Sam Blackman 🥖

While Skype may be gone, @skypeascientist.bsky.social is definitely alive and kicking! What a great to talk about cancer biology with two Chapel Hill 7th grade classes yesterday. Want to reaffirm your faith in the power of science to inspire? Teach some kids!

Hey @billywitz.bsky.social - your “clever” parenthetical does NOT belong in a serious news story about a very serious topic. Cut the cutesy stupid shit. This is a serious situation. #Canada will remain sovereign and to suggest that there a possibility otherwise is bullshit.

Thanks! I should've put in something about the "double Shaywitz".

Looking Back and Seeing The Future: The Relationships that Propel Biotech - TimmermanReport.com It’s been a rough week (again) for those of us within the biotech ecosystem. Actually, it’s been a rough month. Hell, let’s just say it’s been a hard year. Or two. Rather than writing about the negati...

With all of the news over the past few weeks, and being at the start of a new role, I was contemplating the importance of professional relationships when I came across something while cleaning out an old filing cabinet.

timmermanreport.com/2025/03/look...

Those patients and parents who have been hoping and working towards innovated cell and gene therapies for kids have just lost their most important champion inside of the FDA. This will truly hurt a field that is already facing so many headwinds. Ugh.

YouTube video by Klevin Gray HBO Chernobyl, Valery Legasov vs KGB Chairman Charkov -- Episode 5 -- FULL HD

It reminds me one of the final scenes of Chernobyl. I'm so ashamed of what our country has become.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4xC...

Trying to think hopeful thoughts on this Ides of March. We can always hope.

I’ve realized that I don’t really need to read the news anymore. I just ask myself, “What are the stupidest and most malicious and ignorant things a government can do today to harm the US?” And voila! Turns out to match the headlines perfectly.

drsamblackman.substack.com/p/prophet-song

Stand Up And Be Counted

Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late.

Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.

THIS is why I love the internet. I post a cool picture my wife sent me from the flight she's on and 5 minutes later I learn something entirely new from a stranger. Thanks @brewcitychaser.com !

... AND FIND OUT.

My wife just sent me this incredible photo that she took from the window of her @alaskaairlines.bsky.social flight from SNA to SEA. How she managed to capture the shadow of her plane in a rainbow circle is beyond me. But wow! #aviationphotography #alaskaairlines #planespotting #aviation

Thanks. We’re in contact.

Apparently Canada has its own Florida.

Check out video of Hummingbird landing on drsammy's Bird Buddy feeder Beautiful video of Hummingbird landing on drsammy's Bird Buddy feeder located in Eastsound, United States!

And here’s a hummingbird for you as well.

It’s not #caturday yet but given that the country is on fire, here’s a cat with flames.

#abyssinian #catshatetrump

Fair point. In full disclosure, that cookie was worth its weight in gold.

I love my various non-profit board roles, but being on the board of @orcasbakery.bsky.social has got to be one of the very best board seats ever. What other board seat gets you backstage access to an incredible bakery, and a chance to try new cookie recipes?

No.

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Easy: Patrick Stewart

I do like “abscess” as the word for a collection of #maggots.

This many days until midterms

#resist

My #coffee selections are clearly in sync with the current vibe.

@cafegrumpy.bsky.social

Didn’t listen to any news today - the BBc, CBC, nothing. There’s nothing there that’s “news”. These are the worst people doing the worst things they can get away with. So I tried to keep myself occupied with other things, occasionally repeating this mantra.

Then I will take your ostrich as a reference to my fabulous legs and plumage and not as any other commentary.

Fair. But let me ask you this, @dshaywitz.bsky.social - if I already know it’s all going to be corrupt and awful, and that I’ll need to #resist and fight, then does it matter if I choose not to eat the stream of their shit every day? Serious question. Can’t I be just as enraged without the noise?

Under settings: moderation

Oooh ….. this helps.