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Alex Culley

@ai-cy.bsky.social
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Associate Researcher, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Lab: www.viralecologylab.com, Hunts wild viruses

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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kakistocracy: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
nature.com
Marine fungi harbor, and are co-diversified with, remnants of giant endogenous viral elements - npj Viruses
npj Viruses - Marine fungi harbor, and are co-diversified with, remnants of giant endogenous viral elements
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/on-sticks-...
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On Sticks, Karats, and Charades: The Structural Dismantling of American Science
The displacement of NSF employees from their headquarters opens a new front in the dismantling of American leadership in science.
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
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Opinion | Science Should Not Be Subject to Loyalty Tests
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The leader of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
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Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
And more: "Federal funding for higher education research should be based not on political litmus tests, but on academic, scientific, and intellectual criteria that serve the nation and the world." Clear, succinct, and a model to follow. Pass it on. It just might be contagious.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Exercise extreme caution when taking medical advice from an administration that sees facts as playthings to be misinterpreted, ignored, overlooked, or overplayed depending on how doing so serves a preferred narrative. And that won't bring us closer to discovery or cures.
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Impoundment of funds endangers US investment in science and medical research
Letter to the Editor
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
nytimes.com
David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...
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Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far" Ya think? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Fascinating given that "In Covid's Wake" is unable to grapple with (i) the extent of COVID mortality and morbidity; (ii) lives saved due to interventions; (iii) missed opportunities to align health + the economy.
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COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far
If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
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Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Following the data: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtiQ...
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Is It Too Late For The Climate?
YouTube video by Peter Carter
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/o...
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Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Check out the tail on this one! Nice work Adi. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org
A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail
Viral infection is a ubiquitous source of marine plankton mortality, but relatively few viruses that infect phytoplankton have been characterized. Here we describe a virus, PelV-1, with unusual morpho...
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/s...
nytimes.com
Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/c...
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E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Charlie Rice on This Week in Virology at ASV 2025 From TWiV 1237: Hep C and persistence with Charlie Rice
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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
He makes everything dirtier
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.
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Math Is Quietly in Crisis over NSF Funding Cuts
A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants-but it's likely not enough.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18/07/2025
Scenes from a science crisis: a selection of recent developments 🧵1/6
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.npr.org/sections/sho... Lysenkoism redux
nature.com
Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
To what end? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s... scienceimpacts.org www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/cuts-fe...
universityofcalifornia.edu
Cuts to federal science spending will cost every American
America’s scientific leadership is teetering. The proposed federal budget would send it off a cliff.
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... 👍
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A focus on the futures we will lose if the WH continues to dismantle research across agencies spanning the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DoD (via NASA Watch). When: Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET Where: Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building nasawatch.com/congress/con...
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Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants
The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/06/2025
The National Science Foundation has lost its 8-year-old headquarters building to another federal agency as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the size of the U.S. government. scim.ag/3HYXNUk
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In latest blow, National Science Foundation staff to be booted from their headquarters
Trump administration is giving building to housing department but has not said where science agency will go
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/06/2025
Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ
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NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/06/2025
The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt— a complex geological sequence in northeastern Canada—harbors surviving fragments of Earth’s oldest crust, dating back to ~4.16 billion years old, according to a new Science study. Learn more: scim.ag/3FXN8sq
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Evidence for Hadean mafic intrusions in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Canada
Many questions remain regarding Earth’s earliest crust owing to the rarity of Hadean (>4.03 billion-year-old) rocks and minerals. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB) in Canada may be the only known...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Please Re-Post. Our global GRUMP microbial ocean database is out in Scientific Data! Unfractionated, single universal PCR, with Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes all on the same scale with the same denominator. Pole to pole, depths to 6000m. Lots of metadata. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵
Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
also...a few pics from our lab's work in the N here:https://www.viralecologylab.com/gallery...updates forthcoming
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This should be great! avw12.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
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12th Aquatic Virus Workshop (AVW12) - Sciencesconf.org
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Alex Culley @ai-cy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hawaiian November sunrise. Inhale & exhale.
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