Nancy Parmalee

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with Taipale Lab, Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto | 12849004 The Taipale lab in the Donnelly CCBR and University of Toronto is looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on induced proximity 🤜🤛 and functional genomics! Join our team in Toronto 🇨🇦 to tackle major challenges in oncology and neurodegeneration. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

She was coming out of a hospital stay so it might have also been sold as a step down facility. She was stubborn and it needed to happen and she ended up happy there.

I was skeptical at the time but with my grandmother in her 90s they took her for an overnight stay to “check it out” and about 3 weeks later she said “I guess I live here now.” This was done on the advice of the social worker.

Amen.

Republican Health Care Lingo Every Voter Should Know.

Do YOU know what your Republican Member of Congress means when they say things like "high-risk pools?"

It means they want to go back to when people with pre-existing conditions like cancer could be denied coverage.

i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.

So close, if it had only been the A train.

I just my own chosen plus genetic family gatherings and we have the most wonderful times.

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Me, watching changes at the NIH, CDC, etc...

Rising junior and senior undergrads: this is a terrific opportunity for a 9 weeks summer internship as a Cech Fellow in an HHMI lab: deadline for applications is December 22!

Triptans are great but hear me out: Ubrelvy.

This week in NIH fun:
1. Fill the many IC vacancies with political appointees.
2. New awards approved by the IC directors and/or council based on factors other than peer reveiw
3. Unilateral termination of grants with no legal recourse

“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page "The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

The effects @ NIH have to do w grant making and staffing. Publishing is mostly independent of the NIH. The NIH just hosts the articles. There is no reason to be more suspicious than usual about the studies hosted there though as always bad science does sometimes get published. That’s a longer convo.

I’m sorry this is happening.

Thank you.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

“The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol”

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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Thank you for your work. I lost my brother in law to pancreatic cancer last summer.

Reminder that my lab is seeking graduate students for fall 2026. As part of @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, my lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational approaches to investigate macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Link w/ more info below:

I was a staff scientist. The grant I was funded on ended and my PI said all PIs were under pressure to downsize. My position was terminated. No one in academic labs is hiring so that was the end of my research career. PhD from Columbia with 13 years post grad experience in genetics.

From a reply: for a Nature story to run in January -

You cannot talk about the loss of trans lives in this country or the continuing dangers trans people face navigating the world without talking about how most victims of transphobic violence are Black and brown.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

feels appropriate to introduce articles of impeachment today. i know it won't work, but enough fucking around, for fuck's sake

We need to tell our non-scientist people that the CDC is no longer a trusted source of information.

I follow mostly scientists here and we’re all right on top of what’s going on at federal agencies but I wouldn’t take it for granted that lay people have the same awareness.

Yet more reason why we cannot take medical or public health advice from USA public health institutions ⬇️