NEW: Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hurting patients.

Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community

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@peterfineran.bsky.social and colleagues develop Tn-seq for phages by leveraging anti-CRISPR (Acr) as a positive selectable marker in the presence of CRISPR-Cas counter-selection, and identify essential genes in phage from non model orgs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’m sorry but I’ve packed up for the year. Please reach out to me in January and I’ll do my best to get back to you quickly. Dear Sir, this is not a valid excuse. Please return the library book if you don’t want the fines to increase.

This crazy world got you feeling down? Just listen to a little perspective from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life: #MontyPython #meaningoflife

😢🚨✊ “This document proves if the FBI had done its job in 1996, Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation could have been stopped at the outset... the FBI’s negligence allowed Epstein to continue abusing hundreds of girls and young women for nearly 25 more years.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

The thing about RFK jr. being a terrible head of health and human services is like…yeah. Yeah, he is literally the worst possible person for the job.

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

I have an announcement to make. It's huuuge.....

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

TL;DR: I realized I couldn’t win

So it's the literal Hunger Games.

I never want to hear another American make fun of North Korea ever again.

Stealing this stat from a buddy. Since the Seahawks joined the NFL, there had been 79 teams that had: 400 or more yards 0 turnovers 0 sacks allowed 3 or more takeaways Those teams were 79-0. Until tonight.

Tools fail to identify most AI-generated peer-review reports, say researchers, who warn that the issue is only getting worse. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #PeerReview

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Hey man: I got plants that make HPAI H5, man….

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@minakimes.bsky.social how many times has a winning NFL team successfully converted three two point conversions?

Very happy to share that I just published a new paper from my thesis! 🎉 We analysed 546 species of ant to understand how extreme specialisation into reproductive and non-reproductive roles evolved.  Key discoveries in thread🧵 👇 Full paper here: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Seahawks should always be featured in orintetime games. Whether they are facing the league leading Rams or the bottom-dwelling Titans, Seahawks always keep it ‘interesting’

Gofundme for some congresspeople to stand up for the most vulnerable of our citizens?

This is mental illness.

@seahawksofficial.com giving up on a play and then scoring two points to tie the game versus the @losangelesrams.bsky.social would be very apropos for this team this year!!!

@seahawksofficial.com have no business still being in this game versus the @losangelesrams.bsky.social but here we go again…

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

I can't believe this still needs to be said (and more loudly): Trans rights are human rights.

Recombination between strains fuels pervasive adaptive evolution among human gut commensal bacteria, and strongly implicate host diet and lifestyle as critical selection pressures @nature.com @nanditagarud.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

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The imminent rise in healthcare insurance costs could not have been better timed with the imminent rise of infectious diseases over the winter holidays. Yay us!

(1/2): What if the bacteria living in our digestive tracts could produce compounds that help us live longer? The Wang (Meng) Lab at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus has found a way to get gut microbes to produce metabolites that promote longevity in animals: hhmi.news/48QyPAm.

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good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

CDFD is elated to announce a Distinguished Lecture by Dr. @harmitmalik.bsky.social , a noted Evolutionary Biologist, who has been selected as the INSA Overseas Chair 2025 for Molecular and Cellular Biology. Do join us!

SANDY HOOK SURVIVOR: “I carry this trauma with me every single day… we deserve to live in a nation where you value children more than guns.” 🇺🇸 (H/T @marchforourlives.bsky.social )

“Life IS pain, highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something.” RIP Rob Reiner, you brought so much joy to so many; I wish your last moments were not so terrible

“It’s a bad feeling’ If you’re Adam Thielen.” Joe Buck & Troy Aikman on MNF Don’t quite know what to say. But it’s damn funny…

Whenever someone insists that you stay on Twitter to avoid the echo chamber, remember that you're being given this speech so that they can stay in their echo chamber

New preprint from our lab: ‘Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains’. Very proud of this piece which took almost a decade to finish. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I get where the poster is coming from but there's no personal upside for people like me to return to twitter. It's not fun and it's bad for my mental health. And I really don't think it's going to make anything better. The best thing we can do is make things more interesting here.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Sen. Jack Reed: "I must remind everyone that we follow the law of war, and because of that, we expect other countries. So that when our service members are in distress, they're not shot up in the water or if they're wounded, left to die. If we don't do it, then we can't expect other countries."