Early in 2025, several folks started lists trying to track how Scientific Grad School admissions were adjusting to funding changes. Now as we arrive at the end of 2025, I'm curious how things have settled out. I know some programs have cut 50-100% of their admissions for this year. Others? 🧪

One is killed and one injured and they ban an entire country. But don’t be fooled - if this was seriously about stopping the violence, they’d have banned white men from owning guns years ago.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

From the Guardian : why is it that Republicans need to have first-hand experience with something terrible to support calling out said terrible thing? I have not experienced childhood sexual trauma and I fully support transparency here - even if long-time Dems are named!

I’m gonna fukin die if sandwiches get banned before assault rifles.

I spoke w/local food bank to ask what they needed to most as far as donations, and they requested cash instead of food donations as they can purchase what they need at a deep discount/wholesale rate. Just an FYI in case you were going to purchase food to donate vs. donating from your own shelves.

Signs we are seeing in WA #nokings

This entire farce where the GOP refuses to seat Grijalva is just the Merrick Garland BS all over again. The refusal of the GOP to follow the law should lead to their removal from office. Permanent ban.

Who the fuck cares? We have a president RIGHT NOW who’s tearing our country apart, destroying public services, attacking his political opponents using our government, and cannot even give a quaint toast in front of the UK Royalty, and the fucking WaPo is reminiscing about the last president.

Dr. Levi, you don't have the authority to make something require a prescription, actually. That's not part of what ACIP does.

He's clearly a yes. He is a menace to public health. Hopefully he is better at operations management. Argues that most high-risk people are on medications and are getting them from someone who can prescribe. Here comes another yes from some other member. I hope there are 2-3 more sane people

De novo Design of All-atom Biomolecular Interactions with RFdiffusion3 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪

As I read through this, I pondered the question: this is for questions they know the answers to. Now imagine using these tools for (1) questions you don’t know it’s getting wrong and (2) questions that have less pre-existing knowledge captured (because it’s not homoscedastic error)

Oh FFS - the brain damage is speaking again. Why don’t people call him out on his bullshit. It’s absurd.

Feed the corrupt to pigs, use the manure for crops and then feed the children fresh produce and pork. Here in Oregon we call that upcycling.

“I have instructed my team to link psychosis with Republican ideology and to ban the party as a dangerous substance.”

"I don’t care what motivates mass shooters. It doesn’t matter if they’re motivated by far-right white nationalism, QAnon, radical Islam, delusion, sexism or revenge. Without access to guns, these motives won’t result in mass shootings; it’s that simple."

Please, people. Stop treating anything RFK Jr says as science. It’s not. It’s not even close. 🧪

“A close look at the so-called data reveals that the vast majority of the cited papers — all but about 40 — have little or nothing to do with the vaccines. They concern the consequences of COVID-19 infection, not the shots.” *screams into the void*

Wait. I thought Trump was asking to reduce the US costs not raise everyone else’s? Brilliant move. Why don’t we make everyone else suffer with terrible healthcare systems and costs just like us.

Ftlog. They did a global search for the word diversity and cancelled anything with that in the name. There are lists that show how stupid they are. Vought is an idiot and dangerous.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

“the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 [14 million] … additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 [4.5 million] … in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030” Unconscionable and immoral.

This is so amazingly ignorant. They/He has no clue what it takes to set up a process, ensure plant and supply chain accessibility, update regulatory documents (across multiple countries) , etc. 🧪

Pro tip: say no to at least 50% of requests and, whenever you decline, provide the names of two male colleagues who are shirking their share of service. (Gold star for BCCing the dean when you do so.)

Long but nicely detailed analysis of the current state of AI/ML in chemical sciences. I am resisting using AI to summarize it…

Elect a Republican, start a war. Every Republican president since i was a child has started a new war.

Had he been a person of color, he’d have been round up and disappeared for such activities. But as a white man, they even turn a blind eye to it after-the-fact.

LLMs are sociopathic- they know what to say to get the reaction they’ve been trained to seek but they have no feelings about it.

They are all incompetent and dangerous. This is the kind of work that would get them all fired in the real world.

Ffs. Completely unqualified hack, Andrew Follett, claims science is failing because of a couple of cherry-picked fraud cases. Science does have challenges but it’s only “failing” if you are on the side of false narratives and fake HHS MAHA reports. www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/anot...

If you're only following this "debate" through popular media you probably have the impression that studies on youth gender medicine are roughly split between benefits and harms. Nope! Nearly every study finds benefits. The "debate" is just a bunch of people going, "Those don't count."

New preprint in collaboration with @paulinanunezv.bsky.social supervised by @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social and Mafalda Dias – we propose a simple approach to improving zero-shot variant effect prediction in pre-existing protein and genome language models: 🧶 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My kid was in the school musical -Little Mermaid- so we saw several shows. By the last, I had an intrusive thought: what if the actors playing the prince and Ariel just went ahead and kissed before the end of that 3rd day? Like the entire premise of the show would go off the rails. AlTeRnAtE EnDiNg

Was just thinking more about this: it’s particularly hard to train a “disprove-er” for true breakthrough science. The nature of breakthrough science means that there isn’t a lot of reference points and science on that boundary is often surprising. It’s hard to challenge.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

You know what the new pope supports? Helping those in need after a natural disaster. You know who doesn’t? FEMA, apparently.

BREAKING: FEMA’s most senior official Cameron Hamilton has been FIRED and walked out of the building, an agency source confirms. He testified just yesterday that he didn’t think the agency should be eliminated, per Trump and DHS Sec. Kristi Noem’s wishes. Apparently the wrong answer.

My latest piece, on the absurd notion of extending human rights to AI: “A model train works like a train because it is a model of a train; a toy railroad does not, therefore, merit funding as a transportation network.” #ai #mlsky

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases. After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

#caturday Pounce and Percy don’t generally get along. They co-exist. But having Percy there with Pounce at the vet seemed to CALM her. ❤️

i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'

Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn

Can we get a show of hands of labs studying these exact f*cking things?

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

Evil embodied

This is treason, plain and simple and every DOGE staffer should be put up on trial. Alas, their orange god will just preemptively pardon them. Lord we need Trump out.

If we are sending anti-semites to El Salvador, when do the flights of white supremacists and nazis start? … and will Steve Bannon be on the first or second flight?