Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Some of these innovations were directly funded. Others build upon basic research funding by the US government. If you haven’t seen Engelbart’s 1969 “mother of all demos” (where he introduces the mouse, word processor, collab editing, video conf, etc.), watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8Z...

returning to the Red Sea to spawn is an essential and beautiful part of the Super Hornet life cycle

Hot take: the only true metric of human progress is the global reduction of suffering. Any technological advancement that does not work in service to this is a lateral step, not forward progress. I don't care if we get to Mars, when rampant famine and disease and poverty remain unsolved for.

This is why your lab automation sucks

Today, we're thrilled to announce RANGER: RApid Next Generation Sequencing for Effective Medical Response, a consortium project supported by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency. biosecurity.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...

This is exactly right, I’ve said it 1,000 times, and @schumer.senate.gov and @schatz.bsky.social and @warren.senate.gov need to wake TF up and understand it: These are abnormal times, the media isn’t covering things as abnormal, and that’s b/c Dem Senators are not ACTING like things are abnormal.

How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day. I celebrate Emily Noether, capturing the remarkable relationship between conservation and symmetry in Noether's theorem. Einstein said she was a "creative mathematical genius."

why do people still post their papers on X? I'm trying to find papers to read and it seems BlueSky doesn't propagate papers as much as X or maybe because people still post their new papers on X instead of BlueSky? Because I always find myself wander over there to find relevant papers.

Engineering Biology Club: where the pizza is hot, the conversations are fascinating and the Os are GM'd Join us this Thursday night (Feb 6) in the Boston Seaport to meet people who build tools for building biology www.ginkgo.bio/events/engin...

DEXTROROTATORY ONLY

If someone genuinely believes that we're in a peer-level competition with Beijing, it is utterly foolish to cancel NIH and other research efforts primarily out of a Vought-driven ideological mission to terrify civil servants. It's utterly counterproductive.

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Enjoy the last day before tomorrow. Then four years…

Over a decade ago... I don't recall what the student project aim was, but they wanted to study crabs & chose horseshoe crabs as their representative. I got home and told my wife: "of all the crabs that aren't crabs... I mean... the possibilities are limulus..." #invertebrates #PhDchat #AcademicSky

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Crabz. and Lisp.

Build instructions for DIYNAFLUOR, a $40 fluorimeter for DNA quantification - uses 3D printed filter cube, LED source, TSL2591 sensor, cheap 10mm square bandpass filters - with full protocols for SYBR Safe dye measurements github.com/traulab/DIYN... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Delighted to publish my new molecular animation: DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs

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Sure, CRISPR-based gene-editing has revolutionized what we do in the lab, but what no-one talks about is how difficult it is to find the tiny scissors when you accidentally drop them in the middle of an experiment.

Downloading the PDF to your computer counts as reading

Hey Bluesky! just posted on lab automation on X - will try it here too 😀 Arya Lipman asked "life sciences automation seems to only be working in limited use cases (unless I'm missing it) - companies have burned a lot of cash on robots that sit idle. what's next / where is the opportunity here?" 🧵

All watched over by machines of loving grace. allpoetry.com/All-Watched-...

Good afternoon, please enjoy this crab. That is all.

I don’t like any biology that can’t fit in an Eppendorf