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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 24/09/2026

I swear I'm not subtweeting anyone specific but if foundations and professional organizations want to support early career investigators in These Troubling Times they should change their grant submission process to accept grants written in NIH format with *no required modifications*

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026

The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.

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Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch

Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just emailed the leadership at Pitt (my current employer), Stanford (my Alma Mater), and Johns Hopkins (my former employers) using this tool. It's easy. Let them hear our voices.

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Eslam Maher @eslammaher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm all for the base R pipe. #rstats

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Want to predict Lyme disease risk? Count the acorns, not the deer Findings from a 30-plus-year study challenge long-held assumptions about the factors that drive this tickborne disease. Read more: bit.ly/4wA4zmU 📷: DenisGiles / flickr

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/08/2026

𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲-𝟮𝟳 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲? Yes. On 5/28/26 the FDA recommended a new formulation targeting the JN.1-lineage XFG variant 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲? Available now at walgreens. 1-2 mo for other locations.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/08/2026

💉 Where can you find accurate information on vaccines❓ ✅ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-... ✅ Medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and... ✅ CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...

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Ken Field, PhD @profken.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Another very disturbing outcome of the war on science.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/08/2026

(1/4) TW: Some of today’s topics are heavy, but it’s a heavy day. Let’s talk about trauma from the events that happened last year. The lasting impacts of showing up to work every day with bullet holes still visible from our desks for nearly a year has taken its toll.

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Martin Michaelis (he/him) @martmichaelis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We do not seem to have learnt anything from the COVID-19 pandemic. We are still complacent instead of proactive. Prevention is still not a priority, in particular not low income areas... And Bundibugyo is a species, not a strain... 🧪 #MedSky #PoliSky #EconSky

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Ebola virus behind massive outbreak in DRC could be mutating, officials say

Cases have passed 4,000 and health watchdog plans to go door to door to find patients in major response escalation

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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Here is some of that good news you've been looking for.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's been two and a half months since the Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared and it is now the biggest the country has ever experienced and the second largest the world has ever seen. Dozens of cases continue to be reported each day across three separate provinces. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n077-...

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The White House has finalized changes to F, J & I student visa terms. Beginning Sept 15 2026, visas will generally be limited to four years, replacing the current Duration of Status policy. www.ascb.org/science-policy/white-h…

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/07/2026

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 28/07/2026

What ever happened to free speech ? A US citizen when asked to turn over his phone at a US airport by customs agents who then demanded access. He gave them a code that scrubbed all data from the phone. He's now being charged with a felony. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So... I am mentioned in Dr. Fauci's (now public) diary. 1/9

Call from Jeremy Berg at Pitt sending me as Cell Host & Microbe by a Chinese group Shi-Hui Sun et al: A mouse model of SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Pathogenesis. 28: 110, July 8, 2020 (Online first) indicating that the Chinese were making CRISPR.Cas9 knockin mice for ACE-2 that were made 30 weeks ago, which would be August, 2019. Why would they be doing that last summer??? They could have been studying SARS, but they already had mouse models. Possible they just wanted to use a better technique (CRISPR) OR they knew that SARS-CoV-2 already existed and the outbreak was already ongoing.

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Ken Field, PhD @profken.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Come join a great department at a PUI!

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ebola outbreak in the DRC: 2973 confirmed cases (+68) incl. 1309 deaths (+40) The outbreak has now touched 48 health zones across 5 provinces insp.cd/sitrep-n070-...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/07/2026

US research excels because generations of scientists have been free to pursue difficult questions, challenge conventional wisdom, and publish findings without political interference. The Trump admin wants to change that. @afthighered.bsky.social Full statement: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...

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AAUP, AFT Reject Trump’s Radical Plans to Overhaul Scientific Research Funding

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued a statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to transform how the federal government funds research.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

climatecoloredgoggles.com

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 23/07/2026

somehow I only recently learned that LLMs need the whole conversation fed back to them on each prompt so their i/o cost scales as O(n^2), something that would be considered completely unacceptable in almost any other production network-accessible software

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The recorded death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the DRC is about to cross 1,000 cases. In reality there have likely been a lot more deaths already. Many new cases appear to have no link to known cases, suggesting much of the spread is still happening in the dark.

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Tobias Lenz @biotobi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Interesting paper on #TCR repertoire variation in wild-caught mice. While not controlled for genetics or exposure history, it gives important insights into the extent of variation in a natural setting. academic.oup.com/discovimmuno...

