🇵🇸✡️ #BREAKING | Protesters Block Brooklyn Bridge After Yom Kipur "Rabbis for Ceasefire" protest in Brooklyn

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

100,000 people marched in Berlin for Gaza. As someone living under this genocide, I want to say: thank you. Your voices reached us — through the smoke, the hunger, and the fear. I’m Sakher, from Gaza. I’ve lost everything, but your solidarity reminds me that we are not alone. Please keep going.

Just when you think @schumer.senate.gov could not possibly become more out of touch with reality, he goes and posts this.

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When historians analyze this period in American history, they will conclude that the road to repression of free speech was paved with a bipartisan assault on the Palestine justice movement.

For decades, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social has shown what politics can be: courageous, collaborative, and grounded in the struggle for justice. It was an honor to celebrate them on Wednesday night alongside my friend @bradlander.bsky.social.

Is the Wall Street Journal going to issue an apology for their headline this morning that turned out to be completely false conflating Tyler Robinson with the Transgender movement? This comment, scratched on the spent shell casing has nothing to do with being Transgender.

Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

I wrote about how Chicago's resistance led Trump to back down on sending the national guard. This is a victory for the state and the city, and shows that fighting fascism can work. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/pritzker-s...

Awful take by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. I’m against all political violence. The assassin should be tried and imprisoned. But kirk did not “practice politics the right way”. He invited violence against LGBTQ and other folk. He doxxed faculty to silence speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

After yesterday’s SCOTUS decision, everyone knows the answer to this question: “Would I have maintained a cowardly silence if I had been in Germany when the Nazis began chasing, harassing and detaining people for looking or being Jewish?”

This is despite continued use of multiyear funding. My estimate is the multiple funding has blocked the awarding of ~1500 grants, had grants been funded on the usual annual basis. This includes 4-year R01s, excess 2-year R21s, and other awards. 2/2

Updating my analysis now that August data should be relatively complete. Not great news... The rate of investment of the appropriation is not increasing and it seems unlikely that the entire appropriation will be committed this year. 1/2

I joined @msnbc.com @theweekendprime.bsky.social to talk about the nyc mayor’s race, Andrew Cuomo’s need to be emasculated again in the general election and how democratic leaders should get behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Give it a watch and share. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

1/2 Multiple faculty positions available at Stony Brook University, in the Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior. Its a wonderful environment, with great colleagues and students at a public AAU. @sbuneurobiology.bsky.social School of Medicine positions: apply.interfolio.com/170252 A&S search next post

"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like

White house releases footage proving that Trump is ok.

Happening Now — Washington DC: Pretty massive rally is forming at 14th and U NW.

The genocide scholars association says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, with 86% of experts in agreement. Anyone who won’t accept this needs to look in the mirror and into the eyes of a holocaust denier. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Thoughts and prayers wabbit.

So glad to stand with planet over profit and east end for peace today. Nadav Padan is a war criminal and is not welcome here. The Hamptons Jewish Center defiled Judaism when they invited him. We were there to say no, not in our names! www.instagram.com/reel/DOB5yKs...

CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.

Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.

A phenomenal talk and a fantastic kickstart to our fall gcdb seminar series by @mariadelapax.bsky.social this afternoon! @iubiology.bsky.social 👏🏽🎉

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Fly folk: The Amazing and essential @flybase.bsky.social is in existential need due to Trump termination of the grant that supports this vital resource. Please donate to help keep Flybase alive. I just did. Info here on how to make a tax deductible donation: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.

Stephen Kapos still has vivid memories of being separated from his parents by the Nazis when he was 7. “To watch what goes on in Gaza is absolutely horrendous for me. And in lots of ways, the sufferings of the Palestinian people rhymes with the suffering that we had.” youtu.be/nF3lxAc0BHI?...

Even the IDF’s own internal data admits that 85% of those it kills in Gaza are civilians. Given that they mis- define all young men and teenage boys as “combatants”, this is an astonishing figure. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

There's a shrimp recall because of possible contamination with Cesium-137, which is a radioactive isotope, though none has been detected in food that reached the US. 🧪 www.fda.gov/food/alerts-...

If you put two and two together, Stony Brook University Hillel is using state resources to help recruit students to participate in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Indeed, birthright trips typically mifgash (encounters)-social time with active IDF.

AI writen emails from students who want to push the boundaries on the groundbreaking research in my lab—they don’t resonate with me.

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

A crowd of more than 700 people in Nebraska heckled and booed Representative Mike Flood over the Republican congressman’s support of President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill. Shouts of “Liar!” and “Tax the rich” filled the packed auditorium. nyti.ms/3J2Wjsz

This is remarkable. It’s late in the day for him to say this. It fails to fully reach clarity. But it is truly remarkable to see the founder of J-street write these words. I believe the dam is breaking. jeremybenami.substack.com/p/genocide?t...

When Israel engineered the starvation of every person in Gaza, it necessarily included Israelis held captive by Hamas. The emaciated captives of Hamas are merely collateral damage of Israel’s genocide. By contrast, the malnourishment of Palestinian prisoners is intentional.

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 79 Palestinians, including 41 aid seekers, since the early hours of this morning, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dok3fu

As a descendant of Holocaust victims, it’s painful to see the silence of the @ushmm.bsky.social (Holocaust Museum) as Israel perpetrates a holocaust against Palestinians. Someday, this Holocaust will also be memorialized, perhaps in the same building in DC. The exhibit will examine this silence.

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

New research from @joshdubnau.bsky.social and @alexckeene.bsky.social labs in #G3journal identifies sleep-regulating genes present in LHLK neurons, thereby revealing novel regulators of sleep-metabolism interactions within individual neurons in #Drosophila. 🪰 Read more: buff.ly/Mb1pypS

Please read, share widely and do at least 2 Action Items! www.jvphealth.org/up...

Should people be allowed to crap on the floor in public bathrooms? Depends on whom you ask.

so.... NIH issued a news item clarifying the new use of animals policy. It seems that the bottom line is that NIH will not issue NoFOs specifically about creation or use of animal models of disease. 1/2 grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

“Many of them belong to the Border Patrol, the agency that traditionally has policed the nation’s border with Mexico. But the Trump administration sent officers from other agencies to Los Angeles, too, including the FBI and special tactical teams from the Department of Homeland Security”

There is a rally on MONDAY at 4:30 PM to stand up for NIH. Please join. Many NIH employees signed the Bethesda Declaration, objecting to the destruction of NIH. The Trump NIH Director asked the signers to meet. The rally follows that meeting, in support. actionnetwork.org/ev...

Genocide is an attempt to destroy a people, their society, culture, historical sites, family structures and memories. This is the most hideous and unspeakable act that can be inagined. Genocide forces everyone to choose between humanity and utter brutality. Do not fool yourself: silence is a choice.