"Armed federal agents in military fatigues ... pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked... Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

The chaos at Berlin Airport because of ongoing cyberattack repercussions isn’t being improved by angry entitled passengers whining because they don’t get priority boarding with group 1. Dude, your name is on a flimsy paper list and your boarding card is handwritten! 🙄

No more tattoos? 🤔

We are looking for a new colleague to join the vibrant and fast-growing biophysics community at CMU and in Pittsburgh! The City of Bridges also offers a unique combination of affordability, innovative ecosystems, and rich cultures. Please spread the word!

If you don’t know Pittsburgh, it’s a wonderful city. #CMU

🎉 Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes! Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions. 📍 events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/ @ewerslab.bsky.social @mpici.bsky.social

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...

On my way now to the 2025 Biomembrane Days! 🧪 Very excited about great science and great people, both of which I expect to be in abundant supply 😊

Best part of all about this position? You'd get to work closely with @markusdeserno.bsky.social! Apply!

This may well be the most fascinating job post I've ever seen! A whole (short) thread worth reading, and getting excited about. Whether or not you're a relevant candidate.

There is an opening for a faculty position in biophysics at Carnegie Mellon... and the accompanying, VERY Markus Deserno thread full of delight in nature and physics succinctly demonstrates what an awesome colleague you will have!

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10

I like this ad for a local radio station.

Oooh, awesome people getting awesome prizes continues! 🎉👏

Whoooo! Lipid Folks! Behold this! How richly deserved! 🎉👏

Major cool membrane conference coming up next week! The Biomembrane Days 2025, organized by an amazing team from the MPI for Colloids and Interface Science @mpici.bsky.social: Rumy Dimova (@dimovalab.bsky.social), Helge Ewers, and Thomas Weikl. I'm so very much looking forward to attending! 🤩 🧪

Today the cult leaders will claim to have figured out the cause of autism, and it'll be acetaminophen (Tylenol). Here's an enormous study on this very correlation with stringent methodology and a sample size of 2.4 million children. TL;DR - There's no link jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Maybe this is all just a totally mundane short-and-distort scheme? Worth checking who had shorted Kenvue.

Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law famously states that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." We are long past that point. I think for many people our modern society is deeply inundated in what they think is basically sorcery, and not science. That's a BAD thing.

Yes to this—except: It’s SCIENCE. Not magic.

MCS Faculty Members Recognized With Chairs - including our very own @olexandr.bsky.social Olexandr Isayev! 🪅🪇🥳🥂 www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Maybe this is how to strip madmen of their power.

Once again, RFK, Jr. is trying to dismantle a highly effective, longstanding public health measure that protects people from getting sick. We have so much data on the effectiveness of fluoride. So much data. By the way, dental work is not covered by most health insurance plans.

Coming up next week: the third Dutch Structural Biology meeting! Now in Delft, on Sept 26. See program here: nvbmb.kncv.nl/biology-2025 with #teamtomo #cryoEM #nmrchat simulations and more (looks like) Organized by the #NVBMB (associated with KNCV)

It is very very hard to hear this testimony and not conclude that Secretary Kennedy is not just a danger to public health but also a highly unethical person who needs to be removed from the position of responsibility he holds. And yet, I worry Republicans will find a way to ignore her statement.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Holy smokes.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Once again, 6+ people are trying to set up a ppt presentation during a colloquium that is also Zoomed, and they can’t get the audience in the room and on Zoom see the full slide. Every other option is deemed more obvious by Zoom. 15 minutes and going. This took 30 seconds a few years back… 🙄

Shame on you, @washingtonpost.com. Your firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social is craven. Bowing to political pressure to purge diverse voices, especially if her recent public comments have been very much on point. Do you honestly think we don’t know exactly what you’re doing?

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Your occasional reminder that Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick were in the same year in the same high school, liked each other’s writing, but never met in person.

CMU is introducing a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics in Fall 2025. Students will gain foundational training in data-intensive astronomy and astrophysics, with electives in physics and other relevant departments. www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

I recommend you read up on Horst Wessel. A Nazi thug who got murdered and was made a martyr by the regime.

NSF GRFP announcement was posted! Have not read the details to see if any changes from previous years... www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

A famous thought experiment warns that a superintelligence tasked with making paper clips might turn all accessible resources into paper clips. Ironically, it seems that humans in pursuit of superintelligences are turning all available resources into AI infrastructure. At an unsustainable scale.

Thinking of all the nucleons in heavy stars, patiently waiting to fuse, longingly anticipating the moment when they become part of iron, the most stable of all elements, so that finally, after eons of agitated action, there will finally be peace and quiet…

1/8 🧵I don't see how it's not clear that anti-regulatory campaigns are often industry-driven astroturfing. It's information manipulation meant to make you think their stance aligns with your interests. Do you really believe they care if we have jobs when they don't care if PFAS gives you cancer? Lol

Watch, you can see it fly by! Watch what? Don’t blink or you’ll miss it! Miss what? ………whoooshhhhhh……… What was that? The Overton window!

Quoting Bill Kilgore as if he’s the good guy, from a movie that lays bare the atrocities of war, while renaming the department of defense the department of war, and threatening to go to war with US civilians—can this please not be yet another “oh well that’s just Trump” moment?

Three ~11 year old girls at the mall. All looking exasperated. One of them venting to the others: “This is all just clothes stores! Clothes are so *boring*!” Aah! Behold the sweet end of childhood. 🥲

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

As a sexual abuse survivor, I need to talk about my anger. I'm so angry about the government not stopping Epstein when they had the opportunity, causing hundreds more girls to fall prey to him because of inaction. I'm enraged about the cover up. And I'm furious about lack of care for young girls.

Shoebill and shoebootie.

Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Supermarket checkout girl was scanning my stuff and lit up when she saw I was buying masa. Held the package up: “Are you making arepas??” Told her yes, I have celiac so I make/eat a lot of arepas esp for breakfast. “Colombia for the WIN,” she said, “normally I only see my people buying this stuff.”