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Texas researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport A legal permanent resident with a green card who flew back to the U.S. after visiting family in South Korea was detained by immigration authorities and held for more than a week at the San Francisco I...

apnews.com/article/texa... researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport

Had to look up hagiographical😬

Welp, seems like a good time to RAGE AGAINST THE REGIME!!!

SATURDAY 10 AM
MEDICAL CENTER METRO

Featuring the return of @allstrike.bsky.social !!

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The brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response.

This is fascinating - the brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Allergy-triggering proteins share a common characteristic Why do only certain molecules drive allergies? A feature now identified among some allergy-causing proteins is their ability to form pores in cells.

Why do only certain molecules drive allergies?

go.nature.com/3IMMkHU

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump 😞

“By replacing vaccine groupthink with a diversity of perspectives, Secretary Kennedy is strengthening the integrity of the advisory process.”

The whole damn point of the committee is to reach an expert consensus on how best to use vaccines. We don’t need diverse opinions from every kook & crackpot.

The Infectious Disease experts are now banned from advising on vaccines 🤷🏻‍♂️

The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein Cell Discovery - The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein

Happy to share our latest finding @natureportfolio.nature.com on #cdiAMP signaling roles in #cyanobacteria natural competence via #ComFB (a new family of #cdiNMP receptors)
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Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals that Wolbachia induces gene expression changes in Drosophila ovary cells to favor its own maternal transmission | mBio Wolbachia, an obligate endosymbiont in arthropods, can manipulate the reproduction system of the host to enhance its maternal transmission and reside in the host’s eggs for generations. Herein, we per...

Miao, Y. H., Dou, W. H., Liu, J., Huang, D. W., Xiao, J. H. (2024). Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals that Wolbachia induces gene expression changes in #Drosophila ovary cells to favor its own maternal transmission. mBio:e0147324 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Columbia bought them a ballroom! 💃🏽

👏👏👏

Now it just needs to get through the rest of the process.

Chalk the Walk! EVERYWHERE! Bring your message of democracy to your towns' (public) sidewalks with . . . CHALK! This is an independent, nationwide action. No groups, no sign-ups -- just DO IT! Take photos and post with #ChalktheWalk (Vermonters - use #ChalktheWalkVT -- other States can do your own hashtags!)

Chalk the Walk! EVERYWHERE!
Bring your message of democracy to your towns' (public) sidewalks with. . . CHALK!
This is an independent, nationwide action.
No groups, no sign-ups - just DO IT!
Take photos and post with #ChalktheWalk
(Vermonters - use #ChalktheWalkVT
other States do your own hashtags!)

I should have said too that our department welcomes applications from people that use experimental systems including (but not limited to) worms, flies, and mice to study these questions!!

Our department at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) is running two faculty searches. One is a joint hire with the Institute for Healthy Aging, one a cohire with the Math Dept cps.med.ubc.ca/careers-2/ Click on “Faculty Positions” on the page. Please help spread the word!

Donald Trump promised peace in Gaza, but he's abandoned ceasefire talks while babies starve.

If Trump is too weak to act, then Congress must step up. No more U.S. military support for Netanyahu to wage war in Gaza.

What a great thing to do!!

A two year post-doctoral position at the BacterialGenome Plasticity Unit starting October 1st - Research

A 2-year postdoc position in my lab, under the supervision of P-Alex Kaminski, on Z-DNA phages and the benefit given by ZTGC DNA and the replication machinery, with attempt to create a Z based minireplicon
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/a-two...

Today #NIH leadership were told no funds can go out for research project grants, R&D contracts or training grants.

We have just a couple weeks to get funds out the door before Russel Vought attempts a #PocketRescission on Aug 15.

Even if this ends up being temporary, it’s time we don’t have.

As terrifying as this is, I will continue to sign everything that comes across my desk in the name of protecting our values and our students.

Now Hiring - Executive Editor

❓Do you have expertise in prokaryotic molecular biology, including transcriptional regulation, metabolism, physiology, and protein–nucleic acid interactions?

➡️ If so, apply to become @narjournal.bsky.social‬'s next Executive Editor! Don't miss the opportunity: oxford.ly/4f5p57M

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up To $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

Given his performance on @cnn.com, it’s time to tell this story again. Vought’s daughter is alive because of NIH. He’s destroying an institution that saved his daughter’s life. @mrjoncryer.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @atrupar.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert A Scientific Brain Drain Has Followed Trump’s Gutting Of The NIH - Dr. Francis Collins

The former NIH director on the catastrophe unfolding for American research. youtu.be/lW9c6t4potU

‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former NIH director on cuts to medical research | CNN Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks to Christiane Amanpour about his decision to leave the agency and what he says is the Trump administration’s crackdown...

Straight talk from Dr. Francis Collins on the devastating - and politically motivated - cuts to science and public health in the United States.

Anybody who cares about their health or the future or science, technology, and innovation in this country should watch this.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/T...

We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪

workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

When we held our rally after the roundtable on Monday to support the #NIH science, we invited Jay Bhattacharya to join us.

He declined saying he was disappointed we “made it political.”

But supporting NIH isn’t partisan! www.politico.com/news/2025/07...