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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/04/2025

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Very thankful to @sandiegouniontribune.com for covering the termination of our wastewater surveillance in San Diego. If we don't want to lose sight of infectious diseases in our community, we need new funding - please reach out: searchcovid.info www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...

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DOGE cuts shut down San Diego County’s wastewater testing system

Other alternatives are available, but none show coronavirus subtypes like San Diego’s SEARCH

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Justin English @justingenglish.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Want to Nanopore sequence complex nucleotide populations accurately, at low cost, with QC standards, using a plug-and-play informatics GUI, where you can PCR observed sequences out from your sample and not synthesize them? See our new pre-print! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/04/2025

"Within a week, I was already experiencing the benefits of intermittent working. My bloodshot eyes faded from red to dark pink, and my back hunch started to unfurl. I found myself forming new thoughts that had nothing to do with performing wage labor."

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I’m Trying a Wild Experimental Diet Where I Restrict My Working Hours to Certain Times of the Day

I never thought I’d follow a dieting fad. I always prided myself on being the type of laid-back person who worked as much as I wanted, whenever I w...

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...

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The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now - The Scholarly Kitchen

The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?

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Justin English @justingenglish.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

GPCR allosterism, a popular #ASPET2025 session chaired by @laurenslosky.bsky.social & Laura Wingler.

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WIRED @wired.com · 25/03/2025

Signal is a great privacy tool, but it isn’t magic. And even if you’re not discussing war plans in your group chat, it’s a good idea to know the limits of encryption. Read our piece on what Signal can—and can’t—do for you here: www.wired.com/story/encryp...

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Encrypted Messaging Is Essential—But It Isn’t Magic

As recent events have shown, using an encrypted messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal is no privacy panacea.

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 25/03/2025

Review: Ripoll, von Zastrow and @emilyblythe.bsky.social discuss the evolving understanding of cellular #GPCR signaling, highlighting recent advances and noting caveats and open questions. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellSignaling #Physiology

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Eric Leonardis @ericleonardis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

That’s right, I’m the worst kind of super villain in this country… I’m a *checks notes* NIH trainee 😂

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The job of Democrats is so clear right now: It's to do everything possible in the next 48 hours to keep the Atlantic story front-burner and make people understand the issues and the stakes. It couldn't be a simpler test of who gets it and who doesn't.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

In another instance, the Social Security Administration briefly ended a contract that had allowed parents of newborn babies in Maine to sign their children up for a Social Security number at the hospital, instead requiring them to do so in person at an office. Mr. Dudek said he had ordered the move after watching Janet Mills, Maine’s Democratic governor, clash with Mr. Trump at the White House. He quickly reversed that decision, as well as another to end electronic death reporting in the state.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is what breaks my heart. These young people who are so eager and full of promise and who are the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, scientists inventors, teachers. #Trump and #Musk have destroyed it all. www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

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The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling

As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, the path to a science career for students and researchers just got a whole lot harder.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The publicly tweeted flights, a state secret. War plans, shared by text!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The “state secrets” doctrine applies to things that are generally more sensitive than *classified* information. And here, the government hasn’t alleged any of this is classified. In fact, it involves conduct that the government itself splashed across the media in an orchestrated PR campaign!

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is a disaster and its happening right now. Having spoken with some folks in Congress, this is a message they have not received--they are still back in Indirects and USAID (also important, BTW). Call Congress today unless you want ot lose colleagues one by one till all are gone

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

ACCOUNTABILITY IS BACK

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I honestly cannot express how awesome it is that the DoD was putting out these statements at the literal exact same time that the Secretary of Defense was negligently transmitting classified information on an unsecure platform to a journalist. It's just utterly amazing. What a time to be alive.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security team group chat

Miss piggy in a trenchcoat, peeking out from behind a mailbox.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I’m curious if there are any scientific journals that are running special issues or pieces from scientists who are losing their funding or being fired. It needs to go down on the permanent record for the people who come after us.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

So the Trump administration’s argument is that this dude, not a court, should have the final say on who ends up in an El Salvadoran prison. Does that make you feel safer in America?

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“It really is quite chilling,” one of the scientists said. “They are controlling information, causing chaos, disrupting everyone, keeping us off-balance.” “Whatever people are reading in newspapers, it’s 10 times worse,” the scientist added. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

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‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science

Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Look at this ad. Republican billionaires are literally running ads on Twitter about how Trump is not killing cancer research, because they're scared Americans will find Trump is killing cancer research — and cancer treatment. h/t @jimsaksa.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

ATTENTION If anyone has any experience with appealing terminated grants (either the process or successful strategies 😀), please DM me. THANK YOU!

