Sharing this jic others with alpha-gal syndrome haven’t heard of options like this. Thanks @peiferlabunc.bsky.social for the tip! amaroohills.com/collections/...

Today @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social was placed on administrative leave from her position at the NIDDK, NIH. We are extremely concerned and horrified at the actions of this adminstration and the NIH. Dr. Norton has been speaking out in her personal capacity about destruction occurring at the NIH. 🧵🧵🧵

Courage personified. We MUST be LOUD in support of Jenna and LOUD in our dissent against this egregious action.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

wonder how CSR will handle MIRA study sections, since they discuss more than half of the applications to fund a greater range my MIRA was supposed to be reviewed on 10/28

1882 to 198! Solidarity, new comrades, and congrats to the Coalition of Graduate Employees.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is fragmenting on its way back out from the Sun. 🧪🔭 www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/13/c...

When I went up for tenure, I had nearly 2x as many publications than required and I had the funding portfolio and advising load expected of a higher rank.

The short answer is no.

Ipomopsis aggregata, our Scarlet Gilia, blooming in Big Wash #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 13 🌿

Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States

After criticism of the idea on Wednesday and passionate debate on Thursday, the UNC Board of Trustees approved an increase in tuition and fees for all incoming undergraduate students with a split vote.

I experienced this for several years (thankfully not forever). It’s so hard to diagnose because the reactions often happen hours after exposure. Thankfully I had an allergist who asked about recent tick bites and could make the connection before it got worse. My heart goes out to this family.

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

All in all, we conducted 785 (!!!) phylogenomic tests, & all of the significant ones supported the sponge-sister hypothesis & none supported the ctenophore-sister hypothesis. While I've never seen such clear support for one topology over another, I still believe there is more work to be done here

Thus, we don't take a strong stance. We only report that integrative phylogenomics convergences on one of the two topologies I hope this helps clarify our stance and I'm happy to address any other questions you (& others) may have :)

I think new methods, new angles, and new thinking will be required to resolve early animal evolution. Lastly, Nicole and I both strongly believe that the research community -- not individuals -- will be the one's who decide which topology is correct

Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

Malicious compliance is a tragically underused tool of resistance.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Oregon represent! 👊 @wyden.senate.gov and @repdexteror.bsky.social speak out against RFK Jr.’s mishandling of HHS and demand he resign or be removed. We won’t stop until Congress impeaches the Quack! Take action with Stand up for Science at the link in our bio. 🔗 #impeachrfk #standupforscience

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

No budget from the Republican-led North Carolina Legislature but state employee health insurance costs will double or triple in January. That mean NC school teachers, already 43rd in the US in pay, will be getting a pay cut. Shame! www.publicedworks.org/2025/11/a-pa...

Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."

ABSOLUTELY WILD to hear what people will say to maintain access to power

Save the date! @isscr.org, @alleninstitute.org & @socdevbio.bsky.social are collaborating to present a 3-day scientific symposium led by early-career scientists. The Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium will be held September 23-25, 2026 in Seattle, WA. Learn more: bit.ly/4p98dkv

Just gonna put this here for now www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... bsky.app/profile/jlst...

Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social

Here's a big thank you to everyone at NIH who is trying to get everything regarding grants and reviews re-started!!!

Live look at NIH SROs today….

CSR, which handles this process, is no doubt missing a lot of employees due to the doge shenanigans. Be patient (I remind myself) if your #NIHgrant application remains in limbo for a few weeks.

It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile

2017. While he was President.

While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.

Great news #NIHGrant reviewers! Even though the study section I am on is back to “submit”, it looks like all of my critiques uploaded before are still in the system!

REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “I vote with my party 91% of the time… But when they're protecting pedophiles, blowing our budget, starting wars overseas — I'm sorry, I can't go along with that.”

Marc Rowan--a billionaire responsible for Trump's devastating loyalty oath compact--will step down from his advisory role at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania in summer of 2026! AAUP President Todd Wolfson discusses our November 7th action that led to this step forward.

According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally. Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.

The @newyorker.com discovers Daniel Pullen and his incredible photographs of the Outer Banks. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Deadline Nov 15 (in 2 days!). Join us in Geneva in the fantastic Dpt. of Molecular and Cellular Biology - great opportunity! mocel.unige.ch/news-events/...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇

Another vaccine that actually prevents cancer

You are embarrassing yourself by lauding this monster. Do you defend these views, which he held lifelong. Where is the "nuance in these words?" Shame! liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Thomas Massie the broken clock who haunts my life

MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader. So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader. Here's what they said. @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

UPDATE — With Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), there are now at least 12 congressional Democrats, 15 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 8 Democratic candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

Very pleased to plug our latest preprint, lead author @microberamon.bsky.social - fantastic collaboration with labs of Dario Carugo (Oxford) and Martha Clokie (Leicester) https:// - and others #UTISKy #UTI #IDSky #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688052v1 more below👇🧵