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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 11/09/2025

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

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ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

43 years ago today When punk met hip hop 🤝 The Clash and Kurtis Blow at the Akron Civic Theater, August 17, 1982 #punk #punks #punkrock #hiphop #theclash #kurtisblow #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Who has gone out on a limb to challenge Trump? Lots of federal district court judges. Whom did the Supreme Court choose at this moment to rein in (having passed on doing so under Biden)? Federal district court judges.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

No better way to build morale in the military than forcing troops to march down largely empty streets in a thunderstorm to celebrate a draft dodger’s birthday

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

My tiny undergrad college town!

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Jeff Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Yes. This is like someone whimpering about the mean streets of the Upper East Side or the Hamptons, of Marin or Atherton, of Potomac or McLean, of 02138. S Miller is an embarrassment to all Californians.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

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Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

McSweeney’s gets it.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I'm asking a favor of everyone here. Please click this AEVR/NAEVR (vision research advocacy group) link to oppose Schedule F Reclassification of Federal Science Roles by the Trump administration: www.votervoice.net/NAEVR/Campai... It will help you auto populate fields to your elected reps.

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Oppose Schedule F Reclassification of Federal Science Roles

On April 23, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would allow for the reclassification of tens of thousands of federal employees, including those...

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

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Kevin Thiessen, PhD @kevinthiessen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Cross-posting from LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-... These are useful (and free!) websites that I found in my search for all things #zebrafish as part of my Bioinformatics Bootcamp. If there’s enough interest, I may do a blog post on the Node. Enjoy!

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#zebrafish | Kevin Thiessen, Ph.D.

A while back, I put together a Bioinformatics Bootcamp for #zebrafish researchers. Here are some of the helpful links & resources that I've come across in my search: Disclaimer: This is not a...

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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today. One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.

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Mason Posner @mason91.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Very good description of how the Trump administration is dismantling US science and harming public health, and a message that we can't acquiesce. Supporting medical science in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Supporting medical science in the USA

The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...

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Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🇧🇴🏳️‍🌈 @joscelinrocha.com · 18/04/2025

📊 tidyplots: Publication-Ready Plots for Scientific Papers By Jan Broder Engler — Create clean, consistent, and accessible plots in R with intuitive syntax. Great for scientific publishing! 🔗 Package: buff.ly/AEeUq0Z 🔍 Examples: buff.ly/vFpLqna More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh #RStats #DataViz

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Tidy Plots for Scientific Papers

The goal of tidyplots is to streamline the creation of publication-ready plots for scientific papers. It allows to gradually add, remove and adjust plot components using a consistent and intuitive…

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The budget proposal eliminates: NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

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Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research | CNN

The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate ...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This sounded even more ridiculous in the original North Korean.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting & treatment of international students is completely unacceptable. International students are core members of the Buckeye community and we won’t be silent as they are scapegoated in this way www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

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5 Ohio State University international students have visas revoked by Trump administration

Ohio State University is the latest college to report having international students whose visas were revoked by the Trump administration.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York. But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.

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Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘horrifying’ ICE probe in Northern NY

The family has been transferred out of New York state.

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Mason Posner @mason91.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Folks wrapped around the entire town square today for #handsoff in Medina Ohio

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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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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

During the darkest days of Covid, Peter Marks briefed the world on the development of the vaccines that saved millions of lives, with calm command of the science that helped us all take a deep breath and believe we could get through it all.

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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Today was yet another sad day for science. All U-RISE training programs, including the one at SJSU, got stop work orders. We've had a version of this program at SJSU for 30+ yrs. Devastating for the students who got their stipends & tuition pulled w no notice & for the future of science 🧪 1/

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 14/03/2025

Columbia President email confirms DHS raid tonight in University housing (dorms?). Truly, get us all the fuck out of this place.

Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:

I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight. No one was arrested or detained. No items were removed, and no further action was taken.

Federal agents from the DHS served Columbia University with two judicial search warrants signed by a federal magistrate judge authorizing DHS to enter non-public areas of the University and conduct searches of two student rooms.

The University has a clear protocol in place. Consistent with this protocol, our longstanding practice, and the practices of cities and institutions throughout the country, the University requires that law enforcement have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including residential University buildings. Tonight, that threshold was met, and the University is obligated to comply with the law. Our University Public Safety was present at all times.

Columbia continues to make every effort to ensure that our campus, students, faculty, and staff are safe. Columbia is committed to upholding the law, and we expect city, state, and federal agencies to do the same.

I understand the immense stress our community is under. Despite the unprecedented challenges, Columbia University will remain a place where the pursuit of knowledge is cherished and fiercely protected, where the rule of law and due process is respected and never taken for granted, and where all members of our community are valued and able to thrive. These are the principles we uphold and that guide us every day.

For students in need of support, I’ve included a list of University resources below.

Standing together for Columbia,

Katrina Armstrong
Interim President, Columbia University in the City of New York

Available University Resources:

Support from your school: Contact the Dean of Students office for your school.
Counseling and well-being resources:
Morningside and Manhat…

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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My first research experience was because of a summer NSF REU. I learned to code (in FORTRAN 77!) as part of the KTeV high energy physics collaboration. It launched my passion for science & my entire career. Devastating to see this valuable program gutted. www.science.org/content/arti...

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NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates

Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

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Michel Cayouette @michelcayouette.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Someone at NIH signed this letter! WOW, I’m shocked.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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Mason Posner @mason91.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Ashamed of my country. Slava Ukraini!

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 27/02/2025

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025

RNA xkcd.com/3056

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Gen. CQ Brown signs off with a graceful message on LinkedIn:

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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

My colleague @rnareylab.bsky.social wrote this editorial for her hometown area newspaper. Well done & more please! www.heraldbanner.com/opinion/colu...

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Why federally funded science matters to Texas | Columns | heraldbanner.com

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

"More than half of the 100 congressional districts with the largest proportion of federal workers are held by the GOP, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis." (@wsj.com chart below shows congressional districts in the South.) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Chart showing the estimated number of federal workers in congressional districts in the South, based on an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“DOGE has targeted a shocking sweep of basic government services with an unprecedented level of slash-and-burn nihilism. There’s no considered plan, just careless mass destruction — and Musk’s desire to control everything, whatever the risks.” www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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Elon Musk’s first month of destroying America will cost us decades

There’s no considered plan, just careless mass destruction.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

My weekly column and news roundup of our national crisis, written in the style of how the US media would—with more clear-eyed authority—cover these events if they were happening overseas: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

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"King Donald I" Accelerates White Nationalist Purge of Military Leaders

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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

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