Daniel Nilsson

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Absolutely insane footage! Strategic Russian aviation getting wiped out on an unprecedented scale.

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Scientists, reach out to your local communities about the importance of funding science! Write an op-ed to your local newspaper as part of the #McClintockLetters.

Please spread the word and sign up! DM me if you're interested and need help getting started. I'm trained as a writer and happy to help.

The new Pope, Leo XIV, supports Ukraine, acknowledges Russia’s invasion is imperialist and rife with crimes against humanity. #standwithUkraine

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

💯🇺🇸🇺🇦

In today's episode of the Night Science Podcast we talk with Martin Schwartz from Yale about the importance of stupidity in science: while learning science makes you feel smart, true scientific discovery often involves feeling stupid, because it means venturing into the unknown.

#NoKings

Ägg innebär lidande och död – låt oss fira påsken med nya traditioner Hönorna i äggindustrin hålls instängda i stora fabriker och är avlade till en intensiv äggproduktion, skriver debattören.

Hönorna i äggindustrin hålls instängda i stora fabriker och är avlade till en intensiv äggproduktion, skriver debattören.

Saturation genome editing of RNU4-2 reveals distinct dominant and recessive neurodevelopmental disorders Recently, de novo variants in an 18 nucleotide region in the centre of RNU4-2 were shown to cause ReNU syndrome, a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) that is predicted to affect tens of thous...

🚨I could not be more excited to share our new preprint on saturation genome editing of the small nuclear RNA (snRNA) RNU4-2:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

A super fun collaboration with incredible duo @gregfindlay.bsky.social @joachimdejonghe.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk
🧬🖥️🩺

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This does not seem to hold for a fact check. Tickers are apparently not always there. In a few days statistics would show if they are indeed less frequent. Let’s focus criticism on true issues - ie in this case the tariffs, the stock market reaction, all the actual lies in the announcement etc.

STRchive: a dynamic resource detailing population-level and locus-specific insights at tandem repeat disease loci - Genome Medicine Approximately 8% of the human genome consists of repetitive elements called tandem repeats (TRs): short tandem repeats (STRs) of 1–6 bp motifs and variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) of 7 + bp moti...

The strchive.org paper is out!!
The paper describes STRchive as a resource to improve the diagnosis of tandem repeat disorders, then goes beyond it to consider what can be learned about childhood onset and population prevalence of these diseases.
🖥️ 🧬
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

US State Department in 2022: The US will never recognize these illegal attempts to seize territory that does not belong to Russia

Trump envoy Witkoff in 2025: There have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of people indicated they want to be under Russian rule

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."

Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

If you have to go to the US and theres no way for you not to go, make sure to:

Change your phone SD card
Remove any file that may be critical of Trump & co, memes too
Log off from ALL your accounts before you arrive

Unless you want to have your property stolen, be deported, or even get imprisonned

Absolutely chilling stuff

Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.

Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t... #genomics #NIH #NHGRI

A tweet from user RB (@rbisrb) with the caption "A Huge Difference..." features a two-panel meme. The top panel shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sitting at a desk with a serious expression, with the Ukrainian flag visible in the background. The text above reads "RUSSIAN ASS KICKER." The bottom panel shows former U.S. President Donald Trump making a pouty face. The text above him reads "RUSSIAN ASS KISSER." The meme contrasts Zelenskyy's stance against Russia with a critical portrayal of Trump’s relationship with Russia.

Know the difference.

U.S. to Withdraw From Group Investigating Responsibility for Ukraine Invasion The decision is the latest indication of the Trump administration’s move away from holding President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia accountable for crimes committed against Ukrainians.

❗️🇺🇸 The U.S. is leaving the international group investigating Russia's crimes in Ukraine, – The New York Times. Washington has informed European officials of its withdrawal. The Biden administration joined the group in 2023 to investigate Putin’s actions.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

I've edited to clarify the time-span over which these events are taking place. Such an age of wonders!

Hungary: Mass protests against dictator Orban in Budapest. Orban shut down public transportation to prevent people from across the nation from gathering in the capital.
"The spring is here. The spring of the Hungarians. And we, together will end Orban's winter!"

Mass protests are reported in Serbia and Hungary right now. In Belgrade, 500,000 demand Vučić’s resignation after the Novi Sad tragedy, with special forces surrounding his residence. In Hungary, thousands oppose Orbán over corruption and ties to Russia. Both leaders maintain pro-Russian stances.

Vladimir Putin | President USA.

Vladimir Putin, bylined as president of the USA by swedish national public service television.

Kremlin told U.S. it didn’t want Trump’s Ukraine-Russia envoy at peace talks Keith Kellogg “is a former American general, too close to Ukraine. Not our kind of person, not of the caliber we are looking for,” a Russian official told NBC News.

🇷🇺The Kremlin rejected Trump’s Ukraine-Russia envoy, Keith Kellogg, from peace talks, calling him “too close to Ukraine” and “not our kind of person,” NBC reports.

Kellogg was absent from key summits as Putin seeks negotiators of a different “caliber.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...