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Cheryl Keller @cherylkeller.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I found a whole box of save icons!

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Super excited to share my final postdoc paper from Rabinowitz lab- on how whole-body and tissue metabolism changes in viral infection! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40581045/

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Adam Gracz @graczlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This would be a great time for everyone to be cool when reviewing manuscripts and *not* request $25,000 worth of new experiments that don’t substantially advance or validate the study...

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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

RFK Jr. says he met with Argentina’s president Javier Milei and it sounds like they want to make a fascist alternative to the World Health Organization.

Secretary Kennedy on X: I had a wonderful meeting with Argentine President @JMilei about our nations' mutual withdrawal from the WHO and the creation of an alternative international health system based on gold-standard science and free from totalitarian impulses, corruption, and political control.

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Cheryl Keller @cherylkeller.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I found the hottest spot north of Havana last night.

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I was having a hard time describing how a plate of cultured cells didn’t look healthy to a new undergrad in the lab. He looked at them and said, “oh yeah, the vibes are off.” Thank god for Gen Z.

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Cheryl Keller @cherylkeller.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Apparently forgot to add a topoisomerase to my one of my resistance bands

Twisted resistance band on a workout bench

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 07/05/2025

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

As a follow-up to the Kaiser interview, here is my exchange with Dr. Bhattacharya starting Sunday evening... 1/n

A letter from Jeremy Berg to NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya about the need to award grants promptly.

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Brittany Sutherland @sutherlandbl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Got a quote earlier in the week for a large piece of equipment we’ve been in a months-long process of selecting. Tariff surcharge: $27,000

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Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Welp, it begins. Sigma Aldrich.

To maintain our operational integrity and continue delivering the service and quality our customers rely on, we have made the decision to implement a tariff surcharge. This temporary surcharge is in lieu of a tariff cost passthrough and protects our customers from experiencing the full impact of the broad tariff rates, some of which are very high. By leveraging a surcharge, we retain flexibility to adjust or remove the surcharge if the situation changes in the coming weeks or months.

Effective May 5, the surcharge will be applied to product orders shipped to locations in the United States which reflects the tariffs' broader impacts on our overall global supply chain processes, including production and procurement costs in addition to any direct costs on products. This charge will appear as a separate line item on quotes and invoices.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 01/05/2025

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

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Cheryl Keller @cherylkeller.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

There was a red-tailed hawk hunting a squirrel in a tree on campus today. It was quite the chase and still going when I left, but I managed to get close enough for this pic while it was taking a rest.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’m at the @asbmb.bsky.social conference in Chicago and there’s a cosplay convention in the other building from our meeting. It’s absolutely hilarious. Two different nerd conventions. I could sit and watch the elevator all day. I feel completely underdressed!

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

All four of these are poison ivy (genus Toxicodendron). There are only a handful of distinguishing features that can identify poison ivy, because everything about the plant is subject to change and variation, even in the same small area.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

With the data from NIH Reporter from yesterday, I can now look at the loss of funding up to April 1st budget start dates. It totals $1.62 B for non-competitive renewals. This is less than last month as some more awards have been made (late). 1/n

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My first post on BlueSky, I could not access the same handle as my X (someone hacked into that one): So it's @peterhotez for X and @peterhotezmdphd for BlueSky I'm a pediatric-vaccine scientist based in Houston TX at our Texas Medical Center

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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

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Renee Faust @renofaust.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

so my favorite dive bar in WI passed up showing tonight’s Bucks game so they could show live poll results. when the election was called for Crawford, the whole bar started chanting, “Fuck El*n”. the bartender pulled out the good stuff and handed out free shots to us all—an absolutely electric nite

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n

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AlwaysACivilServant @drneuro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It happened this morning. Every. Single. One. Of my colleagues I know at CDC. RIF’d this morning. When I said that this was only the tip of the iceberg of the catastrophes to follow, I wasn’t exaggerating 😞

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Peter Marks was forced to either resign or be fired. archive.is/kZiAo His resignation letter said, "it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

Resignation letter of Peter Marks, page 2

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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Cheryl Keller @cherylkeller.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Gaslighting is everywhere these days

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

F mechanisms (New and Competitive renewals) Oof! 3/n

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It's getting late on Friday, so you know what that means: HHS has just updated its list of cancelled grants and programs. The document went from 14 pages long to 42 pages. Just an incalculable list of cancelled COVID-19 funding. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Now, which university will win the title of the champion of regressive values? The race has started, and the competitors are highly motivated. "University of Michigan, a longtime champion of progressive values, to close its DEI office." #AcademicSky www.freep.com/story/news/e...

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University of Michigan, a longtime champion of progressive values, to close its DEI office

University President Santa Ono informed staffers in an email, saying Michigan remains committed to diversity among its students, faculty and staff.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Starting a full day 1. Discussions with program directors whose training grants for scientists from groups historically underrepresented in biomedical research are being terminated 2. Talking with a reporter about the decimation of the public health agencies 1/n

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Michael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Looking forward to the Transcription/Chromatin Keystone Symposia in Banff next week! I have a postdoc position available as well

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Health security is national security. Health intelligence is as important as human intelligence, signals intelligence, and imagery intelligence. Robust public health systems are an integral component of effective biodefense. If you ignore health, you weaken your country.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨NEW: Major development. German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet. ‼️It includes details of Signal accounts. “It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”

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Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet.
By Patrick Beuth, Jörg Diehl, Roman Höfner, Roman Lehberger, Friederike Röhreke und Fidelius Schmid
26.03.2025, 21.20 Uhr

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“Elevated ALS rates have been observed around a lagoon in France, surrounding a lake in New Hampshire, within a single apartment building in Montreal, and on the eastern—but not western—flank of Italy’s Mount Etna. Such patterns have confounded scientists”

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An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps — The Atlantic

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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Cris Delnevo @crisdelnevo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

my word cloud on these titles (minus Columbia) - any patterns emerge?

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Putting an academic department is receivership literally allows the government to dictate what Columbia University professors are allowed to teach and research. It’s the textbook definition of fascist control over education and what people are allowed to know.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

On this day in 1879, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario. In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field. Let's learn more about her life! 🧵1/10

A black-and-white photo shows a woman in a patterned dress with a lace collar and pearl necklace, sitting in a chair. The background features shelves with bottles and a wire basket, suggesting an early 20th-century setting, possibly a pharmacy or study.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/03/2025

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

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GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation

The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.

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