Karen Fisher, PhD

There must be no mercy for the evil Trump Regime. None.

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
• More hardline than father
• He’s the IRGC candidate
• Relatively young: 56
• Avoids public
• Trusted by father, clerics
• Was in military during Iraq-Iran war
• His wife, Zahra, killed in Israeli airstrike w his father

This is incredibly on point.

Spot oil prices grab the news, but it’s the impact we’re about to witness to petrochemical and derivative production that should really scare the shit out of folks.

It’s the sort of shock that could ripple through our global industrial economy for many months.

Stephen Miller a ‘big problem’ for Trump administration, says Republican senator Thom Tillis, who called for the resignation or firing of DHS secretary Kristi Noem, says White House adviser ‘should go’

A little (a lot) too late

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Portrait of Lise Meitner taken in 1928. She is smoking a cigarette and looking impatient to get back to her experiments.

Last week, I mentioned this in passing in a workshop:

In 1938 Enrico Fermi won a Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements of the periodic table.

Lise Meitner shortly showed that Fermi was mistaken and instead had produced known lighter elements by fission.

She did not win a Nobel prize.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

100 Years of Women Who Changed History (Gift Article) Revisiting the obituaries of a century of notable women to show how they were remembered — and what history may have left unsaid.

Most men who changed history also had women who enabled them.

I would not be a scientist without Lynn Margulis. I never would have gotten a PhD or developed a curiosity for the research topics I currently work on if I didn’t read her book, “Symbiotic Planet” when I was 21. So many male scientists I’ve worked with knew her and many say things like…(1/2)

"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."

Next week's cover of The New Yorker. "War-a-Lago" by Barry Blitt.

Where to find a copy of Injustice Watch’s judicial election guide for the 2026 primary We printed 170,000 copies of our judicial election guide for the March 17 primary elections and distributed them across Cook County. Here’s where you can find them.

Hey here's a map of places around Cook County where you can pick up one of the 170,000 print copies of our #CheckYourJudges guide! Also see it in this month's @chicagoreader.com and a variety of other local community newspapers! www.injusticewatch.org/judges/judic...

"Postdoctoral Associate Position: Plant Systems Biology at New York University , New York, NY, United States"

Read more here: https://apply.interfolio.com/181405

#PlantSciJobs

Jersey girl approved :: Paramus, NJ

WAR CRIMES DON’T HIDE SEX CRIMES

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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One bright note? Americans trust federal career scientists more than political leaders running US heath agencies.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

A more complete set of voices in a companion piece.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

Finally out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com: Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling. Great work by @stephkoe.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social @jvhooff.bsky.social

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

Finally got the SIM perfectly calibrated on all four channels 🌈 (movie shows a 15x15 μm area inside a cell) #realtimemicroscopy

A squirrel climbing on a camera zoom lens. The camera is resting on a rock

The squirrels in Zion are definitely used to people

🚨 #postdoc to be hired in the Paluch Lab 🚨

If you know anyone experienced with and, more importantly, excited about nanoscale architecture of #actincortex and super-res & electron #microscopy do encourage them to apply👇

Amazing colleagues, can only recommend 😉

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

But Joao, aren’t you afraid of being scooped?

No.

It’s an ultra-rare childhood epilepsy. If you scoop me and the kids get help from it, I will help you scoop me and then move on.

Trying to learn 'slice and view' with resin-embedded samples on the Aquilos FIB-SEM this week.

You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?

The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....

Thanks for reposting!

JOINT-UNION TEACH-IN Breaking Rutgers’ Ties to ICE WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 @ 2PM

📣 Join us for hybrid teach-in: “Breaking Rutgers’ Ties to ICE” with ericblanc.bsky.social as part of aft.org National Day of Action & the Rutgers unions' campaign to “Get ICE Out of Schools”
Wed, 3/4 @ 2pm
Zoom/in-person watch party at 11 Stone St
RSVP for link & details: https://loom.ly/svIbFxA

This is beyond terrifying... you want the government to know your location, web browsing history, spending habits, etc?

Trump only has a plan for Trump

New single-pill HIV therapy promises boost for long-term virus survivors Solo tablet worked well for patients who were older and in many cases resistant to existing treatments

New single-pill #HIV therapy promises boost for long-term #virus survivors ...

| #HumanImmunodeficiencyVirus | #AIDS | #infection | By @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social via @financialtimes.com

One of the core messages of the work at Stand Up for Science is we are fighting against science being used as a weapon against civilians.

The US bombed a school that was IN SESSION. What makes you think they won’t turn that tech on us, too.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf Earned a Master’s degree in mechanical/guided-missile engineering from the University of Southern California.

Stockdale has a master's degree in international relations from Stanford.