As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Agreed. I’ve been thinking a lot of David Rose this past week and about why the Ezra Kleins of this world did not think that it warranted the same kind of attention as the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

✈️ Calling all grad students & postdocs in microbial ecology! Want to work, train, or collaborate abroad? ISME’s Scholar Mobility Fund can help you get there. 📅 Apply by 1 October 🌍 Open to applicants worldwide (esp. outside NA & Europe!) Details: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar... #MicrobialEcology

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

THIS is amazing!

Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

Preprint: De-novo design of proteins that inhibit bacterial defenses Our approach allows silencing defense systems of choice. We show how this approach enables programming of “untransformable” bacteria, and how it can enhance phage therapy applications Congrats Jeremy Garb! tinyurl.com/Syttt 🧵

I am really excited to see this article on basic experimental design principles published. Definitely will be mandatory reading for incoming graduate students in my lab. Maggie Wagner who led this article did an amazing job with the illustrations of basic principles www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 We are excited to share our latest paper, led by @taliashaler.bsky.social! We explore the transcriptional basis of #microalgae resistance to #viral_infection and identified a core group of resistance-related genes. >> (1/3) #New_Phytologist #Marine_Biology #Viruses

Check out our paper led by @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social on step by step symbiotic interactions of cyanobacteria with their diatom hosts!

Partnership between #algae & #bacteria reveals secrets of evolution phys.org/news/2025-08... Stepwise genome #evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing symbioses www.cell.com/current-biol... #protists by @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social, @mehrshmali.bsky.social, et al.

Tens of thousands in Tel Aviv are calling to stop the war and return of all hostages after nearly 700 days.

I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay! Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

New in @asm.org #MMBR Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins. How to annotate your #phage and #bacteria genomes by @susiegriggo.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social and Bob #phagesky #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

Was macht man eigentlich im Meeresbiologie-Studium? Shari Moscoso, Studentin & Hiwi @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, erzählt vom Studium @unibremen.bsky.social, was #Bremen so besonders (toll) macht, wie cool unsere Forschung und wie schön der Planet Meer ist! www.ardmediathek.de/video/alpha-...

Join us! This is more than a scientific meeting, it's a platform to catalyze collaboration, share knowledge openly and develop solutions for safeguarding marine ecosystems in a changing world. Great line-up of speakers and early bird rate still available! Please RT!

NSF and NIH cut off almost 300 grants to UCLA. Story by @dangaristo.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Greatly enjoyed learning all about sea spiders and their methane-oxidizing symbionts while writing this commentary for a paper by Bianca Dal Bó, Vic Orphan, Shana Goffredi et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF

🦠🧍‍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border. The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/202...

When you’re so busy crowing about your political motivations that you forget to pretend you did it for the Jews.

Absolutely. It's a whole team inside NIH who conceived of and wrote the #BethesdaDeclaration. And @standupforscience.bsky.social and @cdelawalla.bsky.social have been great partners in getting this all out to the public.

Tomorrow at 19:30 a huge demonstration in Tel Aviv - The Israeli Academia demands to end the war NOW. These horrors are unbearable and must stop.

How likely are SNP-based phenotypic reversions during human infection/coloniziation? Our latest paper on the rare CF pathogen B. dolosa -- a great collaboration with folks I've worked with since my PhD and led by Alex Poret -- adds to the evidence that reversions are likely in large populations.

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Hundreds of NASA employees have sounded the alarm. They took the risk. Now it’s your turn. Stand with NASA employees calling out corruption and dangerous cuts. Sign your support for the brave #NASA employees here➡️ zurl.co/X4CZT zurl.co/Ob1wt#NASA #StandUpForScience #VoyagerDeclaration

Scenes from a science crisis: a selection of recent developments 🧵1/6

I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.

Summer #fieldwork of our @fischerlab.bsky.social ... 😳 Sampling high-altitude Alpine lakes for the #ERC-funded #CAPSOLUTION project to study the diversity of #viruses, #bacteria, and #protists therein. @lqueiss.bsky.social

And also gonna re-read this: The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Re-reading this journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... “Holes in the Hologenome: Why Host-Microbe Symbioses Are Not Holobionts” and agreeing with a lot of it

Preprint: “Structural modeling reveals viral proteins that manipulate host immune signaling” Using AI-guided structural modeling, we find new families of viral proteins that sequester or cleave host immune signaling molecules Congrats Nitzan Tal! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

two sentences from the abstract of a paper that resonate with us way more than you can imagine...

Kristi Noem must resign now.

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF. Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Bluesky is now giving notifications for likes on reposts to the reposter. Excited that this may help folks recognize how high engagement is here. Just a reminder that reposts are critical here without the algorithm. Late reposts are especially helpful for those who log in infrequently.

This week I am at the #GRC meeting for Microbial Population Biology. It is my favourite meeting. There is nothing like these small meetings for gathering a community together, and I learn a huge amount here every time. Here is to 40 more years of this incredible conference!

“To date, the record indicates that deep-sea mining is a risky and unprofitable investment. [It] is a multibillion-dollar solution to problems that do not exist.” --Justin Alger www.sciencenews.org/article/deep...

I missed this great thread about Marcia McNutt’s assertion that defending science from attacks is partisan. My conclusion is that there aren’t scenarios where it is a partisan political position to counter lies with the truth.

There’s a debate in the other place - if scientific bodies speak out when a president makes factually incorrect statements or disputes established scientific principles, are they being politically partisan? A short 🧵 with some scenarios to help us think this through.

Congratulations @[email protected] - wonderful news!