Have questions about application submissions and missed peer review meetings due to the shutdown??? Check out this notice. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

@unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social Join us--revive real faculty leadership from its moribund, go along with the administration state

Every academic should join the @aaup.org national and their local AAUP chapter. If your uni doesn't have one, start one! Colorado academics, check out @aaupcsu.bsky.social! We're active, growing and looking to collaborate. Join the resistance on academia's front lines.

“Older adults and people with disabilities will pay almost $203 per month in 2026 for their Medicare Part B premium, the Trump administration said late Friday. That’s about 10% higher than the $185 per month that Medicare beneficiaries pay this year. Rising health care costs are a major concern”

I will never get over the fact that the president of the United States talks and writes like this.

This may be my last major contribution in academia, I will be content with/ what I've done, & I will always miss the people I've met along the way You all have been & continue to be a major source of inspiration, not only for how I conduct science, but for my personhood🫶 bsky.app/profile/jlst...

A huge district court victory for the University of California. District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California. News story here—

“For decades, the media did not cover Epstein. They covered *for* Epstein.” From 2022, from the chapter “Epstein Wasn’t the First”, featuring Landon Thomas Jr.

"She's not in a scientist position, so the academic freedom policy regarding scientific communications does not apply to her," Bhattacharya told Just the News. 2/3

A giant in my field, the mentor of so many Spanish scientists, and an inspiration for me. Reading his Scientific American article on Compartments in Development as an undergraduate set me on the path I follow today!

I served last year on this committee and have the privilege of chairing it this year. We have amazing students in our field from around the globe--nominate one of them! Make our job difficult 😆 #Drosophila RT

Congrats @philtorres.bsky.social and @aaronpomerantz.bsky.social on the paper! I look for these decoy spiders whenever I’m in the rainforest and this is the best example I’ve found. #inverts Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022

"They tried to shut me up by deporting me." www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...

This was a fabulous meeting! Huge thanks to @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and @janetk.bsky.social for organising it. Been a while since I’ve been to a meeting with so many engaging talks.

Happening now: clergy protest ICE detention center in Chicago. “Why are you still here? Greg Bovino already left.” “It’s an internment camp…no medicine…toilets don’t work”

Won best student paper for the Health Sciences section @geronsociety.bsky.social 2025 Annual Meeting!! 🥳🥳🥳 There are so many losses in academia, so it’s nice to get a win every once in a while.

Genuinely curious if this law censors Indiana University Press from publishing a book on MAGA and white supremacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR (cc @mamakoid.bsky.social @citybeautiful21.bsky.social)

Update: UVA Faculty Senate calls for Rector, Vice Rector to resign cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

Whoah EBV not only causes multiple sclerosis, it also might be the root of SLE www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... An EBV vaccine to rid ourselves of these horrible autoimmune conditions (and many cancers)? #lupus #medsky #RheumSky @christosargyrop.bsky.social

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

DON’T CROSS THE PICKET LINE, FOLKS

NIH grant applicants: October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements. Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.

nuzzi is in the club the media protects the club members nobody in the club can ever be wrong people like jake tapper, maggie haberman, ben smith, etc are the club nuzzi must be protected. its like the mafia or corrupt police.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

I found my new epitaph: "I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."

Eric Green, who was director of the NHGRI until [he was forced out] this spring, has served on more than two dozen search committees for NIH leaders. The process “has worked amazingly well for decades,” he says, and including non-NIH scientists “added broad and deep expertise”…

UPDATE: @murray.senate.gov, who pressed NIH director Bhattacharya on not retaliating against signers of the Bethesda Declaration in a June hearing, calls for answers

Here’s a link: religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...

One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector. 100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land. That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.

Yeah, it’s the “gift card” vs buying actual things on grants problem I’m just now actually learning about because I never thought about it that way. Which feels super shitty given <waves hands around>

I apparently just learned the hard way that you can’t use federal grant money to buy dinocoins at Plasmidsaurus?

JUST IN: As of 5 p.m., 10 of 13 immigration arrestees who were ordered released by Friday by a federal judge in Chicago were confirmed to be out on bond, attorneys tell me. They were still awaiting word on the other three, who are in custody out of state. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...

Meet @mfranch.bsky.social, a postdoc who studies how neurons in the human brain encode the meanings of words in individuals with and without autism. Melissa is wonderfully multidimensional. Her work is inspired by this moving story. melissafranch.wixsite.com/melissafranch Recommended follow!

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Notre Dame dad heckling SBUX workers striking and picketing Pitt Starbucks m. At least his wife was embarrassed. Very on brand!!!

A great scientist. I remember him from when he spent a sabbatical at Caltech, at the time I had no idea who he was. Years later I finally connected the dots. Here’s a link to a nice article about Bellido by Ed Lewis. ijdb.ehu.eus/article/9654...

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

Calling thesis advisors, department chairs, and supervisory committee members! 📣 Nominate an outstanding PhD/PhD candidate working with Drosophila for the Larry Sandler Award. They'll present at #Dros26. Learn more and submit a nomination: buff.ly/mtfDbBD @peiferlabunc.bsky.social

I served last year on this committee and have the privilege of chairing it this year. We have amazing students in our field from around the globe--nominate one of them! Make our job difficult 😆 #Drosophila RT

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans. aspph.org/department-o...

Top energy and nuclear officials in the Trump administration are planning to meet with the White House and National Security Council in the coming days to dissuade President Donald Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s nuclear weapons, sources told CNN. https://cnn.it/3LEdbaq

Happy Birthday, old friend. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

All those McMansions in Chatham Co. Folks buying up all the rental properties in Carrboro. Downtown Raleigh real estate. Must all be being bought by the folks working minimum wage jobs in the restaurant kitchens or installing fiber along our roads. Makes perfect sense

Let's talk about the Burgess Shale, and the crazy animals it tells us about. It's a formation in Yoho Natl. Park (and others) in the Canadian Rockies near the town of Field, BC. It's made of mudstone (type of shale), deposited 508 MYA, in the middle Cambrian.

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New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com: