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⚜️Baldgood Marshall @freshlogic.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025

Taking D’Angelo when there’s an 80 year old decrepit orange clown around is really unfair…

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Current and former members of the NIH community have valuable personal perspectives to share about the devastation that is happening to US biomedical research, our federal agencies, and our democracy. This starter pack is a great way to hear what they have to say and what you can do about it. 🧪🧬🧠🥼🇺🇸

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

All I want is a TT faculty position and the country to come together to resist authoritarianism. Is that so much to ask?? 🫠

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Lol. Sorry to say, Jay, but we’ve been doing this. We just never saw the need to make it into a stupid slogan that matches the inside of **ump’s penthouse 🙄 (I can’t even spell his name.)

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Three of my favorite people in this pic

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sex-converted testis somatic cells acquire female-specific behaviors and alter XY germline identity Read this #OA Research Article by Tiffany V. Roach, Sneh Harsh, Rajiv Sainath, Erika A. Bach, Kari F. Lenhart @lenhartlab.com journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Fig. 2. The sex-converted soma performs collective rotation similar to female follicle cells. (A-C) Time-lapse imaging of somatic expression of UAS tubulin::GFP (green) and UAS anillin::RFP (magenta) in a control testis (A), a control ovary (B) and a 5D chinmoRNAi testis (C). White outlines circle groups of cells that are either non-migratory or migratory. Curved arrows indicate directional migration of cells. (A′-C′) Time-lapse imaging of somatic nuclei (gray) in a control testis (A′), a control ovary (B′) and a 5D chinmoRNAi testis (C′). Yellow transparent dots indicate cell migration over time. Asterisks in A-C′ indicate stem cell niches. Each image is composed of one or two z-slices. Images are representative of 10/10 testes (A), 10/10 ovarioles (B) and 7/8 testes with complete somatic epithelium.

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website. sites.google.com/site/danielb...

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Sloan Lab

Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...

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@MorieLAB @morielab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

@morielab.bsky.social proudly presents a tool to induce, in S. cerevisiae, DNA double strand breaks in a site-specific AND in a dose-dependent manner, in a very simple way: just transform two plasmids!!! It allows you to assess many aspects of DNA damage signaling & repair! doi.org/10.1111/febs...

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FEBS Press

Using CRISPR-Cas9, we engineered a genetic system allowing the dose-dependent induction of a controllable number of DNA double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The tool was used to study th....

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I hope to take a PhD student in the coming application cycle. Please reach out if you are interested in joining our lab in EEB at Yale, especially if interested in working on the natural history/ phylogenetics/ morphology/ population biology/ development/ genomics of siphonophores. dunnlab.org

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The Dunn Lab

Casey Dunn's laboratory in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Please sign on and add your voice in calling for an NIH that prioritizes the safety of research participants and public health over political momentum. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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Greg Copenhaver @copenhaverlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Innovate Carolina at UNC Chapel Hill is hiring a PhD level Commercialization Fellow. The fellow will help @uncchapelhill.bsky.social researchers conceptualize & commercialize novel technologies. The Innovate Carolina team is fabulous - check out the job posting: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Perhaps relevant as scientists weather a range of attacks, our team (led by UW research scientist Rachel Moran) published a paper describing how a slew of public records requests impacted our work & what that means for collaborative research in adversarial spaces & times: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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NPR @npr.org · 26/05/2025

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

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A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Let’s stand up. I don’t know if it makes a difference, but I gotta try.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Government | Harvard University

Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Is there a germ cell BlueSky starter pack?

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹 But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾

End of Keynote speech where Dr. Joshua Hall received a gift

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Mike Gallagher @geneticsmike7.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Another important question is: if there are, are they actually desirable positions in the current environment?

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Are there going to be positions in the fall for tenure-track Assistant Professors? (Cell biology, reproductive biology, molecular biology, genetics...) Asking for a friend. Well, myself and a lot of my fellow postdoc friends.

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Kelley Harris @kelleyharris.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

. @pnas.org just published the final version of our manuscript on how generation time and effective population size interact to shape vertebrate germline mutation rates, led by Luke Zhu and Annabel Beichman: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Scientists--Share your story! We need the nation to know what is at stake if the NIH is gutted. It's therapeutic and takes just a few minutes

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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 16/05/2025

At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆 Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW. Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.

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Jeff Sekelsky @jeffsekelsky.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Congratulations to Nina Wozniak, Ilan Socolovsky_Hull, and Josh Ponder, who all earned Honors in Biology for research they did in the Sekelsky lab! (Also to Sasha Sagar; her degree is Neuroscience so a different venue.)

Photo of Sekelsky lab Biology majors graduating with Honors in 2025.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Defend public health now has a website. It's packed with resources and ways to get involved. If you care about public health and are appalled by the efforts to dismantle it, there's always something you can do to raise awareness and support the cause. Check it out. www.defendpublichealth.org

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Home | Defend Public Health

Defend Public Health is an all-volunteer network of public health researchers, healthcare workers, advocates and allies fighting to protect the health of all.

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Life is hard, but friends make it easier ❤️💕

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s been a while since posting because I was at the AMAZING Germ Cell GRC. Fantastic science from colleagues around the entire globe. Oh, and the location isn’t too shabby either.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Any scientists from Oklahoma on here? 🧪 This representative identifies himself as "a leader in promoting biomedical research" and is the chair of House Appropriations. Let him know about your concerns about spending the current FY25 budget, the cuts to the FY26 budgets and the cuts to F&A costs!

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Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Indeed we must. As the author, @genandgenes.bsky.social, says, "Education is key...". For some concrete guidance on teaching eugenics, check out this article in our current issue: "We must not ignore eugenics in our genetics curriculum" by @peiferlabunc.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/genet...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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Stirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

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Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze

America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My lab mates are the best 💕 celebrating my K99!!

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Yyyyyyeeeeessssssa!!!! We are finally standing up!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Saw “wait wait” live last night! It was amazing, and Dolce Sloan is hilarious. I got tickets prior to public sale because I am a sustainer of our local @npr.org station, @wunc.org. I encourage everyone who listens to npr to fight for free, trustworthy news by donating to their local station. 1/2

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NPR @npr.org · 17/04/2025

Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

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NPR CEO Katherine Maher addresses future of federal funding for public media

Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

53 days till the meeting and its filling fast. Sign up now as we'll be selecting talks from the abstracts soon!

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Talia Hatkevich @taliahatkevichphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Despite it all, I finally received this today. Maybe there is hope. Hi BlueSky community!

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