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Tad O

@togo.bsky.social
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I will always be a biochemist first and foremost, though my job these days is to get robots to run science experiments. Also, pie, skewers, coffee, and beer make the world go round.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 05/05/2025
EU augments opportunities for scientists around the world to launch or re-launch their careers in Europe.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Yeah this is actual unironic advice for any 1st years: you seriously need to go get beers or otherwise hangout socially with more senior grad students (no one else will really know) and hopefully get ensconced enough that someone will tell you “hey just fyi Dr. GoodPubs is low-key a total sociopath”
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I’m pretty sure succulents are souvenirs from another planet.
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I feel like this is the wrong question: it’s not that Trump will have a third term, more that it’ll be harder for any Democrat to beat the Republican Party. There’s no federal law saying states have to count votes. We’re on the verge of being a 1 party system.
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Great way to find people who grew up in St Louis: Hi Fi. Fo Fum.
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The strangest part of adulthood, and parenthood, is how often you need to fake being awake, alert, and excited.
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For those with kids, Elon is Gobby and Trump is Rhino, right?
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
How are we going to save democracy when we can’t even do group projects?
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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 22/04/2025
This feels existential for US science: To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work (e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.) No institution could *ever* comply.
fiercebiotech.com
New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The smartest people in the world would come here to solve the hardest problems. The richest people in the world would bring their money here. And we’re breaking that. Possibly for good.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Thoughts on Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind saying that AI could cure disease in general in ten years. Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!
science.org
The End of Disease
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
To all the historians out there, people who study the Madagascar Plan, people who study the causes of the Opium War, people who study Smoot-Hawley and its impact, how much do you want to scream right about now?
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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
In case you're looking for a book to help you understand Trumpism, this was a "warning" written by a former high-ranking Nazi official in 1938 after he escaped Germany. Almost every page reads like a description of what's happening in America...
Hermann Rauschning (1938), "The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West"
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
How do you make anything from vibranium?
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.
sciencebusiness.net
ERC to double allowance for researchers moving to EU
The European Research Council (ERC) is doubling the relocation allowance it makes to researchers coming to the EU to take up one of its grants. At present it offers third-country researchers up to €1 ...
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What would Descartes think about AGI?
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I feel like we should bring back those old WWII posters that say “The walls have ears”
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Down into the details of how compounds and binding sites interact:
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Entropy, Enthalpy, and Hydrophobicity
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bookmarking this valuable tracker on student visa revocations, from @insidehighered.com As of right now, IHE database shows that more than 1,000 international students & recent graduates have had their legal status changed by State Dept. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 14/04/2025
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
theguardian.com
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🚨🚨 Major scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: @ec.europa.eu is now issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to #China.🧵 www.ft.com/content/20d0...
ft.com
EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears
European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Trump's moves are already imposing immense costs on the United States and on the world via lost scientific progress on preventing Alzheimer's, curing cancer, etc.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/04/2025
SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com
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Join Chemsymposia 2026: Research & Innovation | ChemSymposia 2026
Join us at Chemsymposia 2026 to discover groundbreaking research in physics applications. Connect with experts, engage in insightful discussions, and explore our venue, registration details, and speak...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists. Hospital network will invest $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge,’ by @jenniferyang.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
theglobeandmail.com
Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists
Hospital network will be investing $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists immediately as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge’
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Arnaud Pelletier @arnpelletier.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
📣 Un poste d'assistant temps plein en philosophie (lié à la réalisation d'une thèse de doctorat) est ouvert à l'ULB, pour une durée de 6 ans. Deadline : 27 avril 2025 Détails : cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... A diffuser largement !
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Fabrice Jean-Pierre @fabricejpierre.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Tenure-track Faculty position just opened up in my department! If you want to be part of a dynamic group who is excited about science, apply. For more details, visit www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr... Please share in your networks! #microsky
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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Applications are open for early career researchers to participate in Falling Walls Lab Melbourne, which will be held at the Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne in July. Finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas in Berlin in Nov 2025. falling-walls.com/falling-wall...
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is incredibly worrisome. Please read the whole thread.
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Martin Thanbichler @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm getting word that the latest attempt to strangle what's left of the NIH is that purchasing agents have been mostly/completely cut, with the purchasing to be done by centralized GSA staff. Who either don't exist or aren't assigned. That means in practice no spending at all! (1/2)
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WIRED @wired.com · 31/03/2025
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
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Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 01/04/2025
Yup, right on time, as was entirely predictable.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨 Attention NIH & NSF grantees! AAAS is hosting a rapid response webinar this Friday, 12-1 pm ET, on responding to federal research grant terminations. NIH and NSF will be case examples. Register here: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Webinar: Responding to Federal Research Grant Terminations

Join AAAS on Friday, March 28 at 12 PM ET

The AAAS Center for Scientific Responsibility and Justice and AAAS SEA Change will host a roundtable discussion on the laws and regulations that govern federal grant terminations, including procedures for appeals. Speakers will include a legal expert, former officials at scientific funding agencies, and a grant recipient who will share their personal experience. NIH and NSF will serve as case examples.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Nature Chemistry @natchem.nature.com · 19/03/2025
Designing single-polymer-chain nanoparticles to mimic biomolecular hydration frustration, from Alfredo Alexander-Katz and their team: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemsky
nature.com
Designing single-polymer-chain nanoparticles to mimic biomolecular hydration frustration - Nature Chemistry
Native proteins use hydration frustration—regulating the dehydration of hydrophilic residues and the hydration of hydrophobic residues—to enhance their activity. Now it has been shown that single-poly...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/03/2025
Grant cancelled? 👇
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A completely serious question. When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country. cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Bonkers. French researcher on its way to a conference was denied US entry and his electronic equipment seized after computer searched and anti-Trmp *messages* found. Even if CNRS doesn't put the US on the travel black list (which they likely will do), it's clearly not safe to go there 😨
lemonde.fr
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I would love to see a Venn diagram of software engineers who hate vibe coding vs software engineers who were fine with AI generated art.
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Can someone with a deeper understanding of Constitutional history explain why the US Marshals reports to the President?
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Are people really not familiar with the Madagascar Plan?
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Brad King @thebradking.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I leaned heavily into the hard sciences this year at #SXSW. I also visited the German and EU delegation installations. Here's what I will tell you: US researchers are utterly heartbroken about the US losing its dominance in research. The EU and China are absolutely thrilled to fill that gap.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
restoredcdc.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Dear US colleagues, In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France. There are several M$ in the budget. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
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Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille Université ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université
In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Something no one talks about is what a wet lab sounds like. So many unique sounds and clicks that just fade into the background. One of my favorites is the “shhht” sound that ice makes when you dump is from an ice bucket. Any others?
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Tad O @togo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Now would be a good time for Americans to read about Operation Paperclip. This will have ramifications for decades to come.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1
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