This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

Doom scrolling on a Saturday night? Take a break and watch the Bad Bunny concert live from PR on Amazon Prime: www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...

Vaccination and health mural by Diego Rivera, 1932, painted to highlight how science helped fight disease (Detroit Institute of Art)

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

A federal judge on Friday threw out President Trump’s defamation suit against The New York Times four days after it was filed, calling the complaint “improper and impermissible” in its present form. nyti.ms/4gyVUe3

The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!. www.science.org/content/arti...

The sad truth is that vaccines and vaccination are a feedback loop. We take them for granted because they work well for the most part. Then we take them away because of concerns or downright quackery. Then the diseases come roaring back, making vaccines cool again. In the interim, people die.

🍻🍾🎉 Side note: Gotta hand it to the student reporters at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social. They’ve been all over this stuff for months.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

La libertad de expresión pierde su sentido cuando se desconecta de la posibilidad de ser escuchado Este es un artículo desgarrador de @alondra.bsky.social sobre la regresión del progreso científico y por qué renuncia a la NSF y la #BibliotecadelCongreso The LibraryofCongress time.com/7285045/resi...

Well, what do Germans know about creeping fascism anyway?

It's the white whale of neuroscience - completely mapping the brain and its activity. Forrest Collman sat down with @samanthayammine.com from the Curiosity Weekly podcast and shared how we are taking on this "impossible" task and the surprising role YouTube videos play. 🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek

Robert Redford (RIP) survived a childhood bout of polio though bedridden for 2 weeks In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Institute—honoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn

Wow. Live your life in such a way that your shitty policies don't make the health insurance companies look like the good guys.

Seconded. For those of us watching closely, it's a massive and impressive effort in the face of strong headwinds.

“In 1905, the Supreme Court upheld the right to mandate vaccination for public safety. None of that history earned a mention when Joseph A. Ladapo, the Florida surgeon general, announced last week that Florida would end vaccine mandates.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

You look Latino. You speak Spanish. You work hard. That’s now probable cause. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

This year's Lasker Awards went to scientists who studied the wiring diagram of life, a new state of biological matter, and a potent treatment for cystic fibrosis. Here's my story with Gina Kolata. Gift link: nyti.ms/4mZlH1F

Joan Steitz was awarded the 2018 Special Achievement #LaskerAward for her pioneering discoveries in RNA biology, and her mentorship & support of #WomeninSTEM. 🧪 laskerfoundation.org/winners/lead... laskerfoundation.org/joan-steitz-... Find out who will be recognized on September 11th! #Lasker2025

Important & hilarious deconstruction of Trump & the authoritarian far right's absurdly dangerous attacks on American higher education featuring a cameo from Michael Thaddeus, acting president of @aaupcu.bsky.social. #DefendHigherEd #Academicsky

David Baltimore, giant of molecular biology, has died.

Well deserved! We have benefited so much from the excellent work spearheaded by her lab, from connectomics to new concepts of synaptic assembly, communication and computations

Please help me to celebrate Mei Zhen, an innovator and tremendous collaborator, named to the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science on September 4, 2025

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

Donald Trump le quitó financiamiento del gobierno federal a un consorcio de 16 universidades y hospitales que conduce investigaciones sobre cáncer cerebral en niños www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

En unos minutos (a las 9 am) estaré conversando con Rosanna Cerezo por @radioisla.tv sobre avances científicos en neurociencia, investigaciones de mi laboratorio y el estado de las ciencias en EEUU y Puerto Rico

CDC staff held a “clap-out” on Thursday to honor three of the agency’s high-ranking officials, who resigned in protest after President Trump fired the director, Susan Monarez. nyti.ms/4oSxakJ

After six months of turmoil, the loss of the new director and a round of high-profile resignations marks a new low at the CDC (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Gaza is officially in a famine as Israel starves 2 million people to death. This level of suffering is completely unimaginable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/w...

“Historically the best & brightest in the world came to the US to study. Now under Trump’s destructive policies, the best & brightest are fleeing the country. We need to reverse course & reclaim the values that made this country a beacon of research & free inquiry.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

A legend. Was and am still inspired by his work. Sad to hear this.

“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “We have blood on our hands.”

"A double standard in how scholarly productivity is rewarded is observed, with below-average h-indexes being judged more harshly for under-represented minorities (URM) faculty than for non-URM faculty. This relationship is amplified for faculty with intersectional backgrounds, especially URM women"

I fear there is deep truth here.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “At no other time in modern history has a country so thoroughly turned its back on its core national strengths,” Garrett Graff‬ writes in a guest essay. “The very elements that made the Manhattan Project such a success are today under assault.”

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a plant known as Etuberosum.

La NSF reconoce a los estudiantes Gustavo A. Porrata Caraballo y Alana del Coral López del Centro Molecular-UPR por su destacado trabajo en investigación. dialogo.upr.edu/fundacion-de...

Researchers in Florida (and nationwide) face significant disruption and uncertainty due to millions stripped from universities by the Trump administration. “When you try to control what experts in scientific fields are researching, then you undermine the entire scientific enterprise.”

Editorial | "La ciencia se está suicidando en Estados Unidos. Es urgente salvarla" social.elpais.com/4m_lb7

“They have dropped a bomb on themselves.” -Katalin Kariko, the Nobel laureate whose work led to the development of the Covid mRNA vaccine. The majority of the clinical trials have already moved to China. "China has already taken over. Scientists will move." 🧪 www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Research shows mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...

There are 1000 subtle differences in the conditions and ways the same experiment can be done that one can and should reasonably assume don't matter, but some of them might. Even if you could catalog them all, you'd never do an experiment, let alone a replication.

‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones

Me three months ago: