Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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So if Jimmy Kimmel had just suggested killing homeless people by involuntary lethal injection, like Brian Kilmeade did on Fox, he’d still have a job?

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

I did lab work and didn’t hurt myself or break anything. I did, however, have to constantly ask the labbies where things were.

Scenes from the nightmare hellscape that is Chicago!

So gross. Starting on the front page, too, along with an article about durian. As if there’s a shortage of news to report on.

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

I’ll be speaking at a Chicago @standupforscience.bsky.social teach-in! 📅 Date & Time: Saturday, August 30, 12:00 PM CST 📍 Location: Lincoln Park Branch, Chicago Public Library (and online) 1150 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 🔗 Register here: act.standupforscience.net/events/teach...

Quick, hold an emergency city council meeting on the dangers of Ebikes in cities!

Did you miss the opportunity to submit an abstract to MMPC? We have extended the deadline to August 25! Please consider sharing your latest and greatest research! www.mmpconference2025.com/submit-an-ab...

one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

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/...

One day after a man who reportedly believed that the COVID vaccine had injured him shot up the CDC, HHS announced that a doctor with a history of casting doubt on the safety of the mRNA vaccines is being reinstated as the FDA’s top vaccine regulator. www.importantcontext.news/p/vinay-pras...

Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years. It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!! “Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

People will do anything to "reduce congestion" except for running more buses and building bike lanes.

Apparently it’s #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2025 so here’s a picture from my recent visit to the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social of a 1926 poster promoting breastfeeding.

A bacterial signalling molecule involved in flipping the switch between sessile and motile forms could offer huge potential in improving probiotics, boosting wastewater treatment and producing therapeutic compounds. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/bacteri... @ki.se ‬

Very proud of the work from lab members and collaborators that coincidentally came out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A bacterial and viral pathogen associated with mass mortality in seastars and oysters. @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social @rhizalyssa.bsky.social

Really enjoyed this episode, @markowenmartin.bsky.social! I’m going to steal some of Davida’s ideas for my classroom.

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

If you're teaching Scientific Writing this fall (especially if it's new to you!) and are getting worried about just how close the fall is getting: reminder that I share my syllabus and all my course materials. Here: scientistseessquirre...

Perfect shirt to wear to give comment at the Board meeting, @tomflood.bsky.social- the Bike Plan passed, btw, in spite of MANY neighbors up in arms about losing their parking to bike lanes (so predictable.)

I like this mug

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

Inside the fall of Vinay Prasad at the FDA A powerful and extremely online regulator ran out of friends when it mattered most. www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/v...

Just to be clear - the MAGA freaks are celebrating sugary cola (39g/12oz!) as a “health” victory while they are bringing back asbestos, paraquat (one of the most toxic pesticides to exist), eliminating clean water and air protections, and more than 10 million Americans are losing healthcare coverage

#Breaking: Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t...

Vinay Prasad, who was named to replace Peter Marks as head of #FDA's biologics division, is out. Extremely short tenure. www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/v...

Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...) Message me for an invite link if you are interested. No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!

NEW: EPA to revoke 2009 finding that climate pollution endangers humans.

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I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

Good first day at the WEF wastewater surveillance workshop. Complied with the selfie request for #PipesToPublicHealth

Sorry, Madison, WI. Nice enough town, but if the only transit option to your state capital is a greyhound bus, you lose major points.

List of some benefits they can't take away 🚴‍♂️ Improved Health 🌍 Eco-Friendly 💸 Save Money 🕒 Beat Traffic 😊 Mental Boost 🔥 Burn Calories 📦 Low Maintenance 🚦 Freedom from Parking 🤝 Build Community 📉 Reduce Wear on Roads 🌳 Noise-Free Travel 🔋 Energy Efficient 🧘‍♂️ Daily Zen 🛠️ Skill Building 💪 Empowering

Newest addition to my fleet. Most things are terrible but new bikes are not.

Hello Chicago bike people! I’m looking to offload a pristine vintage (c 2000 which is vintage now) 50cm Bianchi Volpe. I have loved this bike for five years but am a little too tall for it and need to free up space. Price is $500 firm. Comment if you’re interested and I’ll dm

Unreal. www.alxnow.com/2025/06/24/r...

Paper: There’s never been a better time to be a STEM educator doi.org/10.1093/gene...

I found my people! @fung4l.bsky.social #ASMicrobe @svahausa.bsky.social