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A pile of valentines, including a gulper eel saying "you make my jaw drop", a grimalditeuthis saying "I find you a-LURE-ing" a whale skeleton at the bottom of the ocean with snailfish and two octopuses making heart arms under the words "I've whale-fallen for you", and an anglerfish saying "You're my light in the darkness", and then two packs of cards that are all nice and tied up

Hey cuties. Everything sucks ass. Get some valentines and send them to your friends.

I'm sad. You're sad. They're probably sad.

Send them a valentine.

It keeps Skype a Scientist running, which hey, is very good too.

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New article on the impact of the past year on conference attendance and scientific societies.

As I mentioned, I had a great experience at many of the meetings I attended, though I know some attendance numbers were down and societies continue to need our support.

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I know we have more important things to focus on, like ensuring the safety of many, but…

I couldn’t resist posting this for those scientists who still insist this is like 2008 and will just blow over. This is only one sector of scientists. It’s well past time to stop pretending it’s all ok.

As you should be! 🎉

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HUGE Congratulations to the Mudumbi Lab!!! 🎉👇🏾

Yum!

One of my favorites! A true trailblazer!

Thank you @keystonesymposia.bsky.social for another great Advisory Board meeting! Being a Keystone Fellow was a highlight of my faculty career and I suggest anyone eligible apply!

Yeah, the family at home said it was sleeting again a while ago. I hope we can get home tomorrow! 🤞🏾

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

Me and my oldest deep in the Colorado mountains 😁

The work portion of the trip is over and my flight was canceled, so going exploring! 😁

Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word.

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Is it crazy to be flying out today with the impending Snowmaggedon. Probably.

So excited to see this preprint up from my colleague @berlowlab.bsky.social and team! Very cool work on how differences in sequence encode for changes in the conformational ensembles adopted by human CITED proteins! Congrats!!! 🎉

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thank you!!!

Thank you!!! 😊

Thank you!!!

Thank you!!

Thank you! 🙏🏾

Honored and Thankful! 🙏🏾 #MLKDay

This is the kind of story that makes me miss Twitter back in the day.

Glad everyone got out safe and I’m sure everyone’s rushing to travel with them again 😬

Watching this closely because I’m supposed to fly on Friday and return Sunday for a meeting 😬

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

A quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. that I wanted to share today. Optimism is hard some days, but this reflects a belief I share

If you are local, please attend the MLK Ceremony next week. I’m very honored to be nominated by students and receiving one of the “Unsung Hero” awards at this ceremony!

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned

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