Happy Earth, Wind and Fire DAY!!!!

I’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.

My senior thesis was titled “The osteological manifestations of enslavement” The number of parry fractures in adult and sub-adult bones was heartbreaking. (A parry fracture is a broken ulna resulting from trying to block a direct strike to the face or upper body)

If you applied to assistant professor positions in North America in 2024-2025, we want to hear from you as we continue to collect data on the applicant experience. Thanks also to @bwfund.bsky.social for their support of our work! Link to 2024-25 Applicant Survey. und.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Are you planning to apply for faculty positions in North America this Fall? Our team of researchers have synthesized 3 years of applicant survey data to create a dashboard to allow assistant professor candidates to see where they stand. faculty-job-market-collab.org/dashboard/

Wrong. It is, and always will be, this. youtu.be/o589CAu73UM?...

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Thrilled to share the first preprint from my group! Prevotella are predominant but understudied members of the respiratory microbiome. They have a reputation for being hard to work with, but understanding them is likely important for understanding how they contribute to respiratory health. 🧫🔬

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. /Fin

FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations. If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...

Playlist was on random and Lacrimosa from Mozarts Requiem came on…and I had to just turn it up and let him cook because what is this timeline.

…..there’s a lesson in here somewhere.

Were you postdoc on the faculty job market May 2024 - May 2025? Are you a new assistant professor who landed your position (any field!) in the past year? We want to hear from you about your experience on the faculty job market.

This. And that’s IF you can afford to be away for 5 days and you have enough support to keep things going while away. I can only sometimes manage this once per year unless the location is nearby. My spouse does not have the same kind of flexibility with his job and that’s a big deal.

"We’re talking about biomedical research as a whole. Here there’s no question of false hope or over-promising. We’ve been at this for 80 years...It’s no hyperbole to say that wrecking biomedical research now will leave many of us without cures or treatments in the future. It’s close to a certainty."

Today is World Asthma Day! I am a respiratory microbiome scientist partly because of my specific interest in understanding asthma. It is a condition that asserts the interconnectedness of our bodies with our environment. It is complex, dynamic, and life-altering.

Happening now: www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...

"I would not have dared to dream that metastatic melanoma would become a treatable disease in my lifetime. Yet here we are today, with 43% of people diagnosed with metastatic melanoma living 10 years or more, due to treatments that we broadly refer to as cancer immunotherapy." Barry P. Sleckman, UAB

Nice to hear AAAS talk about the cuts to Graduate Fellowships.

Dealing with this in my lab as well. 😒

Grant funding updates and progress on the dashboard concept 1/n

Good morning!! Remember that the only way to get bullies to leave you be is to stand up to them.

If Democrats won't act like an opposition party, we will.

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]" 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. …

Science funding is not government waste - see my opinion piece in the Lansing State Journal about why cuts to science funding are bad for Michigan. @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinio...

This is a really important read. Everything is changing and we can’t keep grasping onto a system that doesn’t exist. We must adapt. 💯

#StandUpForScience👩‍🔬👨‍🔬📢Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, including our managing director, show solidarity with our colleagues in the US who are protesting against the attacks of the current US administration. @standupforscience.bsky.social @maxplanck.de

Great walk through of all the knowns and unknowns of the current HPAI outbreak in US dairy cattle with a focus on both the cattle, but also human pandemic risk. 👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

This.

I am begging y’all to read at least one book. I promise it will help yall put these things into context. I think a really great one that threads the needle for how many shitty ppl with shitty beliefs have been president is “To Make Men Free” by Heather Cox Richardson It’s starts with Lincoln.

The circus is the point. Focus on the main things: resistance, sustained action, and community.

Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org

Dear Manager: 1. Is it worth it? 2. Let me work it 3. I put my thing down 4. Flip it and reverse it 5. Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i

Dear manager: 1. I walked through the valley of the shadow of death 2. I took a look at my life and realized there's nothing left 3. I've been blastin' and laughin' so long 4. Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone 5. Been spending most our lives living in a gangsta's paradise

A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.

I say this all the time but you should approach researching and studying the movement the way you would your own research. There is a rich history and it’s important to know it in order to be effective and keep ppl as safe as possible.

“What sense does it make to know something is a lie and to have examples of what’s actually true, yet deliberately hide those truths for fear of what liars might do?” This crystallizes what I’ve been trying to say for weeks now. Let’s stop 👏🏾giving 👏🏾power 👏🏾to 👏🏾lies.

41/47 (87%) of NIH study sections are cancelled this week Frustrating to see all this good research stalled (& not funded) You can search for study sections that ‘did not meet as scheduled’ here with ones with * ⤵️ www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...

In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less: Pick ONE thing and do it. bsky.app/profile/itsa...

I've worked really hard to get where I am today. Stuff like this makes me feel like my very existence and effort in getting here is a threat. Why do people want to erase my identity and path? Why do people want to erase my ability to help others? It is exhausting. clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/everything... “1918 flu appeared so mild at first that doctors around the world dismissed it as harmless. Then it mutated into something highly contagious & deadly. Woodrow Wilson’s administration devoted their energy to censoring info instead of preparing.”

🧪🧬🔬◼️ !!happy international day of [redacted] and [redacted] in science!! ◼️🔬🧬🧪

SERENAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Congratulations to African Health Research Institute pulmonologist Professor Refiloe Masekela, recipient of the American Thoracic Society’s World Lung Health Award. She is an AHRI faculty member and the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s head of pediatric and child health. www.ahri.org/paediatric-p...

Someone tell me how a museum exhibit about something happened in the past when there was no diversity equity and inclusion efforts is now all of a sudden diversity equity and inclusion ? People have really lost the damn plot.

Institutions “encouraging their PIs to seek alternate funding” do not seem to understand we’ve been doing that for two bloody decades. It’s not like we’ve been leaving stones unturned and can now find a ton of undisturbed grubs just waiting to feed us!

Once again, I need someone to explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo in normal people words. Like, real normal people words.... not math people words.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Some very specific words not included on this list. Can you guess which? Also, as a microbiologist “community” and “community diversity” is kind of an important concept.