Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

The Surprising Link Between Your Sense of Smell and Brain Health www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/w...

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Secret Service says it thwarted device network used to threaten U.S. officials www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

🍅🪰 Wild tomato Solanum chmielewskii resists whiteflies via elevated riboflavin levels. The phloem-mobile mechanism disrupts Bemisia tabaci nymph development. by Lissy-Anne M. Denkers et al. @uva.nl 📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70363

BIG Bigmouth Buffalo fish! These native freshwater planktivores can live for over 100 years! We caught, fin-clipped, released several during yesterday’s @garlab.bsky.social native fishes survey!

Where No Trees Grow, Fresh Strawberries All Year Round www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

The College Game Is Changing. It’s Still Rigged. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

As we wait for today's announcement about autism, Erin McCanlies tells us how RFK, Jr. brought an end to her research on the environmental causes of autism www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Spd...

World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do you know about how Norway's teachers stood up to Nazis? I talk about it in my new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers. You can preorder here: www.WhyFascistsFearTeachers.com

Scientists are using tools and technologies like artificial intelligence to look for new medicines in plants and other natural products, advancing a centuries-old approach to drug discovery.

There's a real story behind this photo by Laurie Wolf of a nesting box in her back yard & I'll share a NatGeo article by @bittelmethis.bsky.social A mama eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) hatched a wood duckling (Aix sponsa). This is likely a case of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

Doing our part to encourage Monarch populations

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi www.statnews.com/202... 1/4

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

A molecular-resolution look into the near-native architecture of the spinach chloroplast🌱. This one was a long time in the oven, but we're happy to finally share our "version of record". What long-standing debates did we settle? Check back for a short thread🧵 on Monday. #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪🧶🧬🔬🌾

I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the two health systems stack up. #Doxit 🇨🇦 @canadahealthwatch.ca

How conjoined twin turtles were surgically separated in Virginia www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Today, scientists know that genetics plays a role in many conditions and diseases. But back in the ’90s, geneticist Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to an inherited form of a common cancer.

Having AI crammed down our throats is bullshit, but machine learning has some real uses in science. This awesome page shows experimental cyclone track forecasts from Google DeepMind and Google Research's AI weather models, along with forecasts from ECMWF. 😍 deepmind.google.com/science/weat...

Really cool story about long-distance pollen transport by migratory hoverflies. The actual research paper is here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New Letter: "An apoplastic fungal effector disrupts N-glycosylation of ZmLecRK1, inducing its degradation to suppress disease resistance in maize" rdcu.be/eGD4E A fungal effector promotes a cell-surface receptor autophagy-mediated degradation to dampen plant immunity.

It's taken 50 years, but a vaccine against group B streptococcus (GBS) is nearly here -- hopefully. Bless Dr. Carol Baker and her perseverance. www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

Friday Flower 005: Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱✨ A tiny flower, but a giant in research, thale cress enabled our understanding of flower development through the "ABC Model". With this knowledge, their flowers can be essentially reprogrammed to produce micro-roses 🧬🌹

Friday fun: Meet the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes 🧪 cen.acs.org/education/sc...

‘Shockingly Beautiful’ Fossil Reveals Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...

Do Reptiles Have Moods, Too? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/s...

The Babblefish is here! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

The Siberian Tundra Is Exploding. New Research Helps Explain Why. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...

There are just 4 states with statewide elections this fall. The one that's most under the radar? Georgia. Democrats have an opportunity to flip two seats on a statewide body that's crucial for environmental policies. Don't sleep on it — everyone else is: boltsmag.org/georgia-publ...

Not being difficult here, but I wanted to remind folks that *none* of my current students had ever heard of Lynn Margulis. I mean, the endosymbiotic theory is at the center of cell biology. It's not their fault. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/....

What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15 2️⃣ > 400 million years ago, mycorrhizal fungi enabled plants to transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments, making life on land possible. See the top 10 list (buff.ly/77S4PQF ) and follow for new fungal facts.

Termite genomes shed light on the enigmatic deltaviruses, their ancient origins, and an intriguing example of co-option of viral genes by a host. www.cell.com/cell-reports...