iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 17h

From MBoC: How do cells coordinate their movements as a group? New research shows how vimentin helps connect individual cell movement with coordinated collective migration and efficient wound closure. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc…

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Greg Harrison @bactophile.bsky.social · 12h

Beautifully made video overview! Definitely gonna check out the review, but highly recommend this video summary on the evolution of multicellularity 🤩

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 14h

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Town of Carrboro, NC @carrboronc.bsky.social · 10h

Carrboro This Week: 🚲It's "Week Without Driving in Carrboro"! 🎉We enjoyed seeing Carrboro Cubs and their parents walking and rolling to school this Wednesday! 🗳️Have you seen the new interactive voting resource for our community - Vote 2026? 🎨 2nd Friday ArtWalk monkeylink.co/3db6bc

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior

An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12h

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 10h

Just put finishing touches on @spaceaustralia.com article for this. It is indeed very neat news... Dropping at 5am (AEDT) tomorrow morning! 🔭

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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 16h

Photos: The Student Protests in France - For much of the past month, students in France, alongside teachers and unions, have been protesting against poor conditions in schools. Thousands have been arrested following nationwide demonstrations yesterday. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

People gather on and around a large statue in Paris during a student protest. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty)

A large crowd of protesting students carrying many hand-made signs (Stephane Mahe / Reuters)

Student protesters tear down a traffic light. (Jean-Francois Badias / AP)

Student protesters, including one wearing a pigeon mask, push on the shields of several riot police officers. (Lou Benoist / AFP / Getty)

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12h

One stop codon to evade two divergent immune systems www.fredhutch.org/content/www/... Great writeup by Ashley Person @fredhutch.org Original paper by @tamanash.bsky.social here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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One stop codon to evade two divergent immune systems

A recent study reveals how a single stop codon helps alphaviruses evade immune defenses in both mosquitoes and humans

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 10h

Susan Collins' disastrous debate gaffe revealed she was 'in on the lie': ex-GOP operative #RawStory

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Susan Collins' disastrous debate gaffe revealed she was 'in on the lie': ex-GOP operative

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 9h

Anyway, I was on the Duke bus today and I overheard one student say to another “I’m working on a really cool project that’s all about how to reach, you know, old people, like, you know, in their 30s or 40s” & if you need me I’ll be the one curled up on the floor in the corner of the room crying lol

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John Rees (Rhys) @jrees.net · 9h

Missed out on a peppers pizza shirt when they existed? Lapin Bleue has NOS ones. Come get one!

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Partners In Health @pih.org · 9h

The progress we’ve made expanding access to quality health care is under threat. Foreign aid cuts are putting essential services at risk for communities. Open your fall update to learn more about the work our Chief Medical Officer is helping lead alongside teams and partners: bit.ly/4yEuA6x

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 11h

Excited to see our fMRI paper is out, led by Itamar Kahn’s lab. Our grad students, Amir Lawen and Bella Succi, in collab with Darcy Peterka, built a setup for simultaneous fMRI and dopamine fiber photometry in awake behaving mice. We learned some new biology too. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dopamine release-associated striatal blood oxygenation and whole-brain dynamics during associative learning

Dopaminergic signaling in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) is central to reward-based learning, but its relationship to brain-wide hemodynamics remains unclear. Using concurrent fMRI and dopamine photometr...

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 11h

They defunded STEM training grants so they could refund STEM training grants….

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11h

Agreed. Vote For James Talarico if you opposed tyranny.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 14h

Is there an upsetting post that keeps turning up on your timeline? (There’s a really bad one today.) You can make it disappear for you. Click the three dots below the post and click Hide This Post. More tips in the thread below.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11h

Most bats eat insects, some fruit, a few meat, 3 dine on blood. Two species of bat primarily eat FISH. 🐟 Let's learn about one of the LOUDEST ANIMALS IN THE WORLD & how they hunt by STEALTH. Meet the bulldog bats in family Noctilionidae. 🦇🧪

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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 11h

I enjoyed covering this one for @livescience.com, especially the description of an ancient mammal relative being "like a chimera", with the back being like a platypus, but the front sporting sharp teeth for rending prey. If only the prey weren't salamanders - one of my favourite animals. 🧪 🐸 🦊 🐍 🦇

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Pavel Payne @pavelpayne.bsky.social · 13h

Finally, my paper is out! It shows how bacteria can utilize their CRISPR immunity against transducing phages to turn them into "pollinators". This way bacteria can speed up their own adaptation through recombination by two orders of magnitude compared to mutations, and they do so when starving!

