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Carl Zimmer
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The
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Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link:
nyti.ms/4jhpw14
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Julie Johnston
2 months ago
First preprint as a professor and it’s… not wastewater but bees?!?!?? Lovely collab with my colleague Dr. Jennifer VanWyk. the middle authors are all the undergrads who took my bioinformatics course last spring and analyzed novel data
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hot and Bothered, Bees’ Gut Microbiome Shifts Under Thermal Stress and Pathogen Infection.
Understanding bumble bee gut health is imperative as these vital pollinators are subjected to pathogenic infections and thermal stress from climate change. The gut microbiome serves as an indicator fo...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.687019v1
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Bento Bio 🧬
2 months ago
Interested in portable metagenomics for water samples? Here’s a new preprint using Bento Lab + ONT MinION with a quantitative workflow: ⭐5 field & 4 lab methods tested ⭐Results compared to digital PCR ⭐Field workflow comparable to lab performance 🔗 Read here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Quantitative metagenomics using a portable protocol
A field-deployable DNA sequencing approach for quantitative microbial community profiling can enable rapid responses for a range of applications in the water sector – from process control to wastewate...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.684933v1
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Ryan Ziels
3 months ago
I’m very happy this is finally out! Here, we showcase the combination of BONCAT and SIP metaproteomics to uncover rare and active microbes driving anaerobic acetate turnover. We are excited to see what other microbial metabolisms and ecosystems this approach can help to illuminate! 🦠
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Barack Obama
4 months ago
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
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Adam Serwer
4 months ago
The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say.
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Senator Ron Wyden
4 months ago
Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.
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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-kimmel.html
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Barack Obama
4 months ago
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.html
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Barack Obama
4 months ago
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/let-clear-happened-jimmy-kimmel-025000655.html
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Oded Rechavi
4 months ago
Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays
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Falk Hildebrand
4 months ago
How do you long-read sequence metagenomes? I would argue it starts with the right sample storage & DNA extraction, to enable efficient
@nanoporetech.com
/@pacbio.bsky.social sequencing, which we investigated in our new paper:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Massive thanks to Klara for driving this
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If you receive an email like this from this (see screenshot) from an email address like this "ameetpinto6[at]gmail[dot]com"... it's someone trying to impersonate me. PLEASE IGNORE.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
6 months ago
🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary:
appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Draft bill:
appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Science Magazine
6 months ago
The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs.
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Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
https://scim.ag/4nW7XWi
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
7 months ago
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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United Farm Workers
7 months ago
We feed you. They hunt us.
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Chris Murphy
7 months ago
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
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Notorious RBMK
7 months ago
yes i am sure
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jamelle
7 months ago
a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further
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Dan Garisto
7 months ago
BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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when was the last time you tried to open your office with buttons on your car keys and wondered why the door wasn’t opening?
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Senator Scott Wiener
7 months ago
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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Julie Johnston
7 months ago
Protect Trans Scientists. cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social
@jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social
@bfrancescol.bsky.social
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Protect transgender scientists
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady0962
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Prof Gavin Yamey
7 months ago
👏👏👏👏👏
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G Elliott Morris
7 months ago
Our unofficial crowdsourced estimate of yesterday’s protest turnout is rising to 4.2-7 million as we gather more data. At this point potentially the second-largest single day of protest in U.S. history!
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...
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jenna ruddock
7 months ago
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
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James Fallows
7 months ago
This is an insightful and important thread, and connects things we've seen as DC residents over the decades.
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#nokings
in 🇺🇸. Protest safely
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Glen Dsouza
7 months ago
Our paper in
@science.org
👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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kate conger
7 months ago
the US military detained a civilian, who just so happens to be a veteran
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/
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Andrew Quemere
7 months ago
A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in
#Lynn
, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him.
#mapoli
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Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery
A Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him.
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/worker-arrested-by-ice-in-lynn-released-a-day-later-says-he-was-beaten-in-custody/3733701/
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“james adomian”
7 months ago
Daylight violation of the Posse Comitatus Act: the military is forbidden from domestic law enforcement or political repression
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Senator Alex Padilla
7 months ago
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
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Joe Weaver
8 months ago
Me when one of 'my' proteins shows up in Thobela's keynote and
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Caitlin R Proctor
8 months ago
Having fun catching up with
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Senator Patty Murray
7 months ago
Violence is never acceptable—of course, I condemn it. But I've also got news for everyone: the President who pardoned criminals who beat police officers nearly to death DOESN'T care about public safety. Trump just wants more chaos as pretext to further abuse his authority.
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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
7 months ago
This is a big escalation up from the Guard. That Guard has been federalized to handle crowd control and riots before but I cannot think of a single time in modern American history that active duty troops in the full time Armed Forces have been mobilized and deployed against US citizens.
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Rep. Veronica Escobar
7 months ago
"The scene... turned violent AFTER federal immigration authorities used flash-bang grenades and pepper spray on people protesting…" Seems to be a convenient fact many of my Republican colleagues are leaving out in their statements of support for "law and order."
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Dr. Lucky Tran
7 months ago
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win
7 months ago
1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America
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Patton Oswalt
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Kai Ryssdal
7 months ago
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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Rachel Maddow
7 months ago
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html
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Marius Loots
7 months ago
South Africans being genocided...? Start of the 2025 Comrades Marathon. The world does not understand.
#SouthAfrica
#Comrades2025
#Sport
#Live
#Life
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