Maybe because if the billionaires and venture capitalists who fund these vanity projects paid their fair share in taxes we could have the robustly funded public research enterprise the country needs?

Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.

And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!

That’s a pre-pre-presidential campaign speech. Only one pre left!

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

So today is a dub right?

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Evening out!

"We are pleased to inform you that your Article "A disrupted compartment boundary underlies abnormal cardiac patterning and congenital heart defects" has now been accepted for publication"....... coming soon! But in the meantime see updated preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

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Wonderful! And thank you for your shoutout to our more modest study within our means. 😍

the ceo of blue sky, jay, is awfully quiet right now. it is as if something unfortunate has befallen blue jays everywhere

That was the greatest baseball game I’ve ever seen.

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

This World Series is the hottest club in New York. It has *everything*

My son and I just now

Saturday night combo

Toronto is Chicago rotated 90 degrees clockwise

“It was a sky of lead, and she had just left me with a mystery wrapped in a riddle in a Valentino bag. It’s going to be a tough nut to crack…. Unless….” (read in Rorschach voice)

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs Editorial @nature.com this week And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/d41...

Interesting to see new papers connecting Pol II stalling to heterochromatin formation. www.cell.com/molecular-ce... Reminiscent of our work in S. pombe: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Dear FBS salesperson. Yes we do cell culture! Well done looking at our papers. I did see your email. And the reminder. And the one - so clever - where you start with “I’ve emailed you x times already”… guilt trip works all the time! Oh am I the right person in purchasing? Keep sending and find out

I can’t read the name Bovino without thinking it’s a particle in the standard model that means “little cow”

extraordinarily deep investigation of the human fetal heart with spatial and single cell approaches. With a comment by postdoc Lisa Iwamoto-Stohl and I. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Damn. My favourite jazz drummer. Was just listening to him accompany Keith Jarrett and Gary Peacock on Always Let me Go www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

Anyone who says humility and kindness are unnecessary traits one should carry as part of their personhood is a bad faith actor. Full stop. Be a pillar of your community. Serve with kindness. Always.

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Zohran Mamdani's promises of free busses might sound great, but I live in Albuquerque NM where city busses have been free for five years and I'm here to tell you the truth. This is what every bus in my city looks like now. Think carefully about your choice this November.

MIT Technology Review article about our research on human embryo models in this day & age. I didn't agree to interview because what i find as over-sensational writing style & i disagree with several things.. BUT Antonio managed to put together an interesting mix of events and ideas worth reading.

Last night at SFJazz: Branford Marsalis Quarter. That was tremendous!

Dr. Karel Svoboda from the @alleninstitute.org and Dr. Jay Shendure ( @jshendure.bsky.social ) from @uwmedicine.bsky.social have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine ( @nam.edu )! Congratulations to both researchers on this prestigious honor: https://bit.ly/3JqLBg3

Super cool and important new work in gene dysregulation by HMGN1 as a mechanism for heart defects #CHD in Down Syndrome. From my @gladstoneinst.bsky.social colleagues led by @sanjeevranade.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

JAYS!!!!! 🇨🇦

A true World Series—the U.S. and Canada, the two countries in the world

Strapped to a Meta Exsanguination Slab for my 16hr shift, I ask “how many more litres to earn the Bali vacation?” I feel the opioid dose increase. “You already went,” the AI assures me. “Look how much fun you had.” My ocular implants show a photo of me on a beach. “Oh yeah,” I reply, drifting off.

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...

also who dresses like that other than Belmondo cosplay

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

I'll never understand the chest thumping Canadian govt/funders/uni do over bribing scientists to move here DESPITE the funding environment while foregoing every opportunity to make it a funding environment that attracts people in the first place. Truly embarassing.

What a headline, and lede: "When detectives from the Santa Rosa Police Department arrived at a house in Lake County, Calif., on Monday, they discovered what looked like a Lego crime scene." free gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

(tomorrow) wow people really dislike the sacramento kings

Compared to other publishers, The Company of Biologists is small fry with fewer than 70 staff supporting 5 journals from a single office. But, for over 100 years now, it’s punched above its weight in innovation, prestige and community support.

A Friday timeline cleanser 🇨🇦

Damn. What a guy, such an influence for generations

I remain adamant that the most effective form of birth control are Uggs

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped