New Sequence Read Archive standards, you have until next year to start uploading files with (checks notes) data in them ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2026/06/29/s...

Just noticed Positron uses the Elastic License, and using MIT for some of the heavy components seems like a thoughtful approach. It would be interesting to get a legal perspective on how shops like Posit (and Elastic!) are balancing OSS with keeping the lights on positron.posit.co/licensing.html

He kept coming back, repeatedly (in the way AI often loops) to this idea of AI (specifically Claude) representing "a position without an address", and it became increasingly clear to me that there was some odd mystification happening. Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.

🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource

Shared memory for R objects. This will make bioinformatics work so, so much faster. If you have a script that uses multiple threads but is limited by the amount of memory required for each thread, this might be just a drop-in replacement that opens up every core opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

This could be a game changer!! Diarrhea is global health's least sexy challenge, but it remains a top killer of children. E.coli is present in 98% of water sources in Guatemala, for example, and systematic water purification is incredibly challenging for low-resourced contexts.

OMB has posted the full-year apportionments for NIH. openomb.org/file/11511545 I believe this means that NIH now has the spending authority to fund grants! There may be nuances and I will be tracking these as best I can.

As ProPublica journalists, we share a common purpose with inspectors general: to hold our government accountable by identifying waste, fraud and abuse. If you work in or have recently left the office of an inspector general, we want to hear from you.

(unless you work on climate change or racial disparities or LGBTQ health or…)

“The leftover money from those terminations went to the US Treasury, not back to NIH.”

I don't have any insight into what the actual story is with the change to NIH data management plan requirements, but this clarification sounds like "We asked for lots of details, turns out we don't care" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I was just talking about this the other day, 404 Media has been doing an incredible job laying out the threats posed by data brokers www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

Quick paper highlights a fun twist on methods transparency and reporting—even thorough descriptions may be interpretable only to humans. Interesting to consider using standardized syntax ("n=") for LLMs rather than older "semantic web" techniques www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled

"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...

Google's browser is now cutting off its own ads for eating up too many resources

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

New research from @uchicagobsd.bsky.social shows that microbes in breast milk actually populate the infant gut, laying the foundation for a healthy microbiome. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/microbe... #ScienceNews #Microbiome #GutHealth

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.

The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.

Really sick victim-blaming. Sick, sick shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

This is the best piece I’ve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical “When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”

I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Absolutely unconscionable: Dr Prasad won't share details, data, evidence, or proof of causality. We just have Dr Tracy Beth Høeg's vibes - that's the assessment. AND: "FDA vaccine staff disagreed with the assessment that the reported deaths were caused by vaccines" endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...

48 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.

The former oil executive/DOE official who held the all-staff meeting announcing the change repeatedly told the scientists who work on clean energy that she "hates" clean energy.

Read through this and think about how absolutely unimaginable a message like this would have been just 13 months ago. The suppression of US academic liberty has been accepted and normalized instantly. The federal government is in full control of what thoughts and values are allowed in lecture halls

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

Also, here’s an accessible video intro:

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Prasad and Hoeg are censoring studies showing the covid vaccine is safe. More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...

Looks like @moderation.bsky.app automatically mutes "rude" content? What an embarrassingly infantalizing thing for a social media platform to do

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

If you're wondering how things have been going since the CDC shooting, someone bombed a friend's workplace at Harvard yesterday and, if you were going off the discourse on Bluesky, you would honestly never know it happened www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

The Python Software Foundation won a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation. Turned it down because required to affirm that we "will not... operate any programs that advance or promote DEI" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...