Finally a good push notification

LFGGGGGG!!! 🔥 Congratulations, Seahawks!!

Definitely did not call “1st TD of the game would be Barner in the 4th quarter”

I simply would not choose Mike Tyson as the spokesperson for anything

Adding complexity with three foci (Epstein, racist memes, ICE) now

"the staffer posted the racist meme" is the new "Trump struck a softer tone" in terms of media credulousness

A reminder for the reviewers of #NIHGrants "Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...

New lab preprint! Andrew Frando, Bobby Parsek, and Graham Roberts describe how components of the quinolone quorum sensing circuit of P. aeruginosa interact in competition with another Gram-negative bacterium, S. maltophilia -- it's a three-component AND logic gate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

They are failing politically but all of these people must be brought to account. There is no justice in allowing them to slink away quietly

States must at least try to hold the rogue federal government accountable!

I’m mystified by the need for direct-to-consumer pharma ads generally, but one for a cancer radiotherapy is truly ridiculous

House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now. - $400M increase - Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels. - No line item for BRAIN Initiative text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee... Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).

Reminder for those applying for #NIH grants using the #ScienCV templates. You can format the text sections using html codes: <p> paragraph <br> break line <b>bold</b> <i>italics</i>

Happy new year everyone! Resistance is not futile.

I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Everybody thinks this is a World Cup draw but really it's just a meme-generation show!

They made him a trophy that looks like the World Cup -- which he has admired -- but only bigger and goldener

“Next, the World Cup draw. But first, we will introduce every player from every qualified team”

P. aeruginosa giant microbe keeping a watchful pair of eyes from our tree

Happy Thanksgiving!

Before rideshare, the only cities in the country where someone could go out and confidently expect to hail a cab afterwards were Chicago and (of course) New York

The University at Albany Biomedical Sciences Department is hiring at the Assistant Professor level. We are looking for researchers at the intersection of infectious disease and artificial intelligence: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... #infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence

Incredible stuff from Ireland (who were robbed of a birth in 2009, also at the death)

If only someone, anyone at all, had predicted this totally obvious consequence of imposing tariffs on food

Amazing to have a Sounder -- de la Vega -- on the Puskás shortlist www.fifa.com/en/the-best-...

Incredibly close in the Seattle mayor race

Political advisor: literally everything you’re doing from tariffs to canceling IRA investments to reducing ACA subsidies is increasing costs for Americans Trump (yawning, trying to stay awake): what if I “seize” the affordability message?

New lab paper! Andrew Frando describes how MexT alters the quorum sensing cascade in P. aeruginosa. /1 With Nicole Smalley; two undergraduates, Jamal Omar and Bobby Parsek; and @dezieleric.bsky.social, @mariecg.bsky.social, and Mylène Trottier at INRS in Montreal journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

No kings, no crown, the people won’t back down

Seattle

Incredible game, perfect outcome. Worth every minute and inning!

This game is incredible

Another new preprint from our lab! This one details our efforts to produce new PqsE inhibitors and methods for assessing their potential to induce a conformational shift and weaken the interaction with RhlR. Haven't gotten there yet, but our methods are getting more sophisticated 😉

@sound-transit.bsky.social there are hundreds of people waiting for trains and the current wait is 19 minutes. Absurd and incomprehensible.

The degree to which the President can be swayed by the last person he talked to is really astonishing (This is a good outcome, but it’s only until he talks to someone else)

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, this passage from Camus’ “The Plague”, written decades ago, still resonates

New lab preprint! We set out to explore interstrain differences in P. aeruginosa cooperation and discovered an interesting variant of the quorum sensing receptor LasR. — by Kiki Bellamoroso, Maxim Kostylev, and Nicole Smalley www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Somehow I missed this tentative but important news -- extension of the NIGMS MIRA (R35) mechanism simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

I wish that I had a way to thank all of the program officials, grants specialists, scientific review officers, et al. at NIH — this is amazing and important work in the face of politically manufactured, ongoing adversity

Ive been thinking about this scene from Twin Peaks all day youtu.be/3bT-pzuo0tc

When there are guns everywhere, nobody is safe anywhere

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Andrew Frando, @jrchandler.bsky.social, and I wrote a primer about excellent work done in Sam Brown's group @brownlab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Excited to announce this is now published! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

U.S. Soccer announces that Cristian Roldan has been added to the #usmnt roster. He’s been outstanding for Seattle this season.

NIH progress on new R01s in FY 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/n...

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