Lawsuit says university and private investigators conspired to intimidate, terrorize and retaliate against Josiah Walker

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

Go Blue… 🤑

Suggesting that one of your faculty members outright bamboozled you when they changed a few words is a big choice. There can be quibbles about the changes the professor made being contrary to his agreement with the university but it's clear leadership is hanging him out to dry. 1/2

Come join us at University of Michigan! The School of Dentistry is inviting applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level (dual PhD and clinical dental degree required). Any area of biomedical research welcome! Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/183598

The paper “shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, were disproportionately affected by terminations, even though they receive less funding from the NIH in general.”

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Incredible, horrific piece. thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Again, when people say trust in higher ed is down, I genuinely want to know whose trust hasn't been harmed. Why would anyone assume I feel great about my sector when it did things like this?

Of all the grotesque hauntings of the heyday of colonialism that have come to curse our present, this might be the most horrific I have thus far seen. A study that exposes African babies to a lethal virus just to “prove” vaccines don’t work is not science. It’s colonial violence.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

For the mineral metabolism-heads, check out this paper: Drosophila (bone-less, PTH-less, the horror!) control extracellular Ca2+ by releasing a neuropeptide in low Ca2+, which acts on receptors in Malpighian tubules to induce Ca mobilization from mineralized granules. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

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🦴 Bone health is having a moment! #AmyPoehler dropped some osteoporosis awareness earlier this year. In honor of #WorldOsteoporosisDay this month, we want to spotlight celebs who speak on bone health. 💬 Who’s your fave? More in #LasCulturistas full ep: youtu.be/6Ab3vaatghk

Thank you to ASBMR for the support for Gerald, a fantastic postdoc in the lab! He is giving a talk on his intriguing findings on osteocytic citrate production in CKD at 4:30 today (1054), come check it out! #ASBMR2025

Some of the lab arrived early for #ASBMR2025 to do some hiking at Mt. Rainier! Our white sneakers may be a bit dirty, but we are excited to share them and our science!

I am heartbroken and enraged that our hospital systems are abandoning trans people. Truly, disgusted that they are bowing down to our fascist government. I know some places are fighting, and I'm grateful for those doctors. For me, this echoes what happened with abortion around the country.

To those attending #ASBMR2025 consider making a pre- or post- conf. excursion to Mt. Rainier! We are visiting where I grew up near the national park entrance, and the wildflowers at the mountain are in full bloom! Let me know if you want tips in or out of the national park! @asbmr.bsky.social

Harvard existed before the Bill of Rights so I shouldn’t be surprised that it doesn’t feel especially attached to it

UPDATED: Ono spent much of the meeting dodging direct answers. When pressed on Covid mandates — with the questioner pointing out that as an immunologist, he must have an opinion — he answered: “I’m a mouse doctor. I’m a test tube kind of guy.” www.chronicle.com/article/stat...

Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

When Kseniia Petrova moved from Russia to join a lab at Harvard Medical School, it felt like a dream. Now she’s been held for three months in an ICE facility in Louisiana.

This is US police stuff. Black folks kept telling you that but people would rather believe we are all criminals who deserve extrajudicial violence. And yes i will "WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN?!" every time you guys are shocked by a thing that's neither new nor foreign.

“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

This is never justified, but to do this to someone who wrote an op-ed…

THE WASHINGTON STATE BILL TO DENY GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS DEAD. Great job everyone! washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/22/r...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

It is so disappointing to see @hhmi.bsky.social capitulate to fascists. One of the wealthiest philanthropies in the country cutting off their grant funding to promote retention of diverse undergrads in science in order to please this administration is pathetic. www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

In addition to a lot of blah blah about fetal tissue research, this

An article that demonstrates both the limits and promise of science. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...

This whole song is excellent. youtu.be/J_swGiAHhbQ?...

Last week, Black community members at the University of Michigan shared their stories. A long thread, because there were a lot of them, and they can make you weep.