Alan R Kay
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Neurobiologist, osmo-electro-diffusion & other stuff. Views are my own.
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Indivisible Iowa Johnson County
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Armistice Day Observance Tuesday 11th November 2025, Iowa City Veterans for Peace, chapter #161
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Indivisible Iowa Johnson County
4 days ago
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:
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Indivisible Iowa Johnson County
6 days ago
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...
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No Kings! Just Neighbors! Fill-A-Truck Food Drive · Mobilize
🛻 No Kings, Just Neighbors: Fill-A-Truck Food Drive 📅 Saturday, November 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM 📍 Downtown Iowa City (Exact Location TBA) After the powerful energy of our No Kings Rally, it’s time to ...
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/864570/
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Walker Bragman
7 days ago
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.
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NIH Director Accepts Award From Anti-Vax Dark Money Group Founded By Accused Sexual Harasser
Jay Bhattacharya reunited with his old ally Jeffrey Tucker weeks after the political operative was revealed to have faced a sexual harassment scandal.
https://www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-director-accepts-award-from-anti
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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...
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Marthe Gautier, 96, Dies; Had Key Role in Down Syndrome Breakthrough
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/health/marthe-gautier-dead.html
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Thanks - perfect for my animal physiology class
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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...
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Can a Start-Up Make Computer Chips Cheaper Than the Industry’s Giants?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/technology/can-a-start-up-make-computer-chips-cheaper-than-the-industrys-giants.html
14 days ago
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This is super relevant to all US academics - it's on Today!
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Joachim Goedhart
17 days ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nanosensors for real-time intracellular analytics - Nature Nanotechnology
This Review provides insights into nanosensor technologies for monitoring cellular biomarkers, proposing a spatial framework to clarify their distinct advantages, challenges and performance for high-r...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-025-02032-w
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butterflygirl24
19 days ago
I want to go to Canada. Love the videos Canada is making. Y’all saw the one w Reagan narrating the video?
#canada
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Indivisible Iowa Johnson County
18 days ago
​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...
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Talking With Erica Chenoweth
Civil resistance: Does it work, and when?
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-erica-chenoweth
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Alan R Kay
Indivisible Iowa Johnson County
21 days ago
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...
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Christoph Niemann
22 days ago
New Cover for The
@newyorker.com
For more go to
www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...
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Seth Tomchik
25 days ago
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
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Indivisible Iowa Johnson County
25 days ago
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
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Jeremy Berg
26 days ago
Happy "No Kings" Day! I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.
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Carolyn Bertozzi
26 days ago
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.
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Indivisible Iowa Johnson County
26 days ago
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/...
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NO KINGS!! NO COVER!! IOWA CITY! · Indivisible
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this cou...
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/839890/
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Stand Up for Science!
28 days ago
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
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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-...
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Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-quiet-from-the-scientific?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=492324&post_id=175635815&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=fedlt&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Indivisible Iowa Johnson County
about 1 month ago
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
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The Fake History Hunter
about 1 month ago
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Joshua J. Friedman
about 1 month ago
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
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John Tuthill
about 1 month ago
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...
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Trump v. Tylenol. Plus, How Charlie Kirk Became a Martyr for the Christian Right. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
President Trump has declared that Tylenol should not be used during pregnancy. On this week’s On the Media, how funding cuts and disputed claims linking the drug to autism have sent s...
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/trump-v-tylenol-plus-how-charlie-kirk-became-a-martyr-for-the-christian-right
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Jeremy Berg
about 2 months ago
All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available...
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
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Jeremy Berg
about 2 months ago
Now with comments... Lots of comments (A long thread) 1/n
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Ed Belongia MD
about 2 months ago
"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
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Stand Up for Science!
about 2 months ago
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...
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WATCH LIVE: Former CDC head Monarez testifies on agency upheaval under RFK Jr.
Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez will tell senators that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressured her to endorse new vaccine recommendations before seein...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/watch-live-former-cdc-head-monarez-testifies-on-agency-upheaval-under-rfk-jr
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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
2 months ago
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
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#Lasker2025
#LaskerLaureate
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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...
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/universities-science-trump-china.html?smid=bs-share
2 months ago
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Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi
3 months ago
🚩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! đź§ đź’§
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Advection versus diffusion in brain ventricular transport - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is integral to brain function. CSF provides mechanical support for the brain and helps distribute nutrients, neurotransmitters and metabolites throughout the central nervous ...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12987-025-00692-3
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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...
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Macromolecular condensation is unlikely to buffer intracellular osmolality
https://biophysicscolab.org/articles/15102v4
3 months ago
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Kraut
3 months ago
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"
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Alt NIH Bluesky đź§Ş
3 months ago
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
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flymuscles
3 months ago
Total disaster for the
#drosophila
community if flybase disappears
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Carl Zimmer
3 months ago
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...
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How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?
Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/nih-funding-whiplash/683773/
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Jeremy Berg
3 months ago
On the Hopium Chronicles with
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/fighting-t...
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Fighting Trump's War On Science With Colette Delawalla and Dr. Jeremy Berg
The battle to preserve our global scientific and academic leadership is among our most important
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/fighting-trumps-war-on-science-with
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Barok Befok
3 months ago
Rage Against the Regime Rally Denver, 2nd August 2025 - Imagine being afraid of diversity buy not dictatorship
@50501colorado.bsky.social
@solidaritywarrior.bsky.social
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Bruce Taylor
6 months ago
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
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Laura Helmuth
4 months ago
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)
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Barok Befok
4 months ago
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"
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
4 months ago
Russell Vought's daughter has cystic fibrosis. Without NIH research she would be dead.
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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...
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CSF Production by the Choroid Plexus Epithelium
YouTube video by American Physiological Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZLgixAua0
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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...
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CSF Production by the Choroid Plexus Epithelium
YouTube video by American Physiological Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZLgixAua0
4 months ago
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Jeremy Berg
4 months ago
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...
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Support the NASA Voyager Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Your solidarity with the NASA heroes helps their fight to preserve NASA's vital missions.
https://www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager-declaration
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
4 months ago
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...
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Our Daughter Was Born With Cystic Fibrosis. We Can’t Imagine Life Without Her.
When we look at Porter we don’t see a statistic and we don’t see cystic fibrosis – we see a bundle of joy who has blessed our lives tremendously.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2014/07/30/daughter-born-cystic-fibrosis-cant-imagine-life-without/
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Ardem Patapoutian
4 months ago
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 🧪
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John Tuthill
4 months ago
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...
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Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/fear-and-loathing-on-study-section-reviewing-grant-proposals-while-the-system-is-burning/
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