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 11h

Hamilton is briefly mentioned in my upcoming book “Complexity and Emergence” — she programmed the computer simulations that inspired Edward Lorenz to found modern chaos theory.

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WUNC News @wunc.org · 11h

Raleigh will temporarily halt approvals for certain large-scale data centers after the City Council voted 7-1 Tuesday night to impose a six-month moratorium in an effort to give city officials time to study the industry's potential negative effects www.wunc.org/politics/202...

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Raleigh approves 6-month data center moratorium as activists push for longer pause

Raleigh City Council paused large-scale data center development for six months in order to study potential impacts.

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Ariane Abrieu @arianeabrieu.bsky.social · 11h

Joyeux anniversaire au CRBM ! Pour le Festival de la cellule — Savoureusement vivant, passez nous voir à la Halle Tropisme : l’équipe vous a mitonné un programme aux petits oignons ! Au menu : 12 ateliers, plusieurs expositions, un espace vidéo et bien d’autres surprises pour régaler vos cellules

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Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Only 3 more days to apply for our Assistant Professor in Arthropod Biodiversity position! The application deadline is October 9, 11:59pm! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05523

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Assistant Professor - Arthropod Biodiversity - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 10h

Who does your graphics--after the GRC video I was already blown away

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 13h

Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11h

“The FDA hit Amazon with a warning letter for selling unapproved herpes treatments… This poses "a serious public health concern," the agency wrote, since people relying on these products "may forgo timely, appropriate medical care, increasing their risk of severe complications”

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FDA Warns Amazon Over Herpes Treatments

Products pose 'serious public health concern,' agency said

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 12h

Trump announced $100M to train U.S. citizen scientists only. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... These are not new funds. NSF underspent its education funds by $100M this past year. Of course, it pales in comparison to the $560M lost due to terminated NSF education grants: grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪

Trump Makes $100 Million Push to Train American Scientists

By Liam Knox
October 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC

The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the US and policymakers focus on an AI arms race with China.
The initiative, which President Donald Trump is set to announce at a White House summit on Thursday, aims to increase the number of highly trained scientific researchers who are American citizens through fellowships for PhD programs in science and engineering disciplines, according to a White House official.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 10h

I just was ranting about this to a friend--he is so off normal its unbelievable and yet the press is just brushing it off.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 17h

Trump floated two U.S. cities getting wiped out, used an anti-trans slur on a Senate candidate, and demanded reporters be arrested for reporting crowd sizes. The press largely brushed the crazy off. My write-up in the link in the comments.

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 11h

“no review panels are scheduled, although about 600 proposals are still pending with SBE” So 600 teams of scientists got preliminary data, did analyses, wrote up proposals, got budgets approved, etc, based on NSF saying there were funds in this area. And now their work is just sitting there

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Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 21h

That time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.)

Map of the western USA with 20 overlapping chipmunk species distributions in different colors.

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Dr. Mathilde Cordellier @mcordellier.bsky.social · 13h

oooh today I signed for two packages slightly reeking of formalin and fish, containing a dogfish shark and a lamprey, delivered to the wrong building. We didn't open them and hope the real recipient (actually on parental leave atm) will come get them soon

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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 06/10/2026

Bless their heart.

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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 13h

For the first time, South Carolinians will be able hear directly from me and Mrs. Graham Nordone directly — my vision for a South Carolina we can afford and Darline's DC consultants' vision for whatever they want her to say. I hope you'll join me in Columbia before I take the stage Sunday evening.

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 13h

christoph: the worst thing about this short video of a typical tirade by your president is actually the subservient posture and submissive facial expressions of his lackeys. that is, those who then put their master's words into action (and are "just" doing their duty, the usual excuse). /rant

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 13h

I'd be happy with journals not publishing this slop

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 13h

Not enough time in the world for that screening, unless you are a wealthy philanthropist who wants to pay for them hiring dozens of new employees

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14h

This is awful in infinite ways, but we are about to get humanity’s first, first person testimony as to what it’s like to die by lethal injection.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 14h

Check out this amazing story (to me, anyway) of a 1000-mile-long cloud that consistently forms and disappears on #Mars. As a climate and water scientist, this fascinates me. www.livescience.com/space/mars/1...

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1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth

New simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 14h

The best and true thing about this is the tiny little slice radio astronomy gets 😂😅

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 14h

We were already crowdfunding all these things that benefit society. It’s called taxes.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 14h

1980s--you could FED EX a manuscript to Lewin and get a FAXed desk reject the same day

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