The administration's reorganization of the US Forest Service is a misnomer. They are eviscerating the FS, getting rid of most of their research stations and severely decreasing the number of FS employees. It is a disaster.

Very exciting that our new paper on the forces exerted by the Rad51-Rad54 homology search complex is now online. This was a collaborative effort with the Wang here at Cornell, and this work performed primarily by a graduate student, Mitch Woodhouse genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

A little bit of lenticular loveliness this evening

RESEARCH PAPER: tRNA synthetase activity is required for stress granule and P-body assembly By Baymiller et al. and Stephanie Moon ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/7-8/475.full Stephanie Moon #translation #ribosome #granule #stress

Hope this sticks

Karen W wrote INXS on her hand in marker in 7th grade because of this song

Can someone on here recommend a worthy biography of Francis Bacon? Appreciate the help.

@thiccstauskas.bsky.social congrats buddy

@hooverstreetrag.org I’m giving credit to your exhortations on FT discipline. 🏆

My colleague is there. What a spectacular shot

Carrick knows how to Scanner

The Trump Administration Creates a Drowning Witch Test for NIH Funding The Trump Administration calls for $5 billion in cuts from NIH*. A key justification for that is COVID conspiracism: Additional egregious examples of wasteful and radical NIH IC spending that would be eliminated through reforms…

It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back. wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

This post describes how the moderation/bipartisan strategy, applied to science, hurt us this past year. We did succeed in rejecting Vought's crazy budget request, but we failed to stop the White House from interfering inside the science agencies.

Headline doesn’t capture it all - large majority of USFS research stations to close including all regional offices. So short-sighted, as many of the scientists affected will likely resign Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Given that wild fires are getter larger and more common I would suggest it is bad to liquidate the scientific branch of the US Forest Service

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

Compliance to a fictional proposed budget instead of adherence to the existing budget. SBE has been unfairly targeted for years bc of its support of important social science research. This is sad to see.

@vectorgen.bsky.social completely drinkable. Might bet a big bottle

Here's a big one from NIH. It remains Trump admin policy to - Cap indirects at 15% (repeatedly rebuffed by courts and Congress) - Multi-year fund *all* grants. As a reminder, this has the effect of dramatically decreasing the total number of labs and projects supported by the government.

For the maybe less seen or known, I’d very much suggest The Breaking Point, which is a bleak bleak tightening of the screws on the protagonist, a heartbreaking John Garfield, and Moonrise, which is hard to describe and while the lead is a weak link, the film is expressive and moodily beautiful

PIs that already know how to read and digest and write might make use of tools that potentially save *them* time. These tools would short circuit skill development in the untrained and inexperienced

“My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it.”

The non-profit National Butterfly Center is a 100 acre (0.4 sq km) botanical garden located along the US-Mexico border near Mission, TX. It hosts 200 wild butterfly species on migrations to & from Mexico. And now it will be a construction zone so we can build a rusting metal wall.

“Climate change is going to result in these extreme events worsening,” said Frazier, a climatologist & assistant professor at Clark Univ, who added that compound events, where hazards overlap are on the rise -- greater fire danger." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Excited to share our @natprot.nature.com paper on using RNA proximity labeling to map subcellular RNA transcriptomes. We’ve been working in this area for a while and wanted to create a resource paper to guide the uninitiated reader. rdcu.be/fblvI

I would also highlight this Perspective, which notes many (but not all) artifacts one can face in these kinds of translation studies: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40033152/ And this study of massively parallel reporter assays: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40715118/ It's easy to lose sleep reading these.

I encourage students to read what, in my opinion, is a fair, rigorous and entirely scientific approach to what might be termed a controversy in the field. It is only a "controversy" because people disagree. Disagreements can be scientific and they can be addressed by experiments. 10/

This is a really important paper in an area that is hard to study. I would recommend any student read this preprint to see how confounding issues arise even in clever assays. Internal Ribosome Entry Sites (IRES) are very interesting because they bypass normal translation initiation mechanisms. 1/

This is nonsense that they would think this

🎉 Congrats to 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Judith Kimble of @uwbiochem.bsky.social! Her work has built an entire field and inspired generations of scientists through her mentorship and leadership. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/0yzHXvk

ICYMI: New online: RNA damage signaling primes transcription-coupled repair

In space no one can hear you Teams.

THREE NOIRS BY JACQUES TOURNEUR 🖤 Now playing on the Criterion Channel! A master of mood, shadow, and dreamy ambiguity, French-born director Jacques Tourneur brought a sophisticated subtlety to his celebrated work in Hollywood.

if you dont know hexadecimal i feel bad for you son i got 9D9 problems thats 2521

IT WORKED

Just a reminder that 1yr ago today many dedicated NIH employees received RIF notices and started the process where many others were told they must leave their positions/ICs after years of service. The pain felt across the scientific community in the last year is also felt by those serving it.

I would say it is already a grave injury because there is no reason for this case to exist at SCOTUS

“Moab’s growing reputation for overcrowding and rising costs poses a real risk to the region’s long-term economic health,” writes Walt Dabney in an op-ed.

I recommend service if you have not been on panel before and could benefit from experience with the review process and to understand nuances of summary statement generation or if you need to be scared out of a local minima of how you view or present your science. 1/

very specifically if you are tempted to pretend It Happened as an april fool's joke please go ahead and preemptively delete the post right now

I have been on so many study sections and never was able to use this (MIRA not allowed for continuous submission). Just one more indignity however for those who have given a huge amount of time and effort to reviewing proposals for the public good

11 grants funded by NIGMS since March 15th. 11.

"WK: NIH is a little tricky now. You don’t know who’s running it. It’s hard to trust what’s coming down from on top.".... "It’s pretty clear to everybody in NIH that the executive branch may not value what we do." thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."

"I am best friends with the computer" was a sign of deep psychological issues right up until it became a sign of social status for people who read self-help books

PA people, Senator Dave McCormick is holding a tele town hall on April 15. Register to let him know how you feel about the job he is doing outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/i...

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