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Christine Dunham

@dunhamlab.bsky.social
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Structural biologist, biochemist | Prof @EmoryChem | Protein synthesis, RNA, toxin-antitoxins | dunham.emorychem.science

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Collins issues statement on rumors of Executive Order taking control of NIH funding - please keep pressure on. There can be no trust here but it is also the case that she should hear that this statement will be welcomed if it is accompanied by action www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
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Sen. Collins: OMB Should Not Be Involved in Agency Decisions on Grant Awards | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well, I just spent an hour updating my claims for the Anthropic data theft class action lawsuit 4 editions of my Biochem book, 4 editions of the Biochem Short Course, Principles of Bioinorganic Chem, and the quaint How the NIH Can Help Get You Funded A pain, but any funds recovered will be useful
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A long 🧵 about my former Hopkins colleague... Jon Lorsch is the NIH's Deputy Director for Extramural Research (DDER). He is the individual most responsible for overseeing the NIH grants program. He was formerly the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. 1/21
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In an outspoken attack on the “incredibly profitable” but “completely unregulated” scientific publishing industry, Thomas Südhof...said he wanted to see US or European Union agencies establish minimum standards for journals that wish to describe themselves as “peer reviewed”. 1/3
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‘Broken journal system’ needs government oversight, says Nobelist
Federal authorities should enforce minimum standards for peer review in ‘unregulated’ journal sector, argues Thomas Südhof
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Great inspiration from @hormiga.bsky.social. I’m working on mine this weekend. . .
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Submit your OMB comment this weekend.
This one is important. It's due on Monday.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/07/2026
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 3 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/J92d9
Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "3 Days Left" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...
Screenshot of page 1 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 2 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 3 of my letter (see link in post for full text).Screenshot of page 4 of my letter (see link in post for full text).
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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...
Drawings of various laboratory equipment (liquid chromatography system, mass spectrometers and a centrifuge).
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Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Years ago, a friend reached out for advice: she was in a chat group with nine women who had all been sexually harassed by the same colleague. Even with all of them having found each other, it took weeks for them to muster the courage to speak up, and they very nearly didn’t do it. This is why 👇
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Skip hop jump Blue Dolphin🍀🐬🐚🐸🐾 @bluealways.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
RIP 🕊🕯 Martha Ann Lillard (6/8/48 – 6/26/26) was an American polio survivor who, following Paul Alexander's death, became the last known person who still relied on an iron lung. She contracted polio in 1953, when she was 5 yrs old. Lillard died from complications of long COVID-19 at the age of 78.
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Martha Lillard - Wikipedia
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Cumulative xG plot great way to see how the red card changed the game
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
NEW: The six opinions in the birthright citizenship ruling have a lot to teach us about the U.S. today. The 5-4 decision was the least the court could do to keep the United States of America on a constitutional path. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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The six opinions in the birthright citizenship ruling have a lot to teach us about the U.S. today
The 5-4 decision was the least the court could do to keep the United States of America on a constitutional path.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 02/07/2026
U of Tennessee to Pay $1.9 Million to Prof Fired Over Charlie Kirk Comments bit.ly/4eFfWEz
University of Tennessee Knoxville
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/06/2026
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville reached a $1.9 million settlement with Tamar Shirinian, a former professor who was fired after she criticized Charlie Kirk. Shirinian claimed that the school violated her constitutional rights.
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Professor reaches $1.9 million settlement after being fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk
The former University of Tennessee at Knoxville anthropology professor, who sued the school on First Amendment grounds, is the latest person to prevail in such litigation.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 01/07/2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council will provide the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) with $323.8 million, its highest-ever yearly appropriation as part of the city’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget.
hyperallergic.com
NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture
The overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Those allegations did tremendous damage — to our reputations, to grant funding for work in our field, to the broader discourse about what "free speech" means and whose speech is protected. The team who did this work at Stanford was dissolved. Our funding took a big hit. But our work at UW continues.
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cryoEM papers @cryoempapers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Structural insights into RNA recognition by the Staphylococcus aureus exoribonuclease YhaM pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42301784/ #cryoEM
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I love everything about this editorial by @dereklowe.bsky.social. Silence won't save anyone in the end. www.science.org/content/blog... "So the CEOs have decided to lie very still and hope that no one notices them.... But will it work? Only so long as Trump and his creatures see a benefit in it..."
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Speaking Up: Who Is, and Who Isn't
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Christine Dunham @dunhamlab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This was a really fun collaboration with the Yap lab at Northwestern @ribo1214.bsky.social. Congrats to Jacob Mattingly who led our structural biology efforts and Anna Lipońska from the Yap lab who performed the virulence assays! @pnas.org @emorycollege.bsky.social
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Frances Arnold @francesarnold.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
inpreparation.substack.com/p/frances-ar... I love satire!
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Frances Arnold Demolishes Alexi Lalas During Otherwise Normal Plenary
SAN DIEGO, CA—Nobel laureate Dr.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
forbes.com
How The OMB Rule Could Hurt You And Your Town
The OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
God i LOVE experts. This is GLORIOUS.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless...a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."
