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Black and white historical photo featuring a young girl with her parents.

8 October 1937 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sara van Hasselt, was born in Rotterdam.

In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her mother Heintje. They were probably both murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. Her father, Levie, also perished in Auschwitz.

Supreme Court oral argument in the 'conversion therapy' case starts in about an hour

I'll be listening in and writing my analysis this afternoon

1/ A deadly #Listeria outbreak has been linked to precooked pasta, and four people have already died. 20 others became severely ill, with all but one landing in the hospital.

Katelyn here, Your Local Epidemiologist, and here’s what you need to know about this and other public health news this week👇

‘International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium: Insights from the Past, Shaping the Future’ Which will be held virtually on Thursday 22 January 2026 from 11:00-18:00 EDT / 17:00 – 00:00 CET This online meeting will focus on three pillars. First, it will briefly present the progress and achievements of the IMPC programme to date (Session I). Second, it will showcase the extent to which the programme has impacted basic and applied biomedical research along with its translational effects on understanding disease mechanisms and advancing human health (Session II). This Session will also include the presentation of the IMPC survey results. Third, it will solicit ideas and opinions from IMPC members and the scientific community at large on the value and justification for continuing and KOMP/IMPC programme as well as suggestions for future directions and priorities (Session III). Registration is free, but mandatory.

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The IMPC Strategic Conference will be held virtually on Thursday 22 January 2026

Registration is free but required: www.mousephenotype.org/news/2025-vi...

@impc-phenotypes.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

6 October 1899 | A Czech Jew, Karl Klepetar, was born in Nemyšl.

In #Auschwitz from 10 April 1942.
No. 28893
He perished in the camp on 1 June 1942.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids" ICE crosses another big, important line.

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Clouds mirrored in a bay, island of Usedom

#BlueSkyArtShow & #relax

#breathe #photography #IAmback #water #clouds #gnitz #usedom

The damage done - Nature Medicine When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

A feature in Nature Medicine explains the repercussions for investigators and patients when clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts and how they do not stop at borders. 🧪

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

I just signed this. Please consider do so as well.

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Tracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of) Bookmark this post, it will be updated.

Sharing a very cool resource from @gbrockell.bsky.social tracking all the admin’s third country removal. hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures Beyond the crucial data they contain, these digital archives have provided an important space for academic communities to exchange ideas and resources.

Nature has published an article on the crisis facing MODs
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@zfinmod.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @yeastgenome.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social @ratgenome.bsky.social @geneontology.bsky.social @nature.com

Research shows Question 1 would harm Maine voters | Opinion There's a lot more to the Nov. 4 referendum question than simply presenting identification to vote.

Political science research clearly shows that Question 1 would make voting harder. Why would we want to do that? (gift link) #mepolitics www.pressherald.com?p=7506109&uu...

It's #TechnicalAdvances update time; the papers added in September are here wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase.... Want your paper with with a new technique, reagent, or resource featured next month? Flag it when you #FTYP!

Under Donald Trump, 688 prescription drugs have gotten MORE EXPENSIVE.

And last night, he shut down the government to avoid lowering Americans’ health care costs.

Donald Trump is making your life more expensive.

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b

LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

Vintage black and white photo of a baby with a slightly surprised expression.

30 September 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Daniel Serge Szuster, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 727 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

I asked Mainers to share how losing ACA tax credits would affect them.

The responses I got are devastating: premiums becoming more than mortgages, seniors falling into debt, families forced to choose between health care and basic needs.

This is the human cost of Republicans’ health care crisis.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.

The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

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When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety

Who knows what will happen now

Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )

A bit over 2 weeks until this closes, the application is a PAIN, so give yourself plenty of time

The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads The solicitation for the 2025 submission dates for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is out, with the first deadline of November 10 for life-sciences disciplines. The big news is that el…

The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t...

Ready to establish your own research group at the Hubrecht Institute for Molecular and Developmental Biology? We’re seeking a tenure-track group leader to develop an innovative research line within our vibrant scientific community. Learn more & apply! https://f.mtr.cool/jncxfqkuds

YouTube video by Alliance Of Genome Resources Model organism data and rare diseases

In case you missed it (or want to review or share it), today's Alliance webinar is now up on our YouTube channel youtu.be/mtqlMEEqQKc

If you'd like to get a jump on registering for future webinars, you can do that here tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt

A black-and-white photograph of a baby boy, appearing to be crying or upset. The image is somewhat blurred, but the facial features of the child, including wide eyes and an open mouth, are visible. The baby has a small amount of hair and seems quite young.

Claude Vecksler, a Jewish boy from Paris.

He was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz II-Birkenau on 25 September 1942. He was 11 months old.

He arrived at Auschwitz in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 475 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

The ISB Executive Committee (EC) election has launched! If you were an active ISB member as of Sept. 21, you should have received your ballot. Please reach out to us if you think you should have received a ballot but haven't.
www.biocuration.org/ec-candidate...

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences

go.nature.com/4pBArFH

New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph.

www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

The @fly-eds.bsky.social is having its general assembly this saturday at 13:30 at #EDRC2025 , please join us to discuss our society and to find out more about @flybase.bsky.social and the current funding crisis

Eight-part meme format from Spongebob Squarepants with Spongebob gesturing to larger and larger piles of yellow rubber ducks

Eight-part meme format from Spongebob Squarepants with Spongebob gesturing to larger and larger piles of yellow rubber ducks

2 things are true: Tylenol doesn't cause autism, and RFK Jr. needs to GO!

We've delivered 1k+ ducks to Congressmembers on behalf of their constituents with the message: #ImpeachtheQuack!
There's still time for you to recreate this meme on Capitol Hill and send some ducks of your own: zurl.co/LrVbo