The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.

If you thought the US science funding crisis could not get any worse... 'Donald Trump has tapped a suite of Silicon Valley billionaires including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise the White House on science and technology policy.'

Principles of lymph node organization reveal lymphoma-induced reprogramming of stroma-derived chemokine networks and loss of tissue organization in nodal B cell lymphoma @natcancer.nature.com @dkfz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I would contribute to a kickstarter for someone who makes an amateur documentary about this once Trump is out of office. Just a 2 hour compilation of all these clips of prominent Republicans saying "gee I sure am proud to hand Mr. Trump a gold trophy, he deserves it, I love him more than my kids!"

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Out Now! Identification of transporter-dependent capsular loci associated with the invasive potential of Escherichia coli #MicroSky

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

It’s well known that inflammation increases cancer risk, but how? The answer: the epigenome "remembers" inflammation and primes stem cells for cancer. Here is our paper: nature.com/articles/s41... And a special shoutout to the lead author @snaga13.bsky.social A 🧵

Reminder as everyone — correctly — talks about ICE in airports that armed troops are still walking around and that Trump plans to keep them here for the rest of his time in office.

I had not idea there was a second Kevin Grisham novel #RuralJuror

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RIP Tracy Kidder. “Mountains Beyond Mountains” was a life-changing book for me. Paul Farmer’s story — so beautifully told by Kidder — smacked the Gen X cynicism out of me and taught me that better things are possible if people care enough and work hard as hell. All the wrong people keep dying.

I don't even know what to say about how bad this is. People have been denied due process by not being able to attend court hearings for fear of being kidnapped; other people HAVE been kidnapped for showing up to do the exact thing we say we want.

"O episódio não foi uma confusão isolada na saída de um evento. A apresentação em Belo Horizonte foi cercada por uma mobilização religiosa e política nos dias anteriores, com publicações nas redes, campanha aberta pelo cancelamento e convocação de uma vigília na porta do teatro. +

'Catherine taught him the value of something she strongly believed in: intuition. She pursued bold hypotheses & speculations, such as implicating the ATPase p97 in Golgi reassembly, based initially on a hunch (...) Through this, she became an unusually independent & unconventional researcher'

We look at the number of people who have been killed and injured since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran. #Infograph

Very moving #InMemoriam piece from @jcb.org @adamgrieve.bsky.social & co about Catherine Rabouille. Her playfulness & humour were as wonderful as her science - her presentation at Graham Warren’s retirement symposium in 2017 was…less than reverential, shall we say 🤣😅

Ahmad Beydoun, an architect and PhD researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, documented and mapped nearly 250 uses of white phosphorus by Israeli forces between October 2023 and November 2024, the last time they launched a full-scale attack on southern Lebanon.

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Com um oportuno acontecimento no passado fim-de-semana, eis que houve reforço do branqueamento da extrema-direita. Boa explicação do @pml66.bsky.social

Que a guerra não nos faça esquecer a lista de clientes Spinumviva, como faz os americanos esquecer os crimes sexuais do Trump contra crianças.

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

'O candidato do Chega nas últimas eleições autárquicas à União de Freguesias de Antime e Silvares S. Clemente, em Fafe, Ivo Ferreira Faria, foi detido pela Polícia Judiciária no dia 21 de Março em flagrante delito por abuso sexual da filha de cinco anos' www.publico.pt/2026/03/24/s...

'Talks between Merck 6 Terns were at an advanced stage and a deal could be reached in the coming days, said people familiar with the matter. The all-cash deal is expected to value Terns at roughly $6bn, a premium to its market capitalisation of $5.3bn at Tuesday’s close.' www.ft.com/content/3f69...

'They were looking for her father, Mario Alberto Nívoli, 28, an electrician and leftwing activist. The men searched the house, beat Mario and tied his wrists. They stole all but a handful of the photographs in the house, and dragged Mario away to a waiting car. He was never seen again.'

'Some budget watchers aren’t even confident that the NIH spent all its fiscal 2025 money or did so as appropriated (...) “We’ve never had to track anything post-signing of an appropriations bill,” Zimmermann says. “This is literally the starting line of fiscal year 26.”'

'In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking, threatening the very freedom of inquiry and open expression it claims to promote.'

'Collaborations turned out to be key (...) Today, I operate within a small but close-knit group of collaborators who share my values, interests and (unexpectedly importantly) sense of humour and fun*, and who also embody a Venn diagram of complementary and unique skill sets.'

'Ask any scientist who has gone to China in the past three years to visit academic colleagues and they will tell you how astounded they are at the quality of the laboratory equipment and machinery that their Chinese colleagues have access to.' scholars-stage.org/china-and-th...

Here it is, your moment of zen.

I ain't like that no more. I ain't the same, Ned. Claudia, she mentored me, cleared me of p-hacking and all. Just 'cause we're writin' this project, that don't mean I'm gonna go back to bein' the way I was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnWa...

Not even the president of the ICE Steven Seagal fan club pictured here?

'A Canadian woman who has been imprisoned with her 7yr-old daughter by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has cautioned other immigrants that they are at risk of detention, even if they follow the correct legal process – and warned them to keep out of sight for as long as Donald Trump is president'

I guess my only thought is thank god Sora had to be shut down, but also I'm worried that's just OpenAI not knowing how to make money and not a sign about video AI profitability more broadly

Pickles & beer :) #Kyoto

Wow! Structural energetics of cold sensitivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gut L. salivarius and its metabolite indole-3-lactic acid drive anti-PD-1 resistance in ESCC by activating AhR to suppress NF-κB signaling, triggering terminal exhaustion of NKG7⁺CD8⁺ Tpex cells www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social

Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power. They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals. Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being.

Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

From a sheer implementation perspective, the idea of storing all that data makes me want to barf with anxiety

Delighted to contribute to this review of the genetics of obesity, just out in @natmetabolism.nature.com, led by Amélie Bonnefond and Philippe Froguel. @chopresearch.bsky.social @penngenetics.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Intimidation, violence and murder is becoming more systematic in the targeting of Palestinian people in the West Bank. Israel hasn't followed through with a single prosecution. Lawless state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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The #ItP view on #ML binding affinity prediction #DrugDesign #MedChem #CompChem #cheminformatics #AI #chemsky 🧪 “Unfortunately, we don’t spend much time on Easy Mode in the wonder drug factories” www.science.org/content/blog...

We will never forget who backed this war.

Orban now backed by Trump, Vance, Putin and Netanyahu.