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Victor Ambros @vambros.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Please share this gift article from The New York Times with friends, family, sceptics, and People who think that studying weird things is a waste of money. Then follow up with meaningful discussion about what I call 'free range science'. Free without subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Frank 🎃hex🎃 Vázquez @fxvzquez.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@cenmag.bsky.social article about St. John’s current attempt to sunset the chemistry major. It describes how the university is basing its decision on a consultant report that doesn’t take into account the actual chemistry job market. 1/ cen.acs.org/education/un...
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St. John’s University moves to close chemistry programs amid falling enrollment
The school joins several others that have considered eliminating their chemistry degrees as more students turn to other majors, like biochemistry
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Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD @junlab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
1/ Out today in Science (@science.org): a result a decade in the making, and one that changed how I think about what cells are doing when they grow. We found a bacterium that grows slower than it could. And we found the molecular switch that lets us reverse it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Might be a hot take but I think Senators should experience consequences for lying
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Fact Checked: There Is No Link Between Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death
Extensive research and scientific review have found no evidence that vaccines cause sudden infant death.
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Junior RNA scientists @jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Celebrate RNA Day 2026 with creativity! The @rnasociety.bsky.social Junior Scientists are excited to announce the 2026 RNA Society Society Art & Baking Contests, proudly sponsored by Lexogen. Showcase your RNA-inspired visual art or culinary creations for a chance to win cash prizes!
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Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
On Monday, there were 18,800 comments. Right now there are 22,150.
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Star Wars: Kylo Ren Screams 'MORE!!!'
Alt: Star Wars: Kylo Ren Screams 'MORE!!!'
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I could have been accused of vagueposting earlier; here's the news in full. I can't count the number of times I have heard Rick Van Kooten referred to as "a saint." He started as Executive Dean of the College in Fall 2019 and has been thru it ALL with such equilibrium www.ipm.org/2026-06-16/d...
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Dean of IU’s College of Arts and Sciences removed, says ‘not a change I sought’
Van Kooten served as dean for nearly seven years. Caroline Chick Jarrold, associate dean of natural and mathematical sciences and research, will serve as interim dean.
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Julian Streit @julianstreit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Excited to share our work describing structural ensembles of protein folding intermediates on the ribosome is now published in @natsmb.nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Very grateful to co-first author @sammyhschan.bsky.social, our supervisor John Christodoulou and all our co-authors.
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Structures of protein folding intermediates on the ribosome - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Atomistic structural ensembles of protein folding intermediates on the ribosome are resolved by comprehensive 19F nuclear magnetic resonance analyses integrated with molecular dynamics simulations, pr...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you haven't posted a comment, now is the time. If not, you are enabling the destruction of science in America
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/06/2026
Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal here 👉 zurl.co/Q8eBE #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #Science
The graphic displays a photo of Russell Vought, the White House, and the white Stand Up for Science logo. The graphic reads: "ALL scientific research is in danger, Stop Vought. Save Science. TAKE ACTION NOW! 1. Email & Call Your Members of Congress 2. Leave a Public Comment 3. Donate to Fuel the Fight for Science, LINK IN BIO".
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Jeremy G Bird @drjeremygbird.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1/ A new preprint from my lab is out now: “The E. coli DEAD box ATPase, CsdA, is a NAD+ capped RNA binding protein” lead by my graduate student Kaustuv Das with the assistance of @childerslab-pitt.bsky.social -pitt.bsky.social and @schraderlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
When an expert on authoritarianism (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) is writing about your scientific meeting, alarm bells should go off. Write to American Diabetes Association CEO Charles Henderson at chenderson@diabetes.org and Chief Medical Officer Rita Rastogi Kalyani at rkalyani@diabetes.org.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  A deep dive in tonight’s special and urgent issue on the OMB’s gambit to achieve by rule-making what the administration fails to win in court. buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Year 2, Week 23
May 29-Jun 5, 2026 – power moves
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/05/2026
Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 01/06/2026
1/ 🧵 OMB is advancing a proposed rule that would destroy the American scientific enterprise. Randos keep disagreeing with my 'here's how to fight it' I do this for a living. So before the "how," here's the "who" --- and why you should listen to me on this one.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I’ve been thinking about how to argue against this in my response. do people have good references that demonstrate the value of peer review for an evidence based argument?
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the proposed OMB regulations. 1/5
Dear Director Bhattacharya:  Assuming you are supportive of the new regulations proposed by the Office of Management and Budget (https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-10817/regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance), I have a few questions for you.  This is a partial list of the many that I could pose, based on this expansive assertion of political authority unrelated to scientific content and importance.
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Junior RNA scientists @jrrnascientists.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Some more Jr RNA Scientists showing off their completed RNA pin collection at #RNA26 #RNA2026 🧬🎉 Shoutout to Anna Pitas, Natalie Sofia, Elise Iracane and Diba Rafii for joining in the fun and activities throughout the conference!
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If you are a member of a scientific or educational society, please contact them and ask them what they are doing to fight this. They should be releasing statements, calls to action, explainers, talking points, or drafting letters for their members to sign.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
1) I have never once trusted western blot data from any antibody company. 2) Thermo should be sued into oblivion.
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