In the span of four days, we’ve built a coalition of over 80 lawmakers — including several Republicans — to stop the dismantling of NCAR. I’m grateful to them for their efforts as we work to secure language protecting NCAR in the upcoming CJS appropriations bill. We will not back down! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

This rant is worth a read! (Trigger warning: contains descriptions of sexual acts and a bit of profanity) Jen, thanks for fighting for women’s health and rights.

Stat is the best publication for following this administration’s effect on US science. Check out "American Science, Shattered,'' a comprehensive look at how the administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.

I had lots of fun talking with the women in genomics team. Thank you Kelly and colleagues!

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

NCAR is one of the nation’s jewels- in terms of research and the setting of the NCAR building. Let’s try to stop this senseless shutdown. Everyone: write more letters to your congress people, please

I miss him already. He was always willing to share his ideas and his tremendous energy. I am grateful to have been his friend and colleague. We won’t forget Bob.

Quackebush-one of our nations great scientists-whose computational tools have advanced research on autism, cancer & more chose between going to college or a restaurant promotion. He felt called to Caltech & so became the 1st person in his family to graduate college. www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

Excellent. Thank you!

Congratulations on this massive feat. It sets the stage for medicines tailored to a specific genotype. 👍

Jobs, jobs, jobs. Looks like ECRs will be selected after the chairs are recruited

Another amazing new anti-defence strategy that exploits a well-conserved host factor to block CRISPR immunity.

We do remember. Thank you senator Klobuchar

MyTaxReceipt shows a breakdown of how your U.S. federal taxes get spent. Enter your Zip and the $ you paid in taxes. It generates a summary showing what portion goes to defense, healthcare etc. It also lets you message Congress about your priorities. my-tax-reciept.vercel.app?utm_source=s...

vinfutureprize.org Vinfuture prizes will soon be announced. Drum roll please…

Ready for family… and we can make room for more !

Today’s the day I traditionally read @charlescmann.bsky.social’s article

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁 to all my friends. Thankful for science. Thankful for family. Thankful for all that continue the fight for a free and just world.

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In this article the term civil rights is used. Civil rights is the same thing as DEI, right? And a lot easier for most people to understand.

www.aaup.org/news/win-aau... UC faculty and our unions are fighting back and winning. Now Trump must return the $600M he grabbed illegally by breaking research contracts.

Vaccines, costing as little as 60 cents per dose, pushed infections like polio, measles, diphtheria, and whooping cough to the brink of elimination in many parts of the world, even in low- and middle-income nations. The measles vaccine alone has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years.

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Hungary 1956 'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket. The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'

www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j.... What happened to Jim?

My interview with Andre Ray. youtu.be/VJttbc_cKxA If you get invited to talk with him on his podcast "National Champion Radio", do it! Andre is always well-prepared and lots of fun.

My former UC Davis colleagues Ermias Kebreab and Paulo de Meo Filho went on Marketplace to talk about using seaweed and CRISPR to mitigate cattle enteric methane emissions! www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

I used this for the 1st time today on a paper we are about to submit. It’s great! It found gaps in our claims that I had not thought of. Although some of the suggested experiments are way hard and labor-intensive, it suggests prose to address the gaps in the discussion. The future has arrived.

This is just so lovely. Thank you.

Happy Halloween 🎃!

Blooming today in our garden. It’s San Pedro cactus I believe: Trichocereus pachanois Their flowers tend to last 2-3 days. It contains the psychedelic alkaloid mescaline and has been used for spiritual and healing ceremonies for thousands of years in the Peruvian Andes.

Today in my garden: Crocus sativus, commonly known as saffron crocus. Human cultivation of saffron crocus and the trade and use of saffron have endured for more than 3,500 years and span different cultures, continents, and civilizations.

Friends, we have another a opportunity to protest the attempts to destroy science and public health by the Trump administration. We would love to see you on November 5th if you can make it!

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan

No Kings!

Very real-looking plastic rice 🍚in this Thai restaurant

The UGA Plant Biology Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost! apply.interfolio.com/174756

Remarkable recovery of the Klamath River salmon. Many thanks to the agencies, Tribes, and NGOs who came together to remove dams and monitor the recovery of the Klamath River salmon. And kudos, too, to the indigenous youth who paddled source to sea on the newly freed river

UNC Chapel Hill's Biology Dept is hiring an Assistant Professor in Organismal Biology. They will focus on resilience, teach, and build a research portfolio. Apply by Nov 3, 2025: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/hr/postings/307693 #job

📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab! Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active? Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this. If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me. 🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓

2025 Nobel winner Philippe Aghion: 'The key factor of economic power is technological leadership'

Congratulations to Celena on this superb and heartfelt explanation of the promises of pediatric CRISPR cure

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...