#mevosky #microsky is there a resource that provides mock library samples, to include as positive controls in sequencing projects? I'm aware of NITE in Japan that provides purified genomic template of individual microbial isolates. Any others, pref in the US?

EnergyStar has been a massive benefit to the country and to everyone who wants useful information for buying an appliance

Heartbreaking truth: At just 1.5°C of #warming (where we already are), 70–90% of #CoralReefs could vanish. At 2.0°C, almost all (>99%) are gone. We’re watching a living wonder cross a #TippingPoint. #MarineEcology 🧪🌍🌐🌊🔥

First time posting on Bluesky! 🥳 We discovered a new pilus family in cyanobacteria. The pilin has a novel protein fold that forms a super-tight double-layer tube. Similar gene clusters exist in a few cyanobacterial orders. A great collaboration with John and others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Any #ArchaeaSky #mevoSky folks know of a publication describing 16S amplicon Illumina sequence of a mock library including archaea? I have this v helpful paper by Schirmer et al, but it's V4 only; hoping for V3-V4 or similar, to test species level taxonomic resolution. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku1341

#Pinks #ProudBlue To those going to #NoKings protest on Saturday, please be safe.

Today's a good day to sign up for the #generalstrike #nokings generalstrikeus.com/strikecard @generalstrikeus.bsky.social

44 experts from 15 countries issued a stark warning about the dangers of crossing an ocean circulation tipping point. I had the honor to present it to the Icelandic 🇮🇸 climate minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson yesterday. #AMOC Full letter with signatories: en.vedur.is/media/ads_in...

Wondering why #altgovs are changing their banners to show support for EPA? EPA civil servants drafted a public Declaration of Dissent to their Administrator, Lee Zeldin, imploring he recommits to protecting Americans people and environment. Read here: www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...

Yesterday, I DM'd people an embarrassing secret about myself if they called Congress about RFK. (It quickly got overwhelming.) Today, I ask you to do the same, but I'm going to make this way wilder: for every 25 call screenshots, I'll post one embarrassing fact on main 5calls.org/issue/center...

Monday is Labor Day -- ask your friends what events are happening in support of #Democracy 💪🇺🇸 #unions #labormovement #workingclass

This looks like a super useful framework. 👀

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

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Important to keep in mind that these are *voluntary* resignations made by people who have been fighting tooth and nail to protect public health from HHS leadership & have ultimately found that impossible. Not a purge – the last choice left to dedicated, incredibly capable public servants.

This is so good: visualizing computer algorithms. staying.fun/en #compsci

#MicroSky #mevoSky

It's like you can see the interaction between ecology and evolution happening right in front of you. 💚🦠🧬 #mevosky #bluesci www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yesterday, SCOTUS sided with Trump to re-terminate hundreds of NIH grants. SCOTUS chose partisan politics over rule of law. It's clear they will roll over for Trump every time. It is up to Congress to protect democracy. Tell them to write protections against terminations into the 2026 budget.

16% loss at NIH 22% loss at NIDA; 22% loss at NIMH, 18% NIA, 17% NIAID. 17% loss at NIAAA, finally answering the question about unusually huge losses of POs causing their funding slowness in the negative.

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“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”

Today, Philadelphia’s transit system SEPTA is cutting service by 20% & eliminating 32 bus routes, since GOP state legislators failed to agree to fund the agency www.washingtonpost.com/transportati... What’s going to happen? A death spiral: Worse service ➡️ fewer riders ➡️ less revenue ➡️ worse service

"In the past, I was content to leave the broader political debate and activism to others... The luxury of disengagement is no longer an option." -- Terrence Tao newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org

Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.

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🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed: Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs. Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

Another great South Park episode, this one about ChatGPT, which absolutely captures the voice of the thing and why it’s dangerous AND appealing

I never met him except through his writing and feel this loss.

Soil nerds and aspirants, check out these cool links from Professor Moorberg, KSU Manhattan. 🌱👀

🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook: It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks. Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.

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📢 We're seeking a postdoc to work on a project funded by HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social at the intersection of bacterial physiology, ecology and evolution. You can find more details about the project, the position, and how to apply here www.dalbellolab.com/hfsp-project! #bacteria #ecosky #MevoSky #microSky

This is going to have a huge impact on consumers in a few months www.rawstory.com/farmers-work...

🚨 Breaking: Louisiana regulators rushed approval of Entergy & Meta’s massive gas-powered data center plan, without protections for ratepayers. “This decision follows a pattern of fast-tracking utility proposals with very little public notice and transparency...” Statement: act.ucsusa.org/4mqkQXe

Missed my Burner Phone 101 workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library? Here’s the companion write-up, with discussion highlights and updated slides: rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone...

It's so easy to turn off the AI for Google search, at least in FireFox browser. 1) Type about:config in the address bar. 2) Accept "entering risk zone". 3) look for browser.ml.chat.enabled. 4) Toggle to 'false'. Open a new tab, run a search, and AI is gone! 😌🌲⛰️🌊 www.hcn.org/issues/57-8/...

even if you think you have to stick to “kitchen table issues”, “he is joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer” is the biggest and most obvious kitchen table issue imaginable and that is quite literally what he’s doing take the wide open layup

Trump doesn't need to cancel the 2026 elections to prevent the opposition from gaining even an iota of power. He can create a chaos of confusion to cast pretextual doubt on the results. The media & opposition has so far largely played along with his clumsy & obvious deployment of pretextuality.

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 sea to shining sea. bsky.app/profile/lata...

Locking lawmakers in the building for refusing to comply with excessive police surveillance orders is beyond autocratic. TEXAS: Call to demand your state reps pressure House leadership to release Rep. Nicole Collier and stop restricting and surveilling lawmakers. 🔥📞🔥 >

Today marks day 1 of public hearings on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding, a 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases threaten public health. Follow along with us👇🧵

I've also been thinking of Lysenko recently, and the history lesson of how pseudoscience in service of a totalitarian regime destroyed tens of millions of lives. Rasmussen makes that comparison sharper by holding Lysenko's pseudoscientific journey up to Bhattacharya's.

What a blow to Antarctic research in the US and all of us in the international Antarctic science community that rely on the logistical and intellectual infrastructure - sending strength to colleagues affected this 🌊