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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So I'm finally thoroughly parsing through this preprint from @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social & Patrick Lypaczewski where they homebrewed targeted ONT library prep, and it's even more brilliant than at first glance. Plus they've been so generous in answering my questions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Penn State Department of Biology @psubiodept.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🧬✨ Meet Dr. Juan Manuel Vazquez, one of our newest faculty members in Penn State Biology! His lab explores one of life’s biggest mysteries: why do some animals live so much longer than others? 👇🧵
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This week was the first official week of the Vazquez Lab, with everyone officially starting! Not only did we have a great first lab meeting today, but we also had great (and comically excessive) ice cream from the Penn State Creamery!
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Hope is only lost when we stop fighting back.
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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists! #HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
On the one hand, I should save up startup - on the other though, getting real tired of running around with 17lbs of laptop...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The propagation of misinformation on social media is among the greatest threats to public health right now. Many people want to ignore this, but there are millions of Americans who have been groomed to believe that science is just some kind of scam.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It’s deeply pathetic that Senate Democrats are continuing to advance bipartisan funding bills while Trump unconstitutionally seizes the right to impound funds, and implements a police state. Murphy is absolutely right on this one.
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Chris Murphy goes all in on funding bill boycott as Dems seek bipartisanship
The politically ambitious Connecticut Democrat is walking away from bipartisan government funding negotiations as his party clamors for a seat at the table.
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Had a ton of fun at #2025IBRC! Got to see flying foxes for the first time (and folks dressed as flying foxes!), lots of cool wildlife, and shared some cool science! Also got to advertise my new lab - which I'm now off to start!
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Tris Dodge @tododge.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Excited to talk about balancing selection, hybridization, and independent evolution at the #SMBE2025 hybridization & introgression symposium! Symposium 14: Day 3, Room 2 @ 11:30am Beijing Time
Xiphophorus fish species displaying a false gravid spot
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A incredibly powerful article from @cbsnews.com and Ted Koppel. 🧵 “Natalie Phelps has Stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. She and her husband, Jeff, live in Washington State.”
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"When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin's layoffs, budget cuts
Scientists conducting medical research are facing an existential crisis: Layoffs and budget cuts pushed by President Trump that, they say, jeopardize finding a cure for cancer.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 23/06/2025
Good morning, this is a very helpful tool for keeping track of the critters and sharing data. 🧪
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Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Colossal Bio threatens legal action against a critic of their scientific claims. 😬 It's very interesting that the letter doesn't actually *deny* that Colossal, its CEO, and their agents are leading a smear campaign against Lynch, instead focusing on the fact that he can't *prove* that they did. 🤨
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Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
@kenwhite.bsky.social The company that falsely claimed to de-extinct the dire wolf is now threatening legal action against a scientific critic for "defamation". Would New York's anti-SLAPP statute protect against this?
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I had been quiet about the illegal termination of my K99, but I'm very happy to see it included among the list of grants ordered to be reinstated - let's just hope that it's done sooner rather than later so I can submit the RPPR, the renewal, and the R00...
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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!
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Ken Struck @kenstruck.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Read the letter for yourself. 16/
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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · 02/06/2025
Make open access to tools and data part of your annual giving by making a tax deductible donation to @veupathdb.org. 💙This resource simplifies and supercharges global infectious disease research. Need more reasons to support VEuPathDB? Here's a short list: veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I always have superglue in my toolbox for woodworking - usually it's for gluing wood, but sealing chisel-induced gashes is a 10/10 secondary role!
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Its always important to find the time to celebrate the little things - or big things, like graduations and new labs!
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Cardiac Adaptations in the Cave Nectar Bat Eonycteris spelaea: Insights into Metabolic Resilience and Stress Response www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.
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Haley Randolph @herandolph.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
PIs who think their research isn’t political: yes it is, it always is
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025
Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
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Li Zhao @lizhao.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m very glad to share our recent publication @pnas.org , led by UnJin Lee from our lab at @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... In this work, he 1) developed a method to efficiently compare single-cell RNA-seq data from rapidly evolving tissues across multiple species, and
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Comparative single-cell analysis of transcriptional bursting reveals the role of genome organization in de novo transcript origination | PNAS
Spermatogenesis is a key developmental process underlying the origination of newly evolved genes. However, rapid cell type–specific transcriptomic ...
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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Genetics at UGA as an Assistant Professor in January! @universityofga.bsky.social Genetics@UGA #newPI
University of Georgia Bulldog outside the Georgia Center at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Come look for me at #BoG25 if you wanna learn more!
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'm proud to announce that the Vazquez Lab will officially be opening its doors at Penn State in August 2025! The lab will be studying the evolution of longevity-associated traits and the gene regulatory networks that govern them across extraordinarily long-lived mammals at all levels of life.
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The Vazquez Lab
The Vazquez Lab studies the evolution of aging and longevity-associated traits in extraordinarily long-lived animals at all levels of life using functional evolutionary genomics.
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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
GenomicsSky! Asking for suggestions for genomics/data analysis workshops that grad students can take this summer (or whenever) 🙏 Pleast RT. In a time where opportunities have been slashed everywhere, any prof dev opportunities for students would be incredibly welcome!
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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
To be clear, our grants were included in study sections with non-MOSAIC applications, judged against them using the same criteria, and awarded on merit. My K99 was my best scoring grant, ever, by a mile. We just had to write an additional diversity statement.
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Everyone’s answer us losing our grant is “apply for more grants”. Do you know what it’s like to be attacked all day in news/government/by colleagues debating “DEI”, to have students coming to you for advice during this trying time, and then to try to sit down and focus to write?
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Listening to these MOSAIC/PREP/IMSD, etc. scholars talk about how limited their options have become, I’m going to ask that more of you ‘put your money where your mouth is’ Losing them because of these grant cancellations IS an actual example of policy discrimination.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 09/04/2025
Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social: rdcu.be/eg4OA 1/
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Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression
Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/04/2025
🧪 #ScienceSky and #AcademicSky: We’re trying to learn more about the real-life scope and impact of the Trump administration terminating NIH grants. Here's how you can help our reporting 👇
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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
Rep. Jasmine CrockettRep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezGov. JB PritzkerGov. Tim Walz
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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 13/03/2025
I would support this! We need to primary the dinosaurs.
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Living the Dream (Theater)!
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themainmanmanny.bsky.social @themainmanmanny.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I'll be in Boulder - come say hi, or go stand in solitary at a site near you!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We're at the "French University is offering grants to refugee scientists censored by the regime" stage of our country www.404media.co/french-unive...
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French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them! @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025
Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 28/02/2025
It's can't be all doom and gloom. There is Resistance and that Resistance is working Tesla stock is down 30% in this last month. The economic boycotts have begun news.yahoo.com/economic-bla...
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Economic Blackout: Will a 24-hour boycott make a difference?
A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money Friday as an act of “economic resistance” to protest what the group's founder sees as the malign influence of billionaire...
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Boy, the best way to be informed about what's happening to American science is on bluesky. Please send your colleagues to this platform, everyone! Should we make a starter pack to help?
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adelaide tovar @adel-aide.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Relieved that the MOSAIC K99/R00 grants.gov page is no longer expired (updated today), and it sounds like people are able to submit apps again 🧪
grants.gov page for the MOSAIC K99/R00 which used to expire January 30, 2025 and now expires September 7, 2027
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