Reposted by Mary Beth HattenElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14hGood www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...nytimes.comHochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell CaseGov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her. 629544
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 14hhe dog’s emotional reaction when it saw its owner bald from chemotherapy. Original post 1584664553
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16hTrump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end" 3361281245
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt. 648216463572
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026This recipe is for the much-loved banana pudding from the famed New York shop Magnolia Bakery. nyti.ms/4cPAj0mnyti.msMagnolia Bakery’s Banana Pudding Recipe • 4★To many, the banana pudding at the famed New York shop Magnolia Bakery is even more iconic than the store’s beloved cupcakes. Airy, creamy and delightfully reminiscent of childhood packaged snacks (thanks to instant vanilla pudding mix), this dessert is both a crowd pleaser and easy to assemble. 1558
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026The Congressional Black Caucus endorsed James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, following a contentious primary riven by accusations of racism.washingtonpost.comBlack congressional leaders endorse James Talarico in Texas Senate raceTalarico has strong support among Black voters in public polls, but he has recently stepped up his efforts to reach them. 114728
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/09/2026“Nature’s silence is its one remark,” Annie Dillard wrote in a 1981 Atlantic essay. Dillard, who died yesterday at 81, spent her life listening, @isabelfattal.bsky.social writes.bit.lyWhat Nature’s Silence Said to Annie DillardThe late writer believed that hearing the natural world is its own form of prayer. 15515
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenMark Wagner @mark-j-wagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Granule cells predict future dopamine reward. Delayed climbing-fiber signals can reinforce the action that precedes it. Our paper, led by Benjamin Filio, is out today in Nature Neuroscience. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Public PDF: rdcu.be/RscCNeXvkXAa 35912
Mary Beth Hatten @mbhatten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How sad - Terry was the last great scientific editor who is deeply missed. 000
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The White House and OMB's diminished vision for science and medical research undercuts discoveries to come... ... and will lead to significant, near-term economic losses totaling tens of billions of $-s and tens of thousands of jobs. scienceimpacts.org/fy27scienceimpacts.orgSCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical ResearchView Projected Impact of the FY2027 Budget Cuts to the NIH and NSF 32632
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenMelody Hamby Goss @melodygoss111.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There is no love like that of a dog. 893414669
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Let’s just ask the parents and family members how they feel about their loved ones being referred to as “small potatoes” 0125
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Like “100-yr storms” that now occur almost every year, I feel that every week with this administration brings “one of the biggest scandals at NIH in anyone’s memory” 2468
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 04/09/2026Amid a measles outbreak in the U.S. and an Ebola outbreak abroad, Trump’s Pentagon is planning to siphon funds Congress provided for lifesaving infectious disease research to help pay for illegal wars. I introduced the Slash the Pentagon Act because we should be funding healthcare—not warfare. 516749
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenVaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Without notifying Congress or the American people, DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research.” Seriously? 03122
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026It’s impossible to calculate how much of what I’ve been able to accomplish is because of women like Gloria Steinem. Rest in power. www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...npr.orgGloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom. 253122712148
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenTobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 03/09/2026With the recent promising successes in mRNA technology defeating pancreatic and now glioblastoma (brain cancer), it’s looking like anti-vaxxers may be the only ones that will die from these diseases soon. Dolly Parton backed mRNA research. This may end up being her greatest gift. #science 20669181527
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026The city “is generating enormous wealth, but the vast majority of that prosperity is flowing to those who already have the most,” Comptroller Mark Levine says.thecityreporter.nycBottom 90% of New Yorkers’ Incomes Stagnate As Very Richest See 58% Gain Since COVIDThe city “is generating enormous wealth, but the vast majority of that prosperity is flowing to those who already have the most,” Comptroller Mark Levine says. 627999
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenAriel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Job descriptions for 2 new postdocs positions to study the spinal cord basis of motor control (Just looking at the letterhead for the new lab location has me so excited. Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, U. Of Toronto 🇨🇦, here we come!) @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca 11913
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenIgnacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”share.inquirer.comA Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer. 18585691580
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenAdam Kovac @adamjkovac.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Good afternoon! At midnight, the public comment period ends for a proposed federal rule change that would put political appointees in charge of science grant funding. Thousands have already written in against it, including several Nobel laureates. www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...scientificamerican.comScientists overwhelmingly against rule change that would give political appointees say over science grantsHundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American science 02625
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenCenter for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 07/07/2026We just sued the Trump administration seeking records on a decision that would revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect whales, including critically #endangered North Atlantic right #whales, from deadly ship strikes. Only around 380 right whales remain. 210456
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenEmily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026can confirm for one major public that admissions for math PhD cohort fell from >12 to 1 to possibly none during this time This country is going to sink like a *stone* in the sciences, within which it had been doing great things for a long time and had a pretty damned reliable economic engine 01811
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenAlex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Come join us at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch as Professor in Climate Biophysics. Blue-sky research, inspiring colleagues, and generous support. 1157
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenJake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Who are the masked cowards who call themselves the “Patriot Front”? They’re exactly who you think they are. 4227964
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenTJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said. 475118142230
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Dog rescued in Venezuela after 6 days in rubble! Such goodness all around 😍 472142972693
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenaltNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Beluga Whale Escapes Research Facility And Swims Hundreds Of Miles Back To Her Baby. It is wrong and immoral to hold beings of self awareness captive if they have committed no crimes. 254191334256
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenDr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The USA govt attacks on science are preventing future cures. Long term, stable, broad based science funding powers cures, innovation and our economy. Please fight for science! Call your reps! 074
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/06/2026This 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.comHow The OMB Rule Could Hurt You And Your TownThe 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. 4166114
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenLorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 23/06/2026What I hate is seeing a random video of animal control rescuing two abandoned dogs and thinking how sad it is that human left them behind, then finding out a few days later that it was ICE that left them there to die after stealing their human family. 16965081619
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenDrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 18/06/2026American politics have failed its scientists-and it comes at a price to us all. www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...scientificamerican.comAmerica’s compact between science and politics is broken, and we’re all going to payHow did we get here? 13014
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenAlt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 15/06/2026Yet another editorial is out speaking against the OMB rules proposed for federal funding. One of the most prestigious journals for clinical studies published this editorial st noon www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....nejm.orgThe OMB and the Politicization of Science | NEJMThe Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be... 13117
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenDr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026For a nanosecond I thought this David Hockney was a version of a classic diagram of cerebellum circuitry. 2143
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenDana 🌈🔬🪱 @millerlab.bsky.social · 06/06/2026It is BONKERS that the ADA removed scientists for passing out copies of a published editorial www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...medpagetoday.comVideo: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA MeetingResearchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions 0117
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/06/2026Five diabetes researchers were removed from the field’s premier conference in New Orleans after handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s “dismantling” of the biomedical research enterprise.washingtonpost.comDiabetes researchers ejected from conference after criticizing White HouseThe scientists, including the editor of a leading journal, were handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s handling of biomedical research. 1416386
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenThe Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 04/06/2026Congratulations to Rockefeller’s #classof2026, here’s to your next adventure! 🍾 🔬 🎉 #PHDone 072
Reposted by Mary Beth HattenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Can’t be repeated enough👇🏽 Just so insane 828146415116