Armistice Day Observance Tuesday 11th November 2025, Iowa City Veterans for Peace, chapter #161

Sunday Night Community Event “Growing Up in the Shadow of Jim Crow and the Light of the Civil Rights Movement” 📅 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025 ⏰ Time: 6:30-8pm 📍 Location: Zoom (online) - posted by Iowa City Catholic Worker ✅ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

No Kings, Just Neighbors: Fill-A-Truck Food Drive Saturday, Nov 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM Downtown Iowa City Join us for a day of music, food, & community as we come together to fill a truck with groceries & personal care items for families in need. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

NEW: The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, accepted an award over the weekend from an old ally who, just weeks earlier, had been the subject of a Politico story revealing how he’d left his previous job amid sexual harassment allegations.

The work of Marthe Gautier should be more widely known. She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the cause of Downs syndrome. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...

Thanks - perfect for my animal physiology class

Curious to hear from semiconductor chip boffins if this has any legs. The work is being supported by Peter Thiel, who has claimed that the rational approach to solving problems has failed, so why not try the opposite of that, the irrational. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...

This is super relevant to all US academics - it's on Today!

I want to go to Canada. Love the videos Canada is making. Y’all saw the one w Reagan narrating the video? #canada

​Essential viewing for all peaceful civil resistance warriors Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social‬ talking to Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Local Governments: Pass the Due Process & Safety Resolution Now! This simple, common-sense resolution will help protect students, residents, workers, schools, & visitors from harmful ICE raids in our community. Contact your local elected officials today. secure.everyaction.com/38K0P3bF5U6R...

New Cover for The @newyorker.com For more go to www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...

Hyperlapse from the No Kings rally in Iowa City. Our town has a population of about 80,000 and this is a tiny sliver of the march. #nokings

Kudos to this Iowa City protester, who not only elevated the level of discourse, but also provided a source for the quote! "Truthfulness has fallen in desuetude." - Stereolab @iowacityoflit.bsky.social #NoKings

Happy "No Kings" Day! I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

Iowa City we are on for tomorrow! If you have not done so already let us know that you'll be there via this link www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

THIS WEEKEND! Join us for No Kings Day nationwide, across 50 states, in DC and Puerto Rico, and internationally! We're standing up for science and democracy, and in solidarity with fired federal workers. #standupforscience #nokingsday

Great to see Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social writing on Substack - Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...

17 historians, archivists, profs, authors - including a U of Iowa archivist, U.S. Supreme Court historian, and state archaeologist, are suing the State Historical Society of Iowa for haphazardly & without public input deciding to close its Iowa City research facility & archives. - from the Gazette

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

last week i spoke with the NPR show @onthemedia.bsky.social about what it feels like serving on an NIH grant review panel as the Trump administration works to defund and destroy US universities and biomedical research www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

Now with comments... Lots of comments (A long thread) 1/n

"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world." -Drew Weissman

15 MINUTES until former CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies in front of Congress about her firing and turmoil in the agency under RFK Jr. We will be watching LIVE and giving updates and reactions! www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Congratulations to Michael J. Welsh, Jesús (Tito) González, and Paul A. Negulescu, 2025 #LaskerAward winners! – “for their key roles in developing a novel treatment for #cysticfibrosis” 🧪 #Lasker2025 #LaskerLaureate

We need to get up from under our desks and persuade our fellow citizens that the institutions that they have helped create with their tax dollars are incredibly precious and important. Stephen Greenblatt @harvard.edu www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

🚩Publication Alert🚩"Advection vs. Diffusion in Brain Ventricular Transport" by Herlyng at al in collaboration with @utropstegn.bsky.social at @simularesearch.bsky.social and Jebsen Centre for Brain Fluid Research is now published in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS! 🧠💧

Really chuffed to have our paper "Macromolecular condensation is unlikely to buffer intracellular osmolality" published in the premiere edition of Biophysics Colab @scietyhq.bsky.social biophysicscolab.org/articles/151...

I am not even American and my skin is crawling in embarrassment. We have a word in German for when you feel embarrassed on behalf of someone else's embarrassment: "Fremdschämen"

Your tax dollars pay around $7 million per year for Russell Vought’s personal security detail, while he and his friends incite stochastic violence against scientists and the CDC. 1/2

Total disaster for the #drosophila community if flybase disappears

Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate. Story by @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

On the Hopium Chronicles with @cdelawalla.bsky.social www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/fighting-t...

Rage Against the Regime Rally Denver, 2nd August 2025 - Imagine being afraid of diversity buy not dictatorship @50501colorado.bsky.social @solidaritywarrior.bsky.social

An amoeba with teeth. When building its shell, Netzelia corona selects sharp grains of quartz and positions them around its aperture with the tips pointing inward. I took a few closeups, yesterday. #ProtistsonSky #amoebae #peatlands #MEvoSky

The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)

Hope that T​homas Morrell in his libretto for Handel's Theodora got it right about tyrants. #djt #trump "No engine can a tyrant find, To storm the truth-supported mind"

Russell Vought's daughter has cystic fibrosis. Without NIH research she would be dead.

The American Physiological Society Davson, Distinguished Lectureship 2025: Cerebrospinal Fluid Production by the Choroid Plexus Epithelium. Bonnie Blazer-Yost, Indiana University, Indianapolis @apsphysiology.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZL...

The American Physiological Society Davson, Distinguished Lectureship 2025: Cerebrospinal Fluid Production by the Choroid Plexus Epithelium. Bonnie Blazer-Yost, Indiana University, Indianapolis @apsphysiology.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZL...

The Voyager Declaration from courageous NASA staff members was just sent. Please take a look and sign on in support. @standupforscience.bsky.social www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...

Without this agency, that Vought would like to utterly destroy, Vought's own daughter, who has cystic fibrosis, would likely not have the therapeutics that she requires to stay alive. www.dailysignal.com/2014/07/30/d...

Many warned me about the risks of speaking up publicly for science. I’m here to say I’ve faced no retaliation. On the contrary, I’ve received support, appreciation, and even some positive outcomes. Do what you can to save 🧪

i wrote an essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...