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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/07/2026

🚨 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 11 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/R83IO

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Boise's Jane Doe died at 16 fighting against dehumanization and repression by the state She was buried without her name and her case against the state was buried with her She was only 16. She lived and died here. We have to fix this for our babies.

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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Why do influenza viruses make ludicrously long filamentous virions? Probably lots of reasons, but in a new study Lu Liu et al. provide evidence for an appealing hypothesis: filaments are more stable in acidic solutions and hence survive for longer in aerosols www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Electron micrographs showing influenza virions of varying morphologies, from spheres to filaments

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 13/05/2026

Feeling worn out and overwhelmed? It’s ok. The cruelty is exhausting. It’s ok to take a break. Then, pick an area, pick a task, get back in the fight. 📚 Educate 💲 Donate www.actblue.com ☎️ Call 5calls.org/ ⌨️ Write democracy.io/ 📣 Protest www.mobilize.us/ 🗳️ VOTE ballotpedia.org/Elections_ca...

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Forrest Valkai @forrestvalkai.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If transphobes actually studied biology half as much as they whined about it on the internet, there would be no more transphobes.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Just 4 ancestral species (citron, pummelo, mandarin, & papeda) gave rise to the common citrus fruits, as shown in this graphic from Kalita et al. 2021. A molecular perspective on the taxonomy and journey of Citrus domestication. doi.org/10.1016/j.pp... #Citrus #Rutaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 1/2

Illustration (with a background photo of oranges) of four ancestral Citrus species. The fruits have arrows in various combinations, showing how hybrids and selection have resulted in other species.

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Being a vegan scientist is fun! All you have to do is say, "I'm vegan" and someone will immediately take it upon themselves to demonstrate (Piazza, Ruby, et al., 2015) and recite, "NATURAL NORMAL NECESSARY AND NICE" Thanks for contributing to the data pool, buddy. Couldn't do it without you🫡

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 22/04/2026

Good morning. Sometimes the best prevention strategy is a sense of humor. If it doubles as a fashion statement, we support that too.😆

A pink baseball cap with red lettering that says "avoiding meningitis and meningeneral"

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

JUST IDAHO THINGS: county commissioner resumes public office after stabbing teenage girl in altercation over jet skiing in the river last summer

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Accusations without charges: Boise County Commissioner appears publicly after stabbing claim

Darrell Lindstrom, accused of stabbing a teenage girl, remains silent amid public outcry.

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Veruca's Alt @verucas-alt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The people banning books are never the same people who actually read books.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

At this moment, no humans are farther from Donald Trump than the Artemis II crew. Honestly… I’m jelly.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/02/2026

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

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These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’

Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

“I haven’t checked if this is true, but…” Let me stop you right there, friend-o. There’s enough actually horrible stuff really happening without you spreading inflammatory wrong information.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

reposting this every time i see a bad rural take. via @janprobst.bsky.social www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

A map of the US. Counties with large minoritized populations are shown Black populations are largely in the South, Latino in the West, AI/AN in Alaska and the upper Midwest, and Asian in Hawaii.

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

TOMORROW BELONGS TO US

2 panel meme. Top panel:
Guy in a military outfit including a gas mask riding on the front of a motorized something or other, a tank perhaps, with a long gun barrel sticking out. He's looking at the camera, turned around from the direction of travel. Overlaid text reads, "hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now but"

Bottom panel:
It's a zoom in on the eyes in the gas mask. The original meme says, "it's about to get much worse" or something like that. This version is subverted where that text is removed and "the future is unknowable and will be determined by how hard we fight now for a loving world" is inserted.

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Donut granulomas from a Coxiella burnetii infection🍩

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

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A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr.

CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

it's Very Vinay (sorry) that he quit actual regulatory work (Actual Work) after two months to go back to podcasting (his true lifes Passion)

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/07/2025

The US technically hasn't lost measles elimination (yet) But there's a good chance we will Elimination = no endemic transmission for 12+ months The first Texas case was detected Jan 20 With the right resources, we might be able to keep measles eliminated in America

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Even microbes need a hug! I love this TEM image of a phage helper (blue) and its satellite virus (pink) 🥰 Satellite viruses are dependent on helper viruses for genome replication. They are not able to invade a cell and replicate their genetic material without attaching to one. Teamwork! 🤝

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Hetero Awesome Fest - Guerrilla Performance - Boise, Idaho - Boy 🚨 A QUEER PERSON HAS SNUCK ONTO THE STAGE AT HETERO PRIDE THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Genetically, Shigella bacteria are a subspecies of Escherichia, (or you might be more familiar with the name E. coli.) In other news, did you know different strains of E. coli can differ in their genetics by anywhere from 30 to 80%? LOL 🤪

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the primary causative agent for the disease known as tuberculosis, showing off its prolific "cording" trait. These cord-like structures play an important role in both endogenous antibiotic resistance and disease progression!

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature graph documenting estimated lives lost from USAID. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01191-z

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Prints of an original artwork (Neutrophil Extracellular Trap) are available on MorticiasLab! morticiaslab.com/products/neu... #SciArt

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Neutrophil (Original Artwork) Print

Hello👋🏻👩🏻‍🔬Morticia here, welcome to The Lab!

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This is bleak reading

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Speaking of Lab Week...you might find some cool lab-themed stickers over on Morticia's Lab. You know..if you're interested in that sort of thing. And if not, well that sucks for you. morticiaslab.com/collections/...

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Happy Lab Week to the med lab squad! May your QC always be in range and your microtainers unclotted. 🧫🧪🔬

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Paenibacillus dendritiformis is captivating. Just look at that colony morphology! This "social" microbe forms dynamic communities that behave like a multi-cellular organism; with specialized cell differentiation, communication and linguistics. It reminds us what we can achieve when we work together.

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The horrors persist but so do we. We are not the first people to be here, we aren't the first scientists to be persecuted, we aren't the first citizens to be oppressed. We have footsteps to follow, and shoulders to stand on! Fascism wins when you lose hope. To joyful persistence, my friends! ❤️‍🔥

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

How do we balance evidence and gaps in knowledge when discussing science? 🤔 New discussion at Morticia's Lab! morticiaslab.com/supporters/p...

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

If you're looking for book recommendations, The Furies by Elizabeth Flock has easily been my favorite read of 2025. Three incredible stories of sisterhood, resilience and a beautiful reminder that we make our own justice, we keep each other safe.

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Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice @bullardcenter.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🌱 “Our EJ Movement wasn't birthed in government—and it will endure.” – @drrobertbullard.bsky.social This #EarthMonth2025, we honor the legacy + future of environmental justice. ✊🏾🌍 #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #DrRobertBullard

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

ChatGPT ass presidency

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Fusobacterium nucleatum is a fascinating troublemaker. This organism is ubiquitous in the human mouth, making it a symbiotic member of the healthy, human microbiome! However, it may play a role in endometriosis, colorectal cancer and has even been implicated in preterm birth and neonatal sepsis.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2025

Tweet from @dril with an edit. Original says:

“Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying”

The edit is that the candles line is crossed out and replaced with “Tariffs: $6 trillion”

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/03/2025

Good morning, good morning! Get up, get out of bed Rise and shine, go fight for right Democracy’s not dead!

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Did you know I have exclusive educational content that you can access for as little as $1 a month?👀 I've posted videos explaining (debunking) the "hygiene hypothesis", showing you how to make fungal smears and reading from 100+ year old medical texts! Check out morticiaslab.com

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Hello👋🏻👩🏻‍🔬Morticia here, welcome to The Lab!

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Morticia (MLS, ASCP) @morticiaslab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New tapeworm species (genus Rhinebothrium) were just described and uh...I'm just going to say it. It's a really good day to not be a stingray because what the fuck is that. (Scolex of Rhinebothrium palmeri. SEM, 300 uM) #microbiology

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