Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

A much-needed joint effort from five labs to see which behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice are reliable, and which may be spurious 🐁🍄 @theborislab.bsky.social @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social @indigenerd.bsky.social Vikaas Sohal and Stephan Lammel 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very thankful to @sandiegouniontribune.com for covering the termination of our wastewater surveillance in San Diego. If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...

Want to Nanopore sequence complex nucleotide populations accurately, at low cost, with QC standards, using a plug-and-play informatics GUI, where you can PCR observed sequences out from your sample and not synthesize them? See our new pre-print! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Within a week, I was already experiencing the benefits of intermittent working. My bloodshot eyes faded from red to dark pink, and my back hunch started to unfurl. I found myself forming new thoughts that had nothing to do with performing wage labor."

More from Peter Marks on RFK Jr and the FDA This extends beyond anti-vax to unproven use of stem cells Gift link www.wsj.com/health/healt...

"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...

GPCR allosterism, a popular #ASPET2025 session chaired by @laurenslosky.bsky.social & Laura Wingler.

Signal is a great privacy tool, but it isn’t magic. And even if you’re not discussing war plans in your group chat, it’s a good idea to know the limits of encryption. Read our piece on what Signal can—and can’t—do for you here: www.wired.com/story/encryp...

Review: Ripoll, von Zastrow and @emilyblythe.bsky.social discuss the evolving understanding of cellular #GPCR signaling, highlighting recent advances and noting caveats and open questions. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellSignaling #Physiology

That’s right, I’m the worst kind of super villain in this country… I’m a *checks notes* NIH trainee 😂

The job of Democrats is so clear right now: It's to do everything possible in the next 48 hours to keep the Atlantic story front-burner and make people understand the issues and the stakes. It couldn't be a simpler test of who gets it and who doesn't.

New preprint, very proud of this one www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

This is what breaks my heart. These young people who are so eager and full of promise and who are the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, scientists inventors, teachers. #Trump and #Musk have destroyed it all. www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

The publicly tweeted flights, a state secret. War plans, shared by text!

The “state secrets” doctrine applies to things that are generally more sensitive than *classified* information. And here, the government hasn’t alleged any of this is classified. In fact, it involves conduct that the government itself splashed across the media in an orchestrated PR campaign!

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

This is a disaster and its happening right now. Having spoken with some folks in Congress, this is a message they have not received--they are still back in Indirects and USAID (also important, BTW). Call Congress today unless you want ot lose colleagues one by one till all are gone

My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.

ACCOUNTABILITY IS BACK

I honestly cannot express how awesome it is that the DoD was putting out these statements at the literal exact same time that the Secretary of Defense was negligently transmitting classified information on an unsecure platform to a journalist. It's just utterly amazing. What a time to be alive.

Me in the national security team group chat

I’m curious if there are any scientific journals that are running special issues or pieces from scientists who are losing their funding or being fired. It needs to go down on the permanent record for the people who come after us.

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

So the Trump administration’s argument is that this dude, not a court, should have the final say on who ends up in an El Salvadoran prison. Does that make you feel safer in America?

“It really is quite chilling,” one of the scientists said. “They are controlling information, causing chaos, disrupting everyone, keeping us off-balance.” “Whatever people are reading in newspapers, it’s 10 times worse,” the scientist added. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

Look at this ad. Republican billionaires are literally running ads on Twitter about how Trump is not killing cancer research, because they're scared Americans will find Trump is killing cancer research — and cancer treatment. h/t @jimsaksa.com

ATTENTION If anyone has any experience with appealing terminated grants (either the process or successful strategies 😀), please DM me. THANK YOU!

Modern science is international. Travel is essential for training & collaboration, but the US is not reliably safe for many of us. We all have ways to confront the threat, even if leadership is failing us. More on that + Dept of Ed in this week's debrief buttondown.com/liminalcreat... (1/5)

As an immigration lawyer who also teaches professional ethics, I would say, in a technical sense, 🤭

Lewelyn Dixon,64, a permanent resident with a valid Green Card since 1975,was detained by ICE. She immigrated from the Philippines at age 14 & works as a laboratory technician at the Univ. of Washington.The family has not received any information from ICE regarding the reasons behind her detention.

One of the best higher ed takes I've heard recently is to make tuition $X% of the students N years of employment after graduation. Incentivizes many aspects I think are important in student training.

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

Don't get me wrong - if someone wants to recruit me i'm all ears and ready to listen to the pitch - If anyone's listening I'm partial to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, or Germany :) But i'm not counting on it....

There will be individual US scientists moving to various countries of course. But there are too many scientists (even just focusing on the top tier) by at least an order of magnitude (probably 2 orders) to be absorbed I enjoy dreaming abt moving but we need to take a stand & fight this here and now

Priestley Medal address 2025: A random (mostly) uphill walk A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner Frances H. Arnold. cen.acs.org/people/award...

I need all these so-called journalists to stop inventing their own version of history when it comes to 2020-2021. No one in science or medicine pretended to know things we could not have possibly known. We did the best we could, and public health guidance changed as new information became +

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

nothing says "America" quite like asking for people's trust to get their money -- and then betraying them.

Mike Lee, man. What’s it like having no self respect or shame?

J Med Chem is on 🔥 with the editorials lately, and I highly recommend giving this one a read. Understanding free drug principles is the gateway to all of pharmacology, and is all too often mangled and misapplied by drug discovery practitioners.

I can’t compete with this

The way to ensure that people face punishment for this in the future is to convert the US capital into a Tesla dealership.

The White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.

Happening NOW: Detroiters and Michiganders are rising up—rallying against the Trump regime, standing shoulder to shoulder with our Canadian neighbors in resistance. This isn’t just a protest. It’s a rejection of authoritarianism, billionaire tyranny, and the MAGA war on workers, democracy, & truth.

" @aoc.bsky.social & @sanders.senate.gov are exactly what the party needs right now. They're demonstrating the kind of fighting spirit woefully lost in the party’s leadership. The sort of “fuck around & find out” attitude voters across the country are craving" andyostroy.substack.com/p/why-i-love...

Grads and postdocs: If you are asked to sign a loyalty oath, do not sign it If your PI signals that they may sign a loyalty oath, withhold your labor

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...