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David Drubin

@drubin.bsky.social
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Professor at UC Berkeley. Cell Biologist. Studies the actin cytoskeleton, microtubules and membrane trafficking.

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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In a new preprint we provide evidence that biophysical properties of protein condensates can explain the order of events in the endocytic pathway, and that these events are tuned by protein condensate phosphorylation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Phosphoregulation of hierarchical protein condensate formation during clathrin-mediated endocytosis
The sequential assembly of over 50 proteins during clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is well documented in yeast. However, the mechanisms governing this ordered recruitment remain poorly understood....
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Postdoctoral Scholar Position in Biophysical Cell Biology — Drubin Lab, UC Berkeley Seeking an accomplished individual with experience in cellular biophysics including imaging and image analysis to study cytoskeleton and trafficking. Please send CV & cover letter to drubin@berkeley.edu.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Congratulations to these three talented UCB/MCB students on this recognition!
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UC Berkeley MCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Congrats to MCB postdocs Jean Jacobs, Jack Liu & Feng Yuan for being named Life Sciences Research Foundation's (LSRF) fellows! @chamslab.bsky.social, @robzonculab.bsky.social, @drubin.bsky.social, @nkwhiteman.bsky.social mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...
MCB postdocs Jean Jacobs, Jack Liu & Feng Yuan named LSRF fellows
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A really good read on logical fallacies used to spread misinformation. It is so easy to fall for these. I’m looking at you, RFK Jr. @yourlocalepidemiologist.skystack.xyz @kmpanthagani.bsky.social 🧪 yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/5-logical-...
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5 Logical fallacies in the era of RFK Jr.
Common rhetorical tricks that are trending right now
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Class-I myosin responds to changes in membrane tension during clathrin-mediated endocytosis in human induced pluripotent stem cells | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Class-I myosin responds to changes in membrane tension during clathrin-mediated endocytosis in human induced pluripotent stem cells | PNAS
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is an essential cellular process that needs to operate efficiently across a wide range of conditions. Internali...
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We are seeking a new Staff Research Associate: 75% research, 25% lab management. A recent graduate with a major in molecular and cell biology or a similar field is ideal. Staff Research Associate (9613C), Molecular & Cell Biology. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucb/EMPL...
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Toby Kiers, World Champion of Fungus www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/s...
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Toby Kiers, World Champion of Fungus
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Check out the animation: movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
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Movie 1.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I enthusiastically recommend 'The Last Class,' which pays tribute to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Professor Robert Reich and highlights our duty to educate future generations. It is showing in various cities. www.thelastclassfilm.com/where-to-watch Directed by ‪@elliotkirschner.bsky.social‬
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.travelandleisure.com/berkeley-cal...
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This City Was Just Named the Healthiest Place to Live in the U.S. for 2025
Berkeley, California, was named the healthiest city in the U.S. by Niche.com.
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UC Berkeley MCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Congrats to Thomas D. Pollard (Drubin Lab) who received the 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science! 👏🧪 @drubin.bsky.social ctcase.org/thomas-d-pol...
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Thomas D. Pollard to Receive 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science - Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Thomas D. Pollard to Receive 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2026 
Imaging Cell Dynamics
Date: 11 – 14 May 2026
Venue: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain
Register your interest
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Kat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia. Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease? Find out more and apply: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I'm thrilled to share that our story is now out in Science Advances! 🎉 We use quantitative imaging to map the mito central dogma, define translation hubs in the mitochondrial matrix, and show that they're replaced by Mitochondrial Stress Bodies (MSB) when mtRNA processing is perturbed 1/4
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Eoin Brodie @elbrodie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
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US Applicant Week
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FASEB @faseborg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Cell biologists, join FASEB for a new level of collaboration on dynamic cytoskeletal systems research! Noted researchers @drubin.bsky.social and @ivatolic.bsky.social are the keynote speakers at this inaugural conference. Will you be there? View the full agenda and save your space: buff.ly/Bz0Dyxh
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Congrats to my fantastic coauthors on this work with a surprising conclusion. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Force-insensitive myosin-I enhances endocytosis robustness through actin network-scale collective ratcheting
Force production by Type-I myosins influences endocytic progression in many cell types. Since different myosin-I isoforms exhibit distinct force-dependent kinetic properties, it is important to invest...
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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While the U.S. lays off health researchers, this Toronto hospital network plans to ramp up recruitment | CBC News
Toronto's University Health Network says it has a new plan to recruit the best and brightest medical scientists from around the world, including the United States, where the government is laying off t...
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 06/04/2025
Barack Obama on what universities should do: “We'll stand up for what we believe in and we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we'll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium...because academic freedom might be a little more important." + www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Ew6cot/
"If you are a university, you may have to say, figure out, are we in fact doing things right?
Have we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion?
If not, and you're just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, 'That's why we got this big endowment. We'll stand up for what we believe in and we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we'll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium'...because academic freedom might be a little more important."
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!
This returned funding is a rare win for Long COVID advocates and researchers amid a climate of fear and uncertainty. Earlier in the week, the Trump administration ordered the closure of the federal government's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice as part of a wider restructuring of health agencies, and last month, it terminated a federal advisory_committee on Long_COVID.

