Alex Pretti memorial bike ride. Tucson, AZ

Maybe a great holiday gift for your science-interested friends!

Friendly Nick's Butcher (Fort Collins CO), my brother’s shop, will be offering free meat (beef, pork, chicken, eggs) to anyone who is losing their SNAP benefits or furloughed/working without pay. All free, just show your EBT or Federal ID card. Please share! #foco #snap #shutdown

Action you can do today: call members of US house leadership and insist that they seat our elected, certified Tucson House rep Adelita Grijalva. Say you are calling for your friends in Tucson who do not currently have representation (me). Steve Scalise (house maj leader) Tom Emmer (house whip).

🧪🧠👩‍🔬💪 #nokings #tucson #swearinadelita

I agree.

This is my district. We elected Adelita by a huge margin. We want representation NOW.

🧪🧠👩‍🔬https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

And this is why we need to keep going with corporate pressure. Next up: groundavelo.org. #rightsmatter

🧪🧠👩‍🔬 Hey, check it out! New research from our lab with lots of collaborators! We found a new genetic cause of common neurodevelopmental syndromes (thin corpus callosum, developmental delay and seizures) and explain why they happen!

🧠🧪👩‍🔬This is the answer to the new NIH public access policy. Let’s see if the big conglomerate publishers follow suit.

🧪👩‍🔬🐭New work from my PhD students!

Defending US democracy: the role of scientists @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rallies this weekend around the country to support Texas Dems and oppose the redistricting efforts! Info here: www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...

🪰🧪 Model organism databases provide the raw materials for our understanding of evolution. Sequences on these databases help human databases predict how bad a mutation might be, based on its conservation. This is how platforms like FlyBase contribute to modern medicine. Terrible news.

🧠🧪 My husband and I are University of California alumni (UC Berkeley and UCSF, respectively). The UC system, specifically UCLA, is under attack and needs your support now. Read, sign, and share: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

🧪🤬🤬 We are in deep doodoo when the next pandemic hits.

Meet the 2025 ASCB Award Winners—trailblazing scientists honored for research, mentoring, education, and innovation. Celebrate excellence across all career stages in cell biology. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

🧪🧠 Wow!! Great job and congrats to the whole team! I can’t wait to dig in to this resource!

🧠🧪👩‍🔬In the world of “why bother getting a college degree” or “can’t I just ask AI to do my homework,” here is a powerful rebuttal. Our educational research shows that students get huge benefits from doing long-term hands-on research in teams. science.arizona.edu/news/neurosc...

Beautiful illustration by @drrabbithole.bsky.social !

Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kim is spot on. She says: “When women, primarily Black women and queer women, demand pay equity in a league that is finally getting mainstream attention? Suddenly, it’s “how dare you.””

A three-judge First Circuit panel has unanimously denied the Trump administration's request to pause the judgment that restored hundreds of NIH grants.

These are people who have so much respect from the US military, and we treat them like this??

🧪👩‍🔬🧠 I attended my 25th college reunion at Harvard this weekend. It was the biggest reunion attendance ever recorded. 💪 President Alan Garber got standing ovations from the 9000 of us in the crowd before even being introduced. So proud of my alma mater, and wearing my Harvard swag proudly!

“HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said the report has been updated to correct "minor citation and formatting errors."” How are we supposed to take these people seriously about their interest in “the science” when they make up citations and erroneous findings and call those formatting errors?

🧪👩‍🔬🧠 Loved my visit to UC Irvine!

🧠👩‍🔬🧪 Great new resources for targeting brain and spinal cord cell populations!

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

I lived in Missouri and I was the mom with the sick kid occasionally. Parents need sick leave not just for themselves. Also, If there is a lesson from Covid-times, it is that staying home when sick is good practice. The below story shows why local and statewide elections matter! 🧠👩‍🔬🧪

Breaking: NSF will pause the 15% indirect cost cap until June 13 in order to proceed to a summary judgment, thereby avoiding a preliminary hearing. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70143...

🚨🚨🚨🚨 #SaveNSF #NSFfunded Via savensf

Scientific information does not flow into policy the way most scientists think. Twenty years after her jarring first day as a fisheries-biologist-turned-Senate-staffer, @sheril.bsky.social lays out what every scientist hoping to influence policy on the Hill needs to know: issues.org/information-...

🧠👩‍🔬🧪 Happy Mother’s Day @barbchase.bsky.social !

🧠🧪👩‍🔬This is the truth. Please make calls tomorrow to stand up for science. And call again Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday…

🧪🧠👩‍🔬 Wow. This sounds terrible. The staff at NSF is top notch and this re-org sounds totally chaotic.

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🧠🧪👩‍🔬🪰 Outstanding!

Wasn’t expecting that….love it 🔥….the kids are alright!

🧪👩‍🔬🧠 I don’t know the cartoonist (and will credit when I know!) But this is exactly how I feel these days.

Are you mad when you see commenters asking why the gov gives money to universities? Most people simply don't understand how the research ecosystem works. You can help by explaining it to the people in your hometown! A chance for some meaningful #SciComm a la @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: [email protected] and [email protected] youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

If only the person destroying Head Start could have a chat with the person destroying Harvard...

Thank you to my alma mater for standing up. More will certainly follow your lead.

2) organize an action on your campus or in your dept - even just an informal conversation among those who want to talk about what's happening 3) join @aaup.bsky.social or form a chapter if you don't have one; participate in the Day of Action for Higher Ed at www.aaup.org/event/nation... 4) cont.

Chanting right along with them!