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I have never seen a festival of hate like what is happening in Arizona today Every speaker sounds like they want to genocide more than half of America

Stephen Miller announcing that "We stand for what is good, what is virtuous," might be the zenith moment of this absurd timeline.

More than anything else, I object to this president stealing our time and attention. We can’t even have a Sunday morning without hearing about some insane thing he said and wondering if that insane thing will become real because he’s insane.

#Ohio is in the midst of a deadly #deer #disease #outbreak ... | #EpizooticHemorrhagicDisease | #EHD | #midges | By @nathanhart.dispatch.com via @dispatch.com

Proud to be on the Forbes list of the 250 top lawyers in the United States for the second year in a row. www.forbes.com/lists/top-la...

www.axios.com/2025/09/20/t... New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com ), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The sad truth is that vaccines and vaccination are a feedback loop. We take them for granted because they work well for the most part. Then we take them away because of concerns or downright quackery. Then the diseases come roaring back, making vaccines cool again. In the interim, people die.

#Drosophila community - look at this amazing lineup for #InDRC2025 Registration for #InDRC2025 is now open! Visit indrc2025.in to register and submit your abstract. #genetics #devbio @flybase.bsky.social

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Reupping support for journalism outlets not beholden to corporate interests. When everything is a commodity, it's worth asking where your news is coming from. What are your favorites? Mine are @apnews.com @propublica.org @theguardian.com @pbsnews.org @motherjones.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social

🎙️ ALBA-IBRO Diversity Podcast: From Postdoc to PI. Ep.5 - Redefining success: choosing your compass in academia 🔗 youtu.be/wfIu0ahjpuM 🗣️ Hosts @lonelypipette.bsky.social 👥 Rachael Dangarembizi, Michaela Fenckova, @harmitmalik.bsky.social & @srikipedia.bsky.social 🌟 Supported by @ibroorg.bsky.social

🌊 Season Finale Out Now! What does it really mean to “make it” in academia? A big lab? Prestigious awards? In Ep 5 of the ALBA-IBRO Diversity Podcast, we challenge traditional definitions of success and explore new ways to measure excellence in science. 🔗 Listen now: https://loom.ly/N1a1jSg

Who would have thought we will see the day that the #ACIP meeting sounds like a plenary at an anti-vaccine convention? The primary emotion I feel is sadness. We are losing so much in real time.

This is so messed up.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." - Benjamin Franklin, 1722

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers Consensus Statement 2025: We now have nearly 20 years of data showing that the HPV vaccine is safe & effective in the reduction of HPV-associated cancers in vaccinated people ages 25+. Insurance covers HPV vaccination through age 45 w/prescription form your doctor!

This is an extremely basic point, but one that bears repeating: in a law-governed society, the state cannot simply murder people it has identified as potential criminals. It does not matter if those alleged criminals are foreigners. If you illegally kill people, you have committed murder.

BREAKING: ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely following comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Trump’s FCC chair earlier appeared on MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson’s show and threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast license if they didn’t take action against him.

Should I watch ‘Sinners’ or ‘John Wick:Ballerina’ or the final ‘Mission Impossible’ on this flight?

Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

PIWI clade Argonautes are essential for transposon silencing. Without them, animals are sterile due to massive transposon activity. But how does piRNA-guided target interaction translate into silencing? PhD student Júlia Portell Montserrat has an intriguing answer www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

I need this!

Senator Bill Cassidy has just announced that Senator Mullen (R, verbal abuser and liar) has admitted he LIED when he said the meeting between Dr. Monarez and RFK Jr. was recorded. She stood by her testimony in the face of these lies and abuse. Mullen should be removed from office for this.

Bill Cassidy behaved today as he should have behaved during RFK Jr.’s confirmation. The problem is that now he can’t unring the bell. His actions in confirming Kennedy and convincing others to do so has already caused irreparable damage to science and public health in the United States.

Well, wouldn't you know it 😀 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2... (also fig. 3 in www.nature.com/articles/nat...)

I’ll have attended three retreats in the matter of eight days, being invited to OHSU MMI & Boston Children’s’ PCMM retreats 🙏 & attending @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social retreat this Friday The science has been invigorating but (not being a ‘people person’) I need to recover for a week in isolation 😅🫠

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

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Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do." ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.

Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Congratulations! #WomenInScience

To honor Robert Redford, I want to rewatch (what I think is) his best film, which he directed: "Ordinary People," but it is so brilliant and so very sad that I don't think I can.

My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

this preview leaves out the funniest part

Somehow I missed this tentative but important news -- extension of the NIGMS MIRA (R35) mechanism simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

And vice-versa

Education is the enemy of fascism.

“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism’ in the United States.” The study was on live on the website until at least Sept 12 according to Wayback.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.