Of the many many lies that the MAGA & MAHA activist Jay Bhattacharya has spewed—a guy who has been Trump & RFK Jr’s most loyal ally—one of the most ridiculous lies is that he “stays out of politics” He’s Guest Speaker at CPAC, the annual gathering of conservative activists He is “apolitical” lol!

Keep thinking that it’s not just “longevity research”, it’s “controllable longevity for one specific person research” Because we could increase human longevity on average just by better healthcare access everywhere

we want to do some pilot experiments doing gene editing of a mammalian cell line using guide-plasmid transfection in cas9-expressing cells. do you have a favorite cell line that transfects easily? pls re-ski

BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.

@aai.org is working to protect you from preventable diseases…AAI contributed to the brief that helped the court in this ruling: Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

I am just a scientist asking other scientists to stop quoting Andrew Huberman as if he’s an expert- especially in areas he’s not an expert in (which is now most of what he podcasts about)

TX, it’s primary season! Early voting begins today for the March 3rd election!

LolPI moment of the week was talking to a trainee about the Super Bowl halftime show and mentioning Ricky Martin and realizing they had no clue what I was talking about 🤣

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.

Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are named as the murderers of Alex Pretti. Both with enough experience that the excuse of a new agent panicking won’t fly. These guys are supposedly elite (one was on a SWAT team). Yet they pumped 10 bullets into a man they had just disarmed. Justice will come.

ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country. Find it here: www.icemap.dev. Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

If I were a blue state governor, I’d be looking into adding a bunch of tenure lines at my state schools. I know that seems like “kick ‘em when they’re down,” but it’s more like “let academics who can escape to where they can do real work.” Builds up your own schools AND protect US academic output.

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

Lots of information about places to donate if anyone is still looking for ways to help MN

ICE OUT MN MARCH AND RALLY

Minneapolis, MN The resistance! 1/23/26

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So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by: 1. ICE’s own photos 2. Bystander video 3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene 4. Anne Arundel County Police Now ICE is revising its story. The latest from Alex Mann: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Minnesota today

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

Yall will be so interested in all of the immunology articles I have open that I swear I will read at a later date… 🤣

Clinical trials are so vital!!! cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants!!

Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.

New review with @lab-williams.bsky.social out today! One of the most enjoyable things about being a new PI has been making new collaborations and seeing projects advance through the pipeline. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

😭 there’s no way this is a good thing

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years. #AcademicSky

Is being a PI just updating mouse protocols every month?

On this trajectory, science has no future.

🤠Come on, @utaustin.bsky.social Just say NO to Trump’s compact! 👏👏Don’t mess with Texas #HigherEd! #SaveUT

Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

No way to run a government. Fired. Not fired. Fired again. Not fired. Pants on fire.

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

It really cements Charlie Kirk’s reputation as a hero of free speech when his followers threaten, doxx, and get people fired for not “mourning properly.” (Actually, it underlines what a scam that “free speech” routine was in the first place.)

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

It should not be up to John Oliver to be publicly making the argument that university presidents should be making loudly & collectively on the news & in front of the US Capitol every day.

For our scientists. By @ellecordova.bsky.social

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