCSE about how it was almost scooped... pandasthumb.org/archives/202...

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

I'm not saying Trump is an agent for the Chinese come to raze US scientific and technical expertise to the ground. I'm just saying that if you can't identify a *difference* in the *impact* of his policies if he *were*, that's a tad bit of an issue.

Posted a nice picture of an eastern rat snake by Al Denelsbeck -- honorable mention from an earlier photography contest on Panda's Thumb, www.pandasthumb.org. Mr. Denelsbeck's website is wading-in.net.

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Mind-boggling story. This reporter visits an off-the-grid Mennonite commnity in Texas, and more-or-less stumbles on the dad of the girl who was killed by measles in Texas. Sees her open-casket body in the church. She was 6. No words. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

x.com/Atul_Gawande... [On February 26] Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. And include FENTANYL checking. Among them: 1. All malaria ...

This just in. What now? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Congratulations to North Dakota, where the state senate (narrowly) defeated a bill that would have added "intelligent design" to the state science standards!

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

You first.

It was nice to see a thorough discussion of a paper I coauthored with Jon D. Miller in Undark's "The Uncertain Resiliency of Public Trust in Science"!

Cruel, destructive but presumably that’s the point. “Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

To Hell With Your Hatred, Mr. Trump open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

A treasure trove of a🧵about interacting with NSF from a true hero in @jeremykoster.bsky.social 🙏🏾

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

Dark Pence is back.

it's absolutely wild to shitpost about yourself being a king of a country whose entire foundational story of itself is centered on overthrowing the last person who deigned to call himself king on these shores

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

This is an excellent resource for teaching and learning about the Scopes Trial. PBS Learning Media newsreel - mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/evo... #ScopesSunday

The Great Recession happened in 2008 because Congress defunded the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993. That threw physics grad student out on the street where they got jobs in finance and invented new kinds of financial derivatives that eventually produced Enron and global financial collapse.

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

“I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday. “I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”

Omg wow...

The battle lines are being drawn: Not left vs. right but MAGA vs. people with even an ounce of integrity.

1000s of #clergy just released a statement explaining the importance of #diversity #science #religion #truth & #inclusion. Together we need to push back on actions placing all of this, and us, under attack. Please read the statement and share it widely. Join us at The Clergy Letter Project.

🌟 @revbatgirl.bsky.social (AAAS DoSER director) explores how #ScienceCommunication enhances public understanding of #evolution. Join her at the #ScopesSymposium! "Science, Ethics, and Religion" 📅 July 13, 2025 | @ncse.bsky.social 🔗 loom.ly/KTSAQ6U

Why didnt PhRMA and BIO and the AMA and AARP go to war to stop RFK? Because fucking Dem leaders said inflation was the number one issue, not fascism or worm-addled antivaxxers. Why didn’t a single Dem Senator object to unanimous consent and slow the nomination? Fucking useless Dem leadership.