@ccphoenix.bsky.social
Interested in genetics, cell biology, genomics and undergraduate biology education for all. 🧪 #HSI #DBER
Me too....
01.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@danielbolnick.bsky.social: "Keep doing science: the pursuit of knowledge is an act of resistance." #Evol2025
21.06.2025 13:03 — 👍 56 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2FlyBase is in need of support. Let's help them continue to be a valued resource to the research community.
03.06.2025 19:23 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
31.05.2025 11:25 — 👍 2890 🔁 1533 💬 64 📌 53
Trump’s war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer.
The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires.
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
#ScienceSky and #AcademicSky and anyone who wants details of what grants are cut from the NIH: here’s the list.
Page after page of no longer helping kids get vaccinated, studying emerging infectious diseases, finding new ways to help Black Americans and women.
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
14.03.2025 19:09 — 👍 124 🔁 184 💬 3 📌 34
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
NSF fact sheet
The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.
02.03.2025 23:02 — 👍 394 🔁 233 💬 11 📌 12Yes, had the same experience--had to shift all my undergrads to using the European PMC instead (which is wonderful) for their research proposals.
01.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
The SIFT method - STOP, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims, quotes & media
Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action.
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Book of Flashcards that reads Black History Flashcards. At the top it says Volume 3: S.T.E.A.M. At the bottom the Urban Intellectuals website.
Flash card with Guion Bluford Jr. on the left and Mae Jemison on the right. Both in their astronaut uniforms.
Black History Month Spotlight: Guion Bluford Jr. & Mae Jemison
Bluford became the first Black man in space in 1983, and Jemison followed as the first Black woman in 1992. Both are trailblazing astronauts and scientists who proved the sky is no limit! 🚀 #BlackHistoryMonth #Blacksky #STEM 🖤
Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed
31.01.2025 20:44 — 👍 302 🔁 158 💬 9 📌 6Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
Mychal smiles in his “The Library is for Everyone” shirt from Out of Print clothing
UNSTOPPABLE JOHN: How John Lewis Got His Library Card-and Helped Change History BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAT ZIETLOW MILLER, ILLUSTRATED BY JERRY JORDAN
When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔
He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
The search query even lets you look by Congressional district, in case you want to remind your US Representative of how much investment is getting pulled out of their district by these delays in NIH extramural funding.
Texas, for example, is a *big* loser of Trump's HHS blackout.
Thei will not win. But todaye ys a daye that will be a stain on historye forevir. A daye of callousnesse and crueltye. Not a golden age, but a gilded one.
21.01.2025 05:43 — 👍 444 🔁 51 💬 5 📌 3
A spiral galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy, through an astrophotography telescope.
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968
Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
My MLK day piece is up.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Vermillion! (The name and the color.😍)
18.11.2024 23:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏
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Like many, I'm new here (left THAT site a couple of years ago) and am delighted to see all the science here. I'm a biology professor at a PUI in Texas and interested in cell biology, genetics, and genomics. I'm also committed to equitable science education for all.
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