Long COVID advocates stepped up to contact their representatives and advocate for RECOVER funding and other federal Long COVID initiatives to remain in place. While the research program's broader future remains uncertain, these restored grants are a significant milestone, said RECOVER patient representative Megan Fitzgerald.

"This is so significant because it allows critical studies to better understand how Long COVID affects the body, identify treatment targets, and develop new therapies," she wrote in an email to The Sick Times.
"I'm especially relieved as a parent that this reinstates really important funding for studies in kids. And I think we can all breathe a little easier knowing that all the hard work of patients and researchers over the last few years won't go to waste."
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Stanford, Cal and UCLA investigated in Trump's anti-DEI campaign
The Trump administration says it has opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCL...
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Fearing Trump cuts, California Democrat proposes creating state’s own NIH
The ambitious state lawmaker argues moves by Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. show the Golden State must “step up” as a global leader.
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Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
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ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU - Research Professional News
Commission also planning a dedicated meeting to coordinate similar efforts among member states
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New info on NIGMS training page Trans-Departmental Basic Biomedical Sciences: The goal of this program area is to broaden the scope, institutional and geographic distribution of NIGMS basic biomedical research training programs. Info at the bottom of this... www.nigms.nih.gov/training/ins...
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NIGMS Predoctoral Training Grant Program Areas and Contacts | National Institute of General Medical Sciences
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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UCSF Loses Top Heart Surgeon Over Trump’s Hostility Toward Canada | KQED
A leading heart surgeon from Canada who was set to start at UCSF this month changed his mind, citing “the evolving political climate” in the U.S.
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Tim Stearns @stearnslab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Very useful information from UC about your rights re: search and seizure of your electronic devices at the US border. TL;DR: the “border search exception” to the 4th Amendment gives the CBP broad discretion, but there are some limits. security.ucop.edu/resources/tr...
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Returning to the U.S.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Using funding to 'force concessions' threatens institutions, Princeton president says
Columbia University agreed to comply with a series of demands from the Trump administration about how it will handle protests, antisemitism and academic departments. The university faced a deadline to...
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.
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MOREL Lab / MEMBRAMICS research @membramics-lab.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Interview with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
ABSTRACT. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz is a Senior Group Leader and Head of 4D Cellular Physiology at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus. Throughout her career, Jennifer ...
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Manuel Mendoza @longchrom.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Come start your lab in beautiful Strasbourg 🇫🇷 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Call For Two Group Leader Positions - Strasbourg-Ville, Bas-Rhin (FR) job with IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire) | 12837602
The Institute of Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) is seeking two outstanding group leaders to establish independent research teams.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Nobel laureate, elected officials warn of threats to science - UW Medicine | Newsroom
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Matthew Haag @matthewhaag.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University. When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with university trustees and later publicly castigated the university president as “a dummy” and “a total moron.” That drama dates back 25 years.
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Trump Raged at Columbia Over $400 Million Decades Ago. Sound Familiar?
A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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A message from UC President Michael V. Drake on the University of California’s financial outlook | UCnet
President Drake shares a message with the UC community on the university's response to federal and state funding reductions.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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University of California orders hiring freeze, cuts in response to Trump threats
As the Trump administration threatens to pull federal funds from universities, including those for medical and scientific research, the University of California has announced a hiring freeze and addit...
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you still doubt that the Trump administration is out take down universities, check out Vance’s 2021 speech in which he declares that “The Universities are the Enemy.” youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...
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J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II
YouTube video by National Conservatism
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I'm so lucky to be a (minor) part of this project! arxiv.org/abs/2503.12593
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Fourier-Based 3D Multistage Transformer for Aberration Correction in Multicellular Specimens
High-resolution tissue imaging is often compromised by sample-induced optical aberrations that degrade resolution and contrast. While wavefront sensor-based adaptive optics (AO) can measure these aber...
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 17/03/2025
20 years of bitching about woke humanities departments and the first thing they do is defund STEM
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 17/03/2025
HLB destroyed the Florida citrus industry because one person on a flight from China managed to land in Miami while the Ag Inspection team was understaffed. I cannot state how devastating to our nation's agricultural industry a reduction in force across the country would be.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"If [Galileo] had had grant funding and a website, the Catholic Church would have suspended the former and scrubbed the latter" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
From Nobel Laureate Jochim Frank www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
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Commentary: Science on the chopping block
Those who care about the advancement of knowledge, and its applications for improving the human condition, are seeing their worst fears realized under Trump.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The modified announcements say that up to 15% of doctoral, and 20% of postdoctoral, awards can be held by international scholars.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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These 197 Terms May Trigger Reviews Of Your NIH, NSF Grant Proposals
Apparently, if you have "women" or "female" somewhere in your scientific research grant from the National Science Foundation or National Institutes of Health, watch out.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Her research grant mentioned ‘hesitancy.’ Now her funding is gone. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Her research grant mentioned ‘hesitancy.’ Now her funding is gone.
A medical researcher may have erroneously lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money because she was swept up in Trump administration efforts to ban studies of vaccine hesitancy and uptake.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Former NIH Director Harold Varmus did an excellent job today explaining on Science Friday what is at risk with the cuts to NIH. www.sciencefriday.com
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ScienceFriday.com
Brain fun, for curious people.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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David Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This man is charged with looking after “the health and well-being of all Americans.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
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Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
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