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The T-cell receptor repertoire of wild mice

AbstractIntroduction. Wild animals live in a pathogen-rich environment and are normally infected with a wide range of micro- and macro-parasites. Wild anim

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/07/2026

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

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Ken Field, PhD @profken.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What is the word for that feeling when you return the rental car with the low fuel light on, having prepaid for gas?

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11/07/2026

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ebola outbreak in DRC still outpacing response A WHO official warns the outbreak could be 2 to 4 times larger than the number of confirmed cases, which are now around 1,800. Read more: bit.ly/4wARha6 📷: WHO/Josua Mulala Raymond

Ebola responder in personal protective gear in DRC

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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 19/06/2026

This is how you can do paired testing in #tidyplots 🍒 #rstats #dataviz #phd

library(tidyplots)

x <- c(2.3, 4.5, 6.3, 3.4, 7.8, 6.7)
df <- data.frame(
x = c(x, x + c(0.8, 0.75)),
group = paste0("g", rep(c(1, 2), each = 6)),
batch = paste0("b", c(1:6, 1:6)),
shuffle = paste0("c", c(1:6, 6:1))
)

df |>
tidyplot(group, x, color = group) |>
add_boxplot() |>
add_data_points() |>
add_test_pvalue(paired_by = batch) |>
add_line(group = batch, color = "black")

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

$11 billion. That’s how much the Trump admin spent to pay retiring employees not to work through the Deferred Resignation Program (aka, fork in the road), according to a report from @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Many agencies are now frantically trying to rehire. www.citizen.org/article/11-b...

citizen.org

Trump's $11 Billion Resignation Program: How the Trump Administration’s Downsizing of the Federal Workforce Cost American Taxpayers Billions - Public Citizen

The Trump administration has paid federal employees at least $11 billion – and likely much more – not to work.…

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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Should be an interesting read for bat 🦇 researchers…

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Released 40 years ago today. Still the greatest day off.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The new situation report on Ebola in the DRC records 676 confirmed cases including 136 deaths. That's 41 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, most of them from Ituri province and 12 from North Kivu. Worth noting that outbreak is still expanding into new health zones. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n27-m...

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

TFW you finally relocate the 1906 type locality of one of your focal species and now you know what it’s really supposed to look like. #iamabotanist

Solanum dioicum at the ‘Dillons Springs’ site as collected by W.V. Fitzgerald in 1906. Eastern Kimberley, Western Australia

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just published new data on the clinical presentation of disease and genomic characterization of the 2026 Bundibugyo virus index case in Uganda. I love to see the rapid dissemination of science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Clinical Profile and Genomic Characterization of the 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Index Case in Uganda - Nature Medicine

Nature Medicine - Clinical Profile and Genomic Characterization of the 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Index Case in Uganda

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Cross-protection against Bundibugyo by Ebola and Sudan vaccines www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This video by @acapellascience.bsky.social has a cult following in #DevBio circles. It is just to perfect and the kind of content that is so important with science under attack www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqR...

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Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science

YouTube video by acapellascience

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Ok scifolk. If you picture yourself as a PI/lab leader of base level comfort and productivity what is your desired lab size? I’ll go first. 2 techs 2 postdocs 2 undergrads in short or medium term rotation

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Well respected and brave scientists were removed from the American Diabetes Association meeting today simply for distributing copies of a published editorial critical of the administration’s policies. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting

Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Many consequences to this. Suppose you are an NIH program officer, hoping for a promotion to a branch chief or division chief position. Now, if you get the promotion, you may well lose your civil service protections. This could be very destructive to NIH and to individual careers.

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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 03/06/2026

A thread on responding to the OMB RFI. Do not obey in advance. Make your voices heard!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 30/05/2026

#AltCitizen Task alert!!!!!!! A guide for responding to the recent OMB RFI.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Stopping Vought’s proposed rule will be critical to save science and future cures. @standupforscience.net created an action center to help you comment and contact Congress. Time to get loud! fight2win.standupforscience.net

fight2win.standupforscience.net

Stand up for Science

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

1/WHO's IHR Emergency Committee has issued formal recommendations for the Bundibugyo virus PHEIC. Yesterday's press briefing gave the most complete picture yet of what's happening on the ground. Full update thread 🧵 #EbolaOutbreak

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Ken Field, PhD @profken.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What new level of fuckery is this?

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