What's the role of MCL1 in chemoresistance? A new preLight from @kanishka03.bsky.social highlighting a #preprint from Kylin Emhoff, @jcoker10.bsky.social & Jan Joseph Melenhorst challenging the concept that MCL1 promotes chemoresistance from the nucleus. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/m...

My Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post is online [Gift Link] wapo.st/415HpYM 1/4

The news across HHS today is awful, and the stated reasons behind it all are lies:

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

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Things remain exceedingly bleak but the first sunny, 70 degree day of 2025 is here and it is beautiful

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”

The Browns righteously deserve their ongoing punishment for abandoning Baker Mayfield

I fell in love with basketball when I was eight because of LeBron. Tomorrow I turn 30 and he’s still doing this. Preposterous and wonderful.

I joined 75+ @nobelprize.bsky.social laureates urging US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.'s confirmation as DHHS Secretary. If you’re in a state with GOP senators, PLEASE reach out to them! I’d deeply appreciate it if you amplified this post! 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

An all-time footballing legend and the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the USWNT #ThankYouAlyssa

It might be cold and raining but it’s a beautiful day because City has been properly embarrassed at home 🔥

Wicked goes so hard 🤯

Science has values, and they are inherently in opposition to political ideologies centered on the rejection of evidence, the promotion of scientific falsehoods, and that seek to undermine the institutions that support scientific inquiry. You don't get to pick! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...