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It's getting more and more dystopian here. And no one is talking about this.

ICE is no longer immigration enforcement. It’s a sprawling secret police with a budget bigger than some nations’ armies. No oversight. Questionable training. Just masks, unmarked vans, and executive authority. If you think this stops at the border, you’re not paying attention.

Very useful 😀

Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

So, I emailed the link:

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

to my kids, some of my former graduate students and post-docs, and a few other friends. All in all, I shared the link with about 30 people.

I asked them to consider signing and to share the link with their own networks.

5/n

Daniel's paper is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social, great experience with @reviewcommons.org 😀

Want to know everything tubulin assembly in trypanosome flagella and other microtubules? Here is the link:

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The anticipation is over, the MPM registration and abstract submission is open!!

A chart showing cancelled NIH grants

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

GIMM PhD Programme now open. 17 PhD positions and a few more to come.

gimm.pt/course/phd-p...

Definitely looks like the Resistance is rising across the US for the #NoKings action--there are events scheduled in EVERY Congressional District in the US. Check out the Map here:

YouTube video by VEuPathDB Intron spanning reads and gene models

Today, we're highlighting a section of the gene page in @veupathdb.org data platforms that allows you to use RNA seq evidence to 🔎🧬examine gene models- making it easy to spot splice variants or incorrect annotation.

Take a look! www.youtube.com/shorts/T0Jis...

Lab cleaning. It says

"What is in here?
Does anybody know?"

Not sure if I want to open.

🎉 Join Us for Parasite Day with PiP 2025! 🦠
We are thrilled to announce Parasite Day with PEERs in Parasitology (PiP), on June 27, 2025, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm EDT! This virtual symposium will spotlight groundbreaking work in parasitology by scientists from historically excluded backgrounds.

CORRECTION?!: Elsevier found it totally reasonable to allow the authors to issue a swift correction for this rather messy figure. Given the extend of overlap, I am struggling to see how any of this could have happened on accident. #ResearchIntegrity? 🤡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A meme-worthy figure. Find the panel that DOESN'T overlap with another. He et al. 2025 in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.140311). I am sure the authors will confirm that none of this compromises any of the results ofc. pubpeer.com/publications...

Mapping a Toxoplasma gondii interactome by crosslinking mass spectrometry and machine learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.28.651050v1

An ISWI-related chromatin remodeller regulates stage-specific gene expression in Toxoplasma gondii - Nature Microbiology Toxoplasma gondii evolved two ISWI remodellers, TgSNF2h and TgSNF2L. TgSNF2h forms a complex that insulates active genes, regulates MORC-driven sexual commitment and ensures precise gene expression, s...

Thrilled to share my first paper, now out in
@natmicrobiol.nature.com! Huge thanks to my amazing supervisor @hakimi.bsky.social and everyone who contributed to this work!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Metabolic adaptability and nutrient scavenging in Toxoplasma gondii: insights from ingestion pathway-deficient mutants | mSphere Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular pathogen that infects virtually any nucleated cell in most warm-blooded animals. Infections are asymptomatic in most cases, but people with weakened immu...

Metabolic adaptability/nutrient scavenging in T gondii: insights from ingestion pathway-deficient mutants Msphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @verncarruthers.bsky.social This work advances our understanding of the metabolic adaptability of Toxoplasma.

An ISWI-related chromatin remodeller regulates stage-specific gene expression in Toxoplasma gondii Nature Microbiology - Toxoplasma gondii evolved two ISWI remodellers, TgSNF2h and TgSNF2L. TgSNF2h forms a complex that insulates active genes, regulates MORC-driven sexual commitment and ensures...

In the silence of chromatin, Toxoplasma whispers change.
TgSNF2h sculpts the genome - MORC in the backseat.
Some genes wake. Others sleep.
A dance of nucleosomes shaping space for life parasite stages to unfold.

Now in Nature Microbiology:
rdcu.be/ehkWp

Toxoplasma evolved two ISWI proteins: TgSNF2h and TgSNF2L. Despite looking similar structurally, these two have very different roles. TgSNF2h forms an ISWI complex with the transcription factor AP2VIII-2 and the scaffold protein TgRFTS.
Spoiler: TgSNF2L will step soon into the spotlight.

An ISWI-related chromatin remodeller regulates stage-specific gene expression in Toxoplasma gondii - Nature Microbiology Toxoplasma gondii evolved two ISWI remodellers, TgSNF2h and TgSNF2L. TgSNF2h forms a complex that insulates active genes, regulates MORC-driven sexual commitment and ensures precise gene expression, s...

🚨 Out now! Toxoplasma gondii ISWI remodeller TgSNF2h forms a complex that insulates active genes, regulates MORC-driven sexual commitment and ensures precise gene expression, safeguarding the parasite’s developmental program.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Modelling the effects of diurnal temperature variation on malaria infection dynamics in mosquitoes - Communications Biology Mechanistic modelling of the effects of diurnal temperature variation on Plasmodium falciparum sporogony indicates this variation is important in the laboratory, but further validation is required to ...

As we try to understand how climate change impacts malaria @isaacstopard.bsky.social looked how daily temperature fluctuations impact development in mosquitoes. Quite a bit it seems, but still unclear in wild mosies. Lovely data from Antoine Sanou but we need more! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Excited to share our publication @lsajournal.org showing that divergent Plasmodium kinases drive MTOC, kinetochore and axoneme organisation during male gamete formation. Many thanks, @ritatewari.bsky.social, @davidguttery.bsky.social, @zeeshanm.bsky.social, Tony and David F.

doi.org/10.26508/lsa...

As Sheinerlab is joining the trend, Chat seem to have known that @macleanlab.bsky.social started his own lab recently and took the executive decision to remove him from the photo 😲😆

Professor Lilach Sheiner pictured in the lab holding the C.A. Wright medal in an open presentation case.

🏅 | @uofgsii.bsky.social's Professor Lilach Sheiner (@sheinerlab.bsky.social) was recently awarded the prestigious C.A. Wright Medal by the @bspparasitology.bsky.social for outstanding contributions to the discipline.

Congratulations, Professor Sheiner!

🔗 Full story: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe...

It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov

Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors.

"Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."

Header: "ASM Action Alert" and "ASM Advocacy" next to image of bacteria Text: Urge the Trump Administration to Restore Normal Federal Grant Operations

Kudos to @asm.org I have never in my nearly 25yrs as a member been sent an "ASM Action Alert" asking me to contact my members of Congress. Make those calls. Write those emails.

There are extraordinary times and we must make ourselves heard

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