My quote of the day We have managed to unite a country tearing down the barriers the regime built to divide us. Ours is a fight of a nation united against a criminal tyranny, in defense of its human rights, freedom, and democracy. That is why we have no alternative but victory María Corina Machado

Pseudoscience is popular in part because it seeks to confirm our beliefs. Science can be less popular in part because it seeks to interrogate our beliefs. Good science, like good art and literature, can upset the established ways in which we see the world.

Without an understanding of immune tolerance, organ transplantation will not be possible. Also, their discoveries opened avenues for cancer and auto immune disease therapies. Congratulations to these year's awardees of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine. bit.ly/4mC0Gc5

Stimulating immune cells in vitro is a common experimental lab model. We profiled 150K blood immune cells treated with 11 different stimuli to compare the effects. The data are freely available for researchers. See the preprint for our findings and to access the data 🧪 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

News from the front lines.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

If you’re still in line for the future of this country, STAY IN LINE! All jokes aside, I do find it oddly comforting to come across empirical evidence countering the “everything is over” narrative.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

I bet if Charlie Kirk had run a website called the Pundit Watchlist the reaction might be a bit different right now

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.

when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones

FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go… For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep! QUACK-O-GRAMS! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Don’t get me wrong, my kids had pureed meats alongside pureed carrots & squash, and cubed meat and fish along with their first finger foods. I have pictures of them before age 2 gnawing on lamb bones. But you need to be a special kind of ignorant to think humans ever existed on meat-only diets.

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yes! Vaccines are your body making its own medicine. No refill, no follow up, no “lifetime customer.” The simplistic “pharma keeps us sick to keep us hooked” MAHA narrative collapses when you actually look at political economy of vaccines. Vaccines literally end their own market except for kids.

mRNA prime-boost vaccination promotes clonal continuity in germinal center reactions and broadens SARS-CoV-2 variant coverage @moltherapy.bsky.social www.cell.com/molecular-th...

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

I’m profoundly uncomfortable with how much this resonates. Hey @ellecordova.bsky.social why didn’t NIH and NSF get to be in the bunker?

I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.

Still seeing *wayyyyy* too many scientists trying to keep their heads down and stay out of the fray. 1. This isn’t going away! 2. Science *IS* political! 3. It’s not too late to step up and take action! 4. You’ll feel so much better if you take action w/ others! @standupforscience.bsky.social

goose: where'd he get the canister? goose: where'd he get the canister, motherfucker?

I still hold on to hope that someday these monsters will face trial. And be found guilty. I have a great idea for their sentencing. It involves the camps they’ve built and feeding them the way they feed the poor.

Back from a conference. Half the lab is still out, and the ones who are in this week are experiencing me to be groggy and possibly absent today. I’ve been up since 1AM making plans and I feel like someone should warn them what they’re about to encounter when they get in this morning. #newpi 🧪

Well good news and bad news: The good news is I’ve been back stateside for less than a day and I’ve already cleared my inbox and planned out my week! The bad news is I did it between 1-3AM because my body clearly is still 8 hours ahead of this time zone.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Happy 4th of July! Casual reminder that the most traditional way to celebrate is to overthrow a tyrannical government and start a new one from scratch.

It’s probably not great to wake up this pissed off. Then I think of how pissed off Justice Jackson must be.

Trump’s attack against Iran is illegal and immoral. And any leader who tells you otherwise is lying to you.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

Greater awareness is what led me to seek a diagnosis in my thirties. I wasn’t diagnosed as a child because I did well in school. Now that I’m aware of the signs, I can see them in older members of my family, none of whom are diagnosed.

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

Pharmacies near us didn’t carry the COVID booster for kids. We didn’t say no, we just didn’t have the opportunity to say yes.

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

Anything to do with current affairs makes me feel rage and sadness but this hits different. To be clear, people have value no matter what their job or accomplishments are. But damn. These images are incredible, the work is critical. It’s a travesty that it will be delayed. 🧪 #microscopy #biology

‘Habeas Corpus’ has been thrown around lately and IDK about y’all but I couldn’t define it beyond a vague sense that it’s important. Y’all, I finally googled it. It’s the right not to be held in custody unlawfully. PUBLICLY, THEY WANT TO SUSPEND THE RIGHT TO NOT BE ARRESTED FOR NO REASON.

I grew up watching Contact and discovered in my mid-twenties that it was based on a book by Carl Sagan. Reading it was truly an experience. The same wisdom that is evident in this interview infuses the text, cover to cover. Science doesn’t exist in a vacuum -it’s a way of life. #scisky

New from @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.

You shouldn’t need an advanced degree to be a parent. I trust engineers to develop carseats and guidelines on how long my kids should sit in them. My research was limited to price and I don’t want to do more. I have a PhD in Microbiology & Immunology. My kids have all their shots. 🧪 #medsky