Family night out with @petersagal.bsky.social, @joshgondelman.bsky.social, @faithsalie.bsky.social, Bill Kurtis, and Alonzo Bodden. Farts were measured. Hummus was implicated. Nobody left the same. This is NPR.

@genomenon.com is hiring! 🧬 We have two fully remote (US) roles at the intersection of AI & Genomics: 1️⃣ AI Research Engineer (Graph ML, LLMs) job-boards.greenhouse.io/genomenoninc... 2️⃣ Director of Engineering (Hands-on, Clinical) job-boards.greenhouse.io/genomenoninc... #Genomics #AI #TechJobs

A little over a week until the #JanisStockhouse Tribute Concert — Nov. 29, 6 PM! Catch our organizers on @wfiu.bsky.social's Just You & Me next Wednesday with @davidbrentjohnson.bsky.social. stockhouseconcert.org #HoosierSky #BloomingtonIndiana #BHSNBand #Indiana

@genomenon.com is hiring a fully remote Staff Software Engineer. Come join us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/genomenoninc... 🧬🖥️ #bioinformatics #genomics #variants #remote

A news article about the project I work for.

The Drosophila genetic database FlyBase has lost its nearly $2 million grant. It’s part of the more than $3 billion in federal funding that has been terminated at Harvard University this year. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

For those interested in the status of FlyBase. @flybase.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

The current fundraising link is for EU labs to support FlyBase UK group. Still setting up to collect fees from U.S. and all other labs. Stay tuned. Divided because of recent international firewalls.

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

In memory of all those who have died in service to our country. Thank you to Valhalla Memory Gardens in #Bloomington, IN for allowing me to play today. #TapsAcrossAmerica, #HoosierSky

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

If you want to attend #BOSC2025 but the registration fee is a barrier, consider applying for one of these financial support opportunities. Please note that the deadline for OBF Event Fellowship applications is *April 1*! More info: www.open-bio.org/posts/financ... @openbio.bsky.social

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

The GSA has designated 3 federal properties in Indiana for disposal. Indianapolis: * Major General Emmett J. Bean Federal Center * Minton-Capehart Federal Building New Albany: * Lee H. Hamilton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse #HoosierSky www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2

Another great post by @kkjetelina.bsky.social and company breaking down the important points from the RFK Jr hearings. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-hea...

I have heard from internal sources that OPM and HHS personnel have started going through notices of NIH and other funding opportunities to scrub any language about DEI or gender.

Here's my latest on what's happening inside NCI and NIH. I've seen emails and directives about a lot of this now. There's so much bad stuff.

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

The video of the Janis Stockhouse Celebration of Life (video by Duane Busick) along with many other written and audio tributes are now up on stockhouseconcert.org.

Tune in at 3pm EST today to Just You and Me on WFIU for @davidbrentjohnson.bsky.social's tribute to Janis Stockhouse. Listen here: indianapublicmedia.org/about/wfiu-f... #jazz #band #tribute

New book for holidays

Poland authorizes a release from its strategic butter reserve. notesfrompoland.com/2024/12/17/p...

I couldn't find it using the Pocket cast search. This URL did the trick though. pca.st/4f307zqc Scroll down for the RSS link.

Many of my colleagues here in the biosciences rely daily on multiple databases, resources, and knowledge bases (GO, MODs, Monarch, plus many more ..). I don't know if you all know how fraught the sustainability situation is. Please consider signing the GBC letter: globalbiodata.org/open-letter-...

Testing a recipe for pumpkin sourdough bread ahead of the holidays. This batch was a very tasty success. Might try to up the pumpkin for v1.1.0 #sourdough