Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗 These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons. https://loom.ly/BwyhReA

How the shutdown relates to autocracy. For the tyrant Congress and Parliament are expendable. I am the only one that matters Trump tells us. We deserve good governance and leaders who care about our welfare.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

While we do not agree on all issues, I want to publicly thank UNC-CH Chancellor Lee Roberts for clearly stating today in Faculty Council that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because it raises irresolvable issues of academic freedom. That was important for faculty & students to hear.

If I were to write a biography of him, it would have the title, “The Negative Space of James Watson”.

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Bluetorial-Jim Watson I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions. What follows is my personal perspective. 1/41

Damn straight--if they want virtually every Democrat in Congress to get primaried, that would be the way forward.

Once again, a court has firmly rejected the President’s militarized vision for America’s future. We celebrate this victory with eyes wide open and firm resolve to see this fight through to the end.

Here we go! www.trumpcancelledmyflight.com

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Andy Bernard ass school foreal. I'd be so ashamed

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Shameful.

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

‼️ Excited to share our new paper out now in @science.org ‼️ We describe a new tetrameric RAD51 paralog complex – XRCC3-RAD51C-RAD51D-XRCC2 – which caps the end of RAD51 filaments. Link: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Thread ⬇️ (1/8)

How much longer is the @royalsociety.org going to look away from the devastating actions of its honoured fellow, Elon Musk? Such moral cowardice.

California Supreme Court Upholds @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Should Consider Hiring Undocumented Students https://bit.ly/3XesjOa #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

Elon Musk Is repsonsible for the deaths of 600,000 human beings and yet is being rewarded by capitalists with 1000 billion dollars bsky.app/profile/newy...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

UC of all institutions, should not be caving in to Stephen Miller's regressive agenda. Encouraging diversity in public post-graduate education is still necessary, alas, and diversity itself is a feature, not a bug—and to hell with thin-skinned white trustees who have everything, yet feel otherwise.

This is really impressive. They invented racism.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

So far this week: Monday: Dick Cheney kicks it Tuesday: 34-yo Muslim becomes mayor of NYC Wednesday: Gorsuch raises grave concerns abt Congress abdicating the power to declare war Thursday: Pelosi announces retirement

Atul Gawande: USAID helped countries shift care from hospitals to nearer home. Health workers with a scale & tape measure detect bad cases earlier. A peanut-paste therapy reversed starvation. Deaths fell from 20% to as little as 1%. It saved 1.2M lives in 2023. But now the gains are being reversed.

The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer? A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

Excited to share our latest work in collaboration with the @edreznik.bsky.social lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, where we describe functionally dominant mitochondrial DNA mutations in patient tumors. So, what is functional dominance in mitochondrial genetics, I hear you ask? rdcu.be/eN1jm

🚨Curious how synthetic fluorophores simplify microscopy? Our review covers applications such as super-resolution microscopy and biosensing. 🎉👩‍🔬Congrats to my first PhD student, Agnese Nicoli, for the fearless deep dive! 🔬 ⚗️ D-CHAB @ethz.ch www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An incredible and prescient analysis by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social of how our situation harkens back to autocrats past ... open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Secretome translation shaped by lysosomes and lunapark-marked ER junctions

In case any billionaires are interested, I could be convinced not to run for mayor for substantially less than $10 million.

If Subway don’t make a ‘felony footlong’ special edition now, they’re really missing a marketing opportunity. ‘Aerodynamic and aromatic - you can smell the mustard and onions’.

Massive night for voting rights & democracy: -California passes Prop 50 -Dems retain majority on PA Supreme Court -Dems win VA gov & increase majority in VA leg -Maine voters reject ballot initiative to require voter ID & restrict absentee voting -KS Republicans drop gerrymandering push

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

OMG. Arena BioWorks, an ambitious biomedical institute backed by billionaires, abruptly shuts down www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a... via @statnews.com

Hello California I just went to vote and it took me 7 minutes roundtrip from my desk to my polling place and back via bicycle. If you haven't voted for Prop 50 yet please go do so, it probably won't take much effort and it matters a lot.

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

California’s special election is TODAY, and the Election Rigging Response Act is on the ballot! Californians have a chance to make their voice heard on mid-decade redistricting in California to offset attempts by conservatives to rig maps in states like Texas, Missouri, and Indiana… (1/2)

As we're remembering that Dick Cheney killed a million Iraqis, remember that the death toll from cutting USAID funding will be still larger than that. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Goodness. Closing beautifully with Vito Marcantonio: “If it be radicalism to believe that our natural resources should be used for the benefit of all, and not for the purpose of enriching just a few, then I plead guilty to the charge.”

Trump just showed his hand and came up with half the money for SNAP. The other half is there. Don't fold. You're gonna get fucked. AGAIN. Anyone who votes to reopen the government now, as the administration is coming apart and eating shit in the press and in the polls is trying to save Trump

Huh, I thought nuclear power would become too cheap to meter.

Unpaid government workers are being fed by World Central Kitchen…let that sink in just how dire things are.