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ALT: a hello kitty sticker that says `` let me know '' .

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Modern science is international. Travel is essential for training & collaboration, but the US is not reliably safe for many of us. We all have ways to confront the threat, even if leadership is failing us. More on that + Dept of Ed in this week's debrief buttondown.com/liminalcreat... (1/5)

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Week 9

Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

As an immigration lawyer who also teaches professional ethics, I would say, in a technical sense, 🤭

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Tina MF @tmfab.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Lewelyn Dixon,64, a permanent resident with a valid Green Card since 1975,was detained by ICE. She immigrated from the Philippines at age 14 & works as a laboratory technician at the Univ. of Washington.The family has not received any information from ICE regarding the reasons behind her detention.

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Justin English @justingenglish.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

One of the best higher ed takes I've heard recently is to make tuition $X% of the students N years of employment after graduation. Incentivizes many aspects I think are important in student training.

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👻 Spooky Elle 🎃🧙🏼‍♀️🍄 @hecatestorch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Don't get me wrong - if someone wants to recruit me i'm all ears and ready to listen to the pitch - If anyone's listening I'm partial to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, or Germany :) But i'm not counting on it....

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

There will be individual US scientists moving to various countries of course. But there are too many scientists (even just focusing on the top tier) by at least an order of magnitude (probably 2 orders) to be absorbed I enjoy dreaming abt moving but we need to take a stand & fight this here and now

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Priestley Medal address 2025: A random (mostly) uphill walk A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner Frances H. Arnold. cen.acs.org/people/award...

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Priestley Medal address 2025: A random (mostly) uphill walk

A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner Frances H. Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioeng...

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 23/03/2025

I need all these so-called journalists to stop inventing their own version of history when it comes to 2020-2021. No one in science or medicine pretended to know things we could not have possibly known. We did the best we could, and public health guidance changed as new information became +

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Today in Vox, inspired by Zeynep's NYT editorial earlier this week, I wrote about why we badly need a Covid reckoning and are never, ever going to get one:
The initial justification for lockdowns was that we just needed a few weeks to slow the spread so our first responders weren't overwhelmed; but then those lockdowns persisted, without clear acknowledgment that the plan had changed.
On masks, the line went from "masks don't help much and should be reserved for first responders and doctors" (the contradiction here rarely acknowledged) to
"masks are crucial."
Outdoor gatherings were always much safer than indoor ones (and I said so here in Vox from early on), but a lot of public health officials criticized outdoor gatherings — up until the Black Lives Matter protests, at which point they largely said such events were fine.
Every one of these changes happened without much reflection on why we had previously got it wrong. Every one of them spent credibility that was desperately needed with the American people. Every one meant treating people, frankly, like they weren't very smart, and in the long run did incalculable damage to public trust.
So why hasn't there been more of a reckoning? The primary reason is that there are incredibly powerful incentives for everyone involved not to participate in one.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Justin English @justingenglish.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

nothing says "America" quite like asking for people's trust to get their money -- and then betraying them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Mike Lee, man. What’s it like having no self respect or shame?

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Keith Hornberger @krhornberger.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

J Med Chem is on 🔥 with the editorials lately, and I highly recommend giving this one a read. Understanding free drug principles is the gateway to all of pharmacology, and is all too often mangled and misapplied by drug discovery practitioners.

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Free Drug Concepts: A Lingering Problem in Drug Discovery

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I can’t compete with this

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The way to ensure that people face punishment for this in the future is to convert the US capital into a Tesla dealership.

Insurrectionists at the US Capital on January 6, 2021

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.

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Distill Social @distillsocial.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Happening NOW: Detroiters and Michiganders are rising up—rallying against the Trump regime, standing shoulder to shoulder with our Canadian neighbors in resistance. This isn’t just a protest. It’s a rejection of authoritarianism, billionaire tyranny, and the MAGA war on workers, democracy, & truth.

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Andy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

" @aoc.bsky.social & @sanders.senate.gov are exactly what the party needs right now. They're demonstrating the kind of fighting spirit woefully lost in the party’s leadership. The sort of “fuck around & find out” attitude voters across the country are craving" andyostroy.substack.com/p/why-i-love...

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Why I Love AOC and Bernie Right Now

The Incredible May-December Political Pairing That Just Might Save America

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Grads and postdocs: If you are asked to sign a loyalty oath, do not sign it If your PI signals that they may sign a loyalty oath, withhold your labor

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 21/03/2025

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...

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