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Looking forward to working with our collaborators on EPiC! 🌱🚀👩🏼‍🔬

We made it to the beach! Next stop, conference 🧬🧫🧪🥼

Our @cirmnews.bsky.social SPARK scholars are heading for La Jolla - everyone is excited to present their research posters #stemcells #genetherapy #biotech 😊

Field Frame Friday: Salmon Alevins These tiny fish, only a few days old, are newly hatched salmon. They still have their yolk sacs (bright orange in this photo) and are called “alevins.”

What are freshly hatched salmon called? Alevins! Cassidy Cooper photographed these tiny fish in their early life stage. 🐟📷
#SciComm #Salmon #Alevins #Fish #FishFacts #Photography #WildlifePhotography #AquaticBiology #NatureEducation #Nature

Cute! Can’t beat those 70s fashions 😉

Infographic on the chemistry of ice cream. Ice cream is formed from fats, proteins and emulsifiers, which in combination stabilise air bubbles in ice cream. Small crystals are needed for smooth ice cream, and air makes up 30-50% of ice cream's volume. A range of flavouring compounds are used. Stabilisers, often extracted from seaweed, are added in small amounts to reduce the rate of melting.

It's #NationalIceCreamDay!

Discover how science shapes the smooth, creamy texture of ice cream in this infographic: www.compoundchem.com/2015/07/14/i...

#ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on the composition of Earth. Scientists determine the composition of Earth by analysing surface rocks and inferring the density and composition of deeper layers from how seismic waves move through Earth. Oxygen is the most abundant element in the crust. Mafic rocks, rich in magnesium and iron, dominate oceanic crust. Felsic rocks, higher in silicates, are the most abundant in continental crust. The mantle is composed mainly of magnesium-rich silicate minerals, such as olivine and pyroxene. The lower mantle contains less magnesium than the upper mantle. Earth's outer core is liquid, while the inner core is solid. Both layers consist mainly of an iron-nickel alloy with lighter element impurities. The core’s exact composition is still unknown. Molten iron stirring in the outer core drives Earth's magnetic field.

What's Earth made of? The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social journeys to the centre of Earth to look at the elements and minerals that make up our planet's different layers: cen.acs.org/physical-che...

#ChemSky 🧪

TLDR: The eradication of screwworm from the US was super important for US livestock. A tiny US facility in Panama drops sterile screwworms from planes to prevent the spread of fertile screwworms

Why maintain a barrier zone in Panama?
Mexico border - BIG!
Panama isthmus - SMALL!

New Academy Members Elected in 2025

Congratulations to the new members elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences including in evolution and ecology: Anurag Agrawal (@anurag-asclepias.bsky.social), Graham Coop (@gcbias.bsky.social), and Jennifer Martiny, among others!
www.amacad.org/new-members-...

That’s the best… I think I’m a little older than you guys. My last ID experience was a few years ago now… 😝

Insight: Trump funding freeze upends agricultural research at US universities From its earliest days in 1906, when the University of California secured a small stretch of fertile soil in the state's Central Valley, a quiet promise took root - that this place, originally called University Farm, would someday grow mighty.

For decades, @ucdavis.bsky.social stood tall among the world's giants in agricultural research. That progress is now at risk amid threats to federal research funding (via @reuters.com) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

#CalExit 🫡

Taking time to enjoy spring flowers… thinking about my grandma 🩷 who lived thru political violence, left loved ones at ~40 yrs old for the US w/ 7 kids (#8 born here), lost her only son in a motorcycle crash, etc… she was a gardener and in dark times always said “apples will grow again” 🍎🌸

Yolo Food Bank — Nourishing Yolo County Yolo Food Bank coordinates the recovery, storage, and distribution of more than 11 million pounds of food annually. We collaborate with a network of grocers and retailers, farmers and distributors, th...

Increased prices from tariffs will hurt the people who can least afford it the most. If you can, donate (or donate more) to local food banks like this one. yolofoodbank.org

Very sorry to hear that. Hope you recover quickly!

Here we go…

Otters at @ucdavis.bsky.social yesterday

Yum - plant-based bagel sandwich - haven’t had one of these in a while ☺️ Prepping for a New Harvest workshop on food safety for tomorrow. #cultivatedmeat #altprotein #iCAMP

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Timeline cleanse with spring flowers 🌸 With all the stressful news and busyness, I hope colleagues can get out and enjoy the sun today 🌞

How blowing the whistle on the Theranos scandal transformed Erika Cheung’s career Cheung, a laboratory assistant straight from university, raised the alarm over dodgy science and a duplicitous boss.

Erika Cheung spoke with Nature about working at Theranos and how blowing the whistle on the company and Elizabeth Holmes changed her career. “I’m still in shock how much this derailed my life.” 🧪

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done.

Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum.

Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

“Organizations representing tens of thousands of scientists are speaking out to ask Congress to reverse extreme & damaging cuts to federal research funding & agency staff. Scientists across the USA are united in support for federally funded scientific research.”
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

I really feel for the early career researchers impacted by what’s happening in the US. It’s hard enough for them to complete a PhD and build a career. This has long term implications for research capacity globally.

#AcademicSky
#research

Two Planes, in Washington and Chicago, Abort Landings to Avoid Collisions The near misses on Tuesday came after a string of aviation disasters, including the midair collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet last month that killed 67 people.

Within the span of 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, two airplanes, at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, were forced to abort landings to avoid collisions, federal aviation officials said.

How a landmark UC Davis Health clinical trial to treat spina bifida gave one Roseville family hope A landmark clinical trial is underway at UC Davis Health: the world's first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells.

Through the GMP (clean room) facility in our building at UC Davis Health, which is dependent on NIH indirect costs for electricity, water, cleaning and maintenance, we are able to manufacture the cellular product for the CURE trial to treat #Spinabifida in the womb. www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...

UC Davis Pioneers Affordable CAR-T Therapy in Northern California - Title21 Health Solutions UC Davis is one of a handful of academic and hospital-based institutions disrupting the CAR-T field...

In the GMP (clean room) facility in our building at UC Davis Health, which is dependent on NIH indirect costs for electricity, water, cleaning & all maintenance, we are able to engineer peoples immune systems to seek out and kill cancerous cells (CAR-T technology) www.title21.com/uc-davis-pio...

More people are dying of flu in California than Covid Flu across the U.S. is at moderate to very high levels this year

The flu epidemic in CA is killing more people than Covid.

Wear a mask and stay out of crowded areas.
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Serenity Prayer Send me a slow news day A quiet, subdued day, In which nothing much happens of note, Save for the passing of time, The consumption of wine, And a re-run of Murder, She Wrote. Grant me a no-news day, A spare-me-your-views day, In which nothing much happens at all, Except a few hours together, Some regional weather A day we can barely remember.

From @brianbilston.bsky.social, send me a slow news day... 🙏

@ucmerced.bsky.social achieves R1 classification, bringing all UC campuses to the highest tier among research universities 🙌👏💙💛 bit.ly/410Uq4O